Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Johnson

Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around - decisively - the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries.

Alice Oswald

I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

Vic Toews

We need to take a lesson, not simply from the Americans, but from Europeans and others including the British who have taken some pretty important steps - constitutionally sound steps, but important steps - in dealing with organized crime.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

Denmark as a country has always looked up to England. I've always felt that British actors are fantastic. There's a strong theatre tradition in your country, and that is reflected in TV and film as well. We've always thought that for crime series, you were the masters, and the general feeling the Danes have of British drama is that it's excellent.

Mark Billingham

Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it's easy to convince yourself that you're working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity.

Beth Keating

I'm very excited about it, particularly for the summer. It's a lot of work. But it's great not having a boss. And I have some ideas.

Jim Tressel

I'm excited for him, you know, to be out there and I think he's excited to be out and ready to go.

Rickey Bustle

I'm excited for him. I'm proud and happy that he has the opportunity to try it at the next level.

Vince Carter

I'm excited for him. I'm happy for him. I think he was ready to part ways (with the Raptors) and they were ready to part ways.

Annika Sorenstam

I'm excited for her to come out and play with us, ... It's a big step for her to turn professional, but I think she can handle it.

Errek Suhr

I'm excited because he's a great coach. I didn't know what to expect at first, but he seems like a great guy. I'm excited and thrilled that we have somebody to lead us now.

Tom McMahon

I'm excited about this group, ... They want to learn; they understand they need to get better every day. This is a good group to coach.

Ken Dorsey

I'm excited about the position I'm in, ... It provides an opportunity for me to be the second-string guy now on a team that I love to play for. That's an exciting opportunity for me. I'm excited for Tim and the new opportunity that he has, and we're just going to move on here from where we're at.

Samantha Mahoney

I'm excited to play Michigan State. Michigan State played in the championship game last year. You always like to play good competition.

Kobe Bryant

We are on a journey, and to put on a show like this for the fans here in L.A. is truly something special. I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an older, young man.

Brendon Ayanbadejo

The fan votes are really great, but to get the players and coaches, then you know you have the respect of the league. There are a lot more important things. It's a personal goal, and if I make it, it would be the icing on the cake.

Bobby Jenks

It was like silence, and then the next pitch, 5,000 fans were yelling all at once.

Derrek Lee

We get so much fan support, you'd think you'd play well here, but we didn't. It's something we have to get better at.

Fernando Torres

The players really like the idea of having a permanent home where the team can feel comfortable, get more support from the fans and where our opponents will feel uncomfortable,

Timm Bechter

We've gotten to the point where Cisco needs to be more optimistic than they have been.

Doug Baggett

We've gotten to play the kids that haven't had an opportunity to play a whole lot.

Mike Quade

We've gotten through a lot of tough times, and we're going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better.

Nick Williams

We've gotten quite a big turnout. We're hoping to have a lot more people tomorrow.

Jennifer Henson

We've gotten 10 times better (since the last meeting), especially defensively.

Nigel Wright

We're very pleased with how Jeff and his team have gotten off to a running start with Spirit.

Darren Aronofsky

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

Henry David Thoreau

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Ron Rivera

It's football. It's kind of the nature of the game, the nature of the beast, and we'll find out.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

Leonardo da Vinci

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

Leonardo da Vinci

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.