Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. --Quincy Giles

Ruth Rendell

I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

John Banville

Someone said the best gift a man can give his son is to die young. When you think about it, it's true. I was in my early 30s and I did feel freed by it, awful as it is to confess.

The Wizard

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

Leonard Hamilton

South Carolina will test us physically. They change defenses an awful lot and try to keep you out of rhythm.

Frank Vavala

It was an excellent ,thought-provoking exercise. I think we all learned a great deal and we have an awful lot to learn.

Ellen Burstyn

It was about this school teacher who went to Jerusalem and started bleeding from the palms. It just didn't make an awful lot of sense to me.

Keeley Hawes

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

Larry Nelson

We've spent an awful lot of money, but we decided that the number one need was interoperability,

William Williams

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

Robert Fraser

Television should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life.

Peter Green

Sales were light and that's giving people a reason to take some money off the table after the great run we've had. SAP is hitting other tech sectors besides software because it's a high-tech bellwether that's being hit by something real.

Todd Parrott

I've been very fortunate in my career to win a lot of important races and big races that we have, a lot of them with this guy beside me, ... But at this point in time in my career I'm not sure there's anything that was more important. Today came at a very good time for a lot of us.

William Wordsworth

The waves beside them danced; but they/ Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:/ A poet could not but be gay,/ In such a jocund company.

Carl Laundrie

This is one of the initial steps in the direction we'd like to take (with the airport). Besides the restaurant, this is the first significant non-aviation business on the county-owned property at the airport.

Carl Shapiro

This is pretty much everything that the plaintiff had been looking for. This points to a strong remedy and not a slap on the wrist, though there are other strong remedies besides breakup.

Mahendra Dassanayake

The way the optics in this system work together has not been seen before in the exterior lighting world. Besides being a beautifully designed light, the system allows drivers to take corners and curves more safely n and consume less energy while doing so.

Matt Osborne

We didn't want to be stagnant. We wanted three or four guys besides Zack taking shots.

Erin Campbell

The bottom line is this should translate into a savings of several million dollars for the people of Vermont.

Porter Bibb

The bottom line is there is a contract and the judge will opine that the contract remains in force,

Joe LaVorgna

The bottom line is the productivity numbers were very positive for the market and gives more evidence there is a 'new economy' in place.

Anthony Chan

The bottom line is, the labor market is going to continue to show further deterioration, not because it's getting worse, but because of mechanics. As the unemployment rate gets higher, the consumer is going to consider that.

Steve Atkins

The bottom line is that we will have to start spending some money.

Shane Nobles

The bottom line is that we've got to go to them on Friday. We don't have any reason we can't do that again. I don't care if it's 10-0 or 1-0. I want to get the win and get in to the playoffs.

Elaine Makatura

The bottom line is that we take enforcement of compliance with our regulations seriously, and we are concerned about the quality of life of residents in the area.

Jimmy Ray

The bottom line is that we don't pursue a lot of cases that other counties do. And that's because we don't take garbage up front.

David Reid

The bottom line is that this development is dangerous and unnecessary.

Tom Malone

As a punter, you get ready to go on third down. This year, we don't even get to third down very much. It's ridiculous how good the offense is. It's crazy. Some games, I didn't even punt at all.

Howard Wolfson

As a strategist, he's as good as they come. I think of guys like him and Mike McKeon as the A-team when it comes to Republican politics in New York.

Bob Howry

As a setup guy, if people are talking to you, obviously you did something bad. Otherwise you go unheard of. I guess that is a good thing.

Brian Thornton

As a senior it hurt not being out there with my team. I would have been good for something -- maybe helping out with (J.P.) Batista.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Michael Boyd

As an operating airline, Independence is as good as dead.

John Connell

As a team, we've got a lot of character. I'm very happy with that. They work hard and have a history of being good students. I feel very comfortable with this group of guys.

Jim Lee

As a gamer, I like to go up and look at people's faces and see how good of a job they did.

Derek Brown

As a framework, it's about as good as it gets.

Dave Esquer

Thinking of the long season, it's better to hold him out than to risk injury. I don't know if (his absence) was a factor, but obviously not having one of your starters out there can hurt you.

Ed Perlmutter

This is a personal issue because it holds out hope for a lot of people.

Mack Brown

This is one night we can hook 'em and hold down the little finger, because we're No. 1.

Mary McCarty

The way this thing is playing out, Commissioner Addie Greene holds this thing in her hands.

David Brown

You're saying we can make our recommendations, but you won't take them if you don't like them. We're swift, we're thoughtful. We don't hold projects back.

Ron Gardenhire

You never really know how it's going to work. You think you can hold it together for a while, but obviously we've seen a lot of things change. There's really not a lot you can do about it.

G. Kealey

Young kids aren't strong enough to hold on.

Mike Bauer

We're holding our own pretty well. I thought we'd be depleted, but the meltdown is more at road level.

Kris Grawitch

We're holding a pre-construction open house so people can see what we don't have.

Martin Freeman

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

Josie Bissett

Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don't want to miss any of my time with them.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime.

Bruce Tonjes

The staff may be talented enough to do the job. They may need different materials . . .

David Hare

The silence between us was profound. I thought it was his job to say something. Only now do I understand it was mine.

Jeff Greene

I've been a job creator. I've worked in the economy myself.

Owen McClain

I use to look for a perfect job. Now I look for any job and make it perfect for me.

Natalie Cole

I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

Pat Ryan

I wanted someone who, that was their job, and they'd be reliable.

Yingxi Yu

Technical trends are looking very strong and people find it very risky to go short right now. I think that's why the rally has been continuing.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Chuck Koons

We're looking for what we could do that was ecologically sound.

Eva Simons

Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.

Jeff Bryant

We really don't know our starters yet, or where everyone will play. We're looking for the right combinations.

Robert Wood

We've seen the report and are looking into it.

Robin Wagner

At that particular time, I was looking for something in her that maybe she wasn't ready to give me.

Nick Vujicic

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Barbara Mikulski

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Jane Green

Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Cesar Chavez

Together, all things are possible

Dennis Crowley

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

Deepak Chopra

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Deepak Chopra

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Anna Jameson

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Dirk Nowitzki

We tried a lot of things that game, but he's just that good.

James Simpson

We all tried to get the word out any way possible. Did it help? Who knows. For all we know, the chopper was already on the way. But it did get attention, and now they're safe.

Denny McCrotty

We tried to manufacture some runs, it was too much. That's kind of been our story for some kind now." ()

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.