Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Willie Mitchell

Knowing it's a rival game, we knew they were going to play way above themselves. We just didn't get the job done.

William Shakespeare

Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.

Rachel Platten

I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.

Robert Frost

Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.

Robert Putnam

It can be heard even above the roar of a helicopter, which is important if you want to tell people anything. That's the problem with bullhorns ? over a helicopter, they can't really understand what you're saying.

Dan Shultis

He knows the game so well, he's above and beyond any player on the floor. He's almost like having a college player on the floor.

Richard Butler

What we've got to be certain about above all is whether it came from a country supporting these terrorists as a matter of policy, such as Iraq, which we know has made this stuff, ... And there's a credible report not fully verified that they may indeed have given anthrax to exactly the group that did the World Trade Center.

Scott Smith

Here at KGH we do between 2000 and 3000 mammograms per year, and each year we find five to ten cancers. According to the above national statistics, we can expect to find one - to two additional cancers per year, and find them earlier - in Stage I rather than in stage IV or V.

Norman Rockwell

I would take the wrong approach for a teacher, I guess... But there was always someone in a class who would raise an objection to my way. They'd want to get into an argument with me. And I was no good at arguing. So I figured if that was what teaching was like, I better leave it to someone who knows how to maneuver an argument. I'd stick to what I knew-painting. So I didn't stay long at the Los Angeles County Artists School.

Dawn Hudson

He is the ultimate independent filmmaker. His talent and his contributions to cinema make this year a true milestone for the Los Angeles Film Festival as a world-class event.

Stephen Rodrick

Legends like Jim Murray at the 'Los Angeles Times' and Shirley Povich at the 'Washington Post' were the most beloved guys at their papers. They'd write a cherished column for 30 years, and that was it. There was nothing else to do, no higher job to attain.

Dennis Taylor

There are so many great teams in the Los Angeles area, ... After I retired (from UCLA) and got into coaching club diving, it was like starting from scratch. It's harder to get back on top now, the sport is so good.

Antonio Villaraigosa

has worked to relieve traffic congestion, reduce the impact of development on city streets and ensure the safety of the millions of drivers who commute on Los Angeles streets.

Cassie Johnson

I went to Los Angeles for a photo shoot. I went on 'Cold Pizza.' They did my makeup and hair.

Brad Smith

In the next few years, we're looking to cluster stations and vehicles in the Los Angeles and New York areas.

Cindy Sheehan

I plan on returning to Camp Casey very soon, but while I'm in Los Angeles please respect that my sister, brother and I are here focusing on our mother, while the moms in Crawford focus on Bush, ... The president is not off the hook.

Mary Lambert

Being in Los Angeles is this brutal awakening, where I feel not good enough as soon as I walk into a room, and I'm wearing the wrong thing, or I don't have enough make up on. It's all about image.

Nigel Barker

I'm happy to help Crest Whitestrips on their mission to inspire photographers everywhere to capture smile moments and would encourage aspiring photographers to express themselves through their photos.

Charlie Ebersol

Every week, I take two phone calls or meetings with an aspiring producer or director.

Gene Luen Yang

At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.

Chris Rolfe

It's a place I grew up watching games at and aspiring to play at so I think when I come here I got an extra little boost. My family's here. I don't know if that has anything to do with it but I think I am just fortunate to get the chances. It is just a great feeling to come to play here. It was a great effort by Chad (Barrett) and he deserves a lot of credit on my goal.

D. J. MacHale

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

Jesus Chavarria

Empowering the next generation of Hispanic women is a key priority for the U.S. Hispanic economy, and I can't think of a more inspirational and empowering event for aspiring Latina students than the Woman of the Year Awards.

John Leonard

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

Anne Mulcahy

Digital publishing technology is opening new doors to new authors, ... The Xerox Aspiring Authors program recognizes the people who conceive the ideas, create the stories, drive the new business models, and leverage the new technology that is creating a sea change in digital publishing.

Douglas Massey

What happens in Jamaica today is that the elites stay because they have the power. It's the upwardly mobile and aspiring professional classes that leave.

David Brown

If you look at what's going on around there, you could be a lot more dense on that property. Theoretically, you now have another opportunity for one that reaches the sky, which would really be impressive on the skyline.

Andrew von Eschenbach

Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate.

Danny Mason

It will feel less dense because of all the open space. It saves the taxpayers a fortune - we're talking millions.

John Lydon

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

Mark Willis

This overall figure is down significantly from previous years, probably due to the fact that there was a dense fog during the a.m. hours, and also due to the fact this has been a very mild winter.

Chris Ware

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

Michael Cohen

Properly done, a dense urban use on the site would go a long way toward meeting the housing goals of the city.

Rob Stillwell

Five miles of dense housing, especially in this town, is an extremely large distance.

Robin Weigert

The Deadwood dirt they painted on us with powder. The air always smelled of livestock and something burning, gave a sooty, dense feel to the air. It was a mixture of odors.

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

Dusty Baker

He wanted to play. He didn't want to be out too long because then you lose your stroke.

Brian Williams

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

Daniel Briere

Having such a long losing streak, it made us take a look at everything and make sure we made the adjustments. Hopefully, we realize that. I really meant it when I said, 'This is going to make us a better team.

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.

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.

Joe Johnson

I thought we were on the verge, but a loss is a loss.

Paula Carico

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

Eric Steinbach

He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes.

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

Chris Phillips

He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy.

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Sheldon Brown

He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Yoandy Garlobo

We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .

Trevor Doughty

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

Mark Fallon

I thought they were great, but I didn't think much about them until this year when another teacher mentioned remembering them.

Mark Twain

I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

Ned Vizzini

Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and laid in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.

Martin Amis

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

Katy Perry

I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth.

Julie Garwood

When you brush your teeth, I'll squeeze the toothpaste.

Paul Valery

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.

John Gardner

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

Carly Patterson

They shouldn't have to worry about toothaches or their teeth hurting. There are more things to worry about than your teeth hurting.

David Mellor

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Princess Diana

I'm as thick as a plank.

Luis Suarez

I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.

Dave Craig

We also had to sandblast the floor, which is a 2-inch thick tile.

Jeremy Gilley

I always thought I was really thick.

J. K. Rowling

How thick can you get?

Bryce Dallas Howard

I'm a little Type A, and I have this really thick binder whenever I do a movie where I make a million notes, and in between takes, I'm checking it out.

Marco Rubio

Just like Trump Tower, he [Donald Trump] must have hired a foreign worker to do his own tweets.

Phillip Clark

That tower is something you only see on manned launches,

Al-Waleed bin Talal

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Clive James

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

Thomas Gray

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

Stephen King

I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

Philippe Petit

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested.

Chris Hardman

When I was 4 years old, I got to see that tower being put up, and it's been my life. This was a big tragedy today.