Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Goodling

We want to take a little bit of this frustration and turn it into some positive momentum.

Audrey Hepburn

I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for,

Andrew Booth

We accomplished everything we wanted to and got a little bit of confidence. Everything turned out as well as I could've wanted.

Michael Steele

My style is a little bit different than most conventional Republican Party chairmen. My style is more grass roots-oriented. I'm much more of a street guy. I love hanging out in boardrooms, but I prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities.

Jim Calhoun

The only difference between Providence and maybe somebody a little bit higher in the standings is the young kids. Providence is talented but they're young. Young teams make mistakes.

Paul Woods

The potential is there and with a bit of luck we could finish in the top four. There are two or three programs that are traditionally strong and the final one or two spots are usually up for grabs.

Pat Sullivan

The people who were here tonight now have an idea of the talent you see at the NAIA National Tournament. This team is every bit as talented as what you see at the nationals. In fact, if this had been 20 years ago when the NAIA had 600 teams, this team could have won it.

Winifred Creamer

The people who built the first of these structures had no model to go by, no precedent to use in building a monument. It's a bit like deciding to build a functioning spaceship in your back yard, and succeeding.

Mike Hathaway

We've always been a little bit wide open anyway, but with Chris out, it kind of forced us to throw more.

Graeme Souness

The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training.

Robert Kabushenga

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

Rick Michaels

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Dusty Baker

There are days when you don't have your premier stuff,

Donna Wisniewski

There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.

Walt Harris

There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.

Jody Conradt

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

Karen Allen

There are days he just reads my mind.

Nicky Byrne

There are some days when you just want to push Shane off his chair.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Mark Kennedy

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Nick Offerman

There have been a few occurrences where people in restaurants have sent me a rasher of bacon, which I am not going to turn my nose up at. I never let them down.

Nnedi Okorafor

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

Nonso Anozie

'Ender's Game' is fantastic, and I've gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it's turned out.

Raghav Bahl

When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

Joe Glenn

We're not going to reinvent the wheel. We just have to make fewer errors.

Jovon Johnson

When you run a blitz, a lot of things have to happen. It might take a few games for it to feel natural.

Ryan Gentles

We were trying to do less media and fewer big things. We could have done as much as the first album, but we just turned some down on purpose.

Bob Doyle

This investigation is in its infancy. It is being processed and handled as a homicide, ... That does not rule out a homicide-suicide.

Daniel Alfredsson

They're just trying to showcase themselves. I thought we handled it well.

Jim Stack

There's been a lot of things that have been thrown at him this year. We haven't been as successful as we had hoped, but he's handled a lot of things well.

Jennifer Palmieri

It was the first time people saw him really mixing it up and he handled it well. But the party doesn't want to push him into peaking too soon because we want him to be successful.

Bill Snyder

It was a monumental game, I think, for him. I thought he handled it quite well, from what I saw. He's a very poised young guy.

Ellen Foley

The theater management handled the situation very well.

Joe Gibbs

I've appreciated how Patrick has handled the situation all year. It says a lot about him and his character.

David Harris

It was a long and comprehensive process and they handled it expeditiously.

Davey Johnson

They all looked to him for leadership. Not only the way he handled himself on the mound, but his preparation, the way he handled the news media. He was the leader of that pitching staff.

Zell Miller

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

Robert Gottlieb

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

Frank Beamer

We'll see what took place and I'll talk with everyone about what happened before I make any more statements.

Diana Henderson

We are getting real weather. That has not happened for a while.

Nancy Donovan

Unfortunately, I think what's happened is, there's been so much underground work done to prepare the surface that you don't see a lot of that from the roadway.

Bill Tierney

We knew what happened last year. We lost to this team 17-4. We knew how they could score, and we knew we had to not let that happen to have a chance.

Robert Lanza

It's just a real shame that this has happened to him.

Hans Eichel

It's a shame it happened like this, but we have to respect it.

Hal Brown

A lot of them you don't get to know because it happened so long ago, ... We're so lucky to be able to honor (the past presidents), to meet them. Because of their leadership is why we're here today.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk him. I hope they don't stop walking him.

Charles L. Allen

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Jack Rio

We're going to keep him out this week, then hopefully get him back as quick as we can, ... This is not a season-ending injury by any means.

Jim McAlpin

We're going to have to find some different ways to score because of that, but we'll still attack. We hope to score as much as we did last year.

Bruce Allen

We're getting some more analysis. He's still on the team. He is wanting to play. We're hopeful that he can. But we're going to get the proper medical opinion.

J. Horton

We're hopeful what we have done to this point is enough.

Wayne Kramer

We're hopeful we'll be able to identify many more.

Jason Tapp

We're hopeful that a much more experienced and talented team this season will have us near or on top at the end of the regular season.

Jeff Hall

We're hopeful ... but realistically we're looking for deceased.

Tyler Baskfield

This is a very rare incident to happen. Mountain lions tend to be very elusive. Typically mountain lions don't want any part of people.

Tyler Baskfield

This is a very rare incident to happen.

David Fischer

St. Petersburg has made a lot of progress and we thought we were doing well, ... then an incident like this happens.

E. L. Konigsburg

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

Monte Mitchell

We've responded to nine incidents seven in the past two weeks.

Lajos Egri

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

Ken Trump

When I looked at the incidents this year, it jumped right out.

Mike Ward

We've had some incidents in the past that we wanted to address. Things are getting unbelievably better.

Gerard Kennedy

Every serious incident obviously tells us that we need to be doing better,

Chief Joseph

When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.

Edward Hirsch

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

David Hockney

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

Barney Frank

If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

Audre Lorde

And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive

Armstrong Williams

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

Arnold Bennett

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Arnold Bennett

In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.

Charles Dickens

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

Alan Watts

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

Alan Watts

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

Estee Lauder

I can understand the skepticism, particularly regarding Estee Lauder,

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

W. S. Gilbert

in any scenario regarding the one vote in question.

Steve Blake

As we put them in outlying areas, contamination has been more of a problem. We are still experimenting with different situations and locations.

Carol Majeske

It's just a stressful situation for wildlife who are already stressed out in the winter.

Joe Gibbs

It's a situation where it's tough for Tom and tough for us, ... We think the world of him.

Michael Irvin

It's a situation that is not as it seemed.

Janice Kruger

A lot of things do stay the same over the years. But there are also a lot of things that are different, and those things keep a real special situation here every year.

Bobby Bowden

They need to be in a game-like situation and play as a unit and see how they respond. Because you can't do it much in the fall.

George Hudson

It's more about the situation that the team will be in,

Kelly Holcomb

It's not my decision. You're competitive. You want to play. But you also have to know the situation and I do.

Shlomo Dror

They are going because they want to leave. The situation is dangerous.

Charles Dickens

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Charles Dickens

Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.

Charles Stross

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

Alanis Morissette

I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.

Alan Chambers

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

Chris Colfer

People still call me ma’am on the phone, and it’s just part of life now. I’m not even phased by it… Going through DriveThrus is always fun, because it’s always so shocking when they see me. It’d just be kind of like, ‘Thank you ma… woah!! Woah, sorry about that!’

Chris Colfer

There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.

Chris Christie

When you're exonerated, then the people who wrongly accused you should have the guts to stand up and say, "I'm sorry."

Chris Bosh

There were hard days but I never felt sorry for myself.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charlie Kaufman

Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.

William Shakespeare

What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.

William Shakespeare

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

Madeleine Albright

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

C. S. Lewis

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

C. S. Lewis

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

C. S. Lewis

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Alan Ladd

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

Cheri Huber

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.