Famous Quotes & Sayings

Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...

Garret Anderson

In years past, we had a balance of guys who swing the bat and take walks. This team was a little more free-swinging and you're going to go through phases like that where everybody is not hitting at one time. That's reality.

Alan Greenspan

The Federal Reserve has responded to the balance of market forces by gradually raising the federal funds rate over the past year, ... Certainly, to have done otherwise -- to have held the federal funds rate at last year's level even as credit demands and market interest rates rose -- would have required an inappropriately inflationary expansion of liquidity.

Stewart Schwartz

You could use the Transfer of Density Rights tool to balance mixed-use and open space.

Anthony Chan

These numbers are essentially telling us that retail sales were artificially boosted by zero-percent financing. These numbers are not going to do anything to discourage the Fed from thinking that the balance of risk in the economy is toward weakness.

Bill Lockyer

a careful balance that maintains the common understanding of marriage as between a man and a woman, while at the same time declaring that registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections and benefits as spouses.

Neville Isdell

We have a long way to go in mastering that art, ... As we identified the fact we were under pricing, the pendulum swung too far over to only improve price. The pendulum should be stopped in the middle so we have a proper balance between volume and price.

Dave Miller

We have a good balance of aeronautical and non-aeronautical businesses.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Amy Tan

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

Anthony Anderson

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anne Hathaway

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

John Vines

The problem is, the security mission goes on here and if we take some out, those that are left are at some risk ? it increases their risk, ... Unfortunately, we're not able at this time ? unless someone is known to have a family member wounded or injured or killed ? we're not in a position to make those adjustments.

Ahmad Griffin

We ain't got no family out here. All the football team that's our family.

Scott Caan

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Terri Lemos

(Diver) Ryan Jones qualified for State in El Dorado last weekend. So Cody is working hard so he can qualify for State.

Jim Morris

This one is hard for me because of all the mental mistakes we made. We should have won the game.

David Meyer

We are always working hard but having fun. I think that's why we are so successful.

Andrew Gordon

We are very pleased with the results. Their success was down to a lot of hard work by pupils and staff. They have done very well.

Kammie Michael

We are very pleased that there have been no murders this year so far, but it is hard to say why this has happened. Murders are hard to predict and hard to prevent.

Mark Phillips

We are very impressed with Patricia and Ryan. Those two are everything that we thought they would be. They are training hard and running well.

Eddie Jordan

We didn't play as hard as they did. They made shots. They played harder, longer. They're just a better team than we are.

Ron Beard

We didn't perform very well as a team tonight but they worked hard and I'm proud of them.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Kathy Sierra

Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

Henry Cavill

I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

Nuno Bettencourt

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

Susan Adams

They just don't need stuff like what we've got.

Neill Blomkamp

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

Nicole Sullivan

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

Mitch Hedberg

I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.

Martin Landau

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop

Mark Bittman

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Mason Cooley

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Robert Gottlieb

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

Matthew Goode

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Patti Smith

I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.

Evan Esar

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.