Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gemma Wright

What you have to look at is what has been occurring in the foreign exchange markets. They (Bank of Japan) were rumored to be significant buyers on Friday and Monday, the (Treasury) market was bid up on Friday and Monday, so there's a very big risk that they've already put that money to work.

Jessica Dickson

Going to the NCAA Tournament will help us in recruiting state kids. When they get recruited by big out of state schools I think this NCAA bid will help. We want to keep our talent and kids in state.

Paul Merson

I thought Forest's bid was quite close to his true value. The closer I get to the window closing, the more I start to panic.

Elizabeth Costello

We're on a tight timeline. We need to know what our costs will be if we're to bid on flying for Northwest or any other carrier.

Pete Carroll

We've got to make sure John David makes it back. I wouldn't count Mark out, he's done too well. Mark's gained more ground on him - he had a great spring. His bid to start has been enhanced by that.

Gert Biesmans

It is positive to see that there is sufficient interest in the company... We expect a bid in about two months.

Mia Smith

I thought the competition wen;played was pretty good. We're playing in the Central Region, which I thought was extremely competitive. But all at once, there is not a single at-large bid from the Central Region. We had the kids in the classroom to watch and we were so upbeat.n;But it was dead silence (when then;field was announced) and the silence said it all.

Vassilis Gagatsis

I think we could make a good bid alone.

Gary Shaw

It got nasty at times. In the end, it got made. I guess nobody wanted it to go to purse bid and have it be in somebody's backyard.

Ron Walters

Katrina has blown that outreach away. This has become a powerful emotional issue - a national issue - that will severely limit Bush's future outreach efforts, because the victims in Louisiana and Mississippi have huge family networks scattered all over the country.

Casey Nicholaw

It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things they did to support that, I'm blown away.

Larry Clark

It blows his mind, my mind, his wife's mind.

Cyril Connolly

He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry

Charlie Cook

He'll be a force, but obviously it will be a blow if his signature issue goes down in flame.

Daniel Bruhl

When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.

Ron Bennett

Having worked in Nashville and then seeing the scope of this studio, I was blown away. It doesn't get much better than this!

Bob Dyer

Having a team come in with three scores under 40 on a par 36 course is very good. Especially on a breezy day like this when the wind is blowing pretty good, it was a little statement by Lyndon. They came to play.

John Burnham Schwartz

Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.

Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Alan Murray

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team injury-free,

Rauf Denktash

Just to come to the negotiating table I cannot say that my state does not exist. I demand the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is either recognized or taken into account.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Just think of a man who wants to sit but cannot sit because he says, I have legs -- how can I sit? Or, think of a man who wants to keep quiet and silent and cannot keep quiet and silent because he says, I have a mind. It is the same.

James Caan

Joseph Russo is a dear friend of mine and I cannot express enough how pleased I am that your office has taken interest and is in pursuit of correcting this problem.

Noam Chomsky

It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.

Hugo Ch

It cannot be that the countries that have developed nuclear energy prohibit those of the third world from developing it,

Chuck Hagel

It cannot be seen as a puppet of the United States because if it is, then we will run the risk of losing Iraq, ... In the end, it is the Iraqi people that will make the decisions.

T. S. Eliot

It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

Martin Short

I always do my life around the school year. Around the middle of June, the kids are out of school and we go up to our cottage in Canada.

Mark Husson

I think the natural foods industry has been a tremendous success as a cottage industry, and I think the larger players now are needing to take it to the next level and get the economies of scale that are due to major mainstream companies.

Steve James

He has been known to frequently donate them to fundraisers. In the last few years, this one-man cottage industry has raised and donated $65,000 to a scholarship fund to a Methodist seminary in Moscow that trains new ministers.

Scott Cardwell

He finished first at the 25-team invitational in Cottage Grove. He is excited and can't wait. He is pumped.

Wilbur Ross

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

William Wordsworth

The cottage which was named the Evening Star/ Is gone.

Jim Sinclair

Smuggling was not just a cottage industry, but a national industry.

George MacDonald

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

Lord Chesterfield

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Michael Loomis

Kids are crossing everywhere in that parking area. We need to stop the traffic and get safe lines of passage for pedestrians.

Kaitlin Page

I think it crosses your mind, but you have to deal with what's in front of you. I think it's kind of cool. Even though they can recruit kids, it makes it even more of a challenge, and we like that.

Lamar Butler

He crossed his legs. He folded his arms. He was just talking like it was a normal conversation.

Matthew Morrison

There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now.

Gwen Stefani

L.A.M.B. is a fashion line that -- fingers crossed -- will just get more and more sophisticated, ... What's different than what's out there is the way I put things together. And, if you look inside the pants, you'll find secret details in there.

Tobias Crabtree

What you're seeing is a crossroads here between Wall Street analysts focused on the next quarter and long-term investors focused on the next three to five years.

Tim Wiese

I thought this can't be happening. We had how many chances? Everything was played at their goal, then comes one cross and we let (Boubacar) head in unmarked.

Whoopi Goldberg

I think actually there's another young lady who would like to do it and so I've got my fingers crossed for her. I think it's Ellen. I think she would be good.

Elliott Sadler

I think it's up to the drivers. We don't know where the line is until somebody crosses it. Until somebody gets called in for a pass-through penalty, nobody really knows where the line is. I'm sure we're going to push the envelope come (today).

William Cowper

He that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

Edmund White

'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

Charles Darwin

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

Phil Collins

If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.

Michael Leunig

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Randy Nelson

Tim does a great job. He dares you to hit the ball.

Philip Massinger

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

Yubaraj Ghimire

The level of defiance is unprecedented - it never happened before, even in 1990.

