Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fitzgerald

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Russell Banks

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

John Sladek

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Rudolf Hiferding

We thus see that the Marxist law of value is not canceled by the data of the third volume, but is merely modified in a definite way.

Rudolf Hiferding

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Daniel Goleman

I think that it's an extraordinary opportunity for science for the first time to learn about the positive potential of these traditions.

James Patterson

Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Keira Knightley

It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.'

Chamberlain Oguchi

I was looking for my shot early and they were leaving me open. It's a certain way they play defense, and I wanted to get us going.

Malin Akerman

I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

Suzy Merchant

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

Lindsay Davenport

Knowing that I worked hard and knowing that I'm playing well certainly makes me feel very prepared going into Melbourne.

David Hawkins

I wouldn't say it's unusual. In terms of moving from one institution to another, if Richard felt like it was time for change, it certainly seems like a logical move to make.

Joey Avila

I wouldn't say it's confidence. I think last year I lacked certain fundamentals. I was inconsistent with my swing. I've worked on correcting those flaws.

Daniel Renouard

I would say no company has a lot of visibility past a couple of quarters all you can have is a framework. No question that going out a couple of years is really hard to do, and the level of certainty you can predict two years from now is lower than even what you can predict in the current quarter.

Jeff Kelly

I would say that the omission is certainly damaging to us.

Kellan Lutz

I've dated girls and I always wait for that one right time to kiss. I don't kiss on the first date, so I'll take a girl out to dinners, and we'll go bowling, and I make sure to charm them before I do it.

David Cameron

I would say it is more homely than chi-chi but all the more charming for that,

Al Edwards

It bounced around the rim three times, probably hit every part of the rim and then went in. This time we just had the lucky charms in our favor.

Peter Carlisle

He could be very cordial and charming when he was cooperating with you, and there were other times he could be reptilian as to how cold he was.

Peter Sarnak

He is very charming and not arrogant. I think he will find himself having a tremendous number of graduate students because he has kind of a magnetic personality.

Charles Baudelaire

Here is the charming evening, the criminal's friend. It comes like an accomplice, with stealthy tread.

Leonard Maltin

He's got it all. He's got charm, he's got looks, he's got brains, he's got a conscience. He has everything any movie star could want to have, any director or producer, and then some.

Sherry Jeffe

He's got to charm the pants off the delegates. That would help. The question is: How does he do it?

James Woods

Hold on a second, I got a hand here... you don't mind if I play while we talk? It's part of the charm of this entire event.

Andy Xie

Growth rates could decelerate by another 1 percentage point due to further rises in oil prices.

Glenn Hoddle

He's had to go back to Spain now so it's not great preparation for the weekend, as he's only due back to train with us on Saturday.

Stephen Bernstein

Holding him without due process is improper, and either ICE or the prosecutors should explain why.

Richard Shim

I think it's a smart move, one that was probably due a long time ago, but they were just so stubborn.

Eric Young

I think it's great for these worthy gentlemen to get their due in Cooperstown. They paved the way for all of us, and we owe them a debt.

Patty Clausen

I think it's due to the economy. People are hanging onto their money, because they don't know what's going to happen.

Tom Gallagher

I think the market is due for some sort of rally. The market is very oversold.

Rick Meckler

I think that the idea of never-ending, short-term-rate increases no longer seems as likely to people. But I would not be surprised if the Fed still increases, but signals to the market that they are prepared to stop increasing if the economy slows due to the hurricane.

David Mitchell

I was due to sail tomorrow but I'm staying home this time.

Phil Garner

I thought they were going to be hard-pressed to duplicate what they did last year.

Tim Floyd

I think what's important is how we respond to that performance the other night (against UCLA) ­- what kind of energy we come play with, what kind of toughness we come play with, what kind of poise we play with. Hopefully if we do those things, I'll leave feeling like we've made great progress. Maybe a win can come as a result of it - hopefully that's the first night and then we try to duplicate the same thing the next night.

Linda White

The idea is to reduce response times and not duplicate services.

Erik Jenkins

It's hard to duplicate the success we've had. They've done a very good job of performing well in big meets.

Ed Yates

For Colton, I think the offensive part of his game is going to be OK if he doesn't come in putting too much pressure on himself. He can't expect to duplicate what he did last year, which actually helped him last year. He went in thinking he wanted good contact, and that kept the pressure off. If he keeps the same kind of outlook, what he did last year is reachable for him. It really is.

Tamala Jones

I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out exactly what is in there, and go home and duplicate it.

Gary Coxe

Another speaker could not duplicate what I do, but I could do what they do.

Nick Saban

We want to duplicate enthusiasm and team energy,

Noam Chomsky

There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs.

Keke Palmer

I've never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.

Manny Acta

I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting.

Chris Duhon

This was a game that earlier in the season we probably would not have won. We have really started to mature as a team and we're starting to win games like this.

Alan Williamson

Gold lost some of its impetus with the release of lower than expected US trade figures and this prompted profit taking in gold. Earlier in the day gold's upside had also stalled.

Ned Colletti

His skills are very similar to earlier in his career. He knows how to play, how to win.

Scotty George

I think the market today is just perpetuating the uncertainty we've seen in the last few weeks after it hit its highs earlier in the month.

Dan Campbell

I think you've got to feel that way. But we got one stolen from us earlier this year. So we got one back.

Mark Pollard

We're proud to have him and the two kids we got earlier this spring, and I know Larry's (Coleman) got some more coming.

Dominique Holmes

I was kind of upset (about not being able to play much). I tried so hard to play on it, but I couldn't. That was disappointing to me.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Charlie Otero

Knowing the last moments, the last thoughts, the last words was pretty hard to take,

Author unknown

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Joe Jones

Joe has really been positive throughout this whole thing. He's worked hard to get back to being the player that he once was. We're hoping he's going to be able to do that.

Bruce Merrill

John is seen as a hard worker. He's really a low-key person. He's not a person that's been very controversial with issues. He's not a person you hear about in the media very often.

Lindy Ruff

J.P.'s looking real good. I like the way he's skating. We're going to start pushing him harder and harder, get him involved in more stuff.

Sharon Stone

I've never thought of myself as a great beauty -- just a great magician.

Marcel Marceau

A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime maks the invisble visible.

Rick Riordan

We don’t have much time. Mel will be out of the restroom soon.” “You’ve got a magician named Mel?

Doug Henning

I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

Ricky Jay

Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.

Quvenzhane Wallis

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

Dario Fo

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

Sheila Nevins

respect mostly the people on the other side of the camera.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.

Rand Paul

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.

Jami Attenberg

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Mia Sara

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

Dana Schutz

I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.

Leslie Williams

We've never separated two vehicles going Mach 5. That's just never happened. It's a very risky thing.

Darren Criss

I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.