Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Carlton Cuse

The show is the mother ship, but I think with all the new emerging technology, what we've discovered is that the world of Lost is not basically circumscribed by the actual show itself.

Jonathan Kozol

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

John Crowley

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

Greg Lukianoff

Real harassment is a real problem, but the AAUW conflates harassment with any expression deemed sexually 'offensive' and thus endangers free expression while trivializing actual harassment.

Sam Stovall

The rotation has more to do with defensiveness and dividend yield, than with the actual quality of the investments themselves.

Robert Porter

I've never seen an actual gas explosion like this before.

Mike Chung

I've seen advertisements where they say 'this is the price minus this tax credit.' It's not an actual discount, but to some buyers they see it as a discount.

Bill Verbeten

I've said it since the beginning of the year. We might not have the state champions we had last year, but we're as good a team, an actual team, as I've ever coached.

David Rodgers

People cruise around with their kids and their grandchildren - it's a family-type event.

Morten Anderson

I've seen him a lot during the years, ... usually during those kicker competitions in Hawaii or Fort Lauderdale. We were even on a cruise together a long time ago. I was single. I think he was engaged. I can't remember what we talked about.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've never been on a cruise.

Sandra Dials

I was scheduled to go on a cruise in January.

Jim Larson

If we don't dredge every year, the cruise ships won't be able to tie up.

Jason Statham

I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.

Brian Rolle

But I don't think we're as focused as last year. Last year, we knew what we had to do. This year, since we know we won the championship, everybody is like 'Oh, we're going to cruise along.' I'm not saying everybody is loafing but everybody is not giving that extra effort. Last year, we played every game like it was our last.

Anthony Amero

Mike says he's taken more cruises with me than he has with his wife. Which is true.

Ken Jr.

Nah, he wanted to talk to me about the cruise that was canceled. The White Sox or a trade? All he said was that there is nothing to report.

Anthony Foxx

Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Dan Harmon

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Mignon McLaughlin

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

Jack London

I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen

Herman Melville

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Henry A. Kissinger

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

John Green

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

Micky Arison

It's not easy to take three ships out of service.

Terry Pratchett

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Samuel Liles

We're a small congregation, but we're not going to let this turn us around.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Lance Henriksen

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

Michael Myers

I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number.

Michael Keaton

Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.

Hillary Clinton

Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the jobs in America.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jane Jacobs

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.