Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Leslie Brown

To me, it's interesting that they won't release it. What are they afraid of?

Elliot Morley

We should have an open mind about the kind of levers that we apply and not be afraid to think the unthinkable.

Ken Bacon

We think that the Operation Southern Watch and Northern Watch have been able to debilitate Saddam Hussein's air defenses quite a lot ... For one thing, we think that he's largely afraid to use his top of the line air defense systems, for fear of losing them to our patrolling airplanes.

Lynda Carter

was afraid of not living up to what people thought I was.

Susie Wiles

We are very oversubscribed to both Thursday and Friday of this series so I'm afraid we cannot accommodate you this week.

Mike Kopp

They'll be doing a lot of interviews with city officials, businesses that have located there and even businesses that have looked at Franklin and passed for whatever reason. All that goes into a model to slice and dice it and come up with target industries that would make sense.

Brett Gallagher

It's always been the case of something you suspect but have never been able to prove. Earnings seem improbably smooth when you look at the businesses of the company.

Gary Rodkin

As we sell these assets, we will scale back our related corporate and shared services infrastructure to ensure that it is the right size for our businesses going forward. We expect a number of people directly involved in these operations to be employed by the new owners or offered other jobs within ConAgra Foods.

Karen Mahon

Yahoo is not planning to require payments for businesses or organizations to send e-mail to Yahoo users. Companies can continue to send e-mail to Yahoo e-mail users at no cost in exactly the same way they always have.

Lynn Reaser

Overall inflation remains quite benign. Companies selling to consumers and businesses have limited pricing power.

Sheryl Sandberg

I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all.

Vivek Wadhwa

I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.

Tony Crescenzi

The question is -- and this is why the market hasn't reacted too negatively to the durable goods report -- is whether businesses ... will continue to spend given the risks to consumer spending posed by high energy prices.

Ron Andruff

.travel is now a permanent part of the foundation of the World Wide Web. As travel and tourism businesses register their .travel domains they are not only reshaping the next generation Internet but making history by playing their role in this defining moment in the evolution of travel industry.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Abraham Lincoln

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

Abraham Lincoln

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

Ani Difranco

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

Andrew Napolitano

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

Andrew Napolitano

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Vince Young

To get him this victory, we love playing for a guy like that.

Tony Bethel

With him making plays like that, and guys being able to get open, we are tough to beat. He stepped up like a senior should.

Justin Cage

With him being on the floor, he's a lot bigger, a guy that can get in there and rebound. B.J.'s ... going to be aggressive. That's what we need ... off the bench.

Buck Showalter

With guys like Brad, they're going to trust their track record. They're going to get there if you stay with them.

Bobby Crosby

With Richie going out, a lot of people thought it would hurt us. But we have a lot of guys who can shut them down. It was impressive. We know if we have a guy hit, we have somebody else who can step up and get the job done.

Les Robinson

You have to be a poker player and be able to read whether a guy is really interested or not.

Jeff Pentland

You have to be able to run well in the No. 2 spot. With Ichiro on base, the No. 2 guy will take pitches, so he's going to have to be able to hit well with two strikes. I think we've got guys who can do that.

Brian Billick

You have to talk to Ozzie about that one. If he's the highest rated guy on the board, we'll take him.

Kyle Lowry

You heard about it all the time. It was always sold out in here so I couldn't get tickets.

Kary Moss

We haven't heard of jails taping what should be confidential conversations. That's wrong.

Bill Cotter

That's the very first I've heard of that.

Richard Auletta

That's unequivocal. There's been all sorts of speculation by all sorts of analysts who have never heard the word accountability. People can speculate all they want, but we made a very simple statement in our press release.

Brenda Jackson

I thought I was dreaming, ... I heard a really loud bang.

David Chase

He heard us hum maybe three notes and he started humming the whole song. Why he knows it, why people know it, I couldn't tell you. But they really do.

Kelli Johnson

Playing as much as I was, then going from that to not playing every day for the first time in my life was pretty frustrating. I didn't really know what was going on, I never really heard anything. I'm shocked.

Drew Mitchell

I really didn't know how to react when I heard that,

Mike Watkins

I had heard that may be happening, but until I saw it myself, I didn't think too much about it, but then when I saw her application, I was pretty happy,

Petter Solberg

What can we do? Loeb just keeps taking every stage from us and no-one can keep up.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Bill Buckley

Maybe a little spit here and a little spit there.

Nick Fazekas

Maybe a little bit. He (Southall) got me so deep. I had to show I could do it at the other end.

Pat Verbeek

Maybe a little bit. But I played on the edge. In today's NHL, you can't play on the edge. You end up in the penalty box.

Gary Gaetti

Maybe a 'good morning' when he walked by once.

Badia Aref

Maybe the interrogations have come to an end. I don't know.

J. R. Moehringer

Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.

Bob Kemp

Now there's a view: Maybe we want to keep our special relationship with America, but have a second option as well.

Carlos Queiroz

Next season is another story and maybe then we can open up that possibility.

Burt Reynolds

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Brad Gomez

You have to show you have money before you can get money.

Dustin Hoffman

Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.

Donald Trump

Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.

Alfred Marshall

The love for money is only one among many.

Don Ameche

She meant it as a compliment.

Don Marquis

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Andy Warhol

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Thomas Sowell

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Christopher Dodd

This ought not to be a controversial proposal,

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Vin Scully

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

Stephanie Mills

Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.

Rumi

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

Tom Berenger

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders

Todd Helton

We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.

Shane Claiborne

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

John von Neumann

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Ambrose Bierce

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

Ambrose Bierce

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

Alice Miller

Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

Alice Miller

The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

Albert Camus

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.