Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Goodman

These were not simple concepts and the issues were complex. I think it has been a very worthwhile experience.

O. Henry

The Hail Mary portion is the wholesale reform of Medicare. The idea . . . has technical problems to be solved, and it involves concepts around which there is not a major consensus.

Brian Peterson

Kurt only gave up four points on his feet in 34 matches. The only other points he gave up were from releases. Nobody scored on him at districts or at state. This is a high school kid who doesn't make mistakes or get out of position. He wrestled all season at an extremely high level.

Fred Fetzer

I've been trying to figure out why he does this. But I can't. It's just more misleading information.

Richard Feast

I've been doing this for 35 years. I haven't been able to figure them out yet.

Kris Kristofferson

The world situation being what it is, I have a lot to say, ... And I figure as long as I've got something to talk about, I'll probably keep talking.

Bob Gray

The word 'flu' is always dangerous. So I figured I'd see what it was all about.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I like to keep my girlish figure

Bob Becker

We figured if we got two dozen, we'd be really happy.

Norman Baker

We don't want a Mrs Thatcher-type figure hitting us with a handbag and telling us what to do.

Zach Randolph

You got to put good players around. That starts from the top. We've got to get good players around. . . . It's for (team president) Steve Patterson and (general manager) John Nash to figure that out.

Steve Sternberg

You have to really do the math and figure out a good location.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

Pat Andriole

That's what we try and do. Try to help before the problems aren't fixable.

Eddie Guardado

That's what my job is. To help this team win and save some games. But when they come, they come in bunches. When they don't come, they don't come for a while. You sit back and wait. We'll see what happens. I'll be ready.

Ned Yost

That's going to help us as much as it hurts us.

Steve Bass

That show had 2.5 million viewers, ... Projects like that help raise Nashville's profile nationally.

Jeff Golc

At this point, we are not interested in any of it. But that could change. It is a fast-paced world now. Remember Standard Foods? It was big in the 1960s, and now you can't find them.

John Ernst

We want to find places that are interested in music.

Steve Swanson

We are interested in the volume ? we need the wood.

Jennifer Pizer

We are interested in serious, incremental work in order to succeed.

Giacinto Facchetti

We are interested in his signature, yet we will only talk about it next June,

Steve Langdon

He tried, and tried, but they weren't interested and weren't listening.

Dan Johnson

We're all interested in seeing what he can do.

Lonie Glieberman

We're always interested in quarterbacks that are good,

Mitch Bowman

We provide structure for those small, out-of-the-way communities to tell their story to an interested worldwide audience.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Bela Lugosi

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Billy Childish

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

Billy Bush

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.

Billy Connolly

I'm one of the school of people who don't do research of the reality of the thing or the unreality of the thing. In all the movies I've done, I've never done any research.

Bobby Fischer

She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

David Cameron

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Diana Wynne Jones

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Daniel Handler

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Dan Stevens

"I've never see you do something like this before and I'd love to see you try." For a young actor, that's about the most exciting thing that anyone can say to you.