Famous Quotes & Sayings

Idina Menzel

You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.

George B. McClellan

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

William Reddington Hewlett

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.

Whitey Ford

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Wendy Kopp

It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

Wesley Clark

I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that it's not the generals and the colonels that win battles, it's the soldiers: it's the people at the front, the mechanics with their wrenches, the drivers moving the logistics back in the rear.

Ezra Taft Benson

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Wole Soyinka

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

Nancy Gibbs

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Igor Luksic

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Nancy Gibbs

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

Carrie Vaughn

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Carl Safina

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

Antoine Fuqua

The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.

Bill Vaughan

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Bill Burr

When you say, "there's no reason [to hit a woman]" that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, "there's no reason," you cut out the build-up and you're just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don't figure it out?

Rick Perry

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.

Malala Yousafzai

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

Dave Barry

While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS" settings.

Graham Chapman

We received a letter from a lady who was incensed about my moral depravity, as though I was destroying the underpinnings of society.

Hank Johnson

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

Ryan Newman

We're not taking anything away, we're just trying to keep some vandalism-oriented people from destroying it.

Aamir Khan

Because they want more advertisements, they are destroying what is a very important part of the society - news reporting. It is wasting important national space that should be used in a more productive manner.

Al Williams

I have a gut feeling we are slowly, inch by inch, destroying quality education for all students.

Steve Scott

I feel disgusted that he would have anything to do with the Olympic movement after nearly destroying the Olympics.

C. S. Lewis

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

C. S. Lewis

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

C. S. Lewis

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

C. S. Lewis

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Cecil Rhodes

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.

Cecelia Ahern

Close your eyes and stare into the dark.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.

Carrie Underwood

I love eye shadows that are shimmery and playing with colors. There's just more you can do with your eyes.

David Eagleman

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

Steve Burns

That was important because it set a legal precedent.

Pete Rose

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

Craig Brown

Michael Owen - he's got the legs of a salmon.

Larry Gregory

will be on the minds of every legislator when they come in for the next session.

Bryan Whitman

You can do something perfectly legal, but that is inconsistent with the policy or procedures of the department. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Jessica Simpson

Willie Nelson is a legend and someone I've always admired,

S. Hughes

I thought I was going to die, my legs were seizing up. And then when I could move, I started crying, I was just so happy.

Bryan Whitman

Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,