Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Gantt

I wouldn't say it couldn't be done, but I would say it would probably be pretty expensive. That was a decision they made that they wanted to go in that location and were willing to accept responsibility for it.

Jay Nixon

John Ashcroft's actions there were using politics to really play to the far right. The fact that it was an African-American judge made it an even more acceptable argument that this man was soft on crime, and that's just not true,

Ken Green

Joe makes it easy for our staff. He's willing to accept any role - whether it's point guard, power forward or center. There's not a position he can't play, and he's played them all.

Greg Isaacs

Judge Austin accepts responsibility for his conduct. We look forward to this journey to justice.

Jonathan Huie

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.

Kessel Stelling

I talked to Earl about the words he said questioning my judgment. I was upset. I accept the apology and want to try to move on.

John Gurdon

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

Terri Sullivan

I think it is a really good opportunity to show off Vancouver to the world. He's gone from having everything done for him and now there he is in Turin accepting the Olympic flag for Canada.

Robert Mullen

It boils down to an exercise in risk management. The old system uses a single value, while this new system gives farmers a range to work with. If farmers are risk averse, they can use the high side of the rate range. If they are more willing to accept risk, they can use a lower side of the rate range, increasing their potential for economic reward.

Pete Seeger

It was not going to be a graceful symbol of the past. It was going to try to restore the river.

Omar Minaya

The key thing with Mike is to communicate and we did that, ... He's gracefully done everything we've asked.

Tilda Swinton

This film is all about questions and gracefully not about answers. This film steers away from that.

Augie Garrido

It wasn't graceful by any stretch of the imagination. It was like a heavyweight prize fight.

Andy Parsons

Is it as meticulous and graceful as a human touch would be? No, it's not,

Yuri Semyonov

The Mir has lived a wonderful life and must end it in a graceful way,

Leon Panetta

He was always graceful in the way he handled his guests, ... He always talked about substance. He never made snide remarks.

Bobby Knight

Parcells and I have learned a lot of things during a lot of years since we first met. But being graceful about losing has never been one of them.

John Fleming

I think we would ignore them as a threat at our peril. It isn't going to make life any easier.

Vivien Leigh

I will not be ignored.

Mark Brewer

If you want to ignore one-third of the (electoral) votes necessary to win the presidency, you take a risk.

Joe Henderson

I like to feel prepared and then ignore it. What will be will be. We ain't scared.

Nadia Petrova

I just tried to ignore him completely. I didn't look at his side once.

Hugh Johnson

I'm not going to ignore the deterioration in a stock.

Tom Knight

The DOE numbers are with range of expectations and traders could ignore the data.

Mary Osako

It's not a matter of whether to ignore the law, but whether to leave.

Paul Rusesabagina

The world ignored Rwanda when we really needed it. Unfortunately, even now the world is still ignoring us.

Michael Winner

I think it's rather an insult to dogs. Men are awful: arrogant, nasty creatures.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Umberto Eco

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

William Wordsworth

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

Robert Purvis

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

W. C. Fields

All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

Rudyard Kipling

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Maureen Brunt

You can't really insult us anymore. It is an Olympic sport.

Chuck Drury

He liked to laugh and he'd make you laugh with him.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.

Kelly Hu

Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly.

Gus Frerotte

I don't know whether to get mad at that or just laugh at it.

Adam Burish

He doesn't say anything. He just smiles at them, laughs and lines back up.

Rob Brydon

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

Richard P. Feynman

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Richard Whately

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Richelle Mead

Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first." I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Robert Townsend

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

William Henry Harrison

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

Tyra Banks

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Jeremy Mayfield

If you're not careful, this thing can get to you, trying to get in the top 10 for the chase.

Chris Barclay

I just told him to top that, if he could.