Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Bailey

Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent / A day's march nearer home.

Bill Becker

I think it's fair to say the states would much prefer a strong federal approach ... but absent that, they have no option but to take action at the state and regional levels and to enter into litigation.

Cheryl Hepfer

I think that most judges understand that children require physical one-on-one contact with the absent parent.

John Hunt Morgan

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

Kent Conrad

I am impressed with his demeanor, his intelligence, his sense of humor, his modesty, ... Absent some bombshell, which I don't expect, I think he will be confirmed and quite handily.

W. H. Auden

What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?

Felipe Alou

The heart of this team was absent for too many games. It's all memories of injuries and people getting hurt. We'll start healthy in spring training.

Edward Goldman

You can't be absent for your first five classes and then show up for driver's ed. They knew if they missed an earlier period they couldn't go to driver's ed, and if they didn't go to driver's ed, they couldn't get their license. There was a real incentive for them to keep all their grades up.

Epicurus

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

William Matthews

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

George Shiffler

In some sense, the desktop market is being hit with a double whammy.

Jack Finn

The goal is to get it to the president's desk today.

Rob Enderle

There isn't a player on the desktop that's at greater risk of losing share to IBM here than Microsoft,

Ross Anderson

Something that goes on the desktop has to be a simpler and more structured tool with fewer configuration options. It has to be running in the background.

Patrick Mahoney

This puts Yahoo Mail on par with desktop programs like Outlook and Lotus Notes, and offers a better experience for users.

Yolanda Clark

We have procedures. We will follow those procedures. We will operate our snow desk and run our equipment.

Spencer Kayden

To be honest, I didn't even know what the Drama Desk Awards were until I was nominated.

Brian Kalinowski

We're taking desktop applications to a whole new level.

R. Robinson

Kids are facing problems earlier. Teen problems run the gamut: problems with friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, to suicide and abortion.

Shannon Cross

They will be facing head winds of (component) pricing going up, but they've done a good job of managing margins last several quarters.

Derek Lowe

It was a big win. Zambrano, in my opinion, is one of the top five pitchers in all of baseball. Facing Zambrano, you know he's not going to give up much.

Heath Streak

It makes it tough facing someone like De Villiers because you don't want to be the first one who gets out to him.

Willy Taveras

It's going to be funny, joking with the new guys and facing them. It'll be funny for the fans, too, when they notice me in a different uniform.

Andruw Jones

It's going to be nice, but we're still facing Pedro tonight.

Misty Streitweiser

It's going to be installed right where they always used to fish, facing Grass Island. It's a perfect place.

Bill Ginsburg

The Linda Tripp tapes are just being selectively leaked. It is just unfair and just more of the same unfairness that we have been facing for some time.

Mike Coffey

The lights are the problem. Some are facing the field, others were flipped around by the storm.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Maria Sharapova

I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Daniel Logan

I love being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.'

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I love writing. It makes me so happy.

Katrina Kaif

Love should be all about giving and trusting.

Kate Bush

I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Lucy Punch

What I love about L.A. is that people say they're going for a hike, which just means a walk. It's a stroll, but if you walk in L.A., it's a hike.

Rita Ora

When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.

Richard Matvichuk

We've got to play better and stay out of the penalty box.

Umberto Eco

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

Robert Crumb

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

Luiz Scolari

Was I the only one who saw a penalty on Nuno Gomes? Didn't you see that?

Jason Smith

It's tough when you're killing penalties all night. We're not getting the results we want.

Ken Dodd

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside

Terry Pratchett

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

John Lee Hooker

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

Sen. Aronberg

It says you can't put signs on the right of way, but there are also penalties for people who steal other people's signs.

Mike Pearson

We've been working on putting this in place for two years.

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Luis Sojo

If they don't come to practice, they don't want to be on the team. This isn't about individualism, it's about putting together a team that can represent us with honor.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Dennis Lobenberg

Most of them are in my garage. I haven't worried too much about putting any signs up because of the weather.

Bubba Crosby

I was thinking about putting down another bunt.

Nancy Grace

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Robin Wright

I think we manifest the very thing we put out. If you're putting out negativity, then you're going to retrieve that same sentiment. If you emanate joy, it comes back to you.

Rowan Atkinson

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

Zig Ziglar

Take time to be quiet.

Bruce Goldstein

It's a very quiet film, it's all about quietness and relationships.

Julia Quinn

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

Natalie Clifford Barney

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Marquis de Sade

Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

Nikki Sixx

The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.

Kevin McCloud

Awesome is loud but awe is quiet.

Joyce Carol Oates

The quiet people just do their work.

Randy Cunneyworth

He's been sitting long enough. We need a contribution from him.

M. Wolfe

He was just sitting here three weeks ago.

Chris Barnes

He got tired of sitting on the bench.

Richard Barnfield

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

Tyler Perry

I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.

Robert Hunter

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

Tyler McNeece

Being in the game, being able to make a difference, is so much better than sitting on the bench.

Tim Stewart

If I were sitting in that seat, I would want to have a vote as to what was going on here.

Jonathan Swift

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Roddy Doyle

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Robert Penn Warren

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Wally Lamb

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Walt Disney

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Rohinton Mistry

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Roland Barthes

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

Katie Gearlds

If we want to win the Big Ten title we have to win and that's pretty much what it comes down to. If we lose, we get second.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Josh Brown

I'm going to do something. There's a little tension between us.

Marat Safin

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

Marat Safin

Everything is possible in this life...

Wayne Quinlan

You think you know somebody, but you find out if you travel with them for ten days.

Macaulay Culkin

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.