Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Woods

He was a great advocate of cycling, a great role model for cyclists. I met him at a public meeting in Leesburg. And he got up and spoke to the presenters. He spoke in support of additional trail projects. And I think he was instrumental in bringing other people to the meetings to speak their mind.

Kent Conrad

He wants an additional $18 billion that is not in the budget. And my question to him is, this is spending you say is needed. How do you intend to pay for it?

John Sanders

He kept the place going while President Graham in particular pursued the additional ends of those involved in the presidency.

Freddie Shepherd

He is our first signing of the summer and will be a valuable addition to our squad. He is still young but has a lot of experience and we welcome him to Newcastle.

Richard Friend

has supported law enforcement in the past, and he has shown to be pro-law enforcement in Saline County in addition to being a good friend.

Dorothy Attwood

What we feel that we're offering is an additional product, an additional choice. We're not taking anything away from the consumer.

Ray Mabus

Here are the choices I don't want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Quincy Douby

He's a big addition to the team, and other people needed to step up. It hurt a lot because Kelly Whitney was guarding him, and with Kelly Whitney I can flash to the paint and kick it to him and it's an open three, but with two big guys down I was caught out there just dribbling.

Bryant Kitty

He's a great kid. You figure after you saw him once you would be OK, but we saw him for an additional five innings and still had a hard time figuring him out.

James Longstreet

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

Calamity Jane

In 1865 we emigrated from our homes in Missourri by the overland route to Virginia City, Montana, taking five months to make the journey.

Janis Karpinski

If you hold thousands of prisoners, you have to feed them, clothe them, care for them, provide medical attention - and there were no provisions.

Abraham Whipple

I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.

Daniel H. Hill

I pride myself upon nothing so much as having never permitted to pass, unrebuked, a slighting remark upon the glorious State that gave me being.

Abraham Whipple

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

James Stockdale

I mean, I really think that I would expect somebody that's leading the country to have some kind of - some kind of courage physically, personally.

John B. Hood

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

Janis Karpinski

The findings in the report have been largely discredited because he was not an impartial party and because so much more information has come out.

William Williams

I have discovered that most ofthe beauties of travel are due tothe strange hours we keep to see them. . . .

William Williams

I have discovered that most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them. . . .

John Powell

The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.

Jan Hibbard

That's one of the beauties of the organization. You put it on the shelf until you need it.

James Thomson

So stands the statue that enchants the world,/ So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,/ The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.

Suzy Menkes

My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed of tissue inside a trunk.

Bill Cosby

One of the beauties of watching our show is that, really and truly, it remains fresh because you're dealing with human beings and their behavior,

Levon Kendall

One of the beauties of this team is we have so many guys who can score. Tonight was just really a matter of everyone stepping up and helping each other out. That's one reason why we're so tough too beat.

Paul Reddick

One of the beauties of mobile is it allows you to place-shift.

Ali Landry

describing how he wanted to kill a member of his family. And he wanted to come and tell me the whole story as soon as he got out and how he did it. So it was just really scary for me for a while.

Christopher Darden

Sometimes I have trouble articulating some things or describing things in a way that I think is necessary. But I never run out of ideas.

Gabrielle Zevin

I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

Mary Matalin

I have been describing him as Cheney's Cheney. He does for the vice president what the vice president does for the president.

Jeffery Deaver

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Jane Anderson

I think the reason she's done so many of these films is because the '50s is such a rich era for describing the journey of a woman,

Yann Martel

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

Inga Muscio

Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

Mike Scioscia

Kenny's a fine manager. He was my vote for manager of the year.

Danny Meyer

I think that more and more and more really talented restauranteurs and chefs from the fine dining world are going to try their hand at fine casual. They're going to say, 'Why not us?'

Mike Cooper

I think as a small private school we do get overlooked sometimes, but that's fine with me because we know how good we are, and we are going to go out and play hard every night.

Frank Miller

It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a piece of propaganda.

Mary Roach

A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now.

Jamie Dixon

He was pretty sick for about two days. But he looked like he was fine today.

Andy Reid

He was fine today. He did a great job.

John McLaughlin

I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

Jerramy Stevens

I don't feel like I said anything inappropriate. I told the truth. If he doesn't know who I am, then the surprise will be on him come Sunday. If he's worried more about me than someone else, that's fine with me.

John Montgomery

Hard Rock has this cachet and image that can't be under-valued. I think if it had gone to Vail, for example, which already has a number of world-class hotels, the impact wouldn't have been as great.

Bill Snyder

I think the people that have come through the program and have gone on to be productive young people in society means as much as anything, ... I mean really productive people become special people in their own right.

Alex Salmond

We've gone from a small parliamentary party now to being a large one.

Scott Maddox

we've gone a long way to eliminating a primary, and that's what we need to do to win.

Paul Kurtz

We thought we were prepared, ... I think we could have gone all the way.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however no objection to marriage but to modernity

Conor Jackson

Last year I wasn't comfortable when I got put into that situation. I had been comfortable wherever I'd gone until then.

Jim Albert

He's getting better every day. He's just really athletic. Before you've gone up once for a rebound, he's gone up twice.

Glen Hanlon

(The Rangers have) gone from a non-playoff team to a playoff team, and that would have to play a huge role.

Chris Moore

He can split through two guys, and nobody knows how he got through,

Larry Coker

He knows that there is that window of opportunity and he has to respond,

Freddy Adu

He knows me, so he'll probably know what I'm up to, but I've matured a lot since I went pro,

Felipe Alou

He knows we need him real bad. Even if he's not up to par.

Tony Amonte

He's been in the No. 1 spot before so he knows the pressure, he knows how to play.

Brian Gionta

He's been around a lot longer, so he knows more than I would.

Mike Shula

He's doing OK. He knows it's going to be a long haul, and he's ready.

Doug Chapman

He was impressive. He has an all-court game. He knows when to come to the net. He plays within himself. He?s be a solid No. 1.

Len Sommers

I don't have any problems with him missing as long as he knows what he has to do and the time period that he knows he has to do it.

Joseph Addison

Jesters do often prove prophets.

George Andrew Olah

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

James Russell Lowell

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

John Cheever

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

Northrop Frye

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Northrop Frye

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

Northrop Frye

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.

Northrop Frye

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

Norman Maclean

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Ben Kay

I was worried I might end up on a pizza advert.

Fred Couples

Unless we get rain to soften it up, if it's windy then 2 or 3 under might not win.

Siri Hustvedt

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

Tony Roche

He's playing Qatar (January 2-8) and he's thinking about what his build-up might be. He might come to Sydney for a while.

Rex Peters

I didn't really think he was quite ready to throw. But we wanted to get him out there in a competitive environment, and he threw strikes, which is important. You might see him throw a lot more down the road.

Richard Boucher

I don't have anything to say on what Sen. Warner might have said.

Deepak Chopra

I don't even want to talk about it right now, because somebody might steal the idea,

Steve Sullivan

I'd like to see them do it now because there might not be a later.