Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Kramer

Jordan's our ace. He makes great pitch calls. He doesn't try to do too much. (Coaches) are always afraid of the pitch count after 60. Jordan seems to get stronger.

Lee Meyer

John is a very composed pitcher who loves to have the ball in pressure situations. He's not afraid to throw breaking balls when he's behind in the count.

Gino Bucchino

Italy is facing the problem of immigration, with immigrants coming from Africa and other places. We have to teach Italians not to be afraid of another color of skin, that we can live together.

Doug Allison

He deserves it. He's someone that's going to take players on and not be afraid of the big scene and I think that's what Bruce Arena is looking for.

Stephen Colbert

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.

Kate Bosworth

You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

Steve Barker

Here I am walking down the street with a target on my chest because my dog has a muzzle that says, 'this is a fierce vicious animal and you have to be afraid of this dog'.

Don Williams

Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom

Jose Theodore

Guys are not afraid of paying the price and jumping in front of shots. And a lot of times they're making some big saves for me.

William Ames

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

Gil Scott-Heron

I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive.

Raymond Moody

I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.

Don Yaeger

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

David Levithan

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

David Letterman

There's already been some trouble for Osama bin Laden in the afterlife. There was a mix up and he was greeted by 72 vegans.

David Eagleman

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

David Eagleman

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

Michael Bradley

Kids are exposed to this at incredibly early ages, when their brains are going through profound developmental changes. This has caught parents off guard. (Porn) has always been there, but it's always been in a lower volume.

Zach Day

He didn't want to overwhelm me with a bunch of stuff, ... But I picked his brain and said, 'I don't care if you overwhelm me. I've got a lot of stuff to work on and the last month and all off-season to work on it and want to get right.'

Shiloh Walker

Ah, typical writing day? Well, I tend to do e-mail and the business stuff of writing more in the morning while my brain wakes up and then write more in the afternoon, sometimes from about 11 until 5, or 12 until 5. If a story is driving me nuts, I'll work more in the evenings, but usually I try not to do that. That's family time.

Michelle Paver

Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.

Ernie Irvan

Having this inaugural event at MIS is a testimony to those living with brain injuries. I am truly appreciative of the support everyone has shown - especially those who have registered to walk and the sponsors who have joined me in this mission.

Nick Nolte

I can't get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I - in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade.

Mark Pagel

Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can't be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren't very different from other animals.

Harry Redknapp

He is coming in to learn. He's coming in to pick people's brains and I'm happy with that. But I am the manager and I pick the team and recommend the players.

Alfred Neuman

Today it takes more brains and effort to make out the income tax form than it does to make the income.

Chuck Hill

I think the analysts will now exclude more stuff than they would have otherwise. If I'm faced with all or none, I'm going to say all. If it's broken out, I'm going to be more reluctant to exclude the indirect costs.

John Gay

We are frustrated with the broken immigration system. It doesn't match the economic reality.

Mike Holmes

He may not have broken any law, but it seems to me there are some serious questions.

Will Estes

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

Vincent Van Gogh

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

Salman Rushdie

People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.

Ryan Reynolds

I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.

Wangari Maathai

When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.

Winston Churchill

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

Mary Taylor

The purpose of the forums is to stimulate thinking and discussion about how communities can incorporate innovation and technology as components of their economic growth strategies.

Craig Ellis

In terms of fiber-optic components and being the leader in that space, hands down, it's a wonderful company.

Merle Gilmore

In addition, we ended up paying, in some cases, some fairly significant premiums in order to be able to secure components on what was effectively a spot market in some components.

Gary Davis

The issue of high tech is a big one with many components and we really want to get it into the open and onto the agenda. These politicians do seem to grasp that there is an issue here, at least related to the people side, because I tend to split it into two ? the people side and the industry side.

Anthony Chan

The headline number is encouraging, but if you strip out the volatile components and look at core growth, it's telling you we're turning the corner, but we're not running around the corner.

Susan Lacy

American Masters ... I felt incredibly honored to be the first broadcaster approached. . . . We knew it was going to be an original film and a big film that had a lot of components to it.

