Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Dan Netto

It's never really been a place where we allowed the public access.

Khaled Fadl

They are not allowed to deviate from the curriculum that the government sets for them.

H. Hunt

The most damaging bills were defeated. One bill that would have allowed any communication between elected officials to become private was taken out. It required a lot of work among the news media and public interest groups to stop this and all the work paid off.

Jim Calhoun

The more threes they made, the more reluctant we were to play the post with a big-to-big double (team). We couldn't double with a guard. Every one of those threes were like daggers. They allowed Lewis and Thomas to do what they wanted.

Stephanie Williams

A lot of people aren't sending trucks down because there's too much congestion, ... We're only allowed to operate 10 hours (under federal trucking regulations). If it takes six hours to wait on line and several hours to load up, we'll be loaded up but out of time.

Robert Lawson

They originally talked about moving the prom to the night before either graduation or graduation practice, ... because if you don't show up to practice, you're not allowed to walk, which I thought was understandable. We'd have our prom, the next day show up to practice.

John Simley

They've been very well received with shoppers and people don't have problems with the new technology. We wanted to give customers a choice at the front end so that they could pay and leave quickly. The self-checkout has also allowed us to move staff away from registers and improve service in other areas of the store.

Jake Plummer

They (the Broncos defense) allowed our offense to hang in there and they hung in there with us. I'm proud of the guys for hanging with me, and hanging together and not giving up.

Elisabeth Sussman

Since Keith in the early part of his career worked on the streets and on construction sites and everywhere was a surface for his art, we wanted to give some of that sort of urban street flavor to the exhibition.

Jerry Daugherty

She made sure was going to do everything she could to not have her career end here today. I?m glad she had a career night.

Tyler Donovan

I loved it. It was a good route to Marcus Randle El and he just had the speed. It was a rush to have my first college career touchdown pass at Wisconsin.

Rita Mero

I have been enjoying my return to modeling. That's where my career started many years ago.

Jeb Bush

I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the government, of reforming education, of challenging the status quo, eliminating career civil service protections, shrinking the government workforce by 11 percent, but leading the nation in job growth.

Jeff Bagwell

I have a chance to go to the World Series toward the end of my career and I'm ecstatic.

Greta Scacchi

I had to turn down things that were sometimes at the expense of my career in order to find variety, in an effort not to be pigeon-holed.

Clyde Drexler

I hated to see that. He should have played his whole career here.

James Cramer

I hated myself at the end of my professional career for making rich people richer, which is a terrible epitaph. I can use the same skill set to help more people by telling them how the market really works.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Kelly Collins

We are concentrating on presenting our case. But we continue to prepare for all contingencies.

Lenny Glasstetter

We are in very good shape in the league. We should continue to do well in the league. If we win out we will win it, but the league is so competitive this year it won't be easy.

John Hotard

We are hoping to continue that through the weekend.

Tameko Smith

We are doing everything now and will continue to do so, to make sure that the message of love goes out to all. The country needs love, and we will continue to do our part and show them Jesus loves them.

Richard Notebaert

We are doing everything in our power to help Qwest continue to be a leading provider of telecommunications services,

Walter Reed

We are disappointed with the decision to grant parole, and we will continue our effort to protect the victim's rights and those of the state,

William Wood

We are ... disappointed that they have decided to temporarily suspend implementation, ... The U.S. will continue to pursue and press for the extradition of all those who have violated U.S. laws and harmed U.S. interests.

Joe Vitt

We'll find out. We rested him and we'll continue to evaluate it.

Joanne Pratt

The Web is a great place to shop and spend money, but it's pretty great for making money too.

Jerry Murphy

The weather cooperated and we really had a great show.

Jeff Koons

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

Christopher Morley

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas

Piet Hein

The universe may / be as great as they say. / But it wouldn't be missed/ if it didn't exist.

Jim Yurwitz

The way things turned out, we had a shot at winning it. We had some great performances today.

Rick Carlisle

This game's not a great indicator of reality.

Terry Donahue

That's when I said, 'We've got an issue here with this guy for sure.' And then I find out we had had 10 to 12 guys getting IV's. I'd say the team really responded and did a great job in that situation.

Johnny Damon

That's what we needed to do. A great team win.

Jim Tracy

Most of us still obviously know tendencies of their guys.

Andy Rooney

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.

Anais Nin

We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.

Anais Nin

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Anais Nin

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.

Anais Nin

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

Alvin Toffler

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction—how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

Alton Brown

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Anita Roddick

The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.

Kenny G

I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.