Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Marsha Blackburn

To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best - make money for American investors.

Dave McDonald

To incorporate fun, hands-on activities, we designed five stations that allow students to benefit from while they learn.

Mitchel Resnick

With 'Scratch,' our goal is to allow people to mix together all kinds of media, not just sounds, in creative ways. We want people to start from existing materials - grabbing an image, grabbing some sound, maybe even bits of someone else's program, and then extending them and mixing them to make them their own.

Brian Dawkins

You have to get to him. You have to get into his face, harass him, and not allow him to sit in the pocket back there. You can say what you want to say about him. He may hold onto the ball, but he has a rifle to get the ball where it needs to be on time if you allow that to happen.

Doug Wilson

To me everybody has to share in the blame for the lack of success we had last year. The bottom line is that my job was to remove all the distractions and allow everybody to be completely focused on solely doing their job, having a great camp and getting ready for a great start. We don't dwell on last year anymore. We're excited about where we're at. To me how people respond to last year is the most important thing. I don't care about lip service. You can see the focus and the chance at redemption. Nobody wants to go through what they went through last year again.

Stan Magee

There is a lot of wisdom at this table and we all bring something good to the table that will allow us to made a decision amongst ourselves without committing taxpayer dollars to do it.

Frank Jezioro

There is a lot of interest in coyote hunting in West Virginia. However, the majority of our hunters are unfamiliar with the techniques and regulations that are involved. Because of this lack of knowledge, DNR will be hosting these seminars to provide our hunters a chance to meet firsthand with experts on coyotes and coyote hunting, which will ultimately allow our hunters to become more successful.

Liz Boyd

Up to this point, no one has identified any clear legal authority that would allow the governor to intervene in this matter.

Alan Adler

Anybody who has the problem -- in any state -- can get the service for it. They should bring their vehicles in. If it's the issue covered by the recall, it will be taken care of.

Anybody who has an identity problem had better wise up and get with the program!

Jack Russo

This is not my thing, this hero thing. This is just what anybody else would do. I'm just glad I was there.

Mike Scioscia

The White Sox execute small ball probably better than anybody in our league,

Somer Hollingsworth

The wheels are in motion. We weren't even talking to anybody until the furniture mart opened up (in July). But then all of the antennas went up. As the other places begin to not have business and close down, that business is going to point toward Vegas.

Mike Stiller

The upshot is that anybody who's been catching salmon for a living is either going to hope to hell that the tuna start showing up, or find something else to do.

Carl Hood

The way we played tonight, that's how I want to play every game. I expect that from everybody on my team. If we play like that every game, I don't think anybody can stop us.

Paul Hewitt

This group has slowly figured out that we can't blame it on anybody else, that we can't hang our heads. If we want to change this, it's got to start inside our locker room. I would say over the last week or 10 days, we've really practiced extremely hard every single time.

John Bolton

This draft certainly does not live up to the expectations set by the secretary-general when he launched the process. And I don't think anybody claims that, and, in fact, the strongest argument in favor of this draft is that it's not as bad as it could be.

Bob Mancini

My issue with the whole thing is that I don't believe that they applied the rules correctly. They way I understand it ... is the referees are in charge. They're supposed to have a decision. They need to call goal or no goal and (in replay) determine whether it's conclusive or inconclusive. I'm looking forward to talking to the league tomorrow.

Kathryn Minshew

If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.

Katherine Paterson

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

Matt Bomer

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

Neal A. Maxwell

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

Mitt Romney

I like being able to fire people.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then, maybe a week later, someone would tell the same story, but with a different twist on it. That's how folk takes evolved.

Lisi Harrison

And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.

Leonardo da Vinci

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

Michael Strahan

Feely, he's crazy. He thinks he's a big guy. He thinks he's tough. We gotta keep reminding him he's a kicker.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Viktor E. Frankl

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

Adam Clarke

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.

Annalee Newitz

My first goal would be to reduce the perturbation in the carbon cycle. That would mean using carbon neutral sources of energy, and changing our agricultural practices to be less disruptive and polluting. I'm not talking about a policy here so much as changing the way our infrastructure works. That's why I'm so fascinated with changing the way we build cities, because they are the most developed forms of physical infrastructure for human habitation.

Ani Difranco

You rhapsodize about beauty, and my eyes glaze. Everything that I love is ugly. I mean really, you would be amazed. Just do me a favor, it's the least that you can do, just don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.

Ani Difranco

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.

Ani Difranco

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

Andy Goldsworthy

I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And the village and the farmers have shown enormous tolerance of me and interest in what I do. I mean, they don't necessarily understand what I'm doing all the time. But they, you know, I think they respect what I do and that there is a connection between what they do with the land and what I do, you know, that we're both dependent on weather and respond to that.

Andrew Miller

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

Jim Pattison

I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around.

Markwayne Mullin

Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.

Mark Twain

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

Joseph de Maistre

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Kate Smith

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Kate Millett

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

Linda Tripp

Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

Lili Taylor

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

Pema Chodron

The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Orla Brady

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.