Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Patrick Shanley

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

Mary Gauthier

I was adopted when I was about a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life. I couldn't relate to things in Baton Rouge, but I found songs that spoke to me.

Ed White

I think what happened is we all adopted each other.

Richard Thompson

Intelligent design is now being adopted by a number of credible scientists. If the Dover school district wins this case, you're going to see intelligent design popping up on school board agendas all over the country.

Ann Wilson

I'm a single mum and my daughter came from a really potentially tragic situation. If I had not adopted her she was kind of like a lost lamb.

Dave Walker

I'm pleased to receive this award, ... I have been a constant with this organization for many years now, but we wouldn't be here today if I wasn't surrounded by many other talented people along the way. I'm extremely proud of the Burlington community's dedication to professional baseball as evidence by the fact the Bees have survived and now prospered as the smallest full-season market in the Minor Leagues. I'm also pleased with the response we've gotten on a regional basis from the baseball fans all over Southeast Iowa and Western Illinois that have adopted the Bees as their hometown team.

Ed Smith

I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just went on about their lives. Some of them had good contacts with white people that they were serving in someone's home. Sometimes those white families almost effectively adopted you.

Steve Johnson

In legislation that became effective in 2005, Congress adopted a uniform definition for most people. It won't change what they can take, but it'll make it easier for them to understand.

Pat Toomey

The F.E.C.'s claims and legal theories are a bizarre interpretation of the club's mission, the Constitution, the laws adopted by Congress and their own regulations,

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Pat Brisson

Jack thought long and hard about it. It was very flattering for him that Carolina was so interested but Jack just feels his development is best served by staying another year at school. It was a tough decision but Jack feels good about it.

Chris DiMarco

Jack's the best, the best of all time, and to make that putt for him is what it's all about, ... We wanted to get a win for him so much. Last night, we had a great, emotional dinner. Everybody got up and talked, and I think everybody said they wanted to go out and win this for Jack. And to do that is unbelievable.

John Bogle

Jack Brennan is the best person I could possibly have found,

Ed Oakley

I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.

DeMario Williams

I would say this was my best game. I've had better games playing 'D' than I did tonight. This was one of my best shooting games. But as a team I don't think we played defense as hard as we should have.

George Bodenheimer

Keith Jackson is a man of great character and a legendary broadcaster. For decades, his unmistakable style defined college football for millions of fans. While we hate to say goodbye, we understand his decision and wish him the very best.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Myles Munroe

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

Nick Saban

Here's a guy that's had a character quality career. He's been a leader in the community as well as on his team. Obviously, we've all done something on some occasion in our life that we regret and wish we wouldn't have done.

Brendan Taman

He's a good safety and a great character guy.

Tiger Woods

He's a character on top of that. That is the future of the game of golf.

John Yoo

I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that.

Pat Gillick

He'd be the most likely guy in the group. But a lot depends on what we do leading up to Spring Training.

Lou Marino

I think the extent to which that happens depends on how much of the top management would be retained.

Robert Jarvis

I think we've got a chance, an opportunity. A lot depends on how we execute, and our young guys can't let the pressure get to them.

Avery Johnson

I think we're just going to see how it goes. It all depends who we play.

Willie Randolph

He's going to go out and throw and get loose. It depends how he feels. If you're 100 percent sure that he's OK, you do it. But if not, you don't want to start the season with someone aggravating something that sidelines them any period of time.

Manuel Pellegrini

He's full of desire. Besides, his soccer depends more on technique than physique.

Thomas Bjorn

He's playing every shot like his life depends on it.

Reggie Jackson

I don't know that you can. Of course, it all depends on what they find.

Algis Shalna

I think we would be happy to (see her) get into the top 20. We have to at some point be realistic.

Shay Carl

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.

Jim Rayfield

I think this play is, in a sense, the father's story. We see him go from a state of happiness - he's content; he has his son; he's okay - to the end, where he is totally lost.

Carl Jung

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

Virginia Woolf

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

William Wordsworth

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

William Wordsworth

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

William Saroyan

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

William J. Clinton

You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

Ailyn Perez

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Horst Keller

This leads to the question of how many places there are in the universe where life could potentially have developed.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Ariel Sharon

make us desperate, to make us lose hope, to make us lose the national vision that leads us.

Tim Donovan

For the second match in a row, we have leads and get to 20 points and lose our focus. We have to learn to put teams away when we're ahead.

Philip Dow

I think this is a one-day pause. I'd be really surprised if this was all there is to this rally. .. . I don't see anything in the tape today that leads me to think this trend should be over.

Jonathan Chen

Listen to others with an open mind. Normally, that leads to a pleasant conversation.

John Sales

I don?t think we give up two-goal leads very often.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Virender Sehwag

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

Bruce Brown

I'm living in the middle of a nightmare.

Carol Wood

We're living in a different world now. We have lots of security measures in place.

James Ellis

It's no longer a museum piece. She's actually a living ship.

Dick Durbin

Evergreen tenants should not have to spend another day living in substandard conditions,

Steve Berry

It's sobering. Living in the Midwest, you don't feel nearly as vulnerable, but it's these times when we probably feel the most vulnerable.

Luis Ramirez

It's been hard, we've been living day by day. We don't have any place to live, to work, nothing.

Brad Dennis

It's important to know who's living around us, and what's living around us.

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.

David Pickering

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

Bill Ross

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

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Friedrich Muller

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Ron Gardenhire

He's pitching like a man on a mission on the mound.

Javier Valentin

I don't know, man. ... What can I say?

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Juli Lax

I think we're up to Plan K right now.

Fred Williams

I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Vladimir Putin

Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Walter Raleigh

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

Michael Chertoff

If you start to plan in an emergency, you're not planning, you're improvising,

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Warren Buffett

I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

William Blake

To generalize is to be an idiot.

Wernher von Braun

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Wallis Simpson

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

Wallace Stegner

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.