Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael A. Stackpole

People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

Sophie Beckmann

The tax code is just as complex as last year, if not a bit more so.

The Stones

The music's getting better. Maybe Mick's a bit happier now he's been knighted.

Pierre Littbarski

Adelaide played very well and we didn't have a good game. We were a bit lucky, and I told the boys they will need to improve in two weeks' time.

Annika Sorenstam

A few years ago, things were looking a little different and I had some different plans and different goals. Then it took a little bit of a spin, and I had to adjust, and here I am a few years later with a different outlook on life and some different goals at the moment.

Gloria Shull

A few people might be a little bit sad that they can't go to one place. They got used to (having) everything together.

Shane Watson

A few of the guys were a little bit erratic but Daren Powell bowled well when he got it right.

Mike Brey

A different breakfast order at my breakfast spot. I definitely changed that up. My route was a little bit different. I usually pick up a little caffeine on the way in. I just went to a little different spot to pick it up. We're moving the karma around a little bit here.

Sean Maloney

A fair bit of dust still has to settle, but the elections may even have dampened prospects for the future. One just has to look at the numbers to see that Italy is still the sick man of Europe.

Stacy Stewart

Now is the time for folks in South Florida to get their hurricane plan back out and dust it off, because the season's not over. Unless the storm just gets torn apart, a landfall somewhere on the Florida peninsula seems fairly likely by Saturday.

Ken Austin

We all forget. Memories are short. We need to go back and dust some things off.

Thomas Carlyle

History is a great dust heap.

Ozzie Guillen

I talked to him. We talked. He said he didn't mean it like it sounded. It wasn't that I was (angry), but I was sad because I've known Dusty since I was 2.

Tom McCoy

It will be a little dusty this year, but there will be a great end product," ()

Charles Dickens

"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

Amanda Palmer

Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

Alan Moore

No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them.

Berthold Auerbach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

David Brehm

There is no immediate rush for a special election.

Callum Henderson

The expectation is that Koizumi will win by a reasonable majority, that reforms will go forward and the opposition to the Japan Post sale will be crushed.

Tommy Franks

I don't know Senator Kerry's plan for victory,

William Drummond

Of this fair volume which we world do name / If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care.

Allan Houston

Even though I wasn't practicing twice a day, I was still doing some stuff, ... So it just really didn't have any time to recover. I don't think it's fair to judge it off training camp, though.

Henry Hyde

We think it would be helpful to hear from the president and we'd like to participate in any fair examination of him,

Terry Wilczek

We had our hands full with him last year. He's a good player. But it looks like they have a fair number of playmakers.

Sonya Hartnett

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Paul Otellini

He said that we are planning for a seasonal second half, and he said that the fourth-quarter holiday jump up was not a sure bet. That's, of course, a fair statement to make in this environment.

Asa Boring

By the time the fair is over we're all ready to lay down and let out a big sigh, but we all have a good time.

Kim Brown

Because we want a fair contract, we want lower health benefits, we want more money and we just want to be fair, they don't want to be fair.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Stanley Asumnu

I faked my man and got around him. There was another man standing there but I just kind of went over him.

Bible Bible

If a man will not work, he shall not eat.

John Walsh

We need the manpower to try to get this to work,

Davis III

Match play you've got to keep your man down or keep him thinking you're not really going to give him a chance.

Dale Jarrett

I think he took it like he did everything else. He was the man in charge.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Marilyn Manson

I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.

Michael Kinsley

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

Anais Nin

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

Regina Brett

When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exhausted from surgeries, chemo and radiation treatments. Ah, but I got to live.

Paul Westerberg

By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We [The Replacements] stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out.

Phyllis McGinley

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Paracelsus

The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!

Herta Muller

What can be said about chronic hunger. Perhaps that there's a hunger that can make you sick with hunger. That it comes in addition to the hunger you already feel. That there is a hunger which is always new, which grows insatiably, which pounces on the never-ending old hunger that already took such effort to tame. How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry.

Heather Donahue

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Helene Cixous

I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.