Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom DeLay

I would suggest to Senator Daschle that he put aside his party's planned fund-raising trip and take up the serious business of this country.

Sallie Beard

I think that's a strange irony that we're playing Truman State. Aside from Joplin, there isn't anyplace else on the face of the earth that will be more touched and more impacted than Kirksville and the Truman State campus by the loss of John Ware.

Nancy Schlichting

It is important that Michigan residents express their concern and let members of Congress know that health care coverage is a critical national problem that must be a top Congressional priority. It is time to put politics aside and take meaningful steps toward solutions. In southeast Michigan, we are doing what we can to help those living without health insurance, but this is a national problem that demands national solutions.

Jenny Lewis

I was kind of surprised after making the record, like, 'Wow, there are a lot of god references here!' I didn't realize I was thinking about that so much. There are a lot of cynical elements to these songs, and there's sort of the expression of dissatisfaction ? but not without hope at the end. It's about putting all that aside and having a little bit of faith.

Russell Kinnel

He's a very sharp guy who did a really good job at Mutual Series. They got points for not giving up on their strategy during the growth boom and tossing aside dividends and balance sheet analysis.

Virginia Laken

We make sure our love making takes place, even though our bodies are not driving us to make love -- our minds are. We realize that lovemaking is so important to our marriage that we set aside the time.

Keith Ellison

There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.

Dick Bennett

I don't know what that is aside from the emotions of the game. Maybe the fact that they have pretty much owned us over the years. I'm not sure. I do know . . . that they've got a lot of young kids out there.

Alastair Cook

He has been fantastic. It is great, he every now and then takes you aside and gives you little bits of advice.

Drew Gilpin Faust

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

Adam Marcoux

Have they thought about putting maps on the campus itself? I know they do it for orientation.

Karen Haynes

I think it's more challenging for us because we are not large enough to have economies of scale, ... But our campus is young and more facile when it comes to moving forward with changes.

Justin Harmon

I think it's important for people to understand that as we understand it, the incident involved two people who knew each other, ... It was not a random drive by. Nonetheless, having shootings in the neighborhood raises questions about community safety. Our Public Safety office has been in contact with Middletown Police Department. Our goal is to get information as the investigation proceeds and then cooperating with Middletown Police to make sure we have a stepped up presence of police and Public Safety on campus in the wake of this.

Brad Anderson

It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time.

Jim Norris

Lacrosse will probably have to be relocated off campus for the next spring. But with the weather as it is, the teams generally end up off campus anyway.

Bradley Wilson

There is enough power on this campus to make this a successful publication.

Adam Marcoux

I was watching a movie when I heard a pop in the bathroom. The light fixture was on fire. I called Campus Safety and told them what happened and they said they would be right over.

Dan Evans

I am extraordinarily pleased. It shows we have a lot of support for the project. We have had commitments from the community and from (the main college campus in) Athens.

L. Lionel Kendrick

The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

Roger Powell

He's a star player, but he's down to earth and he's very receptive to the young guys, ... He talks to us. He encourages us, gives us compliments, gives us positive criticism. He's been great.

Chief Seattle

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Rube Goldberg

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.

Woody Harrelson

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

William Wordsworth

Earth has not anything to show more fair.

William James

... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

Will Durst

The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth.

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Arthur Jr.

Journalists should not have to face the prospect of imprisonment for doing nothing more than aggressively seeking to report on the government's actions.

Rusty Hand

It actually was an important match. My senior year, probably the last time I'll face him unless I get him at districts, so yeah, it was an important match to me. I tried hard, but I didn't have the mental game today.

Dan Coughlin

He was a great boss. He liked to put a smile on the face of the sports page.

Kent Johnson

He leads a lot by example. (But) at times, he doesn't mind getting in somebody's face or saying what needs to be said.

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Olivia Mellan

have it in your face all the time.

Maggie Mermin

Her face looks normal. Her smile is there. Her right hand is slower than her right leg. Her right leg is doing well.

Jonathan Clark

He's as marketable now as Tiger Woods. He's the hottest face on tour.

Tom Brennan

The irony was not lost on me, and it better not be lost on LSU.

Robert Newman

The irony is in many places the railroads are laying track where they removed it over the past two decades.

Masanobu Fukuoka

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

Miuccia Prada

I like the irony in my work.

Lily Allen

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

Philip Levine

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

John Hurt

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

Haruki Murakami

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

Bradlee Pelt

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

Philip Purcell

John and I have never disagreed about the businesses.

John Gartland

John always has a vision, with great, broad-stroked kinds of goals.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

John Edward

John Kerry has what it takes ... to be president of the United States,

Michael Meehan

John Kerry has a record in the military that he's running on, not from. Everything the U.S. Navy sent to Sen. Kerry, we'll post on the Web site.

Nicholas Burns

John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.

Pete Carroll

John is talking to everybody, all the time. That's the way he handles his business. He's got a marvelous spirit.

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

Joe Johnson

I thought we were on the verge, but a loss is a loss.

Paula Carico

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

Becca McArdle

We've experienced a loss and so we now know what that's like.

Derrick Landrus

To come back after the tough loss in the first game, we needed that.

Joan Anderson

Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Joan Bonvicini

This was not our day; it was actually a very embarrassing loss for us.

Richelle Mead

Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.

Dwyane Wade

I was like, 'Hey, Carmelo Anthony should be playing too.' . . . I think I could have helped.

Jeff Attinella

Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation.

John Buck

Just say today's the day and keep playing hard. Hopefully, it's going to end tomorrow.

Jose Reyes

He is playing like the game. He is trying all the time.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Susumu Tonegawa

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Andy Roddick

Had I served the set out, who knows? ... But I let him back in and he started playing really well.

Ben Gordon

He's been playing like himself. We've been waiting for that all season.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Renny Harlin

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Rose Macaulay

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Rick Riordan

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

William Faulkner

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

Upton Sinclair

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

Jamie Brown

It touched the ceiling, ... They don't look as big on the farm.

Frank Iero

When the water touched my balls, that's when I got scared.

Alan Paton

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

Alan Ball

Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same.

Charles Kuralt

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

Rumi

You transform all those who are touched by You.

Asfandyar Khan

We are touched by this gesture. We will always remember.

Truman Capote

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

Douglas McGrath

It's a movie about the author, Truman Capote,

Kanye West

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

James Sanders

We need to tell the whole Truman story in Independence.

Tom Connor

Welcome to The Truman Show . There's a movie, folks, and we're in it.