Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Jordan

He just said, 'OK, Coach,' and that was the extent of it. It was a very brief conversation, and he was agreeable. I'm sure he's going to be professional. He's always played well under these circumstances. He's always responded the right way on the floor.

Kacey Musgraves

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

Nina Simmons

The night of the event, we brief all the security, all the police who are there, and the event staff who are working, and talk to them about what's going to happen, and what everybody's responsibilities are in the event that it does happen.

Stephen Phillips

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

John Felmy

It may be possible to push production higher for very brief periods, but the decision to do so must be made by individual companies, which will not compromise the safety of workers.

James Gleick

For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message that passed through their wires. Millions of telegrams - in fireproof safes. Imagine the possibilities for history!

Naomi Wolf

For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.

K. A. Applegate

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

Liu Jianchao

Anyway, I can brief you on China's position on Sudan.

Matthew Prior

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Matthew Prior

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

Charlotte Smith

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

William Congreve

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.

Virgil

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Abraham Cowley

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Matthew Arnold

It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!

David Piercy

I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, and we'll see where he takes me.

Tomas Kaberle

I talked to Jeff right away between periods. Thank God it got his helmet first.

Terry Gilliam

He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick.

Gary Sheffield

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

Yiddish Proverbs

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Samir Geagea

God willing we may be done with this issue before the (March 14) deadline.

Mark McNulty

Golf is a very humbling game. I just hope the golf gods will be good to me again.

Larry Parrish

God, that is a long time ago. It's not everything, but it's a start.

Susan Yolen

It is hard to get a grasp on how U.S. policy is working in another country. We and he were interested in learning more so we could be better advocates.

Leonard Peikoff

If you grasp what totalitarianism is, you would never talk about the rights of the father. In that kind of society, he can only watch his son die. You say he needs a father; he needs a life first.

Sara Harrison

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

Picabo Street

I only hope I get to watch the women's downhill. I think I'll still be able to grasp the sensation even if I'm only living it vicariously.

Chris Burke

I'm just starting to grasp it, because these are the types of homers you always see replayed. And now one of them is mine.

M. Scott Peck

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

Carl Sagan

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Jack Santora

It's hard to grasp what's really going on.

Marty Hurney

It's just one piece of the puzzle. It's a guideline, but obviously you're looking for players that can come in and grasp the system you're teaching and what you want to do.

William Wordsworth

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Rod McKuen

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

Samuel Johnson

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

Thomas Shepard

I know it is the misery of men; they can make nothing of this till they feel it.

John C. Reilly

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

Louis C. K.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Eric Swanson

I think in the long run, it'll pay off,

Harry Anderson

What you get when you come here is you pay way too much for my stuff, but you get it signed by me, demonstrated by me,

Josh Thomas

He really works with you and pays attention.

Darren Clarke

He said, 'You do know which TV tower I was talking about, don't you? I said, 'Yeah, the one on the right.' And he said, 'No, it was the one on the left.' It was all my fault. I didn't really pay that much attention.

Bryan Colangelo

He's a thug, and I want him out. He's always been a thug. I'll do everything in my power to see that he pays for it.

Bill Dudley

I think you have to be somewhat skeptical about the payroll number.

Keith David

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

Tyra Grant

He does a lot of different things for me. He pays for me going to camp. He's a very big part of my life.

Woody Hayes

You don't get many chances to pay back what's been done for you. Take them.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

John Hope Franklin

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

Bible Bible

And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.

Rush Limbaugh

Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable.

Ivica Dacic

Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

Anish Kapoor

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.