Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Dario Franchitti

A wheel bearing went in the rear suspension, which I think is the same problem as Tony (Kanaan). It almost put me into the wall and almost put Tony in the wall as well. It's unfortunate and the ArcaEx team deserves better. It's the same problem we had at Nashville.

Joe Clark

Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Susan Williamson

Autistic children who go missing are almost always found dead in a ditch or at a lake. They get frightened of new things. Their instinct might be to hide in a small, dark place.

Robert Whaley

At Walsh, ... it was almost like, 'Let Rob post up and give him the ball.'

Carson Kainer

At San Diego, there was almost a sense of we were scared to fail. Our biggest change has been at the plate. It's black and white.

Tomas Scheckter

A win in Chevy's final race would be unbelievable. I'm almost in tears that Chevy is going from the series with all the horsepower we've got. I think Chevy is now on par with the Honda on the ovals.

Tomas Scheckter

A win in Chevy's final race would be unbelievable, ... I'm almost in tears that Chevy is going from the series with all the horsepower we've got. I think Chevy is now on par with the Honda on the ovals.

Paul Reid

The boys are looking very sharp in training and it looks like we've put the game behind us which is what you need to do after a disappointing performance. We're looking forward to Saturday to rectify the loss.

Bubba Davis

The big thing about the win is that we fell behind 12-2 early and came back. Especially with these kids, it was very, very big that we hung in and did what we had to do to win.

Michael Peters

People think that a brand is a logo. But it's everything behind the brand down to the employees. It's how the consumer thinks about a company.

Cari Yturri

Our service department parks vehicles behind our building and at times we are just packed.

Elgin Perry

Our defense let us down. We just got ourselves in a hole that we shouldn't have been in. We couldn't stop (Britton) on the perimeter. I don't know even know what to say. They had that guy out there on the perimeter and he got about three buckets out there with threes on us. We just couldn't come from behind it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

Mike Killary

People on the boat waited and saw the whale breach behind them, and they returned to port without incident.

Mark Everson

People entered into these deals often at the behest of lawyers and accountants peddling flaky tax products, ... We're offering taxpayers a quick, quiet and cost-effective way to put these deals behind them.

Phillip E. Johnson

People behind me and in front of me are pushing me, ... All three of us respect each other and we've been running hard.

Lisa Murray

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Dianne Cox

Special education kids are always going to struggle with that accountability piece because special education kids are in the program because they have learning disabilities,

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Jordan

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Ayn Rand

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

Bertrand Russell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Benito Mussolini

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

Jane Hamilton

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Greg Spires

The most important thing is that we're playing together and everybody is gelling, everybody likes each other, ... Everybody wants to win, and when you're winning, everybody's happy.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Olaf Kolzig

Once you're at the Olympics, national pride takes over. It doesn't matter if you're making $11 million in the NHL or $30,000 in the Slovenian league. Everybody is equal; they're all representing their country.

C. Thomas Howell

Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.

Rob Niedermayer

Once you get one it gives everybody a little life. That was big for us to get one before we went in at the end of the period.

Steve Smith

Once you get in, it's a whole new game. Everybody is 0-0 and you go from there. Once you get in, anything can happen.

Ashley Monroe

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Gore Vidal

This is not at all bad, except as prose.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Larry Bell

We ran really well, ... We worked them really hard Monday, looking ahead, except for one kid who wasn't there, and it's pretty obvious who it was. She had her legs today, and that was a big part of it.

Hootie Johnson

An invitation to become a member of Augusta National is very special and would never be tied to anything except personal relationships within this club.

David Todd

Everything has gone off pretty well, except for the weather.

Len Wolman

Everything you see is new except the structure of the rooms.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Tracy Morgan

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

David Ditzel

And when we go to our highly integrated chip, we're going to take off another 44 percent. So we think we've got a substantial lead today, and we're going to keep that.

Douglas Johnson

We couldn't think any more highly of him.

Bob Bratkowski

Being the third-down back is a highly skilled job. There's pass protections, route running, variations of protections. He's getting better at it every week.

Ian Stacker

At the end of the day John was the one who started that whole incident so I can't speak more highly of him about it.

Ehud Barak

We highly respect (Syrian) President (Hafez) Assad and if he needs some time before the negotiation is resumed we will respect it and we will wait. We will be there when they are ready.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Baha'u'llah

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

Dave Tippett

I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Walt Whitman

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Jason Wallace

That leaves it up to me to make plays and open it up for him, and then we'll be pretty interchangeable.

Josh Franco

It puts a strain on you. It leaves us wondering what are we going to do?

Peter Drucker

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

Craig Manning

We were motivated and started off well, but we just wore down. They were just too strong for us today.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Felipe Calderon

He didn't come because he does not have viable proposals.