Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Covert

I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those people who thinks that because I have been moderately successful at playing make believe for a living that I am supposed to tell you who to vote for.

Tim Russell

I've never even seen Hickory Motor Speedway. We are going to try to get up there and test Thursday, and then participate in the open test on Friday. I am really serious about this race because if I run well, I believe it can be a boost for my career.

Robert Garrity

I've never even heard of this guy. Believe me, if his name came up, with all the things we did in that case, I would have remembered it. This is the biggest joke ever.

Liam Fox

I've made it very clear what I believe in -- a sense of family, community, respect for the law, Britain controlling its own direction,

Matt Williams

I've liked politics for a long time. I believe governments shouldn't be as large or powerful as they've become. Giving more power to the government is like giving teens whiskey and car keys.

Rob Davis

I've been around this thing a long time and nothing surprises me. Let me say this: You can't believe everything you read. None of us were on that boat. Do you feel sorry about the situation? Absolutely, because to a certain extent, we're all grouped together as professional athletes.

Maurice Strong

I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.

Jim Tressel

I've always known this group has character, but you know, maybe it was revealed again, with them being down, you know, it not looking so wonderful. But they kept playing and they believe in each other.

David Kelley

I use the word innovation instead of creativity. People tend to think that creativity is something that you are born with, something God-given. I don't buy it. I believe that you can practice, practice, practice and become better. All you need is the confidence to believe you can.

Jill Pendley

We all at certain times in our lives find ourselves broken. True strength is found in picking up the pieces.

Michael Vick

Everybody worked together to make the receivers better. Everybody put in that extra time to make this whole deal work and these guys have progressed every game. Last year was our first year in the system and people dogged us in certain ways but sometimes you've got to give people a chance.

Tony Massenburg

Everybody gets treated the same way -- if you screw up, you're going to get yelled at, and that means everybody from Tim Duncan to the guys on the injured reserve. That sends a message that it's all about doing things the right way around here. A lot of franchises don't practice that, unfortunately. They select certain people who can do no wrong and have certain people that can't do anything right.

Mary Pierce

Everybody gets injured, ... There are time-outs for certain reasons. Some players go to the bathroom. Some change their clothes. Elena went and changed her clothes after I won the second set, so it's part of the game.

Samuel Bodman

As the world's largest producer and as the world's largest consumer, our two countries have a special relationship. We are, at least in certain respects, partners.

Gordon Smith

As time goes by, and people see their industry or company is not so stable, they're sensing a downward track. They're more likely to take offers today than 10 years ago because they're not so certain the jobs will still be there.

Scott Cosby

As it makes sense we will certainly do it.

Matthew White

At a certain point, you do feel like you're the only one who feels a certain way.

Meredith Whitney

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

Charles Olson

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

Desmond Tutu

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

Anne Bronte

I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.

Stephen Fry

The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs

Stephen Fry

I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.'

Tilda Swinton

About actors' lives... I'm not the person to ask. I don't live an actor's life and I really don't know. I probably read less about actors' lives than you all do. So, I'm in the dark about all of that, sorry.

Tiger Woods

I want to say to each of you, simply, and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in.

Richard Chamberlain

I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.

Red Buttons

John Wilkes Booth, who said, Sorry, I thought he was a critic. Never got a dinner!

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Howard Nemerov

Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

James Branch Cabell

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

James Gleick

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had....

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

Heath Ledger

My life is together, both professionally and socially.

Herta Muller

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

Heather Morris

The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

Heraclitus

The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.

Gordon Lightfoot

SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.

John Marston

We all have problems, and we must solve them together or we die alone.

John Leguizamo

I knew Linda Cardellini from when we did ER together - she was always great, such a cool spirit.