Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Long

Any grass-roots organization or group of individuals that come together often have an impact with local officials when they're reasonable. If someone's indignant, rude or loud, reasonable people get turned off. It's almost like they click a switch off in my brain when they get belligerent, and I almost don't hear some positives they may have.

George Young

Another rule: I took pictures of what intrigued me, but I didn't alter the pictures on the computer except to crop. And there are almost no people; it's more about scenery.

Venkaiah Naidu

As far as the successor's selection is concerned, we are holding consultations and have almost arrived at a name.

Bill Joy

As far as I know we also almost bought Apple once. We almost merged with Apple two other times.

Mark Schneider

As far as I am concerned, this is a totally bone-headed idea. As it stands now, there are way too many 'no turn on red' signs, most of which serve no obvious purpose. As a pedestrian, I've experienced almost no problems with the turn-on-red law.

Wendy Gordon

As hard as it was being away from (my family), I really felt like that's where I needed to be. You almost feel guilty coming home because they have to stay and live it for who knows how long. So, whatever relief we could give was an amazing experience for us.

Gary Barnett

as good of a practice as we've had on a Wednesday. We had good spirit and executed very well. It feels like we're almost there.

Shamir

As far as influences, I listen to a lot of people like Nina Simone and other androgynous voices, almost to make me feel like I'm not alone.

John Evans

As everyday road cars, they are not the best, ... They are quite high strung and almost demand that you push them. Although they are easy to drive, my most pervasive thought when driving on the road is 'Am I going to jail today?'--and you have to really like talking to 20 people when you buy gas.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Mark Perakh

No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Chipper Jones

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

L. Estrange

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Dan Wasserman

The rule has been on the books a number of years and only been enforced sporadically at best, to our knowledge. We think this exceeds what is reasonable in governing the conduct of players on the court.

Lynsey Addario

I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.

Andrea Seigel

I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.

Marcia Gay Harden

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

Paul Grasmanis

Another very intense guy. He plays hard when he's in there. He plays violent. We call him 'Violent Gras.'

John Hales

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

M. Wolfe

As analysts we are paid to make anticipatory calls on things, and if all we do is repeat what management says to us, we are not doing our jobs. So I don't spend that much time listening to the companies.

Terry Fleck

As a matter of fact, I'm going to call the governor's office right now to encourage that.

Sian Jones

The call would go out: 'Who can drive a bulldozer?' and inevitably someone would raise their hand.

Bill Cowher

The call was made to try to get us a spark and get us another possession. That's my decision. If it works, it's a good play. If it doesn't, you're open to second guessing, which is the nature of this business. But I have no second thoughts about that, I really don't.

Brent Sutter

The call was made. They had the opportunity to review it. As far as the IIHF was concerned, they didn't feel it was worth a suspension or worth a review. I trust them on that.

Brad Dean

The call volume has been higher and more steady than preceding some of the hurricanes we had last year.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

John Curtin

As a member of our team you played the game. Now you form a team with a man of your heart for the highest natural purpose.

Menander of

A woman is necessarily an evil, and he is a lucky man who catches her in the mildest form

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

George Eliot

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

Channing Toney

People used to make fun of my form also, but I stayed with my form, so I think it's important for him to stay with it.

H. Hunt

People don't have to be in spiffy uniforms: they can... just so long as they can form a military presence and impress the population.

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Sarah Hale

Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of home.

George Muller

A servant of God has but one Master.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

Robert Brown

Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be

John Casto

People who had been praising God a minute before were cursing.

Andrae Crouch

People think that because people do religious stuff, that's all we're supposed to do. But with God's help, everything that He wants me to accomplish, I'm going to do it. It's all about pacing.

Source Unknown

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

Greg Boyle

Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?

Charles de Secondat

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

Bible Bible

And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

Ismail Haniya

If we receive an official invitation to visit Russia, we will visit Russia.

Brennan Manning

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

E. Stanley Jones

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

E. Stanley Jones

If we know how to pray, we know how to live.

Dolly Parton

Every day I pray about all I do.

Dolly Parton

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

Anne Boleyn

Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.

Andre Benjamin

Nothing's more attractive than a heavy praying woman,

Tinie Tempah

I pray as much as possible.

Thomas Merton

If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

Dan Brown

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Ernest Hemingway

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

Henry Miller

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Paul Ernest

We didn't throw a lot, but when we did, we were successful,

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Terry Bradshaw

If they wanted to throw out $150,000 ... . That wasn't funny, was it?

Cliff Lee

Mostly, I was throwing fastballs and locating them.

Yasmin Sewell

You can even throw them in the washing machine.

Mark Connor

He probably would have thrown more, but I told him to stop.

David Beckham

I don't think we could have thrown any more at them.

Willie Randolph

I don't like throwing superlatives around, but you've got to like what you see.

Sim Osborn

I had these toys in my house, I've thrown them out, and told everyone I know.

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.