Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KNIGHT, n.Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow --no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.

Richard Boucher

Journalism is often a dangerous profession. Today, we take this opportunity to express solidarity with the brave journalists who risk their lives to inform the public and express their views.

Michael Drayton

Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.

Stockwell Day

It is a brave new world, one that I do not think most Canadians, when they fully understand its implications, will want.

Mark Rosenbaum

I think the homeless have just found shelter with the federal courts. I think it's a brave and courageous decision.

Chuck Prochaska

I think it's unfortunate because what we did for our readership was something that most newspapers were scared to do. I think Acton and I made a brave decision to publish the cartoons.

Brenda Jones

The owners at the time thought, well, were going to have to give all this money back, ... And he comes driving up, late, to do the show. Hed been to a Braves game.

John Donne

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

Scott Erwin

He was very brave and I'll miss him always.

Kelly Brook

In this country we're just obsessed with making people celebrities before they've even done anything, which I think is just shocking.

Katherine Paterson

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

Andy Slyke

I was leading off the inning, and the count was 2-0, so I was pretty sure he was going to throw a strike, ... I didn't think he wanted to walk me, so I was expecting one out over the plate.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Claire McCaskill

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

James Merrill

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.

Thomas Fuller

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Troy Sunderland

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

Nick Hatch

I would think it was unlikely they would counter offer.

Bruce Allen

He didn't have to stand up, ... He's not the reason we lost to the Jets.

Brian Williams

There are teams that have been in the playoffs in the past that have lost a lot of money.

Joe Papin

For me personally, maintain the weight I lost over the summer.

Debbie Carter

He said he got disoriented and lost his sense of direction.

Don McClure

He's also there for people who have lost loved ones." ()

J. Horton

He's been there and done that. He won some big games, he lost some tough games. He made some big plays, he missed some plays.

Matt Doherty

I was disappointed we lost but pleased we didn't quit.

Gary Powers

When he walked Christensen, I thought he had lost it. I let him stay for two more batters and got us in a jam.

Max Black

We've got to keep it going. I haven't lost to them. I can't start.

Adrian Beltre

I would say it has to be Vinny Castilla. Aramis Ramirez would be up there, but Vinny Castilla has put up some big numbers in his career.

Louise Brown

I would say the number of women approaching us has more than doubled,

Wes Walz

He was about 90 percent sure, and I said those are numbers I want to hear.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

Benjamin Raich

Having to brake or be slow to get a better start number does not make sense. Braking is not something a skier should have to do. It isn't part of racing.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Ernie Accorsi

He said, 'When are you going to get your number one signed? I said, 'It's going to get done.

Mike Favero

His numbers speak for themselves and he's well-deserved to be a PARADE All-American.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Tom Davies

He's going to have to give an explanation somewhere for how it got into his system, ... His public explanation is that he doesn't know how it happened.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Shinzo Abe

I think we received wide support from the public on this point.

Dean Laidley

It is not for public consumption, but we have a lot of work to do this week.

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Will Rogers

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Barack Obama

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Jeanette Winterson

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

Delta Goodrem

I was just burning, wanting to be on stage.

David Tom

I think it's more willpower than anything else, wanting to win more than anything else.

Gary Moore

We've been wanting to get that for a long time.

Rose Byrne

I'm the youngest of four, and I'm always the clown - making the jokes, wanting attention.

Joyce Meyer

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

Candice Wiggins

It's all about going out and being as competitive as you can and wanting to win.

Pat Riley

I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court.

Al Gooden

You never get used to it. It is a traditional thing wanting to get down here.

Brad Meltzer

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Waris Ahluwalia

I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Taylor Hawkins

Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.

Steve Bigam

The only thing that didn't work out was we lost.

Lord Warner

What we've got to work on is the rest,