Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Charles Powell

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

Dennis Lillee

Australia was ambushed by England because way too many people right across the board were living in a comfort zone. The first priority is to appoint a captain who can lead from the front.

Peter Blake

Prices were high across the board, showing that the global market is strong. We are extremely proud of our team in Florida. The yard and customer service teams worked hard for our customers. They did a terrific job and deserve the accolades.

Walter Higgins

Prices for natural gas have skyrocketed to unprecedented levels across the nation over the past year.

Rand LaVonn

Prices are going down because the weather is warmer than normal. We've seen that across the country where prices are falling.

Ross MacDonald

Property transactions were down in the Highlands, but they were also down across the state.

Jim Haslett

Bah humbug! I've been visited by the ghosts of Saints past, present, and future, and they don't wear white sheets like most ghosts. Instead, they wear brown paper bags over their heads. Anyway, they all said it was time for a change.

Kip Hawley

Sorting through thousands of bags a day to pull out small tools doesn't help security, it hurts it.

Jan Chipchase

I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.

Davy Hite

That's when you've got your best chance to catch those 28- or 30-pound bags (five-fish limits). That's when you can get on one bank and win a tournament in 15 minutes.

Cameron Diaz

I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.

Tove Jansson

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

Dominic Monaghan

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

Jose Andres Puerta

Don't skimp on the ice. Bags from the grocery store melt so fast and water down your drinks. I prefer beautiful, big squares for my cocktails.

Ron Johnson

Customers were sending my tea back because of the taste of it. On a day at lunch, we'll sell 100 bags of tea. Today, it was six.

Glenn Carrin

As a result, places in the Southeast, like Atlanta, are having quite a wet time of it, and we are getting nothing. There's not much in the way of relief for the next 10 days, and January through March show below normal predictions.

Andy Bryant

During the last month or so, those sea surface temperatures have been below normal, further enhancing what we have been seeing.

Brian Reilly

I've managed to save so much because I live below my means.

Louis Mazzucchelli

The wild card here is if they can rebuild their consumer franchise. In order to do that, they need to have some aggressively priced products below $1,000 in the marketplace for Christmas of next year. I think they can do that.

Steve Taylor

That's kind of what everyone is waiting for. If we settle below $60 by the end of the week we may see some further pressure on prices.

Andrew Harrington

The reason being inventories remain strong in the U.S. Prices might fall below $60 this week.

Bob Dinneen

Ethanol makes up only 10 percent of a gallon of gasoline. If gasoline prices are up 36 cents, then ethanol would only make up 3.6 cents of that. And 85 percent of users have long-term contracts that are significantly below the spot-market prices.

Ryan Kolb

Brookings has had a real good streak in the last few years. They have a good program. Sioux Falls has been coming on lately. They worked their way into fourth in the league standings in the last month and a half. They were seeded below us for most of the season.

Roberto Galvan

Below the 7,000-point mark, the market is at an extremely undervalued level. That's what many investors recognized (this morning).

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

William Petersen

The name change isn't for those of us here in New England. The name change is for those folks entering the region.

Howard Dean

Do you want a little change or a lot of change? ... If you want a lot of change, you've got to go out and vote for Howard Dean on Saturday in the Michigan caucuses.

Christen Brown

Do your preparation. Most of the fear comes prior to being at the podium. You have to change your point of view from one of fear to one of focus.

Kent Conrad

dramatically change the role of the United States Senate.

Michael Todd

During the course of that we had to change tack and it was decided that we were going to conduct a forensic examination and preserve the evidence on the suspects themselves, so we were going to put them in a suit, look for samples on the individuals there and then at the scene,

Jack McConnell

Do you know how to change the cylinder head gasket on a Mk II Ford Cortina?" ()

Max von Sydow

During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'

Eric Fehrnstrom

These differences with the Legislature are not essential to the goal of getting everyone covered with insurance.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Things need shaking up when American women feel endangered even as Yosemite bears lumber around belching, their eyes glazed with surfeit, their pelts covered in Oreo crumbs.

Bob Ross

All around the top, it was covered in flames. It's depressing.

Martin McGuinness

covered a lot of ground about the present difficulties.

Foo Fighters

And Weezer covered 'Big Me' the other day, ... I don't know if that means we have to cover a Weezer song, but maybe we will.

Frank Wu

Earlier this year our Crisis Management Team designed a road show that covered all of our operations sites, focusing on informing staff of the disease and training them on our new flu information module.

Rita Cosby

To see the damage that I saw when I covered Katrina will stay with me forever.

Roy H. Williams

The other guys covered up, but I know one thing -- I'm a lot more comfortable when David is out there.

Bob Davidson

The storm took the roof off so the water went inside after that. We have to take the rubber roof off and then take the metal deck off and then replace it.

