Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.

Isabella Bird

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.

William Cavendish

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

Ellen G. White

God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

Esther Rolle

I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.

David A. Bednar

We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.

Brian Bell

Truthfully, we don't want my Weezer affiliation to have any bearing on whether someone likes us or not. It's an entirely different thing. The Space Twins have our own chemistry.

John C. Calhoun

I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.

Ashton Kutcher

The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

Will C. Barnes

Once, no self-respecting puncher considered himself dressed for work until he had his feet inside of a pair of $15 boots made by one of the favorite boot-makers, whose merits they discussed about the camp fires night after night.

Bertrand Russell

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

Mike Sillinger

We can't hang our heads and we can't sulk. We just have to go back home, put our work boots on and get the job done.

Pierce Brosnan

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.

Mike DeWitt

Most of them just don't want to take math and geometry and the other courses to get a degree. They want to learn to build boots and saddles and go home.

Hasso Plattner

I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar.

Kurt Browning

I would have quoted my dad who said, 'You're the luckiest kid in the world because you're doing for a living what you did as a kid. You make in a year what I made in my life and, if you let it go to your head I'll kick you with my cowboy boots on.

Mario Bandiera

For the really sporty things, we have boots that have military look.

Jeffrey Kalinsky

I would say that more and more women are wearing boots 12 months of the year.

Tony Dungy

The Patriots have been a very, very good team. The last four years they have been the dominant team in the league, and a lot of people are chasing them, including us.

Andrei Kirilenko

We have to play hard and not let teams intimidate us in the first quarter like Miami and Orlando did. You have to keep chasing and chasing. Finally in the fourth quarter when you've got them, you have no energy.

Frank Beamer

I think Marcus showed he's going to be dangerous. That was a fast defense chasing him, and a couple of times he outran some fast guys.

Steven Snyder

I thought he was just going to pull in and park, but he kept driving and I knew it wasn't right when I saw police chasing him on foot.

Paul Jewell

We gifted them a goal and from 1-0 down we are left chasing the game. We have made mistakes in the last two matches now. They happen, but we have to cut them out. It's still a learning curve for us at this level.

Al Goldman

We are in a market that is momentum driven with money chasing a few stocks, particularly Internets and high-techs.

Tubby Smith

I think Patrick is better off when he can just concentrate on one guy. He did a very good job chasing McDonald around those screens. He seems to be better when he's doing that than if he's in a position of helping. He made McDonald take some tough shots, and I thought he rushed some shots.

Jon Sim

We're chasing the playoffs. We have to be better.

Carlos Tosca

We're chasing teams with quality depth. But if we stay healthy, I think it's realistic to say we'll be playing meaningful games in September.

Flip Saunders

That was too good a look. But Maurice did a nice job closing out on him.

Chris Carpenter

We have three games left. It's going to be a big weekend closing the stadium. But I think guys are eager and ready to get going, and I'm one of them.

Kraig Troxell

Typically we see them during the week. The times tend to vary. Sometimes it's early in the morning or near closing time. We rarely see anything on the weekend.

Tim Wagner

We haven't seen a proposal from anybody, but we're sticking to what we've said all along: If you're going to talk about a solution to the problem, you've got to talk about the entire spectrum of options, and that includes closing Love Field.

Brad Brownell

I thought my guys responded well. We did a good job the last eight minutes of closing the game out.

Colin Clarke

I thought Mark Wilson did very well tonight. He worked very hard in midfield and it's nice to get the first one -- he didn't know much about it -- but he was in a great spot in there closing him down. I'm very, very pleased for him.

Bob Gray

We have an issue with closing our school, ... We're trying to draw families into our community, and without schools, they're not going to come here.

Dave Hakstol

I was very happy with the way our team kept pushing and kept pressing all the way through 60 minutes. I thought our team did an excellent job of closing out the game.

Pete Fenson

It felt a lot different than the Opening Ceremony. It was a little more festive rather than feeling like the ending of the Games. It was a strange feeling to be closing down, but because we've been here so long, we're ready to go home.

Jamie Shea

The point we made last night is that we will go for the head as much as the feet in this operation.

Bob Tomlinson

That was at least 40 or 50 feet over.

Bob Hill

We could never plant our feet defensively and get a stop. Most of the time, when it really hurt us, it was the second shots. We'd get them to miss and then we just couldn't get the rebound.

