Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavi

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

Imelda May

I love the shape of '50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I'm only five foot three, although I always tell people I'm five foot five.

Irwin Rose

We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

Irwin Rose

Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.

Isco

I'd say I'm a bit antimadridista although I do not know where my future will be, but it's a team that I never liked. I get the impression that it is an arrogant club, about how the players are. Without humility, you cannot get anywhere.

Gilbert Hernandez

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.

Gil Gerard

Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episodes and put them together, making a feature film once in a while. I had good fun making the series.

William Lashner

I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.

William Kirby

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

Thomas Hardy

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Geoff Garin

The polls are pretty clear that voters want limits on the government's power. This is really an argument not about fighting terrorism but about checks and balances and unbridled government authority.

Barack Obama

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

Carl Sagan

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

John Roberts

The argument of 'We're bigger' is becoming less credible as the open-source movement takes hold. Using your financial might as the basis for justifying your value proposition is not going to withstand this shift.

Pat Riley

The argument is they know what they're supposed to do. At least they tell you, 'We know what we're supposed to do.' So you back off a little bit on the real big muscle work that could cause them injury.

Richard Yamarone

The argument is that Venezuela is not willing or they're not going to be able to (comply with the cuts). Here it is eight, nine days later and they're already backing out. We knew it wasn't going to last, but this is a little on the ridiculous side.

Ralph Catalano

The argument is that in most species, males will compete with each other for females, and females prefer robust males.

Kevin Landis

The argument for optimism is stronger today than it was a year ago. I'm happy having most of my money invested in tech.

Paul Pierce

That was the difference in the game. They gave the starters a cushion at the start of the fourth quarter. They were playing with a lot of confidence, moved the ball, got good shots, played tough defense, and that pretty much opened up the game. So the starters got back in and put it away.

Toni Atkins

We need something in place as a cushion to help with these programs that require front-loaded funding,

Cory Schneider

Those goals were huge, especially Aiello?s first goal of the year. We were kind of on our heels, and he gave us the two-goal cushion again.

Tony Wingen

We don't have the cushion any more. We had it ... then we lost it.

Colin Doyle

Had we scored one goal, it probably would have given us the cushion we needed.

Paul Gray

We want them to get as much water out of the lake as possible. We need as much cushion going into summer as we can get.

Patrick Fearon

The positive message is that if you strip out the numbers that the Labor Department says are the result of the hurricane, the underlying figures are still pretty decent. That shows that there was some cushion in the economy before Katrina hit.

Gloria Arroyo

I think we have a comfortable cushion to push worthwhile legislation.

John Hotard

There is an extremely large cushion of safety out there.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Igor Luksic

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Nancy Gibbs

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

Carrie Vaughn

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Carl Safina

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

Antoine Fuqua

The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.

Bill Vaughan

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Bill Burr

When you say, "there's no reason [to hit a woman]" that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, "there's no reason," you cut out the build-up and you're just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don't figure it out?

Eve Ensler

When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we're going to see the end of humanity, because I don't know how you sustain a future without vitalised women.

Christopher Dixon

The overall sector is being destroyed in the wake of Omnicom.

Colin Farrell

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

David H. Murdock

I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

Denis Napthine

The Greens will threaten the future of our strong economy. They will destroy jobs and put Victorian families at risk.

Rick Perry

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.

Robert Fisher

We can't just destroy a resource for the sole purpose of getting it out of the water. We have to be responsible and treat it as a resource.

Malala Yousafzai

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.

Abraham Lincoln

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Gerhard Schroeder

The pictures we've seen on TV are difficult to bear.

Susan Burke

The pictures are just the tip of the iceberg. I don't think we'll have difficulty because there's a heck of a lot of evidence.

Brian Cox

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.

Nash Grier

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

Carrie Fisher

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Alan Johnston

That was the most difficult game we played this season.

Rob Andrew

That was rubbish. Two teams having a real off-day. It's difficult to explain performances like that.

Yotam Ottolenghi

What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

Walter Savage Landor

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

Carrie Fisher

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Bethenny Frankel

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Caroline Haberfeld

The airfares are less expensive, and it's very easy to get there. It's very convenient. It's English-speaking and the value is good.

Saddam Hussein

The American government made several errors ... one of which is how easy it would be to get rid of Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country,

Austin Kearns

That was the worst wind I've ever seen here. It wasn't easy out there by any means.

Steve Goff

That will be the toughest match of the day (for us). We're planning to serve them tough and keep them from getting an easy pass.

Andriy Shevchenko

The 1-1 from the first leg is a good result, but we must think we are starting from zero. We must not think that Bayern can be an easy opponent.

Rick Sherlund

Microsoft needs to show all the 'eye candy' features that reside in Vista.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Who killed Johnny Keats? "I," said the Quarterly, "So savage and tartarly, 'Twas one of my feats

Scott Roesch

You'll see people doing short films and people doing features specifically for the Net, as opposed to people using it as a stepping-stone.

Jessica Hecht

I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me.

Shaharyar Khan

We have not permitted Malik to feature in this series which comes in our domain.

Zahi Hawass

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.

Phil Frame

The quality of the Web cam is so good you can see their feathers move up and down as they breathe. This is pretty remarkable.

Paula Creamer

We all played our hearts out. This is a huge feat for me. It's been an unbelievable experience.

Peter Lee

Which is no small feat given the size of Canada's forests.

Ismail Kadare

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.

Vincent Bugliosi

No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

Zubin Mehta

I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.

Nayvadius Cash

My day one fans - my fans from my mix tape days - know my life now. They know where I've been. You don't want to have a disconnection with those fans. You have to give them all of you because they feel like they've known you.

Cecelia Ahern

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Roman Jakobson

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Dorothy Day

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Juergen Trittin

We've long known the waste would have to be taken back.

Rodney Moore

We've known about this idea for some time, but it has yet to be developed.

Robert Kiyosaki

To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Blaise Pascal

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Blaise Pascal

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

Edward Ruscha

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

Brit Hume

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.