Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Renée Arrington

If you find that you have several disengaged workers, that might be symptomatic of your culture.

Beppe Severgnini

If you are the owner of a factory employing 500 people, on Monday you talk to any of them about soccer, and that's completely unifying. Italy doesn't have very much in terms of national culture like that. ... You have Hollywood and all the stars, we don't have anything remotely (like that). Soccer compensates.

Reese Witherspoon

I'm having a great time playing Becky, ... She's a world away from Elle Woods and for me it's a great departure. It was a natural decision for me to get as far away from American pop culture as I could.

Amy Jordan

I know it's going to be a major culture shock, ... From little Hibbing to big Beijing.

Linda Wallace

Kevin was a fighter up to the end, to live, but she wants everyone to know he fought real hard.

P. James

Kevin Payne was my friend. His wife and children, we shared quality time together. I will always honor him as my friend, first, and a fighter second.

Lenny Harris

Keep pushing. Keep fighting. We'll get it done. We have to get it done.

Frank Warren

Joe Will be ready to fight in 2006 and hopefully Lacy will be in the opposite corner.

Jimmy Teague

He's a freshman that's got a lot of potential. We were hoping he could use this year and Erik as a tutor to get him ready, but he's going to get right into the fight (today). We'll find out how he's going to react.

Suzi Babos

Her opponent was just playing really smart. To (Stephanie's) credit, she is a fighter and is working hard during practice.

Vince Young

He's been through a lot. Just to see him keep fighting ... I'm proud of him, proud of all the hard work he's done to get to this point.

Dana Altman

I thought we showed a lot of resiliency and toughness in fighting back. We were in trouble, obviously.

Mike Morris

It is hard. A lot of guys are fighting for the same spots and it might be from the same teams, so it is kind of hard.

Paul Hackett

What you have to like is how he handled the situation, how he handled the team, his calmness, how he ran the team,

Jonathan Diamond

It is not something handled by this office.

Felipe Alou

It will be interesting to see how this is going to be handled and what is going to be handled.

Earl Calloway

I've just been waiting for the University to make a decision. They handled the business. I mean, I don't think we're signing any contracts.

Peter Phelps

The whole Charlotte/Spence romance was handled very well I thought, with some very smart writing that addressed issues before they are even raised,

Camilo Villegas

You never know. I'm sure she's down about it. She's only 16 and she's going to keep learning. She's got a lot of pressure on her, but she handled herself well out there.

Scott Gernander

Even though we haven't seen a lot of it, I was a little disappointed at how we handled their press.

Mike Lewis

There has always been a perception negotiations were much more jointly handled than they were in practice.

Steve Novak

We understand that any small thing like that needed to be seriously looked into. It was handled the right way.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

Robert Cross

I think it's very analogous to what happened in the 70's. The arguments are all the same.

Romola Garai

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

Denzel Washington

When they said my name, I said, 'There is no way I can go up here without sharing it with Rubin,' ... Everything that has happened with this film and this moment is about the love that has come from him.

Duce Staley

I didn't get involved in an altercation. That happened in the club, but that didn't involve me. I wasn't robbed, and I had my 2 earrings. I lost my bracelet, that's all.

Kyle Williams

I don't know what happened out there. We played like a joke out there in the second half.

Patrice Lauzon

I don't know what happened, it's never happened before. The lifts are usually our strength and for some reason, Marie slipped.

Arthur Travers

I don't know where the shooting happened or how.

Branny Vickory

I don't know what kind of impact this sentencing that happened back in '91 had on his behavior.

David Stern

It happens at least probably 5 percent of the time.

Van Nguyen

He is my heart, ... If something happens to my son, my heart will be stopped.

Darren McCarty

I'm just happy I hit the net. I'm happy I didn't mess that up. When it happens bang-bang like that, you have less time to mess up because you don't have time to think.

Kevin Brooks

That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.

Elizabeth Smart

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

Eric Bogosian

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

Jonathan Ogden

It's not even really that important. Let's see what happens on Sunday.

Luis Castillo

I want to play every day, play hard, and if something happens it happens.