Albert Lin

Some sectors, such as foundry, microchip packaging and components for LCD televisions that have better demand outlooks were still the market's leaders.

Ann McInerney

They are a good team watching them on film but it's even better in person. They have all the components you need to be a championship team.

Sen. Hanabusa

This is not an impact study. This is a baseline environmental study that has 17 components that have to be addressed to satisfy the law.

Mike Rippee

Kids can also just go on the computer and the Internet and get what they want. When I was growing up in Yerington 30 years ago, we didn't have any of those things.

Fred Rose

Whatever they end up doing as adults, they'll have to be highly technical and computer literate.

Paul Duca

We're on the computer e-mailing each other about trades and stuff. There's a lot of trash talking.

Richard P. Feynman

What I can't create I don't understand

Ian Pearson

Physical jobs will be done by robots and mental jobs will be done by smart computers.

John Palfrey

Intruders are now in your house without your permission. They entered through your computer to bombard you with sneaky pop-ups and install tracking software to spy on your every move and steal your most personal information.

John Taylor

I gave the idea to Josh and he just went with it. In 2001, he had most of the parts made. It's made with a lot of old computer parts.

Rev. Pfleger

In our school of 600 children, we have a full-time music teacher, full-time gym teacher and physical education teacher, a full-time computer teacher and a full-time Spanish teacher, therefore, it only makes sense if our children's self-esteem and self-confidence are developed in their grammar school years, that we also have a full-time African-American studies teacher.

Dana Harville

In our opinion, online ordering is the wave of the future. However, today, the vast majority of people pick up their telephone and not a computer keyboard to place their pizza order.

Ian Pearson

Physical jobs will be done by robots and mental jobs will be done by smart computers.

Charleen Scott

If Jewel Quest was a person, I would punch them in the effing face.

Larry Buchanan

I'm expecting to get a couple more years out of these computers.

Jessie Evans

I'm disappointed about having to start the conference on the road and then finish on the road. The schedule-makers have to get together because that shouldn't happen. Not with the size of the conference and the computers we have to work things out.

Bill Gates

The message that personal computers can do neat things, that software is great stuff, that there's an exciting opportunity here and Microsoft is involved in it, that's a worthwhile message for Microsoft to get out.

James Comey

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.

Grant Saligari

All in all it is a reasonably good story. The whole appliances, computers, electrical segment has been pretty resilient, and the franchise model they have got is a pretty robust one.

Grant Fairley

E-commerce businesses, even e-commerce specialists, have yet to realize that the WWW is first and foremost an emotional experience. Few websites reflect this important priority.

Matt Mullenweg

Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

Brian Selznick

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Joe Wright

Emma was the fairy godmother of the film; she gave wonderful advice.

Andrew Bogut

There's no way we're going to lose Game 3 and come back and win this thing. There's not going to be any fairy tales. We need to get Game 3.

Amos Oz

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

Sonya Hartnett

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

Marilyn Hacker

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Mignon McLaughlin

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

Douglas Jerrold

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Anton LaVey

Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.

William Wordsworth

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

Rob Bell

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Richard Rohr

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.

Samuel Rutherford

I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.

Samuel Rutherford

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

Wallace Stevens

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

William Cowper

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

Roseanne Barr

Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

Will Brown

They're going to play regardless of what the score is, and they'll probably play early.

Daryl Manning

There's a violation to have any sign in any homeowner's yard, regardless of what it says.

Jencarlos Canela

I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

Estee Lauder

I can understand the skepticism, particularly regarding Estee Lauder,

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

James Rubin

I don't know who talked first. Let's just stop it, okay?

William Devane

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

Shaul Goldstein

Our battle, ... is to try to stop it all.

Randy Kortokrax

If you want to win at the Coliseum, you've got to stop penetration, penetrate yourself and play half-court defense.

Frank Williams

I'm trying to be lenient here, ... but I've told you before to stop testifying.

Samuel Fuller

I'm trying to be a voice of reason. I'm not trying to stop them from developing.

Antero Niittymaki

I have to take the blame, too. I have to be able to stop some of them.