Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Leif Johansson

now investigating the matter more closely to determine what has happened.

Walter Rodgers

This is a terribly closely contested election in a very tough campaign.

John Fougere

We count on our officers to closely scrutinize these offenders year-round. We don't see Halloween as a time to get serious about keeping an eye on offenders.

Rick Wagoner

While vehicle deliveries were somewhat resilient last week, it is too soon to determine the effect on consumer confidence, ... We will closely monitor the economic outlook and will be prepared to make appropriate production adjustments.

Karl Rove

What is important is that members of Congress have the time to get fully briefed on this. We intend to work closely with them in order to give them a comfort level on this.

Abe Reichental

We expect our local presence in Rock Hill to enable us to work closely with our local architects, developers and contractors to ensure that we execute the design and construction of our new facility on time and on budget.

Tony Iorio

We will work with them very closely to try to make this happen.

Brian Spears

The printout doesn't lie, ... The printout shows how many times the weapon was discharged. And the last discharge of the Taser corresponds very closely with the time he stopped breathing.

Larry Hill

There is nothing more demoralizing than knowing the other team is going to run and you still can't stop it. You do that, you're fixing to win the game.

Eve Ensler

It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others,

Nelson Peltz

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Chris Ault

That Virden keeps showing up. He has done a very nice job. He might be the most improved secondary guy we have got.

Brandon Sanderson

What wasdat, sir? What wazzat sir? What wassat, sir?” “Wayne, what are you babbling about?” Waxillium asked. “Practicing my pretzel guy,” Wayne said. “He had a great accent...” Waxillium glanced at him. "That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

Junior Seau

I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.

Al Franken

One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.

Charles Barkley

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

Jason Bateman

Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Brian Eno

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Taron Egerton

I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Boomer Esiason

I got the title for you, ... Table For One.

Fran Drescher

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Jeannette Walls

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Charles Kettering

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Charles Kingsley

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

Jamie Oliver

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

Jason Aldean

I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.

bell hooks

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

bell hooks

The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Henry David Thoreau

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

Tracey Gold

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

Denise Levertov

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

J. D. Salinger

It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

Samuel Beckett

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

William C. Bryant

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

Wendell Berry

I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

LaMarr Woodley

You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.