Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kwame Brown

The thing is, the whole thing stems from Gilbert telling them not to put me in the game. I didn't come to practice because I was going to be a distraction. I was going to slap ... him. I'll admit it, what I did was wrong -- not showing up was wrong -- but I ain't saying what I would've done if I showed up would've been right. Being that I didn't show up I didn't put my hands on nobody. How a teammate, a supposed friend, would go to a coach and tell him don't put me in a game, I would've done something seriously wrong to him.

Elijah Cummings

You're saying to the people of the United States that you all made no mistakes. I've got to go back to my district and explain to them why we've got a federal agency that, to me, made some mistakes and won't admit it.

Guillermo Canas

The only negligence I admit to is that of not having checked what I was taking,

Unknown

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Chris Mecray

While they won't admit it, the primary driver of lower procurement costs will be by lowering prices out there, increasing competition through versus auctions.

Robert Burton

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both

Jim King

As submitted, their requested amendment is not consistent with the comprehensive plan. We think that with modifications - and I admit some of them are substantial - it can be consistent with the comp plan.

Hwang Suk

As the lead author of the papers in which fake data appeared, I hold myself wholly responsible and I admit it and apologize.

Tom Durkin

A tone gets created in the courtroom that that's what's expected of the prospective jurors. I think it's difficult for some people to stand up in court and admit that's a problem.

Dave Band

You're the love of my life and the breath in my prayers. Take my hand and lead me there.. what I need is you here. I can't forget the taste of your mouth from your lips all the heavens pour out. I can't forget when we are one. With you alone I am free.

Kenneth Williams

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.

Granth Sahib

Embellished and immaculate is that place where the Saints gather together. He alone finds shelter, who has met the Perfect Guru.

Kathleen Jenkins

Every gang member that I have worked with is enamored by the hip-hop culture and the lifestyles of this genre's rich and famous. It is common for youths to emulate these rap artists by wearing similar gangster-type clothing. This alone is not concerning. The concern evolves when the behavior and attitude begin to go as south as the pants. Certain rap artists tout their criminal history, gang affiliation and their fortune of surviving gun battles. It becomes a concern, when dealing with a very troubled individual that is consumed by the gang mentality.

A. Milne

Wolfson specializes in this particular area. We focus only on the analogue and mixed signal area; we don't do the stand alone digital technology.

Martin Rees

There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people.

Ann Coulter

isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on 'The West Wing,' (television show) let alone to be a real one.

Matt Davidson

We missed 10 free throws in the first half alone and the first half of four 1-and-1s. We make those and we would have led at halftime.

Donald Trump

We'll spend it alone together; we won't have people around. That's the best. I feel really comfortable in a bathrobe.

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Anne Stevens

As a leader in both hybrid vehicles and in vehicles capable of operating on ethanol-based fuels, Ford is the ideal company to bring both technologies together for the first time.

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Rosa Gerra

An officer who speaks Spanish can't always be everywhere. It was a hit-or-miss thing. This way they know there will be someone there every Monday. It's got all the right ingredients of an excellent program. It's a win-win for both parties.

Tom Sexton

An obvious key who came to us this year tremendously more mature ? and that's a really big point for him ? is Addison Beaver. His speed is real key for us, great shot with both feet and can play any position.

Ted Sarandos

The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.

Michael Ching

The size of this charge reflects both much weaker demand forecasted over the next 12 months as well as the costs for certain commitments that Cisco felt obliged to fulfill.

Debbie Macomber

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

Anna Camp

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

Thomas Browne

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

Regina Brett

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

Mason Cooley

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

Francis Bacon

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

Griffin Dunne

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

Honore de Balzac

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Thomas Holcroft

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Robert Grosseteste

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Stephen Greenblatt

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

Viktor E. Frankl

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Stendhal

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

John Milton

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

Michel de Montaigne

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.

Alfredo Griffin

I am very proud to be here and to be with such a powerful group. This is my country's team. It's a pleasure being here.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Bruce Willis

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Linda Eder

Though it's a tribute to her, ... I'm not sitting there thinking 'How can I do it just like her' when I'm singing these songs.

Donald Fagen

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Andrea Corr

I really love singing.

Heather Dougherty

If someone wants to play catch-up fast, that's the way to go.

Ivan Rodriguez

He's the manager. If he wants me to DH, I'll DH.

Irving Layton

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Dan Hampton

Who wants to play in the band? I wanted to play football.

Chris Pine

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.

Gareth Gates

I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.