Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Paver

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

Yoshinori Ohno

I would not say it was as wide as the Pacific Ocean, but a big river. But the differences have gradually been narrowed.

Tatsuyuki Kawasaki

In the long term this is going to be a setback for the market ... It is likely to gradually lessen trade by individual investors.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Sandra Sanchez

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

Andrew Sullivan

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Theodor Mommsen

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Christopher Lasch

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Felix Frankfurter

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Jeremy Jackson

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

David Land

Traders are not being overly quick to get into long positions as the oil price moves up, but are quick to unload if they see any weakness.

Scott Hatteberg

The whole series was tough. When I look back on things, yeah, I wish they were different.

James Van Der Beek

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

Joe Berlinger

Each film stands on its own. But we have a series that hangs together and is visually arresting.

Pat Murray

We fumbled on our first series and then threw the interception on our second,

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Albert Pujols

winning and getting back to the World Series and getting a ring.

Aileen Anderson

This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical.

Georges Clemenceau

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Miroslav Satan

This series is intense. We're going to try to keep it going tomorrow,

Mark Davies

I've been a Diamondback for a long time, ... It'll be a shock to not say I'm part of the D-Backs.

Kenneth Darby

Brodie kind of shocked me today. All I could do was just smile.

Alfred Hitchcock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Serena Williams

I'm playing to around 30% of my potential - you'd be shocked at what I could do.

Bobby Bowden

I was shocked that he wasn't first team All-ACC. It made so sense.

I. Stone

Honestly, it's kind of a fog. We were in shock for a while.

Leonard Orr

That was a tremendous relief, ... This tragedy was a shock to our students and staff.

Justin Gatlin

I was probably in the most shock I have ever been in my life. I was speechless.

Jason LaRue

I think he's going to have an unbelievable year. He's going to shock a lot of people.

Auberon Waugh

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Matt Smith

I am a terrible sleeper.

Laurie Simmons

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.