Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Arthur Jr.

Journalists should not have to face the prospect of imprisonment for doing nothing more than aggressively seeking to report on the government's actions.

Rusty Hand

It actually was an important match. My senior year, probably the last time I'll face him unless I get him at districts, so yeah, it was an important match to me. I tried hard, but I didn't have the mental game today.

Dan Coughlin

He was a great boss. He liked to put a smile on the face of the sports page.

Kent Johnson

He leads a lot by example. (But) at times, he doesn't mind getting in somebody's face or saying what needs to be said.

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Olivia Mellan

have it in your face all the time.

Antonio Tarver

I think it's a slap in the face to all the people that have pumped him up and glorified him over the years,

John Foley

It could be really difficult, ... My job was to make it trendy. It was to make it hip, to take the face of Nixon and turn it into a salable commodity.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

James Perry

If the model is River Gardens, it has failed miserably.

Mike McGlone

The market failed to see a smoking gun or anything too worrisome.

Manfred Guellner

Supporters of the CDU failed to vote because of reservations about Merkel.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Andrea Seigel

As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.

The Grimm

After Quixote collapsed, there were about four other projects that failed to fly,

Stephen Kinzer

During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.

Thomas Mann

Do you know how many times campaign-finance reform failed before final passage in 2002? Many times.

Simon Schama

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.

Rich Collins

There aren't a lot of white vegetables. We have a unique product and it's grown in a unique way.

Barry Zito

I just know that Macha is great, he's grown and learned so much since he started in 2003,

Kim Edwards

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

James King

The hardest thing is when you go home and realize that you've grown 10 years in 2 days.

O. Singh

All have grown weary of performing such actions.

Karla Sempsrott

Every week, they've improved and grown more confident. They did so much, especially considering how young they are. I couldn't be more pleased with them.

Tim Ehresman

A big key is we have to finish. I think these guys have grown up a lot over 19 games.

Winston Justice

It's not that difficult. I like telling my side of the story. . . . I think I've grown from that.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

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

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

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,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

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.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

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

John Connolly

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Kevin Sheridan

Remember, this has only been operational for 90 days. What you're seeing is version 1.1.

Steve Godsil

I really like seeing all the different gyms. That makes the travel fun.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Carl Anderson

I keep seeing them go up, up, up.

John Criscuolo

I just can't support seeing any teachers walk out the door. They're our backbone.

Joe Thornton

It's nice. It's different waking up and seeing sunshine.

Michael Goodman

It's sort of like you're seeing Yahoo spread its wings and be more of a portal that ties into the TV in your home.

Stephen Toulouse

There's been some speculation that ... this trigger was somehow intentional. That speculation is wrong.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.

Herman Frazier

For the most part, they have really been our bank. They have been the ones to step up and support us when we somehow get to downfalls.

Monica Johnson

Somehow many have fallen into the belief that being a Christian is supposed to be a cake-walk. It's not.

Maria Cheng

It could be Asia. It could be somewhere else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Zachary Knighton

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

Corey Claitt

I just wanted a different environment. I wanted to be on my own. I wanted to go somewhere and be by myself.

Jan Roberts

I'm averaging somewhere around 21 and a half, which is disappointing considering the window sticker told me I'd be averaging somewhere around 31.

Gary Sheffield

It's always my situation. It's always, I've got to be somewhere for one or two years, they re-evaluate you from here and there and then go from there.

Beth Orton

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Peter Bergman

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.

Larry Blair

You have to start somewhere and do what you can.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Jennifer Hinson

It is a little frustrating. It's sort of put us into a year-by-year situation.

Jason Robinson

If you have got a problem, then go to the person and sort it out.

Sam Heughan

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

Stockard Channing

I never really thought of that. I just thought she was funny. Really, I just thought this was funny, sort of sweet, touching and human.

Grimes

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

Tim McEachern

The idea started as sort of a joke,

Yotam Ottolenghi

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

Robert Jobson

After this sort of start to the year things can only get better.

Rick Riordan

I gave her my deluxe I'll-Kill-You-Later stare.

Stephenie Meyer

Something I've never seen in all my lives. I'm staring at... hope." - Wanda

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Vance Havner

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Dusty Baker

Right now, Wood is progressing like we want him to. We just don't want any setbacks, that's No. 1.

James Russell Lowell

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

Anurag Kashyap

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

Elijah Wood

Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!

John Muir

In the woods is perpetual youth.

Ernest Hemingway

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

Howard Thurman

Follow the grain in your own wood....