Reese Witherspoon

Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

Brian Sexton

You are 100 feet away from the $30 million fighter jets.

Bob Groves

Usually what we do is 'jog' the car, manually move it a few feet at a time, until it's in the station. We could not do that this time. ... That's very unusual.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

We are now all Pakistanis — not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on — and as Pakistanis we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.

Gary Robinson

Most of our shots in the first half were from 15 feet out.

Jerry Kleczka

You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.

Irving Ravetch

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Zakk Wylde

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Tony Russa

That was vintage Carpenter. He had first and second, the middle of the lineup, and he gets out of it. That's what he does.

Bill Hanlon

That way they're thinking about the word and how it's used in an analogy. It gets them thinking the same way the test makers are thinking.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Ziggy Marley

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Clay Shirky

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Evel Knievel

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

Bob Dylan

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

Neal Cummings

I think it was just as valuable as someone out there with a rifle in their hand.

Howard Dean

I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

Jeff Cooper

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

Jeff Cooper

It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.

Thom Yorke

Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.

Shimon Peres

[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Mary Lambert

I have a big thing with eye contact, because I think as soon as you make eye contact with somebody, you see them, and they become valued and worthy.

Cindy Sheehan

We have to stop it as soon as possible.

Bob Coleman

We don't store it on the property. So, as soon as it comes out of the pipe, it's burned. So, if we have an interruption on the other end of the system, very soon we could have a shortage.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Dorothy Johnson

It can't come soon enough, ... It is going to be thrilling.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon us do what we do,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon not watch them any more, they look pretty good.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

Common

Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.

Donald Ault

I'm supposed to do something from 5 to 6 p.m.. We'll see what happens.

Dwight Howard

Man, we're supposed to get wins like that, ... That's a tough loss.

Michael Gartenberg

It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.

Ron Murphy

For me, this is like going back to where I was supposed to be.

Tim Parmeter

Go figure. We did what we were supposed to do, and we won.

Marshall Faulk

What do you do? What are you supposed to do?

Tom Burchill

We talk about having fun. This is a race, this is a sport and it's supposed to be fun. We work so hard, this better be fun.

Mario Gallucci

He did everything he was supposed to do, the right way.

Tramain Hall

You look out in the huddle, and he's just sweating with you,

Doris Lessing

I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.

Tina Fey

You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

Matt Kiefer

That zone really threw us for a loop.

Todd Hoffman

We just did not penetrate the zone Oconomowoc threw at us in the first half.

Sean Dockery

I was getting out of the way when he threw the chair. But that's just Coach. He wants the best, and we're going to try to give him the best.

Devan Downey

We didn't come to play, we got what we deserved. We threw it all over the gym. It wasn't one person. I wasn't there mentally.

Mary Murphy

We threw so much at her when she walked in the door. I think she's pretty prepped for the undertaking.

Rick Jackson

We threw it away and they went down and got a two-point lead.

Owen Elias

Ha, ha! We threw one of these away.

Jeremiah Trotter

The ref said I threw a punch, but I didn't throw a punch,

Adam Haluska

You don't really have much time to think about it. I didn't really look at the basket. Just kind of threw it up there in desperation.

Carl Sagan

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

Bill Bryson

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

William Shakespeare

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die! -Posthumus Leonatus Act V, Scene V

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

Becca Fitzpatrick

She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!" Patch grinned, "I can fly.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?

Kerry Johnson

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

William Shakespeare

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie...

E. F. Schumacher

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

Brigham Young

It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.

Trey Parker

Colorado's right next to Utah - you know, Mormon Central.

Craig Thompson

The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.

Bert McCracken

I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

Conan O'Brien

Utah could elect its first black Republican woman to Congress. In other words, Utah finally got one black person and the first thing they want to do is send her to Washington.

Daniel Tosh

Making a good music video isn't easy. If it were, MTV would still be showing them instead of '16 and Pregnant,' which I assume is shot exclusively in Utah.

Fawn M. Brodie

... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.

Jack Kerouac

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.

Jimmy Fallon

President Obama just made his first presidential trip to the state of Utah. Obama spent his time in Utah just like you'd expect - telling people, 'Uh, no, I don't play for the Jazz.'