Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maynard Jackson

I look forward to working closely with the DNC under Terry's tenure, ... I look forward to continuing the focus I began in my campaign on rebuilding state parties, election reform and ensuring that no voter and no state is left behind.

Robert Lewis

The group began by making comments that the victim looked like a geek or a nerd.

Gabrielle Aplin

I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.

Robert Byrd

I've given most of my life to serving the people of West Virginia, and it began here 59 years ago, ... six more years, six more years.

Bill Bray

Not a single school has closed. We just began a new term last Monday, the students are coming back, and the faculty is carrying on without salary.

Paul Bowen

It looks as though a slow earthquake began to split it years ago. I have to grip the steering wheel of my Ranger very tightly as I dare to stay about 10 miles an hour slower than my faster sedan and coupe rivals, praying for deliverance at the county line.

E. O. Wilson

It makes too much sense for our cities to market themselves as one to the rest of the country. Think of how the Carolina Panthers first began marketing themselves. They weren't the Charlotte Panthers. Now they draw from the whole state and South Carolina.

Novala Takemoto

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people who said they were waiting for me to express what they felt they couldn't, so I kept writing.

Tim Ryan

And as we began the war in Iraq, many, many, many months ago, we began to shift our focus from Afghanistan to Iraq.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Joe Girardi

He struggled. He's given us his all, it just hasn't worked out for him.

Ronnie Bond

He's an outstanding man. He's truly loves the kids, and he's given a lot to his profession.

Scott Hinkel

Jason really loves this sport. He just needed the opportunity. Just given his chance, he has made the most of it.

Joanne Sanabria

My son has given me the strength to continue. I wish I could retrace my steps.

Willie Randolph

I think if it was anything serious, they would have given me a heads-up on it. I don't think it's anything big.

Tim Whitehead

If he wasn't nervous, I'd be surprised. I thought he was great, especially given that it was only his second collegiate game.

Michael Flanders

If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Robert Scoble

Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.

Cindy Sheehan

applecobbler: Sorry that so many people have spoken up to say

Jan Egeland

Are we going to have tens of thousands of people staying in the rubble and in the snow until it's too late? Maybe. It's a logistical nightmare,

Julie Hall

Are people still sleeping with their chickens? Yes, they are.

Ayad Allawi

are outlaws or terrorists ... who do not represent the sentiments of the people of the towns.

Randeep Hooda

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

Pablo Picasso

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.

Carl Olson

And then people got all excited. Why was it there?

Constantin Oclei

The situation is very bad. We need to evacuate 1,200 people from Bechet and its surroundings by this evening.

Leona Lewis

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

Eve

I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice.