Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

The narrator is not anybody in particular. It's a group of women, so there's no particular identity to the narrative voice. A Faulkner story, 'A Rose For Emily.' I admired used that voice and I wanted to try it out.. It was an experiment for myself.

Johann Koss

I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.

Gary Phillips

Ben was such a special guy. He had the utmost respect for people. That was one of the things we thought and admired about him and the love the kids had for him. The kids wanted to it because of the respect for the person. Watching him teach kids was a privilege. He was always energetic, always intense and an unbelievable teacher.

Ben Brantley

If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.

John le Carre

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

Faye Dunaway

Warren Beatty's been helpful. He's been a friend for a long time, and I always admired what he did with Bonnie and with many other films after that.

Richard Blumenthal

The reason I love and admire the Bridgewater Land Trust so much is that they're providing a model for the whole state.

Paul Theroux

The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month

Steven Bernstein

What they did, in terms of offering emotional support, was superb. They were sensitive and supportive, and their lawyering was thoroughly professional. I admire them enormously.

Lynn McDonald

Our district will be really tough. We still have a ways to go, and we want to be ready.

Meg Casper

School districts should be back in better shape, back to where they were before the hurricanes hit.

David Farabee

You still get the emissions reductions the district wants to achieve, but it gives wine makers a way of complying in the most cost-effective way.

Stacey Reed

We set three goals and we accomplished two, which isn't bad. But we wanted to win the conference, go undefeated at home and win a district championship.

Jason Hafner

We were focusing on winning at district but we are resting them and getting them ready for state. I was happy with the way they swam.

Scott Roy

Twelve and 0 in district is pretty good.

Kirby Green

We think it screams for the three districts to come together. So they don't all have to fight over the last drop.

Ron Kind

Furthermore, I represent a rural district where agriculture plays an important role in the economy and the life of many of its citizens.

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.

Indian Proverb

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Les Paul

The worst is over. I am doing better. I am grateful to all of my friends for their thoughts and I will be back shortly making them laugh.

Marc Otte

We are here as partners, as friends and we respect your sovereignty.

Peter Schmitt

We have accomplished a lot together, And we are friends.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Christiane Amanpour

I have lost many friends and I've seen many, many more wounded, by snipers, by mortar shells, by landmines and by the crazed Kalashnikov-wielding druggies at checkpoints.

MacGyver MacGyver

How can you owe a friend? Friends stand by each other through everything.

Janet Sacavage

I don't think I had any friends whose mother's worked.

Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Tom Renney

He started to push himself as he got more comfortable with the brace.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Richard Bentley

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself

Dave Bristow

The 19-year-old turned himself in after we got in touch with him.

Janet Reno

I would like to see the day ... where I can meet Elian, wherever he is, and sit down and talk to him, not about the tragedy and trauma that he has been through, but about himself and what his interests are, ... He is obviously a wonderful little boy.

Terri Smith

Who knows what he's going to do. It's two different programs. You go from Kent State to Michigan State, that's two different worlds. He owes it to himself to go there, take a look and see what they have to offer.

Five Live

I think he's a centre-half but we know he can play in that position, so I think he's done himself a lot of good.

Christopher Poole

As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun, which I didn't even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.

Johnny Marr

Nick Zinner has been one of my favorite guitar players for a long time.

Sally Ride

I don't have any nicknames.

Scott Pelley

It's not the nicknames, it's how they got the nicknames that matters.

Atharva Veda

The Saint has shown me the Path of God; slave Nanak has implanted devotional worship and the Praise of the Lord.

Carlos Lee

I've been very patient at the plate. I'm trying to see a lot of pitches and wait for the right one.

Bob Djurdjevic

The way I would characterize what I saw today is, they're on a slow path of improvement. It's not a sprint.

Barbara Kingsolver

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

David Adamson

There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos.

Jane Goodall

Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

Juvenal

The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

Seth Rogen

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.

Jeb Bush

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Liam Fox

For those of us on that Leave side there is a natural credibility with those voters.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.