Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pansy Tlakula

I urge voters to register or re-register as a matter of urgency and not to delay it beyond this week. They will only be able to do so until the elections are formally proclaimed in the Government Gazette, and that could be imminent.

Laurie Paolicelli

Common sense tells us the university is the major catalyst, but beyond that, what is the tourism pull for Orange County as a whole? We really didn't know.

Mitchel Resnick

Computer programming has been traditionally seen as something that is beyond most people - it's only for a special group with technical expertise and experience. We have developed 'Scratch' as a new type of programming language, which is much more accessible.

Kurt Prenzler

District 7 wants all property owners to pay: retirees, people on fixed incomes, people with pensions who might evaporate because of economic issues beyond their control, people who have no children and people who choose to educate their children outside the public school system.

Peter Mirsky

Disney has seen a turn in their businesses but if you look out beyond this year, things get a lot more difficult.

John Borden

Dimas thinks way beyond himself. It has been great to watch him grow.

Zachary Liggett

Core gamers will be impressed by the specs of the Xbox. But getting beyond that, you need to have the content there.

Parker Palmer

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

Stacy Schiff

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Trent Hunter

Special teams are what usually win games. We were working hard on both sides of that.

Scott Williams

I've seen him kind of grow from ninth grade, because I was the junior varsity coach his freshman year. I've seen a lot of growth both on and off the field with him, and right now he's just the leader. He does it by actions, and he's even our spiritual leader.

Bill Spencer

I've seen Pickerington North, and they're a good team. They've gotten better as the season has gone on, especially (5-11 junior Megan Askew). We'll have to wait and see and prepare for both teams.

Mike Rounds

I've never seen a united effort like this in South Dakota before where literally everybody from every walk of life and both political parties are standing in unison.

Leigh Foreman

I've never seen anything like that before -- four fights in eight second. I wasn't sure if there was going to be 20 straight fights in the first minute. If there was, we would've showed up. I just think both teams were intense and ready to play.

Mike Brooks

I've only spoken with UPN people a couple of times. It's not real clear how this is going to shake out as far as some markets where you have both a UPN and a WB affiliate.

Larry Merchant

It was the third fight. They had both been beaten. If the fight was as significant as it may seem in hindsight, it wouldn't have been held in Manila. It would have been the Thrilla in Chicago.

Dave Higgs

It was the same lineup that I had (Wednesday) night. I was really pleased with the doubles play tonight. Both teams had a lot of energy and enthusiasm.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Anne Sexton

Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far ...

D. H. Lawrence

And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

Conrad Black

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

David Platt

If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.

Samuel Alito

When I was sworn in as a judge of the court of appeals, I took an oath. I put my hand on the Bible and I swore that I would administer justice without respect to persons, that I would do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I would carry out my duties under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.

Richard Brautigan

The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.

Stephen King

There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be that he takes a hand in things from time to time. But whatever it is, I am sure that there is something out there.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Horace Walpole

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

Erika Messam

We make history every day at Hartford. It just keeps going.

Derek Laxdal

I don't know what kind of history they had there, but obviously we had some history tonight and last night. And it makes for some entertaining hockey.

Jack Agostino

He'll be remembered as a history maker. He won three state championships and set school records.

Richard M. Nixon

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

W. H. Auden

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Robert Bork

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

Thomas Otway

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Thomas Moore

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.

Robert Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Robert Herrick

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.