Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.

Isobelle Carmody

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

Gilbert White

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Zac Goldsmith

I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

Yehuda Berg

At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

E. Hicks

The police received a call from a pay phone in the high school that a student heard a conversation in the bathroom about a bomb, ... But someone may not have overheard anything.

Brian Bethune

The overall momentum in construction remains solid. We expect this pattern to continue, with public and commercial construction taking the leadership baton in 2006 as housing starts ease back moderately.

Mandy Close

The past two games were battles, so we have to be ready to go to battle (again). We'll prepare this full week for them, we'll come out with a lot of energy and be ready to go.

Virginia Hey

When I was younger, my mum used to put fresh flowers in bath water instead of rubber ducks, and since then I had a love of perfumes.

Brad Goreski

If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.

Darell Hammond

This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.

Bill Cosby

If you have one of the worst schools in the city, then chances are the teachers are not going to care for you. Chances are the parents don't feel seriously about coming to meet with teachers.

Ichiro Kawachi

The 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke just about do everything that we know that is harmful to the heart, ... It will damage the lining of the arteries, increase the stickiness of your blood, therefore increasing the chances that you will develop clotting and develop a heart attack.

Greg Jackson

That was tough during our championship year. He realized his chances of playing at another level will be extremely tough, but his education is in the palm of his hands.

Sam Jacobs

We have a more offensive-minded team with more weapons this year. Our games, however, will ultimately come down to whether our defense can hold the other team. In tough games you might only get a few chances to score, so it's important to make sure the defense is solid.

Mickey Blatnik

We could never get the lead to enough where (Maysville) had to panic. We had some chances to go up by six or eight points and take the game over, but we just couldn't get over the hump.

Otto Baric

We could have done better. We had a couple of chances which we should have converted. The Swiss are a good team.

Dan Favreau

We just didn't give them a lot of opportunities. They didn't have a lot of chances because our defense was really strong.

Yael Grobglas

Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

Yanni

I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

Tim Burton

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Imelda May

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

Idina Menzel

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

Ian Mckellen

Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

will.i.am

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Chris Bohjalian

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

C. S. Lewis

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

Carrie Brownstein

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Carl Sagan

Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.

Bethenny Frankel

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

Raquel Welch

I take a multivitamin, I take extra C, I take chondroitin and glucosamine for my joints, I take calcium for my bones. And by the way, weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.

William Shakespeare

For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

Mike Williams

I might go down. But I am still on my high fat, low exercise diet.

Beilby Porteus

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

Mark Sue

We get the sense that things are now being accounted for appropriately in the right quarter. Hopefully, Nortel will exercise increased financial rigor going forward.

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Jack Quinn

That would greatly surprise me. I can't image that happening, ... Meet The Press.

Jimmy Smits

John was a true pillar of a man, he set the stage for kindness and generosity. His humor and smile were infectious, he will be greatly missed.

Larry King

If asked, I would be greatly honored to stay on,

Michel Alaby

He said he greatly appreciated having had the opportunity of visiting the Chamber.

William Gilbert

He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!

Koichiro Matsuura

From prehistoric times until today, humanity's dealings with water have greatly influenced the sustainability of societies.

Adam Ereli

We respect the Swiss justice system, but we would have greatly preferred that he be extradited here.

Becky Bailey

Over the years, we have greatly tightened our quality control, and this is a highly unusual occurrence.

David Baxter

Our production has greatly increased. Everything we do is local. No one can do what we do.

Karen Johnson

We have to hurry and get the kids back into the routine of being a part of the YMCA.

Darren Sproles

I was trying to split them more instead of hurrying to the outside,

Robin Petrini

We'll find out where we are. The other teams started last weekend, so we'll find out in a hurry where we are.

Aaron Mattox

We played well for three quarters and just got in a hurry there in the fourth. We made some mistakes but regrouped down the stretch.

Sally Schneider

There are a wealth of flavorings you can put in a salt, and if you're in a hurry that's your seasoning. That's all you have to do.

Naohiro Niimura

Traders are not in hurry to buy, as we seem to have sufficient supplies plus mild weather.

Jim Calhoun

I wrote a letter to him and told him to hurry back, I needed a sparring partner,

Rafael Benitez

I am in no hurry to sell the player,

Joel Zumaya

I got up (to throw) and they told me to start hurrying up. It's kind of weird, but, hey, I got warmed up real quick. It's just all about being relaxed and doing your work out there.

Naji Sabri

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F. Sionil Jose

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

John Travolta

I would love to do that, ... We're planning on doing that in the near future, perhaps later this year.

John Landis

Who knew? Peter Bogdanovich said that the only true test of anything is time. Well, it's 25 years later and here we are.

Tim Purpura

We haven't even thought about it or talked about it, ... After the 18-inning game, he might have said, 'See you later guys.'

Dave Wood

We?ll find out about Pat later this week and Mike?s hamstring has not responded to rehab the way we would have hoped.

Jerry Bell

We'll maybe find out something there later this week.

Shanna Carpenter

We are planning to reschedule the movie night later this week, while Welcome Week is still going on.

The Jerusalem

Only later in the morning the soldiers saw that these men were not armed.

Quinten Fuentes

He is really a strong wrestler. A lot stronger than me. I was just able to use my leverage to get him.

Brendan Barnicle

What's interesting is that Microsoft is now more of a leverage story.

John Drury

We leverage as much as we can from our brethren.

Dave Combs

We don't have a lot of leverage to stop annexations.

Pat Comack

AT&T still has a lot of leverage because Comcast can't tender for anything.

Andrea Williams

What is exciting, is for the first time we are starting to see leverage in their operating models so they should remain profitable,

Selim Bingol

They have a fiber-rich network. We see a big opportunity to leverage that for video and other services.

Michael Myers

It's been pretty impressive. He's long and tall. He's down there getting leverage on every play. That's why he's so good.

Lori Lucas

There's a lot of room for individuals to leverage investments in their plans to get the most out of their account.

Steven Wood

Manufacturing is mired in a deep, prolonged recession.

John Collins

Phil's not going anywhere. He hasn't been fired, and he's not going to be fired. There is no reduction of responsibility. There is no rift.

Monica Crowley

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

David Stern

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season

Gertrude Stein

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Bill Wright

Even a slight reduction in revenue can have a significant impact.

Herman Frazier

We will sit down with her and there will be reduction of that this year.

John Carioba

If you put all that together you end up with a reduction in volume.

Craig Carper

Hopefully, we'll see a reduction in those numbers.

Patti Stanger

I had a breast reduction.

Bill Cosby

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Kraig Troxell

He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Pete Wentz

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Colleen Hoover

When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.