Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Karr

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

Gordon Cooper

If we use the old antiquated systems we've got now, a Mars landing won't happen in my lifetime.

Rich Mancuso

It's not fair, it's not equitable. I think its antiquated legislation, and something has to be done about it.

Nat Faxon

I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me.

Graham Henderson

The law currently on the books - that's enforced - is so antiquated that the net result has been, (that) despite all of our best efforts, Canada's become a piracy haven.

Don Hudson

It's antiquated and it's not right for the public,

Leonard Boswell

I've been very instrumental in pushing for the reform in our intelligence system, to have a national director where they've got clout over these 15 different agencies. We look back prior to 9/11 and there was some information out there that wasn't being shared just because the system is antiquated and wasn't working. We've got to fix that and we're in the process of doing it.

Jim Davis

We have a desperate need to update the antiquated facility. We have outstanding faculty researchers there ... this will give them state-of-the-art technology to do their work.

Andy Beal

If they can bring the same efficiencies to radio ad buying that they've shown in the search space, they'll be able to provide a cheaper alternative to more antiquated means of being able to buy ad space on radio networks.

Rhonda Smith

Katie can be used anywhere for us. Her pitching is coming around and we'll need to work her in a bit to get her ready to take over there next year.

Joanne Callahan

KDHAP is for people who have been in public housing. If they are qualified, we will help them find a place for up to 18 months. ... Their KDHAP voucher is good anywhere in the U.S.

Tracii Guns

It can be. It can be crazier. It's not popular to be an outlaw anymore, so if you get into some trouble now you really get into trouble. In the old days you could pretty much walk into anywhere in the states with a joint in your mouth and a copper would say, 'Oh, you're a rock star.' Now, going from state to state, if you get caught with a valium in your pocket, you go to jail overnight. It's a little bit different but just as much fun.

Jeff Dorschner

He could serve anywhere in the country at the discretion of the bureau.

Rayner Noble

He just threw it when he came here. Anywhere around the zone was good for him. At this level, with the experienced hitters, you can't just throw it right down the pipe.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Tom Donahoe

There are six or seven backs who could fall anywhere from late in the first to late in the second,

Carol Hansen

The only thing that kept me in school, ... was the art classes. I couldn't get art class anywhere else. I had great art teachers and I was always a little art prodigy.

Drew Houston

Where you live matters. Whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle, too - follow them. If the real action is happening somewhere else, move.

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Dean Rusk

I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.

Colin Greenwood

I think that we're not reclusive at all.

Timothy Garton Ash

I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house.

Gerry Adams

There is a need to get the British government, in particular, to renovate the assembly, which is part of the 'Good Friday' agreement, and which has never met since the elections two years ago.

Nick Clegg

Most people in this country are very fair-minded; they understand we're in the middle of a very difficult journey of repairing, rescuing, restoring our British economy, and they want us, and they want particularly Liberal Democrats in government, to fight for the fairest possible way of doing that.

Dennis Quaid

I didn't want to throw like an actress.

Fred Couples

I did play a practice round with (Nicklaus) at the British Open and I played really, really well that day, which is useful to that point.

Geri Halliwell

I didn't want to leave the Spice Girls and immediately have a record on the back of that fame, so I waited to find out who I am and what I want.

Johnny Nelson

It can lock a motor. Fuel injection problems, you have to clean the fuel tank out, all the fuel injection systems. If you're lucky, it didn't get into anything like that or get it too seriously in the motor.

Monica Johnson

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently; He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean

Paul Gillis

I think it's going to do a lot of good for the city. I think that it's going to help out by cleaning up the houses, some of the streets.

R. Inge

I think it's great. I'm glad they're cleaning up the sport. I don't like it that anything can be tainted with an illegal substance. It's just going to make the playing field a little more level.

Jim Reuter

It hurts the kids who want to go out there and play on it. It needs to be safe and clean and that's been taken away.

Paul Rothstein

It is a big message to Washington officials that if you only would come clean you would probably be OK.

Shay Given

I was due to save one (a penalty). Its been a while since I saved one. It was nice to save one tonight in a crucial game and it meant a lot - it was important to keep a clean sheet.

Karla Owens

Whatever the judge decides, you must clean up your property in 30 days. If they don't do it, they're in contempt of court.

John Chaney

Kids will say whatever sounds good, and you guys print it or whatever. They've gotten together on things before, and it hasn't made a difference.

Steve Pilcher

Just when you think the world has gotten as weird as it can get, something like this comes along.

Greg Olson

Joey's been through a number of different coordinators now when you look at it. Has he ever really gotten into a system where he's been able to get in and get comfortable?

Jeret Peterson

I think I should've gotten more points for landing on one ski that's so much harder than two skis.

Tony Robichaux

What we haven't been doing is scoring early. We've gotten better at that. It helps when we can put up runs every other inning, but any team plays better when they trust the pitchers.

Rick Hendricks

Had it been Europeans, the Inquisition might have gotten involved from Mexico.

Sen Freedman

Having power outages in our state is nothing new, and Northeast Utilities' response time has gotten worse, not better.

Jeff Williams

He's been real durable, ... I think he's gotten better ever week.

Willie Randolph

He's gotten some big hits for us. I like his swing. I like his energy.

Bobby Howard

He's always had those legs and those shoulders. He could have played in the NFL.

Mike Babcock

He's got his legs back and suddenly we're a lot quicker team.

Ryan Whitney

I went to put my stick between his legs and lift his stick up, but I just got him too high. I didn't mean to spear him. It was just an accident.

Johan Bruyneel

He has another Tour in his legs yet

Robertson Davies

There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.

Roger Bannister

I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.

Mahatma Gandhi

Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?

James Russell Lowell

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

Larry Gelbart

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Sam Jr

He is very athletic. The thing with Sean is that he has so much upside.

Willie Randolph

It could be someone else toward the end of the season who could be the swing guy.

Victoria Gonzales

We're pretty much in the driver's seat for second place now.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Matt Moore

He's going to be the man. He has everything to be a star quarterback. Sean is going to be a stud.

Richard Hough

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.

Rick Riordan

Maybe, standing next to the obelisk of Ma’at, surrounded by the Sea of Chaos, we both realized that restraining ourselves from vengeance is what made us different from Apophis. Rules had their place. They kept us from unraveling.

Virginia Woolf

She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.