Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Howard Jacobs

We felt U.S.A.D.A. made the proper ruling. It seems to me the anti-doping rules are lacking any notion of common sense.

Herbie Hancock

We talked for a couple of hours before we played a note. We didn't talk about music, we talked about life - families, children, issues in the world, politics, so many things. The kind of camaraderie we developed helped make the music what it is. I wanted to find a common ground and connect as people first.

Urs Linsi

We want the referees to be a team and they should all be able to speak and write a common language.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

Dan Hendricks

The state veterinarian made a note of it and put him on the injured list. It was just a mild little thing and not a problem at all. It won't cost him any time.

Rick Ford

When it was tied, we didn't do what you have to do to win a game like this. We were impatient and we forced the issue and it cost us the game.

Mike Chung

You may be saving $30 to $40 a month (the cost of one tank of gas for a typical driver. But is it worth a $4,000 or $5,000 premium?

Ralph Nader

To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Hope costs nothing.

Sinclair Lewis

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

John Steinbeck

It don't cost money to ask.

Maynard Webb

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.

Mark Rutte

The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion

Juan Felipe Herrera

We went from crop to crop, field to field. And my father had that army truck, a 1940s army truck from Fort Bliss, El Paso.

Yoweri Museveni

I don't think we are destroying people's crops. We are destroying rebel crops and stores.

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Krist Novoselic

The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

Alfred North Whitehead

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Steve Ballmer

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

Michael Reed

New developers really have to do something special to get people to see what they're doing. It doesn't surprise me at all.

Jim Jeske

She's been a surprise early. We knew she would develop as the year went on, but she's done it sooner than we thought and that's probably why we've had the success we've had early on.

John Lasseter

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

H. Hart

I feel like he is developing a different technique and I wish I had a little more time with him. He has great potential this year and he is developing quickly. I am working with him on a new style of diving and his technique when he goes off the diving board.

Edmund Phelps

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Laura Bush

is horribly disappointing and the sort of thing I normally expect from left-wingers.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Orlando Jones

To be honest, I just didn't want to say ""Thank you,"" ""Please,"" and ""Come again"" for the rest of my life. I felt like if I wanted to do this - films and TV - I didn't have the expectation that someone else would write for me. So I started writing for myself. And for the most part, I lied.

George Casey

We should expect the insurgency not to just go away, but to gradually reduce.

Ken Bell

We should be getting a big pallet of DVD's by the end of September. We expect to have all the pre-orders shipped out by the end of the first week.

Ken Bell

We should be getting a big pallet of DVD's by the end of September, ... We expect to have all the pre-orders shipped out by the end of the first week.

Brad Chase

This will set a precedent. If they get a reduction in their insurance, we'll expect the same thing.

Brian Dawkins

Did I do everything I needed to do?

John Wooden

Be at your best when your best is needed.

Bob Zeh

That was typical of our night. Whenever we needed a big shot, we couldn't get one.

Ruth Ozeki

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

Jon Darbyshire

In the past, it was something they needed to address, but they didn't have to.

Jodi Picoult

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

For all of my life I have needed more.

Natalie Rule

It serves quite a big need to put people in the right location, people needed to rebuild.

Matt Schmelzer

A lot of wins. Every time we needed a basket, she scored a basket.

Graeme Souness

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Roy Romer

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

Paul Reid

We don't want to share it. We want to win it outright.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Ingrid Bergman

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Bob Stern

He told us there were three N's of obesity. Nintendo. Netscape. And Nickelodeon.

Jennifer Hudson

I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives.

George Saintsbury

So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.

Jeffrey Archer

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.