Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Sponseller

Across the state, there's a lot of bed and breakfasts in small rural towns like Clover. It takes an old home that has some uniqueness to it and an unbelievable dedicated person or couple to do it.

Joseph Tan

Across the region, the story is very solid growth. A lot of money is coming into Asia.

Colleen Castille

Across the nation, the demand for energy and transportation fuel is outpacing supply. Florida must act now to protect the state's growing economy and quality of life.

Dana Berliner

Across the nation, cities and developers are fighting very hard to hold on to their power to confiscate other people's homes and businesses for private development. There is overwhelming public support for an end to eminent domain abuse. Legislatures need to make real changes, not cosmetic ones, to end eminent domain for private commercial development throughout the country.

Peter Cardillo

Across the globe there are a lot of problems out there. Putting pressure on the markets is the situation between India and Pakistan , gold is up on that news. Also, weakness in the dollar reflects nervousness in the financial markets.

Wendy Kopp

Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.

Alex Penelas

Across the globe, Andrew Cunanan is ... a marked man. The world is on notice,

Tony Haynes

Across the field I saw the line judge (Rick Page), and he was shaking his head no.

Peter Fox

This is a public policy question, ... The appropriate place to address it is in Congress and federal agencies.

Rumi

Live in the nowhere that you come from even though you have got an address Here.

Ashish Jha

For more than 20 years we have known that black Americans receive a different level of care than whites. Despite concerted efforts to address these disparities, this study shows that black seniors continue to receive fewer surgical procedures than whites. On a fundamental level, these differences in care are not acceptable.

Peter Smith

I do not believe he consciously lied. His failure to address these points in my view shows once again that the reality of his research is that it is superficial.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I believe that children should be insured, but this bill fails to address a critical question: How to pay for it?

Steve Tillotson

He's got no fire controls, no insect controls and hasn't done anything to address the liability. The way he portrayed it is not the way he is doing it.

Janet Reno

It is addressing situations where the state cannot or will not take action, or where there may be an evidentiary law in the state that makes it more propitious to handle the case in federal court,

William Henderson

I was concerned for Brett. I didn't know what the guy was going to do. We were still trying to drive the ball and score. I'm just glad nothing else happened. The reality is, you still have to play football, but the league is going to have to address the issue.

Renaldo Nehemiah

I was clearly the best hurdler in 1980, and not getting a chance to go to the Olympics was very hurtful to me, ... It took me many, many years to address it. That was the single biggest motivating factor in going into football.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

Will Blalock

I'm going to keep hope alive during these next couple games that something turns. Losing three in a row, going to Oklahoma, is not what I envisioned early on.

Nick Parry

The first two innings were very quiet, but when the top of the order came back around the girls just came alive and started and started crushing the ball. They got into a rhythm.

Michael Farr

The financial sector really hasn't come alive and gotten to levels much higher than they were a year ago. I think Wells Fargo is very well positioned. It's a cheap stock. It is diversified and they haven't been plagued by Argentina to the degree others have.

Neal Shusterman

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

Neal Shusterman

I imagine the center of the Earth must be a crowded place by now, but perhaps it is the spirits of those of us residing there that keep the Earth alive and green.

Morley Safer

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

Jose Saramago

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

Kevin Brockmeier

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

Brian Roper

That's why they call it a draw. It's somewhat random. There are some things you can't control, and like we're always telling the kids, you have focus on what you can control ... There are 16 quality teams down there, and we're one of them.

Angela Ruggiero

That's women's hockey. Some refs think that if somebody falls down, you've got to call it. Part of that is the talent differences, because things look different to the refs when two teams are playing at two different speeds. Hopefully they're not doing that when we play Canada.

Steve Spurrier

That's just the way they do it in the NFL, ... But the rule in college is what they call slightly new. That's what they call it, slightly new.

Ed Swanson

That's maturity and focus. When a team makes a run at us, I don't want to have to call a timeout. We should have the maturity to fight through it.

Kit Williams

A liquor-by-the-drink permit tells the state you are a restaurant. I think it's inconsistent to call yourself a restaurant at the state level and tell the city that you're a bar.

Shaun Alexander

A little wake-up call for all of us.

Mark Savoia

The MIT was a wake-up call for him. He just keeps getting better and better.

John Rogers

You're what I would call a commodity, a trained law enforcement officer.

Rick White

You're probably not going to call him to you if he's surrounded by hens.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

T. S. Eliot

There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

Maxine Waters

I stand with this family. I stand on the side of this young man,

Khara Smith

We've proven we are a really good home team and even though the All-State isn't technically our home gym, we will still have family and friends and our school supporting us.

Marilyn Monroe

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? A woman who can have a family ... I'd settle for just one baby. My own baby.

Jeff Wallace

What did we do? We put our university in the middle of a single-family residential area. It's the strangest zoning I've ever seen.

Chuck D.

We tell the kids (that) family is the most important (thing). So, some are on vacations and doing family things.

Rachel Tanaka

We talked about personal things, family and such.

Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Elihu Root

I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Doug Stanhope

You're born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that's a law, if you get old you die, that's a law too; if you sit on a tack you will bleed from the ass, these are the only laws that you're born with.

Claude Bernard

Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.

Diogenes

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Dick Francis

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Dick Gregory

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Desmond Tutu

Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.

Hideyuki Suzuki

A rally in US shares (overnight) led the market here.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Alex Brown

I don't know that we've got his number yet.

Richard J. Needham

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

Todd McFarlane

About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

Skylar Astin

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.

J. B. Smoove

Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

Frank Zappa

He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head.

Gus Frerotte

The phone . . . probably the kids. They're always doing that.

John Servis

The phone has been ringing off the hook. He's a very popular horse.

Katie Gearlds

We've got their phone numbers. We're going to make sure that they know we want them here, and we need them here.

Louis C. K.

People say, 'My phone sucks.' No, it doesn’t! The shittiest cellphone in the world is a miracle. Your life sucks. Around the phone.

R. Ingram

We can't tell over the phone if the person is a senior or disabled. And when we pick them up, they don't have to provide any identification or sign anything. We just take them where they want to go.

Becky Hale

I'm sure there's something out there. I'm just not sure where.

Jerry Roberts

I'm not sure how much I'll get, but anything is better than nothing at this point.

Bruce Arena

I'm not sure he's been real patient. I think it's his time.

Greg Davis

I'm not sure he's always had his swerve on.

Mattias Ohlund

I'm not sure about the timing of this.

Craig Monroe

I'm not sure about that. I think we're doing it to ourselves.

Bob Williams

I'm not really ready. We went 18 years without a vacation. I am not sure what I am going to do with all my time.

Cindy Brown

I'm not so sure about winning this year.

Michael Bamberger

the triangle thing to make sure that you're not closer.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Don Marquis

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Dweezil Zappa

Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

Dalai Lama

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work...

Dolly Parton

Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.

Dolly Parton

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

Anderson Cooper

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

Andrew Carnegie

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

Andrew Carnegie

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.