Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Beasley

Coal keeps the lights on!' And this year it will also keep the lamp of learning burning for the beneficiaries of Concord's scholarship program.

Daniel Gibson

Once you put on that burnt orange, you're a part of that Texas tradition. It's a tradition of excellence.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves.

Chief Ogden

You should burn very cautiously. If you're burning your trash off, for example in a 55-gallon drum, the big thing is to keep a screen over it and watch for any embers that pop out.

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

Bruce Springsteen

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary/Out by the gas fires of the refinery/I'm 10 years burning down the road/Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go,

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up

Alan Ball

Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.

Connie Chung

are an incredible couple, with an edge. Even when they argue, you just know there's a great emotional tie between them. Sometimes they do it for sport, sometimes just to wind the other person up.

Mark Calcavecchia

I've always been an emotional player, I'm an emotional guy,

Brett Hoebel

If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.

Ben Fountain

A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected from his or her soul, a person who works for others' profit but never his own, a person who mindlessly does the bidding of the boss and exists in an emotional and mental limbo.

Aunjanue Ellis

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

Arundhati Roy

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

Daniel Goleman

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

Bill James

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Ben Harper

Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Larry Diamond

The staff has just been doing a great job keeping us going in these severe weather conditions.

Drew Denzin

The speed of their forwards really had our defensemen on their heels at the beginning. They were great in the neutral zone and regrouped well.

Dennis McAlpine

The temptation is too great for Hollywood to resist.

Carl von Clausewitz

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

Jane Austen

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Arthur C. Clarke

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

Blaise Pascal

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

Deepak Chopra

If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.

Alice Hoffman

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

Albert Camus

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

Albert Camus

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

Albert Camus

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

Brian Tracy

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

bell hooks

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

David Bowie

I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now, except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.

Cynthia Heimel

Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.

Adele

I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like

Clayton Christensen

When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

Dawn French

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

Curtis Hanson

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Corita Kent

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

Connie Smith

This is not about me. It's just that social workers are needed. ... It really does a lot of good.

John Schneider

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

Solomon Asch

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

Maureen Dowd

Tweetin' ain't cheatin'.

Gore Vidal

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

Paul Krugman

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

Malcolm Gladwell

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Laetitia Casta

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

Logan Mankins

You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.