Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug MacIntyre

Just like we were citing supply and demand as the reasons why prices went up, it's the same reason they're going down. It's pretty much followed with what we would be expecting.

Carter G. Woodson

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

Clive Woodward

I saw the same tapes that the citing commission would have seen and to me there was plenty of evidence,

Rachel Sklar

It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.

Rene Saguisag

I do not know why they are citing the economy and patrimony provision of the Constitution. I don't understand the connection between this provision and the EDSA celebration.

Jack Vance

I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.

John Delaney

Equipment vendors are citing 'willingness to pay' surveys to show that people will pay up to 10 per month for mobile TV, but we generally view such surveys skeptically. It's one thing to say that you're willing to pay; it's quite another thing to actually pay.

Clay Lowery

In this case, the concerns that you're citing were addressed and resolved. There were no national security concerns that were not addressed.

Genrikh Padva

The judge of the Moscow City Court refused to review proceedings when we appealed, without citing a single reason.

Paul Fleischman

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

Bob Hartley

We have a great group of players, but this is embarrassing. There's no other way to explain the way we've played. It's embarrassing.

Michael Defensor

We have to look at all the options and then explain to the public why we are doing this and why we are not doing this.

Jonathan Todd

Microsoft will have the opportunity to explain how this technical support is relevant to the March 2004 decision.

Chris Hoffman

We need to properly explain to people they're only going to see a 7-mil increase,

Rocky Steagall

We judge off those criteria. It's not like we sit there with an open mind. We use those tools to judge so we can explain why one rider was better than the other.

Richard Aboulafia

You can explain this. But people see what they want to see.

Andy Reid

You just have a feel. I just don't know how to explain it.

Oscar Hammerstein

Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try

Ian Mckellen

You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

Yann Martel

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Victoria Osteen

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Ashton Kutcher

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Gerhard Schroeder

The American president called me and made the proposal, and I told him that it would not fail because of Germany,

Pete Harpolis

That was in 2002, and to date, we haven't had any failures since we proof tested this cable.

Ron Rivera

That was a tough thing, too. They went after the young guy. It was a tough play and he failed as well.

Gail Carson Levine

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Elizabeth Warren

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

Janna Sampson

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

David Ulevitch

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

Hassan Nasrallah

The Americans are surely mistaken if they think they can make peace without finding a real and fair solution to the Palestinian issue.

Mike Irwin

That would not be fair to Red Hook. But we have a good team.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

Irwin Thomas

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

Robert Hunter

We can share what we got of yours'Cause we done shared all of mine

J. C. Watts

Most of the compositions (on the album) are originals of mine or tunes that I really like to play.

William Shakespeare

Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.

Geddy Lee

Live records of mine are very painful to listen to because you always think you can do it better. I don't think I have a single favorite one.

Frank Holmes

Those miners who are hedged are put in the penalty box.

Bill Dee

I was real proud of him. I told him his overall win percentage is better than mine now.

Robert Robinson

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

Troy Williamson

For real? Wow. That's crazy. Nah, I'm going to keep mine and put it in my house.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Francis Bacon

The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self

Donn Rubin

We'll print the petitions as soon as we can. It's time to get on and get signatures.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

Julia Glass

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

Nick Licata

Whatever Peter wants, I am with him. He understands the complexities and subtleties of planning.

Ken Hitchcock

Whatever Peter decides, he'll have our support. He's not going to play if he's not 100 percent.

Andrew Adamson

I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning.

Simon Fowler

I don't even like walking up a ladder; I'm petrified of heights.

Ian Mckellen

If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.

Kevin McCarthy

That was thrown on us, so we'll look at it and see which way we go about doing it.

Mike Conroy

We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.

Cliff Lee

Mostly, I was throwing fastballs and locating them.

Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Yasmin Sewell

You can even throw them in the washing machine.

Pete Eliades

I thought if I did big increments, I'd throw him off. I just started him up, and he couldn't stop.

Mack Brown

Justin's really good. He's big and strong. And he can throw it all over the lot,

Gregg Brandon

We don't have Omar anymore. We know Omar can throw a lot of touchdown passes. We don't know that about our quarterbacks now.

Henry Beard

You can often wash your troubles away with the right kind of bath. Throw everything you have into the tub: bubble gels, bubble oils, bubble powders, bubble gum.