Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Le Saux

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

Avery Johnson

I'm very disappointed. I've spoken to the league, and I can't get into details on what was said. I can't even find the words. I've appealed to the league about their judgment. I've seen a whole lot worse.

Seth Shostak

'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone at a bar. But it appealed to our most basic Darwinian instinct: selecting a good mate. You can't go wrong when a show's premise is hard-wired into human DNA.

Adam Michnik

In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.

Christopher Young

As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.

Ruby Dee

Ossie was working as stage manager and he began making notes. Something about the sense of humor instilled in Eastern European Jewish culture appealed to him. The message was profound but the delivery was hilarious. Through that he saw that humor could turn racism on its ear, too.

Chipper Jones

This is something I've always wanted to do. It's always something that appealed to me and something I've never been able to do.

Igor Trunov

We have appealed to replace the conditions of his custody with house arrest.

Terry Press

Big studio conglomerates are concerned about the bottom line, not awards. It used to be that a studio would make a movie that appealed both commercially and artistically. That's not the case now.

Donald E. Graham

I was lucky to become a Facebook board member in late 2008. Restricted stock units granted me at the time have increased many times in value.

Bruce Nelson

Just walking on board brings up a lot of wonderful memories.

Mohamed ElBaradei

It also makes it very clear that should any serious failures come to light in the future, these will be taken by the board with the seriousness that it deserves.

Joan Maloney

I actually submitted several different designs, but the board unanimously voted for the photographic images.

Billy Donovan

I thought we played well on the defensive end to only be down at 11 at the half with the way we shot the ball. As well as we played defensively in the first half, we didn't do the things we needed to on the boards and on defense in the second half.

David Wasinger

It is a great honor and privilege to serve on the Board of Curators.

Carol Comeau

It is a lot of money for a school board election. But she must have felt, due to the competition, that it was necessary.

Steve Johnson

I think the job of the executive board is to support and elect Republicans, ... Instead, they've chosen to focus on the one issue that most divides us.

Suanne Sines

I think the qualifications are fine. I think you definitely need to have elected board members from the community. We need to get control of our public schools back into the hands of the public.

Maajid Nawaz

Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

Mark Griseck

I thought we showed a lot of heart in the second half. We kind of challenged them at halftime to play a little tougher.

E. B. White

(Lamar) drilled us at our house last year and we challenged our players to put out a great effort tonight. We didn't look pretty but we made the play we had to make at the end to win the game.

Brian Clodi

I think we made a positive stride in how we played. We challenged every pass. If we make some of those interior shots, things go the other way. It was a step in the right direction, except for the fouling. We know that.

Joshua Bell

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

Mike Daley

He wasn't one to write a check and forget about it. He always challenged me with long-term strategic planning, what would make an Aquinas education excellent.

Ed Hooi

He had no fear and he took the shots and drilled them. In life, you are going to be challenged and when you respond like he did, you are going to be a champion.

Rich Irr

Rebounding is all about will. At halftime, I challenged our kids' will.

Kevin Padgett

I really challenged the guys to come out and show a lot of intensity. I didn't want them to overlook this game. We had to jump this hurdle before getting to the next.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

William Wordsworth

"One impulse from a vernal wood

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Louv

Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

Richard Louv

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Richard Louv

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Richard Francis Burton

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

Jamon Gordon

We thought we were going to pull it out. That?s how the season has been this year.

O.J. Mayo

I think we pulled together as a team.

Corey Claitt

I didn't want to get frustrated, but I'm not used to losing. We just had to trust one another. We pulled together as a team.

Shatha Atiya

He has a lot of confidence, but I never thought he would be able to pull this together.

Sheray Thomas

I never thought that (this would happen). I thought we'd be on top of the conference, just like every one predicted, but that's the way it turns out sometimes and we've just got to pull through it.

Doug Thomas

In this arena, we're doing phenomenal. We're going on the road now, and we've got to be able to pull off some road wins.

Shay Espinoza

I just pulled the stroller and pushed her up on the curb.

Jim Shaw

I pulled myself out. The timing was too tight.

Haywood Boston

I'm going to have to pull a rabbit out of my hat.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Walter Savage Landor

Falsehood is for a season.

Kelly Rowan

In the first season, (Kirsten) seemed really together, but there's this undercurrent of 'something's got to be up.' And (last) season you got to see kind of the underbelly of her,

Jose Guillen

I'm pretty sure if we lost, the season was done.

Flip Saunders

I'm sure they will want to get a win and split the season series. We'll want to be competitive, and stay sharp.

John Abraham

I'm in shape, I've been working since the season was over with,

Steve Owens

It may be that we simply go from one high-pollution season to another.

Gwyn Howat

It was a wild weather year. The big thing this season was extremes.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

James Blake

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Dana Rohrabacher

I'm aghast at what American corporations have done in terms of trading American technology.

Tim Henman

It was much better today, in terms of the result,

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

James Bell

If I find any one of you violating the terms of this sentence, I'm going to put you in jail,

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Chelsea Leyland

I never dress appropriately in terms of comfort, but I wear what I'm feeling. I often to like to feel a little different from everyone else.