Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cross

As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy.

David Holmes

As a team we have the ability to win a lot of races, including most of the relays, but we don't really have the squad depth to challenge UMBC and Stony Brook.

Tom LaSorda

As a supplier, an ability to operate in multiple geographic locations simultaneously is a competitive edge.

Steve Jennings

As a staff, we are extremely pleased with the talent and ability of this year's class. There is great potential in the group and we expect them to push the level of the squad immediately.

Eric Kadooka

As a sophomore, for him to pitch well in this league is a credit to himself. He's worked hard to physically be able to (do well) and more so with his ability to throw strikes in tough situations.

Steven Aftergood

As a society we seem to be losing our ability to rationally debate complicated policy decisions. Secrecy aggravates the problem by excluding people from the debate, or by narrowing their frames of reference. Nothing less than the future of American democracy is at stake.

Debora Spar

As a society, we need to think about what fairness means. Is the ability to reproduce a basic human right? Is it part of medical care? And does it extend to all people, regardless of their age, sexual preference, and health condition? Once we get even a rough consensus around this issue (even if it is forged at a state level) we can begin to craft policies that make sense. Where should we draw the line on what kinds of children people can create, and what kinds of technology they can employ? We've already said no to reproductive cloning.

Michael Wallace

As AOL continues to expand onto non-PC services, we believe their ability to create seamless integration between their core PC service and new services like AOL TV will be key to AOL Anywhere's success,

Sean Mackey

As an example, we asked them to think about changing the meaning of the pain. Instead of thinking of it as a terrible experience, to think of it as something relatively pleasant. Then the patients were turned loose. Over time, subjects showed an increased ability to change their brain and by doing so to modulate their pain.

Don Bishop

Another thing that sets us apart from most lending institutions, is at MNB you can borrow up to 90 percent of the value of the home and not have to pay for Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI), which is a great savings on the monthly payment amount, ... We also encourage people concerned with their credit situation to come in and speak with us; our lending decisions are not based on credit scoring only.

Robinson Jeffers

A severed hand Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken.

Edgar Allan Poe

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy a limitless succession of Universes. Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

Burt Cohen

As Americans, we have a responsibility to say enough is enough. We will not sit quietly by as they tear apart our constitution. ... We will make noise.

John Sweeney

The bottom line is that our health care system is broken, but it didn't just split open. Big companies like Wal-Mart are pulling it apart and profiting at taxpayers' expense.

Dick Muir

The Bulls will have a positive approach to the game as well. The less we try tear each other apart and the more rugby we play, the better.

Brendon Clark

The boys had a plan and it fell apart in the final 500 yards. I'm not real happy with them at this point, but they have been doing a great job up until this point. Today was a very important developmental step for us and it fell apart. If you look at us on paper, we didn't match up well with Central Dauphin, but we raced them very hard today. Over the last 500 meters, we just didn't have what they did.

Ashley Giles

a very good trip for team bonding because there wasn't a lot to do apart from watching films and talking.

Judy Anderson

Our concepts for the Hilton are innovative and will be trend-setting in the hospitality industry. We look forward to providing the Hilton property with a unique and recognizable uniform program that will truly set them apart in an increasingly competitive industry.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Antisthenes

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Jane Hamilton

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Anthony Trollope

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

Connie Sellecca

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

Susan B. Anthony

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan B. Anthony

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Tracy McMillan

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

Juvenal

Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.

Daniel Handler

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

Blaise Pascal

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Elie Wiesel

I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!

Clive Barker

Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to be tears or nothing I'm afraid. That's all I've got left to tell you see: tears, tears, tears.

Anna Wintour

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Aesop

Much outcry, little outcome.

Aeschylus

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Aleister Crowley

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.