Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shifrin

another very successful TBA sponsored event that leaves its mark on Townsend Common history.

Robert Hutchins

A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.

Eric Smithey

Back in Mozart's time it was very common to perform operas in all sorts of languages. His native tongue was German. The most common language to see opera in was Italian.

Audrey Miller

As it stands in Maine now, a property owner can do whatever they want - the common enemy rule - and ruin their neighbors.

Tim Watkins

Reagan was a deeply spiritual guy. We did not get to see a lot of his spirituality, but it was there and it was the common thread, the fabric of who he was.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Our Euripides, the human, / With his droppings of warm tears, / And his touches of things common / Till they rose to touch the spheres.

Colleen Hanabusa

Our experience in Hawaii has shown that we can place common sense limits on gun sales, demonstrate our respect for gun owners, and, most importantly, help ensure the safety of our residents.

Don Cherry

people think common sense is common - but it's not.

James Clyburn

People are very insecure. It's a common thread, ... All of these people have security questions in some way, whether it's Social Security, retirement security. People feel that gaping holes are being cut out in their safety nets.

Tyleen Tausaga

Our errors really killed us. We weren't really hitting at all.

C. S. Lewis

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

Jane Austen

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

Charles Bukowski

there's no defense except all the errors made

George Eliot

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

Jim Patrick

Errors are killing us. We made four errors and they were crucial.

Whit Cornell

Errors and strikeouts at the plate are what hurt us. But they're something we can fix.

Corey Held

We should be set and we shouldn't make errors for the next three games. We'll work on fielding tomorrow.

Jim Gardner

We had some costly errors that really hurt. Trevor pitched well enough to win in giving up only six hits, we just couldn't solve Wallace.

Vladimir Guerrero

I'm very happy for the fans. I wanted to do it at home. During the ovation, I wanted to run out to right field, forgetting that I was the DH.

John Salley

In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.

Jamie Hyneman

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

Jascha Heifetz

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

Janos Bolyai

I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

Blaise Pascal

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Blaise Pascal

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Aristotle

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

Cory Doctorow

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Todd Marchant

Sometimes teams have other teams numbers. We can't keep making these mistakes.

Alex Rodriguez

I've never seen Matsui ever make a mistake. That's the weirdest thing.

Savielly Tartakower

The mistakes are all waiting to be made.

Steve Nash

You replay and you rethink. The mistakes really hurt.

Daniel Alfredsson

I don't know if (the Bolts) wanted it more. We just made too many mistakes and we know we've got to play better as a team.

Ned Yost

He's as tough as they come. He doesn't make mistakes.

Dave Loos

I thought we were going to win. ... We made some mistakes but we played awfully hard.

Bill Gray

We made too many mistakes on special teams, ... That can't happen. We pride ourselves on special teams at Samford. So we've got to get that fixed.

Pavol Demitra

We made too many mistakes, it was everybody. We look like we are so nervous, like we don't want to play.

Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

John Carr

You mostly come to these things to support other musicians,

Ernie Els

Ernie told her there was no need to wait, as he thought she was ready to turn pro, ... He spoke mostly to Michelle, but also had a word with her dad, whom he told the same thing.

Hermann Maier

The training is going very, very well. I think I've got just the right formula. At the present time, I'm working mostly on the thighs.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Tommy Docherty

Personally, I am very, very sorry we have come to this. I suppose it is another sign of the times.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

French Proverb

The sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.

Mark Proctor

This is a terrific signing for us as we look to consolidate our play-off position.

Cathy Austin

Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts.

Vince Cable

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

Lisa Kleypas

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

Michael Taylor

I got arrested for signing autographs. Signing a little girl's autograph got me arrested.

Michael Kelleher

She's registering to vote, ... It will be the first time she votes and she said she wants to be the first person to sign my papers.

Jose Maria

The start of the work is (Saturday), but they are practically working now,

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Tom Shepard

Right now walls should start going up the first week of November,

Robin Sutton

Pretty soon, we had to start turning down donations.

Joe Pinyan

Quarterback is wide open. We don't know who's going to start Friday.

Tom Craft

It was an electrifying start but I didn't have any follow-up.