Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sergei Prikhodko

A brief exchange of views on energy security is planned, in the light of the upcoming G-8 summit in St.Petersburg.

William Bryan

a brief address, in which he said that one of his chief reasons for wanting to go to Washington was that it was so near to Virginia.

E. Hicks

They gave us a brief synopsis of their interviews. They said they were going to go back and put their notes together,

Andrew Flintoff

It's Michael's team, I just need do carry that on for a brief time.

I. Stone

There were some brief conversations with city officials, and we all dropped the ball.

Elizabeth Watson

This is the only model that actually works -- that seems to sustain improvements rather than having just the brief dip in crime.

Maelle Gavet

There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.

Maurice Luque

It was some type of package that was described as looking like a small briefcase or a box.

Steve Swallow

As for the Beatles: I was very taken by them during their brief career. I was impressed most by the quality of their songwriting, and by George Martin's production. But their importance to me faded fairly quickly after they broke up, as my interests shifted. I think in the end I was much more decisively influenced by some of their influences, most particularly Motown.

Alan Paton

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

Mayor Espy

We want the people of Clarksdale to know we are neither broke nor nasty.

Chief Joseph

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Edith Wharton

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

Richard Edwards

We actually gave him a raise. That had been building up for a month or so. It wasn't scripted, unfortunately; he just got a little carried away. That wasn't his bass, so he was a little bummed out that he broke someone else's guitar.

Randy McMichael

The one thing that we did today is that we broke their will,

Mitch Daniels

We've already broke ground on three new plants and plan several more in the coming years,

J. J. Johnson

We struggled for a little while. Our team chemistry had broke down, but we got it back.

James Ingber

We just got sloppy and faded away. We played timid and really couldn't do much of anything.

Burt III

Cerberus has been in the lead in other supermarket sector bidding and has sometimes faded fast in the home stretch.

Janie Allen

But the Spencer mural has long since faded away, and they have put (up) a new mural.

Jack Kyser

One by one they faded away or were acquired.

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,

Matt Hasselbeck

I don't think he faded under pressure. I thought he made some really good plays, and I'm sure he'd tell you there's some plays he'd like to have back.

Alex Turner

Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.

Tom Davidson

In the past we've come out and done well, but then faded at the end of the half or the end of the game. We still need to put a (complete) game together, but we didn't give up many opportunities today.

Thomas Campbell

While memory watches o'er the sad reviewOf joys that faded like the morning dew.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Zach Errett

We wrestled fairly well today. We wrestled at the Bo Henry Tournament last week; we wrestled really well there. Today, we didn't wrestle as good as we could've and I think the guys realize that; I think they kind of figured out that there may have been a few matches we lost that we should've won.

Tom Davis

We're still in discussions with some of the other sports. Hockey, in our judgment, has a fairly weak system.

John Anania

We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly tight.

Casey Pace

We're hoping, of course, it's going to be fairly minimal since a lot of that fruit had already been picked.

Joe Blankenship

It's fairly valued now -- I wouldn't be selling it short,

Eddy Bresnitz

It's fairly unusual that we would do this.

Ray Velboom

It's fairly unusual for someone like this to go missing.

Pat Sajak

It's fairly low-key: 'Hey, it's Pat,' ... I can still shop and go on with my life.

Ravi Shankar

We spent the day before with him, and even then he looked so peaceful, surrounded by love. George has left so many precious memories and moments in all our lives which will remain with us forever.

Corey Brewer

When you turn on the TV, all you see is George Mason, so you can't really overlook them.

Tom Pecora

We're rooting for George Mason. I'm really getting a kick out of it.

Jerry Palm

The regular-season championship is going to mean something. Say Temple, Saint Joseph's or Xavier wins it, then that team plus George Washington could get in.

Tom Johnson

We?re going to make it so that if George Washington or Mrs. Folsom were to reappear, they would recognize the place.

Tom Izzo

We're going to hone in 95 percent of our time on George Mason. If you don't win the first one, you don't get to the second one. But if you get to the second one and you're not prepared and you don't get out of the weekend, I don't feel like that's where Michigan State is right now.

Mark Turgeon

We knew we were going to have to play a heck of a game. George Mason is a really tough team, and then trying to play them in this building. We just didn't have it tonight.

Whit Ayres

always underestimate George Bush, and they are still doing it.

David Elliot

They don't have much in the way of legal resources remaining other than a clemency petition to President George W. Bush.

Richard Boucher

that they are indeed raising these issues of the importance of getting back to the six-party talks.

Andrew Chesley

That's No. 1. It's probably impossible to overstate the importance of getting the Measure K renewal program.

Arthur Machen

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Catherine McAuley

A good beginning is of great importance.

Thomas John Barnardo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Herbie Hancock

Tradition can be negative though, if the importance of having roots outweighs the importance of searching for what's valuable in new things being presented.

Harold Phillips

Everyone understands the importance of this park to the facility.

M. Wolfe

This underscores the importance of the physician's endorsement of screening.

LL Cool

To he who much is given, much is required. That's the importance of this day,

Mike Holmgren

Where I am impressed even more with him this year is his pass protection,

Tom Dolde

They told him that he was their No. 1 player to recruit so that impressed him.

Michael Parker

At Freeport I had met a number of people who had done MBAs in the US and had been very impressed by their knowledge and understanding of business.

Robin S. Sharma

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles.

Andrew Neff

A year ago, I didn't know what to make of him. But I've been impressed with what I've seen.

Bob Feasel

That part I don?t worry about as much with this group. I was totally impressed with what we did tonight ? especially in the first half.

Heather Davis

People who haven't seen ceramics ... will be impressed with the size of some of the pieces. Some are huge.

Jack Cosgrove

Once we get them here, I think a lot of the young people are very impressed with what they see.

Gordon Banks

Anything is possible. I've been very, very impressed with him.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Joan Maloney

They didn't want to be influenced in any way; the work has to stand alone.

Marcelo Porto

The movement was influenced by the rise of the dollar.

David Buckner

Nothing indicates that any member of the jury was influenced by anything going on outside.

Josh Trank

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Bryan Robson

I don't think it influenced the game, but the referee should have started the match without them.

Billy Sherwood

I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.

E. P. Thompson

I would be naive to think that it's not going to be heavily influenced by a lot of things he's taught me.

George Zoffinger

It is very important for interests to be disclosed. I support the new policy and I think it is a very positive thing.

Martha Stewart

This is what truly interests us, why we all come to work every day ... our passion is and always should be to make life better,

Doug Booher

It's a wide-open system because people have a lot of different interests ... we want to try to have something for everyone.

Dennis Woodward

Australia's trying to tread a tightrope between our various trading interests and our strategic alliances.

Andrew Wheat

The sky's the limit on what these interests will spend on this fight.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Special interests don't like me in Sacramento because I'm always kicking their butts.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Theodore Roosevelt

Public right comes first and private interests second.

Sen. Argenziano

The state will have a better procurement practice in safeguarding the interests of the state and the people.

Julian Baggini

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charlie Munger

See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.

Bill Belichick

All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there's a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It's a case-by-case basis. Each one's different. There's no set formulas.

William Shakespeare

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

Camille Paglia

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.

Carl Levin

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

David Ayer

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

Richard Martin

The thing we had a lot of requests for is American flags. Everyone wants those. We're out of them now but we're trying to get more as quickly as possible.

Marjorie Brody

Don't tiptoe. Everyone sees you. Just get set up quickly and quietly and get ready to be part of the meeting.

Thomas p Kempis

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Jon Gruden

We had to do this the right way and get well quickly in the draft,

Ozzie Guillen

We're going to use him as quickly as we can.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Charles Caleb Colton

A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

Charles Dickens

Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

Charles Spurgeon

Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.

Alan Watts

But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

Alan Bennett

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

Alan Arkin

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.

Akshay Kumar

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.