S. Walker

I was an able-seaman, a deck hand. As I say, it's the way to see the world and get paid for it.

John Kosmina

We're in a situation because of the ways the squads are restricted it makes it difficult, so we need all players on deck who can perform.

Jim Burns

As dry as it was, I don't think it will hurt anything.

John Swenson

Once the ground gets saturated, we get slides. We're just trying to dry out and get ready for the next one.

Chief Ogden

A fire needs three things to survive: fuel (like weeds or dry grass), oxygen and a heat source. A lot of grass fires are preventable.

Helio Castroneves

It was very weird. There were some wet spots. I put rain tires, dry tires, rain tires. I kept on going back and forth. It was very hard to find balance. Toward the end I felt comfortable.

Ron Bamberger

There will not be a dry eye. I think the stars are lining up.

Ron Abramovich

That shows just how big those storms were, and how dry February was.

Dennis Moore

You would expect that with the lack of rainfall. It's pretty dry out there right now.

John Brill

You take a turn and you think it's the river, and all of a sudden you're on dry land and you have to back-paddle.

Charles R. Swindoll

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.

Kevin Logan

Prices played a big role here. A lot of the increase was due to higher energy prices, particularly for oil.

Ellen Russell

Our environmental standards will look at the impacts that will accrue in the U.S. due to the power lines and due to the plant operating in Mexico.

Tom Maier

Our fall in the last two weeks is due to several injuries and if we hadn't had them we might have fared better. But those are all part of the game.

Brian Billick

Anthony Wright is the starter for an undetermined period right now due to injury. Kyle Boller is our starting quarterback. If I left it open to interpretation, if I left that in a way that led to speculation that we did not have the faith in Kyle, that our faith is wavering, that was not my intent.

Peter Cardillo

The selling in financials is an anticipation of lower earnings due to a slower economy, ... From the point of view of interest rates not going up, it's positive.

Charles Corp

The significant increase in 1999 planned expenditures is primarily due to the company's plans to enhance its systems capacity.

Richard Burr

see through the stereotypes, which were made due to a lack of information.

Michelle Clayman

The run-up is probably due to a number of factors.

Mark Smith

It was the technology, and NASA was the attraction. The reason NASA the technology were here, if you want to go one step further, it was due to Wernher von Braun.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Sue Townsend

In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any kind of anything, any hint, any tip of how to make it easy.

Steve Foley

What if I grab a guy by the collar, and he only needs a yard for a first down?

Noelle Kreykes

She didn't grab it and I could tell I could head it over her hands so I stuck my head out.

Cecily Brown

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back.

John Grahame

I don't know if it got deflected or what, but it was going straight at my blocker and went straight down. I kind of jumped up to grab it and it went through my arms. It hit my jersey. That was it.

Joey Cabret

I was very concerned. At the time, I couldn't grab a bat. Every time I touched the bat, my thumb hurt. I didn't think I'd be able to play at all. But then, all of a sudden, it healed up good.

Charles Holmes

How many guys do you know who can physically grab somebody by the ear, and take 'em to jail? Well, he could do it.

Kareem Carter

I had to do it. My team needed me to grab the rebound and score.

Carol Hively

People are in a hurry and want to run in and very quickly grab some suntan lotion, a magazine or a soda.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Anthony Schlegel

I've talked to guys who are going to start tailgating at 8 o'clock in the morning. I said, 'Wow, I hope you make it to the game.'

Tyler Palko

I've tried to spend as much time with those guys as possible to find out their likes and dislikes. Are they a put-your-arm-around-them type of guy or do you need to get on their tails or do you just need to talk to them? Hopefully, I'll find that out pretty quick here.

Dave Rose

I've seen wild things happen. I kept telling the guys that.

Dierks Bentley

I've still got the boat, but if I'm in Nashville, I'm usually racking up hotel bills. We'll have 20 to 21-day runs on the road, and I'll just be in town for a day or two, ... But that's what it's about for me. I'm playing music because I love it. The guys on the road with me, they love the music.

Bobby Jones

I've read about guys having these types of years. We all read about it. You just don't think it will happen to you.

Boris Zhukov

I've practiced that Russian voice since I was a kid. I've always done imitations of people's voices. I used to do imitations of some of the other guys like Greg Valentine in the locker room.

Mark Jones

I've played with those guys over the summer at individual tournaments. I see them everywhere.

Clint Hurdle

It would be like guys talking about cars. Rebuilding a carburetor is nothing for them. For me, that's an impossibility, it's not going to happen unless I take it somewhere. But for a hitter those are terms that are pretty commonplace.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Henk Bekedam

Roughly half of the new infections are sexually transmitted. The other 48 percent comes from intravenous drug users, and the remaining 2 percent are vertical transmissions from mother to child.

