Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan White

There was a fairly fast reaction in the market. The plywood is in big demand for boarding up and repairs, ... We're anticipating the same thing to happen with sheetrock. All of that in houses that were flooded (that) have probably been destroyed and need to be replaced. That will be sometime down the road.

Jared Harris

I was stuck in boarding school when I was seven years old and I knew that the only way to get out was to go pass your exams, so I studied.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

C. S. Lewis

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

C. S. Lewis

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Celine Dion

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

Alan Keyes

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Anthony Trollope

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Barbara Mandrell

I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Burt Rutan

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries

Carson McCullers

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

Jane Birkin

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

Jason Aldean

I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.

Jason Aldean

I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.

Arthur Balfour

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

Bob Stoops

When a guy's really good, he's really good. We realize that, and we realize that everything runs through him. When you look at not only the passing but also the run game, it all goes through him. He's a big factor, and we've got to really defend him.

Matt Brady

Liberty plays so hard. They run hard, they rebound hard, they post defend hard. If you have poise, you give yourself a better chance.

Tim Casey

Give (Liberty) credit. I thought they defended well. ... We were fortunate to win.

Billy Donovan

For us, it was a game we had to grind it out. It wasn't always our style of play. ... Tonight was about consecutive stops and defending the 3-point line. They shot 19 percent from the 3-point line and 39 percent from the field. That was the difference.

O. Singh

I have always defended a title on the PGA Tour and I am greatly disappointed I won't be able to do so in Boston.

Mike Hohensee

I don't like the fact that we are 0-1, but I think we found out we have a good football team today. They are the defending champs and a very good football team.

Dennis Miller

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Willie Savannah

Juan has been wanting to fight. If it was up to him, he would have defended his title three or four times in the past year instead of once.

Tom DeLay

I'm not here to defend the highway bill.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Ed Sennett

Our defense took them out of it. It looked like their kids were a little tired. They played three pretty hard games in a row. We put the defense on them, got ahead, and when you're tired, it's hard to come back.

Jack Siedlecki

Our defense stood up each time we turned it over.

Chris Carlson

Our defense played tough. I just thought our zone did a really nice job on them.

Bill Womack

Our defense is still shaky. It's not where we need it to be or where we want it to be, but we were resilient and made the plays we needed to make.

Greg Thomas

Our defense is really playing well up to this point in the season. I'm glad we played West Craven tonight because they're a physical team, and we needed that to help us get better.

Mike Ortner

Our defense has been outstanding all season long. Our defense definitely keeps us in games. The defense kept it tight and let our offense do their thing.

Don Trentham

Our defense has been great. But we need to score more goals. We have to put more shots into the back of the net.

John Wagner

depends on strength because he can't retain technique.

Barbara Turner

This is going to let us know if we're mature enough to come out and play really well on the road and be together. It prepares you for the tournament. Very rarely do you get to play on your home floor. I know we've been fortunate a few times, but it's rare. It's a totally different atmosphere. You don't have the normal support that you usually have. You have to depend on each other to win.

Timothy Karr

This is the first step down a slippery slope. A large e-mail provider wants to turn e-mail into a paid and privileged realm, but what about the non-profits that depend on a free and open Internet?

Chris Chelios

We've got a lot of guys at camp, so it's an opportunity for maybe one of them. But, they had high expectations of (Nik). You could see the way he was playing so far, what he did last year. They were depending on him a lot this year. Hopefully he'll heal quick and be here for the middle of the season and the remainder of the season and the playoffs.

Ra'anan Gissin

From here we go only to the road map to peace, or we stay put. It depends very much what measures the Palestinians will take and whether they will, for the first time in a lifetime, take their destiny into their hands.

Rory Schmidt

I don't know how much better newer editions are than the old editions, but I guess it depends on the subject.

Aaron Stockstel

It all depends on where the points are needed, and where the team needs me. I like the four and eight, but I also like the one and two. So it all depends.

Jesper Parnevik

It all depends on the weather. If you get weather like we had on the second round there, then it's a really tough course. Now we are back to nice desert weather again. If you play well, you can shoot pretty low scores.

Mike Wilton

It all depends on the MRI. I saw him pop it back in.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Rivers Cuomo

I've done a few things on the side here and there, but there is not much reason to do so in a sustained way. I'm generally able to say what I want to say within the context of Weezer.

Dean Winters

I've done a few jobs out there for the money, and I find those jobs have come back to haunt me.

Retief Goosen

I've been putting very well all week, seeing the greens very well. I started playing better in the last few events. It was nice to have a good week.

Ben Jonson

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

John Piper

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

Michel Foucault

there is no glory in punishing

Cassandra Clare

Glory?....Glory belongs to God alone.

George Sand

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

Michael Eaton

I don't like to bask in the glory of it. I just like to let my legs do the talking. It's better not to say anything and just go do it.

Robert Reich

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled.

Ayn Rand

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Ayn Rand

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Stephen Jay Gould

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

Andrew Jackson

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Richard Marcinko

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

Theodore Roosevelt

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

James A. Garfield

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

George H. W. Bush

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Ed Rollins

People don't view him as a Republican or Democrat, and he has the resources to run without having to worry about funding.

Brent Carpenter

People don't understand the law, and they get in a hurry.

John Waters

People don't understand how this water went, and people don't understand this bridge.

Matt Eastwood

People don't throw out technology for no reason.

Kevin Spacey

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

Jim Miller

People don't shop the way they used to. We had to throw in the towel.

Arthur Travers

We've never seen him in here before Saturday night.

Dalai Lama

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

Dalai Lama

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!

Mason Cooley

Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

Jack Kerouac

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

Francois Rabelais

A bellyful is a bellyful.

Alan Cranston

I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.

David Johansen

I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.

Li Zhaoxing

They were so indifferent. They simply said, 'Well, we're sorry.' Then they shrugged their shoulders and walked away.