Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Pressfield

I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life bound me to them. I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them. I apprehended that excruciating war survivor's torment, the sense of isolation and self-betrayal experienced by those who had elected to cling yet to breath when their comrades had let loose their grip.

Sidney Poitier

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

I bet when neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, 'Don't forget the thick, heavy brows.' Then they would get all embarrassed because they remembered they had the big husky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.

Mike Carter

I bet Rhode Island is getting very nervous.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death.

I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar.

I bet for an Indian, shooting an old fat pioneer woman in the back with an arrow, and she fires her shotgun into the ground as she falls over, is like the top thing you can do.

George Carlin

Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

David Collins

I think everyone took deliberate steps to try to do what was necessary to make the buildings as safe as possible,

Chris Poland

We need to recognize the buildings that are the most dangerous and would cause the most loss of life. They need to be identified, then strengthened or replaced.

Bob Mancini

Kitchener may be the class of our conference. Erie always has a good team. They do a good job of reloading. We'll be playing in two very tough buildings this weekend.

R. Halloran

If you look at their argument, there is really one tower they are basing it on. These design elements are contained in other buildings on the campus - and to say that their design contained those elements and our design contained these elements ... does not mean that we copied theirs. There's only so much you can do with a parking garage.

Michael Casserly

It's possible that it's nothing but a prank, but also possible that it's more emblematic of a larger problem that the city's high schools are having. Who knows what the motive and thinking of the individuals involved in the spill might be? But it's impossible for me to think that students haven't noticed the quality of education they are receiving and the conditions of the buildings where they are expected to learn and are not frustrated by what they see.

Daniel Briere

It went from being one of the loudest buildings to being very quiet.

Ray Lovell

It just cleaned off everything in the area. It took off the top of the highway, too. There may have been some agricultural buildings in that area, too, but we're not sure.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

Bjarke Ingels

In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.

P. J. Harvey

But we are thrilled to be where we are now. Our real estate people liked the proximity to the mall.

Jeff Thredgold

Money will go back from real estate to stocks.

Paul Tate

If the industry would give it time, these people would just fall out anyway, ... They would have to do such a large volume (of listings) to make any money, and real estate just doesn't work that way.

Jim Amormino

She was involved in nonexistent or fraudulent real estate transactions.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Bobby Shelton

I'm a little set back. I had no idea they were looking at retirement. I thought it would stay around for many, many years kind of like the old B-52s did.

Mike Eaves

I can tell you this explicitly, that nobody was looking at this as just a third-place game. There was a lot of pride on the line.

David Gayson

Looking back, I have this regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

R. Robinson

I wasn't really looking to score more (in the second half), but I was looking to be more aggressive.

Scott Parrish

He's not looking at the scoreboard, huh? Well, I was.

Shellie Samuels

He was looking for people who had killed people.

Travis Brown

I am always looking for something that I can't live without,

Charles Moore

In the same way that it's multiple sources, it's multiple solutions.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Don DeLillo

Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

Don DeLillo

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

Alice Childress

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

Anne Lamott

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags,

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Ricky Gervais

Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?

George Stephen

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Martin Edwards

We'll talk about it when we get back to the jail,

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Steven Soderbergh

Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.