Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nile Rodgers

I didn't want this to be only for people who belonged to an exclusive club, something that the world isn't invited to,

Gary Stanglewicz

I knew they were out there, that's for sure. They were ranked No. 1 most of the year too. I didn't know until today if we belonged that high. After playing as well as we did, I think that might have been a good spot for us.

Skip Brock

Of course we're disappointed now, but to make this trip up here with these kids, it will show that we belonged and should go a long way towards our program.

Kari Austin

Somebody took something that belonged to us, that we had taken care of. That's the frustrating part.

Corey Perry

Ryan and I worked as hard as we could every day. All we wanted to do was to show that we belonged up here, that we wanted to stay up here and that we never have to play another game down there.

Abraham Verghese

I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.

Al Jarreau

I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing.

Maurice Carroll

Did he score any knockout blows? No. Did he show that he belonged in the race? Sure.

John Stone

We're going to be looking at this whole organization that these kids supposedly belonged to,

Nina Lovill

It has 800 squares. I walked and counted them all.

Randy Cunneyworth

The guys were very good and they had to be. When it counted ? with the game on the line ? they played a real smart game. There was a lot of good growth tonight.

James Stover

It's to determine who was counted and who hasn't been counted.

Johnny Weir

I've always had a loud mouth, and for that I've gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in some big competitions in my career, but being counted out and not being seen as a threat is something I'm used to.

Libba Bray

I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Kim Cattrall

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

William Hamilton

We counted on this happening, because research elsewhere had indicated it should happen, ... But it's nevertheless a pleasant surprise to find that what was predicted has come true so soon.

Major Corley

Everybody counted us out of even getting here. But the girls fought, they played hard, and now, we have a championship.

Kim Hughes

You had to stay on to win. Boise and us obviously were very close, and we each counted a fall. It was down to those final tenths. It just worked out in our favor. ... I'm very proud this team held together.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

John Lennon

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

Troy Diels

A lot of groups come through middle school with high expectations. They'll have to maintain their skills and get better at the same time. People will be gunning for them each time out so they have to come to play. People remember middle school (success) so you have to keep getting better and I think they will.

Jim Sullivan

There were more groups that made records and didn't make it than there were groups that made it. So you can imagine the work that we did.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

Bobby Holik

Jacques Lemaire said when a team fails, no individual is successful, ... When a team is successful, all the individuals are successful.

Michel Lu

It is not to be used for personal reasons or by individual personalities.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Sarah Vowell

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Rudolf Steiner

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

Walt Disney

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

Walt Whitman

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

Zora Neale Hurston

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

William P. Leahy

The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Adam Cole

I think the market has got too pessimistic on interest rates,

Charles Davis

I think the perception is out there that FOI is a special interest of the press.

Eddie Campbell

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

Sufjan Stevens

I think you should be suspicious when there's a lot of interest in what you're doing,

Sean McGowan

The people who are obviously most interested in it obviously went out and did it already. He doesn't even talk about it.

Chris Patten

I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Samuel P. Huntington

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies

William F. Buckley, Jr.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Richard M. Nixon

Where the hell is Chad?

Richard M. Nixon

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Rich Lowry

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Robert Caro

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Thomas R. Cech

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

Alan Alda

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

Fabiola Gianotti

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Stephanie Ferlita

If you are able to get though this tournament, you know you've done well.

James Garner

I'll still watch even though Earnhardt isn't in it.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Nita Ambani

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

Anatoly Chubais

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Tim Harford

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

Tony Kushner

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

Steve Earle

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

Eugene Jarecki

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

George Washington

Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

Fredrik Bajer

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

Fredrik Bajer

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

Franz Kafka

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

David Liu

This is a breakthrough year because of the variety of deals.

Jorge Camejo

Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Mike Judge

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

Axl Rose

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Townsend Harris

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Rick Riordan

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

Rick Riordan

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Rick Riordan

Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

Rick Riordan

Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?

Rick Riordan

I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously