Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Timothy Noah

The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.

Ian Mckellen

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

Gale Harold

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

Garry Hynes

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

William Weld

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

Vincent Bugliosi

This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

Chuck Palahniuk

There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Colin Angle

Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It's gratuitous robotics!

David Crosby

I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And I don't collect the way Nash does. Nash has Duane Allman's guitar and Johnny Cash's guitar. I bought guitars because they sounded good. I played them, they sounded unbelievably good, and I couldn't resist.

Christien Meindertsma

I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products!

Vidya Balan

Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.

Donald Trump

I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.

Maximilian Schell

When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor.

Phil Collins

The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.

Phil Collins

I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

Matthew Modine

I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

Jim Cronley

We were sold out prior to Ivan. Then four buyers dropped out, and we gave them back their money. And we've got some people who bought lots and don't know when they will build.

John Marhefka

The overall mood of the team is frustration because we have put in a lot of work and effort into practices and games. Our youth and inexperience has shown up in some games, but we are playing a lot of tough teams in a very competitive conference.

Lonnie Roberts

The overall effort was great all season long, and now we've got a little taste of the playoffs, too.

Carl Rogers

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.

Antoine Lavoisier

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

Bill Vaughan

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

Bill Vaughan

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

Bill Vaughan

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

Gloria Trevi

The album, thank God, is a great effort that makes me proud, that has me thrilled.

Ken Slater

That was a tough one to lose. I really liked our effort for three quarters, and I saw a lot of good things, but we just got physically outmatched in the fourth quarter and we couldn't sustain things.

Tom Griffiths

We wanted to know if we were on the right track. It helped us emphasize some things more than others.

Al Groh

We had emphasized all week long that it was everybody's job in this game to find a way to win. What we put into it is for moments like this -- the satisfaction from accomplishment.

George H. W. Bush

I will tell you that I'm pleased with the last two days. We have made a good beginning. And I emphasize beginning, because there's a lot of work to do,

Marc Simoncini

We emphasize the process, not the end point. If people encounter a few new people thanks to our service, we have met those expectations. If they fall in love, that is a bonus.

Kim Lunneborg

We emphasize that every game. We think shots, shots, shots right off the bat, because we know we can play with a lead.

Alex Kube

We emphasize special teams in practice. That's why they're called that ? special teams ? because it's for special people. We work just as hard on special teams as we do offense and defense. You have to.

John Graler

We emphasize service and mission. They're getting it.

Dawn Seiler

We emphasized doing the things we do well. You can't go away from our strengths. When Pierre took away things, we went to our next option. The kids just wanted it (win) so much.

Ariel Sharon

We emphasized about the need for reform in the Palestinian Authority, and I think that's very important,

Rick Riordan

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?

Mark McKinnon

Now personally, I think the president should golf every day and never have a press conference. I want the leader of the free world to be as stress-free as possible. And if golf helps fade the psychic heat from the job, by all means tee it up often, Mr. President.

Francis Wacziarg

I'm still searching and I'm sure there are a lot many more Western operas with Indian themes that have faded into history,

David Reeves

One thing he can do better than most is jump. That (the fade pass) is always a good route for him.

Bob Stoops

I don't think so, ... He remembers those other 12 games. They didn't fade from his memory.

Rene Portland

With Michigan State, it was seven minutes to go in the game and we fade away. The other night (against Minnesota) with 2 1/2 minutes to go we were winning, then we faded away. So, the time that we are fading away is getting (smaller). We're making progress.

Tom Lee

We threw a fade route to No. 5. He made a great play.

Kyle Orton

I'd like to make teams pay for not taking me. Maybe that will fade eventually, but for now, it still stings.

W. S. Gilbert

Some of the families stay in touch, ... And some fade away and you never hear from them again.

Rubin Salter

That was the maids' and butlers' nights off.

Mike Herndon

We're not bad, but no way we thought we'd win 9-1. This was just one of those nights when everything worked out. We were fortunate.

Tom Renney

We'll have better nights than we had. We'll win again.

Charna Halpern

He was here two nights in a row.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Rachel Sklar

I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.

Heather Watts

There are nights when you are lucky enough to tap into something about yourself that you are unaware of and can't possibly control, and somehow, at that moment, other people can view it or sense it or feel it.

Esperanza Spalding

On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and over-the-top eclectic.

John Bernett

We know that we have players who could be at other schools scoring 20 points. For us, we are just here to win.

Michelle Snow

We have a lot of players on this team that can make shots and when you have your veterans that are not shooting (well),

Robbie Nichols

We will recognize our players at the end of the season.

Nicole Scott

We wanted to make sure their post players didn't score a lot inside. That was important for us.

Steve Bender

We've made tremendous progress. Our inexperienced post players have come long way, and our freshmen.

Urs Linsi

We have to make sure the players don't suffer from burnout.

Bobby Cox

Usually you have two players for one position,

Rich Rodriguez

Most of our players have never been in there before.

Ron Zook

You have to do what you feel like your players do best,

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Tiger Woods

We need to keep playing more in Ohio. It's that simple. We don't have enough tournaments here.

Kobe Bryant

We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.

Paul Eenhoorn

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Landon Donovan

We were getting slaughtered, ... We weren't playing well at all yet we're up, two-zero. But that's soccer.

Kevin Williams

We were still playing for a title, because we were playing for second.

Colby Armstrong

Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.

William Wise

It is inappropriate and without precedent to second-guess a pipeline's day-to-day operations,

Claude Debussy

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

Nancy Collins

Then, we have to have one or two (patients) before we get a Medicaid visit to get our Medicaid license, ... Everything is establishing a precedent as we go.

Frank Blake

We voted for you to vote on these things. This will set a precedent because anything that's done once can be done again.

Dror Etkes

This is a precedent, but unless there is a continuation it will remain a precedent without any context.

Bruce Fuller

The way to stop something like this is by setting the precedent of prosecution.

Don Cox

There's no precedent for doing what they did.

John Roberts

It is settled as a precedent of the court,

James Madison

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Kobe Bryant

They just have more sets now and more options. They are looser.

Shana Martin

I want to be the person who sets the curve.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

Angus MacMillan

I wouldn't want to put a top on it at the moment. It has still got a lot of wind in its sales.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Gary Hudson

For us to come out on top again, we've got to play hard, smart, and unselfishly.

Gary Linden

Going from underdog to top dog is exciting, but it comes with problems.

Gary Wright

We're on top of each other. It's very crowded.

Ed Burnsed

He is one of the top sprinters in the state.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.