Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lana Stanley

Our temporary space on First Street is actually a beautiful location, and we are happy to be here. We look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones as well.

Ruth Warrick

Orson was a beautiful man, he was not only a genius as a director, an actor, a writer but as a person he was bigger than life and I don't mean just in girth. He was a wonderful, wonderful mind and a wonderful disposition.

Kelly Packard

The shot was intended to go to her. Becky made a beautiful but difficult pass. Ruth caught it, had somebody hanging on her but hit the shot.

Kathy Miles

That this event took place this year and brought such a crowd is so good for the beautiful people of New Orleans.

Aravind Adiga

Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.

Ben Okri

What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings? The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things.

Barbara Kingsolver

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

Bai Ling

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

Bai Ling

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Jason Shirey

It was a long day. There was a lot of character to come back. To lose 3-2 and not lay down ù these kids have done stuff like this in summer league.

Scott Adams

You should always stay in character, ... Don't go up to your friends and say, 'What's up.'

Brandon Lee

You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says.

Brandon Routh

I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know.

Brandon Sanderson

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

Azim Premji

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

Ayn Rand

Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so would say.' You have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

R. Robinson

So often space is wasted, or dead, in a house which the owners consider too small. First, you need to take away the name of the room, and then the space is liberated for a variety of new uses.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Nancy L. Johnson

This is not a play court, ... I would consider it unethical for you to raise questions without a factual basis.

Scott Carney

This is probably the first time I have considered it.

Patty Murray

All are considered money and all goes toward the grant,

Gavin Graham

You're still paying cold, hard cash, but because the product is considered better, it's counted as a price-cut.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Laura Martin

There are very few executives who can be a No. 2 guy for 20 years and then suddenly be comfortable making big, empire-changing decisions five months later, and this is one of those guys.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Tynan

This is going to be a difficult year, probably worse than 2005.

John Breaux

This is a problem. This is a very difficult population to get to.

Buzz Hargrove

This is not the richest settlement ... There will be moderate improvements in most areas. I think it is a responsible response by Ford Motor Co. in some of the most difficult times that we've faced as an industry, which means our union has to face it as well.

Bobby Ross

Zac is turning some difficult plays into big plays.

Brian Tracy

Sometimes you can defuse a difficult situation simply by being willing to understand the other person. Often all that people need is to know that someone else cares about how they feel and it attempting to understand their position.

Eric Close

The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Ernie Els

Yesterday I said it would be difficult and it showed today,

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Tom Schrader

We had such big gains yesterday that it is not unusual for us to consolidate a little bit. Then, oil's down but gasoline is up and that is counterbalancing each other. The economic news we had this morning was less than inspiring.

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Lisa Murray

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Dianne Cox

Special education kids are always going to struggle with that accountability piece because special education kids are in the program because they have learning disabilities,

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Jordan

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Benito Mussolini

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

Elizabeth Warren

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

Benjamin Disraeli

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no education like adversity.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Alexander Hamilton

It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Robert Hartwig

New Orleans is what it is because the federal government made it that way. And what it is today -- underwater.

Neal Fried

If it does happen, it'll be over time. It's not going to be like losing 1,000 oil industry jobs in Anchorage or even 1,000 federal jobs.

Harry Lee

If the federal government would have responded as quickly as Wal-Mart, we could have saved more lives.

David Fine

If the ruling is simply that nothing in federal law prohibits mid-decade redistricting, that will not help them.

Bruce Kennedy

If this (the discrimination decision) was made by a federal court, and not a federal agency, we might look at it differently,

Gregg Downer

Sometimes you have to go toe-to-toe with them, they force you to play fast. It was just kind of like a heavyweight fight and we couldn't really slow them down, whoever gets that 15th-round punch is going to win.

Kurt Russell

Sometimes they did end up in fights, ... At one point there were four fights going on, and Ryan Walter just threw his hands up and said 'I can't stop them.'

Eric Esch

I've never had a fixed fight that I know of.

Steve Gross

The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard.

Frank Maloney

These are the type of fights Scott Harrison likes,

John Barrymore

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run

Brandon Lee

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

Brandon Sanderson

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

Boris Spassky

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Shepard Fairey

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

O. Henry

The thing that gets me the most was that there were so many good shots.

English 20th Century Proverbs

The rich man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter.

Kristin Gore

I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.

Tim Federle

You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.

Teddy Pendergrass

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

Robert Hoffman

Each week gets tougher and tougher. But this was very big for me because I got pinned here last year (in the final), and it?s good to come back and win where you lost before.

Chris Spillane

Every time he steps onto the ice, he gets the job done. He doesn't get a lot of ice time, but every time he does, he does a super job.

Jim Walden

Well, I don't know what they do on the west side of the state, but over here whenever it gets dark, we just turn on our lights.

Rashad Anderson

People say we may lose this tournament because of lapses. It's not happening.

Larry Nicks

Originally, we were going to lose tennis but we're one of two schools with tennis courts. So we may end up with tennis and give up something else.

Carmelo Anthony

You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that.

Ingrid Seward

The only power they have is by the respect that the people have for them, and if people lose that respect they have nothing.

Sandra Gordon

The people of New Orleans have lost so much; we don't want to lose this.

Bob Hamley

You find out more about people when you lose than you do when you're winning. We're trying to find our identity.

Jay Hakkinen

There's just rules to what you're doing. No matter what's happening, you need to be aware, and if you lose that awareness, you shouldn't have a rifle in your hand.

Donald Trump

If you hang around with losers you become a loser

Robert Higgs

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Rep. Chalk

My whole view is that we can't legitimately look at property tax reform if we don't look at all these things.

Hank Klumpp

My property value has been stolen from me and my family.

Mark Gottlieb

The development rights of the ... property predate the ordinance.

Carlos Gutierrez

Theft of intellectual property is not tolerated and will not be tolerated.

Bill Swanson

Each property seems to be independent of the other.

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

H. P. Lovecraft

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

Terence McKenna

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Don Stewart

Are we in violation of any state statutes?

Steve Kendall

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Robert Hansen

The state is already telling us what to teach

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Hugh Hopper

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

Joy Fielding

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

Charles Bukowski

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Dennis Tomasevicz

The town of Shelby has just been unreal.

Dolly Parton

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Mitch Albom

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

Nikolai Gogol

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

Mason Cooley

I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

Lou Barletta

I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.

Chris Isaak

I put music on and I drive around town.

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 Pitt

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

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jamie Dimon

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.