Tony Curran

There was an act of defiance which goes on where these humans and aliens save these children, and hence the name/term of 'Defiance.' Formerly, it was St. Louis. This frontier town springs up from it. And everybody tries to integrate, they try to re-invent themselves as well.

Jane Anderson

Defiance ... I would wager she just happens to have gotten those period roles because it was a turning point for women taking place in that period.

Jasper Fforde

Defiance through compliance.

Corey Dillon

I think it's a great move for me, a great move for the organization, ... I'm just happy to be a New England Patriot.

Edmund White

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

Luiz Scolari

I think the England team has evolved, they're much better than at the World Cup,

Charles Steinberg

To fans in New England in the 1950s and '60s, his was the voice that told the stories of the Red Sox to a generation of fans. He was the voice under the pillow.

Shane Warne

I think they will be disappointed they are not 2-1 up. I think the pressure is on England and not Australia. At the end of the day, they have to win. We only have to win one (of the last two tests).

Paul Muldoon

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

David Givens

I was willing to give Houston a hometown discount. I would have stayed in New England if they'd given me an offer I couldn't refuse. They didn't.

Zinedine Zidane

We looked better in the second half (against England) when Thierry was moving out to the wing more,

Terry Edwards

I am expecting six medals and hoping for eight. Our Sport England target is eight, which is very stiff indeed but it is up to us to rise to the challenge.

Rhea Perlman

Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least.

Malaika Arora Khan

I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.

Bradley Whitford

Just shut up and entertain me, meat puppet.

Sugata Mitra

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

E. B. White

Having two more options is going to be great for all of us. My son is especially optimistic about more restaurant and entertainment options.

Harry Styles

I think, you know, we entered the 'The X Factor' in the U.K., and you kind of want someone who knows what they're talking about to tell you if you're any good or not instead of just your mum saying that you like it when you sing.

Marilyn Manson

I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And, at the same time I think I was, whether subconsciously or not, trying to get kicked out of school because I hated it so much.

Matt Kolojejchick

We've been waiting for this all year. It was one of our goals entering the season, to perform well at districts. Now we have one more day and then we look forward to states.

Chris Como

We're only entering 12 kids this year. But all 12 have a legitimate shot of qualifying.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Randy Sharp

He's just there for everything I need. He never forces himself on me, which is very sweet. He waits for me to come to him.

Claude Bolton

We take every opportunity we can to get other forces, particularly land forces like the Marines, involved in what we're doing.

Pranab Mukherjee

It is not withdrawal but redeployment of forces from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast as the violence level has come down.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Jonathan Turley

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.

Jalal Talabani

In my opinion, Iraqi forces, the popular forces and government forces, are now ready to end the insurgency and this terrorism.

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Kings are like stars, - they rise and set, they have - The worship of the world, but no repose

Thomas Carew

Here lies a King that ruled, as he thought fit, / The universal monarchy of wit.

Rob Zombie

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey

Richard Petty

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

Richelle Mead

Is he having a party?" "Dorian is a sociable king. He likes keeping people around him, mostly so he can mock them.

Russell Brand

... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.

Ron Atkinson

Yordi circumnavigated Ledley King there.

Travie McCoy

A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.

Rick Riordan

And in the fountain squatted a giant crab. I’m not talking ‘giant’ like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I’m talking ‘giant’ like bigger than the fountain.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Shane Victorino

He's a silent assassin. He's a big man and can be intimidating, but he's so soft-spoken. But you always know when he's around.

Jim Panyard

He's already promised to do it. If he's a man of his word, he'll do it.

Harry Redknapp

He's got one of the loveliest touches I've seen in a big man

Joyce Brown

He's just plain old Ronnie. But man, he sure can run.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.

Hale Irwin

It was just probably the poorest executed shot of the week. You're going over water one way or another, why not go at the flag?

Richard Seivert

They are the poorest of the poor in the Western hemisphere.

David Robertson

It could come down all at once in the rain storms on Friday, who knows.

Richard Wilbur

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...

Truman Capote

You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

William Gibson

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

Sarah Palin

Rain is something the democrats use to sell umbrellas.

Sara Bareilles

I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.

Richard M. Nixon

Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.

Rich Mullins

Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.

Robert De Niro

Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.

Todd Phillips

'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.

Jim Harrison

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.

Rick Reed

At the end of the day, we're saving the world one roof at a time.

Sam McKenney

To have it under one roof is really a new concept.

Roger Williams

God is too large to be housed under one roof,

Sol Hurok

The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.

Michelle Mone

I have always shouted from the rooftops about my businesses but I had never ever spoken about my personal life.

Markus Zusak

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

Bob Carpenter

One third of building, the roof peeled back and everything caved in. It was destroyed.

Willa Cather

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

Simon Van Booy

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

William Gilmore Simms

Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

Valerie Jarrett

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

William Gurnall

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

Walter Scott

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

Dan Sharp

I haven't experienced a storm like this in a long time.

Craig Smith

It's pruned a little but really isn't all that different. Things don't get big down here because they get pruned by storm after storm after storm.

Tony Mowbray

It was just a storm in a tea-cup.

Nhat Hanh

An emotion is only an emotion. It's just a small part of your whole being. You are much more than your emotion. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you're aware of that, you won't be afraid of your emotions.

Kenneth Williams

It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

William Wordsworth

The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

William Sharp

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

William Shenstone

Written on a Window of an Inn,

William J. Clinton

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind or water.

William J. Clinton

We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.

Rebecca Pidgeon

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

Robinson Jeffers

O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.

Robert Plant

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.