Jessie Evans

It shows what happens if we play together.

Ryan Coleman

I think we're doing a tremendous job defensively. We're holding our opponents to 50 points or less, which is right where they need to be.

Asma Jehangir

I did not see ill will on the part of the government, that they were holding it for themselves, or misappropriating it. But nevertheless, what they didn't understand is the need for speed. They're being bureaucratic.

Jeff Hanna

He loved it over there, and they loved him. When we went onstage in Japan, there were people holding up 'Vassar Clements' placards.

Glenn Mason

I'm an old-fashioned guy. There are two kinds of coaches: schemers and fundamentalists. Fundamentalists teach blocking, tackling and holding on to the ball.

Brian Hill

I'm sure it's discouraging for him. He looked to me that he was having some pain and I didn't want to take any chances. I saw him wincing out there and holding his midsection. It didn't make sense for him to continue. I know he's down.

Lisa Parker

You can see where there's no bark. That's where we were holding onto it.

Jeremy Lewis

It's like holding a wolf by the ears, ... You don't want to hold it, but you don't want to let it go.

Mike Holmgren

I've had the privilege of holding it (the Lombardi Trophy) before and I hope to touch it again.

Kristin Hannah

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Barbara Ward

Just to know what the kids were talking about in school was more meaningful than anything I could write in a parent newsletter,

Shelton Quarles

He couldn't be home, that's why he always had his kids around.

City High

He didn't have to run. A lot of kids wouldn't have,

Steve Collins

He just plays the game. You've got to love kids like that.

Thurston Moore

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.

Ken Hill

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Brian Humke

I think we want to listen to what people say; that's our job.

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Joe Gibbs

I will say this, we don't listen to him all the time or we'd be out here in our underwear.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Jeanine Pirro

I don't even have to listen to the people because I'm a New Yorker.

Henry Garza

I can listen to an oldies station all day long,

Richard L. Evans

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Robert Orben

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Al Gore

He wants to start this on a message of prayer and healing,

Salman Rushdie

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Virginia Satir

The message sent is not always the message received.

William Thomas Stead

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

Charlie Cyr

Regardless how you feel about the (immigration) issue, there's a message to be sent.

Ernest Johnson

I just think it sends the wrong message to have a celebration when people are not back in their houses.

Dave Lewis

I'm trying to get my message out without spending a lot of money.

J. A. Konrath

I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

Phil Garner

I have not seen him. I have messages that he sent to other people.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Charlie Lewis

He was really on us that next morning, ... We didn't start that day.

Bon Battu

He has no personal problems whatsoever and will be back training next week.

Shimon Peres

He indicated he may do it in the first part of next year.

Ricky Bennett

He doesn't throw it a whole lot in games, but at least he's trying something he can work on going into next year.

Robert Southey

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Publilius Syrus

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Dennis Prager

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Aristotle

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Matt Ridley

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Rebecca West

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Russell Crowe

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

Ron Conway

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

James Spithill

Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of guys, it's the ultimate environment.

Alejandro Canizares

He's a valuable player. He's one of the top three on the team, so we had a much weaker team this week.

Sergei Samsonov

He's a terrific player. He's tricky. He makes a lot of plays. He makes that team a lot better. Him being out of their lineup works to our advantage.

Matt Wichorek

I was down on myself. Our team was all over the place.

Stephen Cervantez

We treat every team the same. We just try to play our game.

Larry Pearson

Today in the Busch Series, the independent, one-car team doesn't have a chance.

Danny Embick

I thought they would come back. They didn't want to be embarrassed by a team like us. But I was also thinking three-peat.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Kalin Lucas

I think about him every day. Today I woke up and I didn't even feel like going to school. It was rough.

Lee Nelson

I'm 63 today but I feel like I'm 18.

Brad Faxon

The first thing Dory did today was look up at me and say, ?We?re going to Kapulua,?

Neale Donald Walsch

Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today

Miguel de Icaza

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Marat Safin

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

Louise Hay

My younger years were filled with fear; my todays are filled with confidence.