Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Yates

Any information that gets sent to the department seems to go into a sort of black hole,

Solomon Short

Any great truth can - and eventually will - be expressed as a cliche - a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.

David Brown

As he got older he realized that he was considered black, which is confusing to him, because he is brown. We have tried to help him understand his heritage and encourage him to be proud to be a black person. We have taught him about Martin Luther King's dream and explained that we are the realization of his dream.

Dennis Powell

As far as I was concerned, I saw (having a black roommate) as being something very natural. When Casey came in and I was chosen to be his roommate, that did not raise my eyebrows as maybe some people would think. I had a good feeling being around Casey ... and I trusted any decision coach McGuire made.

Mike Colter

As for facial hair, I think I decided it was a good look after graduate school. I always shave it myself and trim my own beard. I change the look depending on the role. For 'Million Dollar Baby,' I had no facial hair. For 'Men in Black 3,' I had no facial hair but did wear a wig.

Brittany Smith

As black people we may feel like we can't make it there. And now I feel like politics is maybe something I want to go into.

Brian Clarke

As a New York cop, you'll be faced with many decisions, ... Do I turn this evidence in to the precinct and get it off of the street, or do I sell it on the black market and pocket the money?

Don Albrecht

As a member of the school board I played an integral role in keeping the district's approximately $8 million budget successfully in the black while building several additions and making many improvements. I also played a key role in negotiating many successful union contracts for the district. This experience will better able me to keep the sheriff's department spending in check, and to work well with the department's employee union.

Anthony Prior

As individuals we must create a collective. NFL's black players have a tremendous strength. This is a power we are scared to exercise yet dream to live.

Johannes Ullrich

A new version can be pushed out every four hours. You can never catch up.

Russian Proverb

A net will catch more than a pole.

Norm Hewitt

As every day moves on, he is progressing with what those 75 hours were for him. He is catching up with a lot of friends and family, and also spending some quality time with himself, contemplating the enormity of the whole event really.

Michael Tomasky

a sailing ship that couldn't quite catch wind

DeLaShaun Dean

A very good possession receiver that will catch anything he can get a hand on. A big receiver that will do damage on fades and isolations.

Randy Davis

Ballard used a flat-back four to try and catch us off sides. They made us pass it through their defense and go one-on-one. We knew we'd score a lot of goals that way, but it wasn't fun to watch.

Jim Amormino

A wounded cat is an extremely dangerous cat.

Dick Bliss

As only a sophomore, Nicole has really been our catalyst all year. We need her on the floor; she does so much for this team.

John Boitano

That play changed the momentum for us. Lake Stevens just wasn't able to catch up after that. (The Vikings) are a real physical team. This was a great win for us.

Kyle McSlarrow

Any government mandates, and certainly for any one of those options (suggested by Martin), in our view is very clearly under Supreme Court precedent a violation of the First Amendment.

Gary Kellough

As far as the change, I needed it. ... When you get to a certain point, sometimes change is good and a new challenge is good. That's the way I've approached the whole thing - it's a tremendous challenge.

Susan Basford

As elephants get older, pregnancies certainly become more problematic.

Jerome Holtzman

a shortstop with some, but certainly not overwhelming promise.

Larry Ellison

As far as J.D. Edwards, we're certainly interested, ... We've been looking at that closely as well. It's simply a matter of terms of the deal and price of the deal. We're keeping our options open there.

Neil Fox

As for heat, it certainly seemed very hot throughout the month, and maybe the dryness accounted for that impression.

Derek Loomis

As far as designing for girls, certain designs will cross right over.

Carl Duke

As for widespread searches, we aren't doing that, but if a lead comes about a location we will certainly check it out.

Mahmoud Abbas

As for relations and contacts with the Israelis, we are completely certain they are going to resume very rapidly because there are many things we can tackle with the Israelis and which must be discussed,

Burn Gorman

The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.

Tom Hooper

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

Jack Kerouac

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

Martin Jol

It is a cliche in England, but that is what we were shouting about before the game - getting back to winning ways. This is exactly what we need - a win.

Ken Jeong

I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.

Michael Cudlitz

Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and reduce them to just that, that's what you're going to get.

David Walton

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

Joss Whedon

I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it.'

Ann Williams

The water was waist deep, ... We grabbed all the kids and held them up because the water eventually got up to our necks.

James Thurber

This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits of power, they eventually are pushed out themselves. Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich did that, and they went. Now Tom DeLay. It was just a matter of time.

Philip Rivers

That's good. You have to play those (top) teams eventually anyway.

Chris Morris

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Tim Reilly

You see that technology migrates from hackers to innovative users and eventually to the mainstream.

Mary Kuehn

We did fine over there (previous location), but eventually we got too much stuff. With everything more spread out, people will be able see what we've got.

Richard Neal

Eventually all of us will have to sacrifice a little to pull our Nation through this time; we've done it before and we'll have to do it again.

Abe Badmus

This year, everybody trusts me now. It's something you have to keep working at and eventually it will come to you.

Harold E. Varmus

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

Jodi Olson

He was at a point in his life where he was retired. And he had expressed this was the happiest point in his life.

Larry Garza

He never expressed anything to me about pain.

Gary Hall

Any time it's Westfield-Herndon, South Lakes-Herndon, it's a little more intense. I thought our guys showed some great composure.

Dwyane Wade

Another win Wednesday will make us feel great about the way we're playing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

George Peters

As a resident I'm actually happy they're doing it, I think it's going to be great for the community.

Tracy McGrady

As a team, we had great intensity to start the game. I think if we consistently do that and play the way we played in the first half and to come out in the third quarter, then we'll be all right.

Russ Borman

As a team, we played fundamentally well. Our guys did a great job.

Jim Yurwitz

As a freshman, she had a great day.

Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Joe Sakic

As a hockey player, it's great to be a part of this race.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Mark Teixeira

I've never been more unhappy as a Ranger than the last two weeks. Nothing's going right. A lot of things are going on, and none of them are positive.

Robin Bhar

The ( zinc ) concentrate market is already so tight, this is the last thing the market needs.

Dennis Ruedinger

Things seem to be going very well. He had his surgery last year and everything I know is just fine.

Kenneth Brown

Things have progressed well in the last two years, which makes us feel good.

Carol Woods

The worst is when people come back for the last of their stuff. You know you'll never see them again.

Craig Moore

That part doesn't really worry me ? it's making sure I'm fit.

Craig Hedric

So, we can make sure everyone is protected. The defendant, society, and other patients.

Kevin Mammano

I wanted to be sure we were in.

Chris Harrell

Sometimes, when I go back home, they don't see us as much of a threat. I always take that as an insult. I come back, and I make sure to tell my teammates about that.

Allen Tucker

The weather this year sure has been a challenge.

Holly Roberts

The whistle blew, I sure thought so. We can't take it back now, though.

Les Wright

you're going to have to unwind from that, and that's something we weren't sure we really wanted to do.

William Davies

And though I'm sure I see those eyes, I'm not so sure a body's there!

Shannon Staub

Englewood wants sidewalks. So do a lot of other people. I am not sure what happened.

Antisthenes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Jan Hus

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Daniel Handler

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.