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Richard Engel

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

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

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.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Ted Dever

The union was notified of the company's intent to relocate 130,000 hours of machining work to Singapore.

Douglas Adams

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Tana French

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

Tom Cruise

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

Michael Moore

I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I'm a well-known person.

Charles Dickens

I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle.

Sarah Hall

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.

Morley

As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write the script, get money for the script, shoot it, find distributors, make it into film festivals, all of that just to get to your audience.

Susan Wyderko

The more layers of security you have, the better off you are.

Juvenal

To lay down one's life for the truth.

Tamara Feldman

I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.

Sharon Stone

I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only take baths. Like, I have to lay down to bathe, and I could go on that for six months.

Kevin Hall

There is not $150 million laying on the table.

J. Taylor

We'll need that week. The way our schedule lays out is probably just right.

Bobby Crosby

We have to stay on it. We can't go into a skid like we were. There's no room for laying back or getting complacent. We have to play this way, and the way we did for two months. We can't think 'we're back.' We're playing the way we should.

Lisa Nelson

I don't see it as being a panacea. I see it as another layer of protection, and therein is the strength of it.

Marek Hlasko

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

Gbola Amusa

The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Aaron Woods

Once we lost our steam supply, we were unable to recover and prevent the event that occurred on Wednesday, March 1.

Andrew Engel

I've never lost to Severna Park. Everyone says that they are the better team, but we've got to go out there and prove it every time we play.

Kevin Grace

The store manager of the Tacoma Levitz told me 45,000 people lost their money at Levitz.

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Gerard Hopkins

I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

Christopher Davis

It wouldn't be catastrophic if they lost it.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Romeo Crennel

We're 2-2 and all that means is we're .500.

LaMarcus Aldridge

I don't think people realize how much he means to this program.

Suze Orman

Give to yourself as much as you give of yourself! This means you have to put yourself first.

M. Thompson

If that means moving up, that's fine. If that means moving back, that's fine.

Andy Reid

If it means throwing 50 times, then you throw 50 times,

Mia Bloom

if it means that if there's another attack, we were just unlucky. If there's another attack, it means we messed up.

Ken Holland

If we have to wait, and it means we're going to get Pavel in our lineup -- I'll wait.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Scott Miller

People say they want the round, but then they say it's dry.

Lamar Butler

People say they feel like they go to a real university now.

Stan Kasten

People say they can't see the puck, but I don't think that's it. I know I have trouble telling who is on the ice.

Tom Poti

People say the regular season is meaningless, but every point will count.

Corey Stoll

People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

David Ishii

Really? I don't remember. Seventeen under? That's pretty good.

Kim Devlin

Well that's seven more votes than we expected.

Richelle Nice

We were in there for seven months. We wanted to see it through to the end.

S. Truett Cathy

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

Tom Evans

Get transported back to the seventies !

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Miguel de Cervantes

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

Teri Garr

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women

Bai Ling

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

Monte Kwinter

There are usually two sides to every story, ... Now you have one.

Jane Kaczmarek

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

Alan Furst

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

Bruce Jenner

I'm kind of more on the conservative side.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

Ehud Barak

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Greg Hudnall

First thing we wanted to do is get all the residents on the west side registered. There are so many new residents out there.

Sathya Baba

I stay by the side of whoever repeats my name.

Ted Purdy

Sleeping on a lead? I'll let you know tomorrow.

Bailee Madison

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Thomas Nagel

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Simon Sinek

Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.

Sam Kinison

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

Usain Bolt

It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.

Shirley Jones

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

Ridley Pearson

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.

Michelle Rodriguez

Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist.

Patricia Cornwell

You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.

Frank Melton

The whole thing with Walker was for his own protection. It had nothing to do with getting his testimony.

Dr. Beebe

You've got to try and normalize your life. I just walked around every morning, the same as I do here (in Connecticut).

Charles McDonald

Even the slowest walker will be done by noon.

Anita Diament

Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

Suzanne Collins

Some walks you have to take alone.

Teresa Palmer

I can walk around relatively anonymously.

Michael Stipe

Anybody that walks can sing..

David Hampton

He was walking with no problem. I was very surprised,

Kathleen Farrell

I thought I was going to just walk in and walk out.

Erinn Hayes

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.

Erik Estrada

I like to watch the Fox News Network. I like 'Nightline.' I like to watch 'The Sopranos,' of course. That is one of my favorite shows. 'Entourage' is another one. I like 'The Shield.'

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Dennis Quaid

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

Bono

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Ben Katchor

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

Dave Rowntree

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Sergei Lavrov

Everything will be watched during the New Year's.

Donal Logue

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Diane Ackerman

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Bruce Chatwin

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

David J. C. MacKay

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

Allen Tate

Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection....

Anthony Jeselnik

I would love to DJ the royal wedding. Just so I could play Candle in the Wind non-stop.