Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rice

Knowledge is power. Your education is the most important thing you can do.

Judith Guest

I'm not terrifically comfortable with even thinking about what I've accomplished in relation to who I am and how I relate to other people.

Ana Castillo

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

John C. Hawkes

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

Caleb Carr

I haven't always done things this way. It's the nature of the two books. They have been so consuming that I end up living inside them.

Orhan Pamuk

The first edition was 100,000 copies, a huge economic risk for the publisher. I was quite proud of the fact that the book was not banned or censored.

Donna Tartt

The trick of creating character is to try to see all people, even unsympathetic ones, without projecting one's own personality and values on them.

Ernest Hemingway

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Rick Moody

You don't have these perfectly transparent, simple thoughts. You have thoughts that are all cluttered up, like overused bookshelves.

Herb Grace

Kevin Lynch was huge tonight, especially on the post. He gave us a great effort and is the heart and soul of our team.

Gerald Myers

We're proud of the effort Lubbock has made in order to give (the athletes) a new start,

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Doc Rivers

I thought some guys gave good effort tonight, but some have their luggage in mind on the plane already. Turnovers and shot selection killed us.

Rob Ciarlo

He?s going to give you a good effort every time he goes out there.

Bruce Marthaller

We made too many mistakes to win the game, but the effort and the intensity were right there the whole time.

Larry Brown

We made some hustle plays that got us back. We played hard. The effort was there, and that was big.

Tim Duncan

I don't even know how he got it off, honestly. I think he shot it with his left hand. I went after his right hand, thinking he was going to float it with the time going down like that, but somehow he got it up there and it stayed up there on the rim and went in. It was just a great shot, a great effort by those guys to turn a turnover into a fast-break that quickly and get it to the rim.

Dan Fridgen

I am emotionally drained. The injuries kept on occurring ... but what an effort by our guys.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Toussaint Tyler

He talks to you like a normal human being and tells you what he wants you to do.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Sun Yuxi

In some Western countries, including in the United States, some people have ignored the overall development of China's human rights.

Adrian Molina

Immigrants are not felons. They are human beings.

Stephen Evans

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

Samuel P. Huntington

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

Richard M. Nixon

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Robert E. Lee

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Robert Schumann

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Samuel Johnson

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Vivien Leigh

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

Werner Herzog

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

Jim Glassman

He does speak more like a professor. He's a straight shooter.

Sarah Palin

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Sandra Cisneros

Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly."

Milan Kundera

Speak truth to power.

Emmeline Pankhurst

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

Darian Townes

It's my first time to see him in person. I'm going to take some of what he speaks about and try to put it in my game.

David McFarren

It's upsetting for me. I can't speak for everyone else, but I know it's upsetting for me.

Seth Vining

That speaks well of the team. But we still have a lot of work to do.

Henry David Thoreau

It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.