Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bruford

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

Jim Sughrue

The (accident) report indicates that the investigators found reason to suspect that alcohol may have been involved. That certainly doesn't confirm that it was, but there was enough reason for them to do some follow-up work.

Katherine Tallmadge

The alcohol will be less likely to go to your head and weaken your resolve.

Russell Smith

We are horrified that there have been so many stabbings on what is an evening of celebration for most people. The majority of calls that we have responded to this evening have been alcohol related ... we have seen a high number of violent incidents reported.

E. B. White

You actually are in alcohol withdrawal during a hangover.

Michele Compton

On our end, we see a lot of the failures when parents do not come forward and really set out those parameters for their children. Know where they are, know what they're doing. There are just a multitude of disasters awaiting their child if they look away and do not set clear guidelines about alcohol use.

Tommy Rettig

But anyway aside from alcohol and nicotine, LSD was the first drug l ever took.

David Gallop

From the rookie camps to the individual clubs' own educational and welfare policies, there is a particular focus on educating players about the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption.

Norman Ford

We can get fuel from fruit, from that shrub by the roadside, or from apples, weeds, saw-dust - almost anything! There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There is enough alcohol in one year's yield of a hectare of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the field for a hundred years. And it remains for someone to find out how this fuel can be produced commercially - better fuel at a cheaper price than we know now.

Martin Lapointe

The overtime calls hurt the game. It's a big game, a big rivalry. the refs should let us play. I guess this is the new NHL. To lose a game on a cheap penalty is not the way to play hockey.

Ben Elliot

With offices in 64 cities around the world, it is sometimes a challenge to ensure that I've got my finger on the pulse with every one, everywhere. Staying in touch means early rising for calls with China and Japan, and late calls with the U.S.

Ray Lewis

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Lesley Sillaman

That would cost precious seconds because those calls would then be routed to Dane County because we are the only ones that have a dispatch center that can dispatch fire and ambulance service throughout the county.

Mike Tice

That would be a perfect scenario, where he works with that offensive staff through the whole week and works with Steve to formulate how the game will be called. Maybe Steve calls the game in, with the help of Jerry. But anything that can lighten the load of what I've taken on will be certainly fun.

Mike Tate

We have volunteers coming in a couple nights a week already to be making phone calls and talking to voters.

Roger Stone

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.

Pat Conroy

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

Michelle Ryan

We were getting five, six phone calls an hour going, 'Oh my God, you're closing?'

Roberto Cavalli

In the evening every man looks the same. Like penguins. Women have a special dress for that event; men, the same tuxedo.

Khadga Oli

The policemen left this evening and now I think I am free to move out.

Bernadette Peters

I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.

Beatrice Arthur

I thought nobody would come just to see me sing. I knew it would have to be an evening of comedy, also.

Thomas Moore

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

Mike Helton

I think everybody who was part of it would like to figure out how not to have another evening like this one. It was extremely undesirable.

Mayor Hassig

We have to tackle these recommendations one evening at a time. We have to look at this with that level of scrutiny.

David Addison

We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need them to come forward.

Miuccia Prada

We really think that now evening should come back serious. For me it was interesting because I tried to do a serious evening, but where you feel yourself very comfortable. Usually ... you feel yourself during the day and when it's the evening, it's always a problem. Evening usually is too serious. So now it's very serious, but I tried to make it young and wearable.

Iris Johansen

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Nicole Richie

She looks like a skeleton, ... I was horrified at how skinny she is.

Karen Doering

She was aghast, just horrified by what she saw.

David Medine

The judge was horrified and called in Sears.

Mardy Collins

Those little incidents don't measure up to the things he's done here at Temple.

Harvey Pekar

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

E. L. Konigsburg

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

Monte Mitchell

We've responded to nine incidents seven in the past two weeks.

Dave Bristow

We don't know if the two incidents are related, but it could be that the suspects were working with the two men who were arrested.

Gerard Kennedy

It is not inevitable that our schools have incidents like this. We can make our schools even safer,

Joschka Fischer

It is not only because of the incidents with the Swiss, Swedish, and Spanish embassies. There is an urgent need for discussions,

Andrew Flintoff

Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.

Thaksin Shinawatra

If the incidents have spilled over to other areas, it is possible to use martial law to solve problems in such areas. This has nothing to do with the government, ... could do it on their own.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Bob Davis

I think Seattle is going to become a laughingstock. ... We are going to look like the Moral Majority up here,

Mike Browning

We are running train services on all lines. The vast majority of our stations are all open.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Jim Owen

I would say the majority of those are opposed at this point in time,

Joe Biden

He doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats, ... This Week.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Yani Tseng

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Leon Bear

We're all related in one way or the other.

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

Chaka Khan

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Lars Peter Hansen

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Charlize Theron

really related to that kind of strength in women.

Damian Marley

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

Amiri Baraka

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

Chris Crutcher

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Piero Fassino

We have already seen after two days, that this is how it will finish.

Luis Rodriguez

We can't have standardized testing because there is no such thing as standardized child. I have never seen a standardized kid. Have you?

Bob Thompson

We'll probably find more deaths. I don't think we've seen the end of it.

John Scott

We have been travelling to the old battlefields for years and never seen anything like it before.

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Daniel Craig

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Vladimir Putin

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Chelsea Cain

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

Shaun Alexander

It is what it is. We play a violent sport.

Noam Chomsky

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power