Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wade Leppert

I've been competing since eighth-grade. It gives me the ability to fight off blocks and overpower people.

Scott Linehan

This is an exciting sign for us. This particular player became available, fortunately for us, just prior to the weekend (in) a big need area for us. He's going to fit a big part of what we're trying to get done here, and add some veteran leadership, as well as his obvious playing ability on the defensive front.

Jim Nussle

This is huge when it comes to our ability to come together with an almost three-month jump we'll have on Democrats.

David Rohrer

This is a tragedy and would be on any day, but its occurrence on Christmas Day only seems to highlight our sense of loss and makes our ability to comprehend that much more difficult.

Marc Ganis

This is a testament to Dan Snyder's ability to run and manage an entertainment-based business. His success with the Redskins has been nothing short of phenomenal. It shows he knew what he was doing when he paid a then-record $800 million for this franchise.

Bobby Clark

This is not an easy trip for Notre Dame soccer, but it's a trip I think we have got the ability to take something positive out of it.

Judy Shaubach

This isn't about beating Central or any other team in our league. This is about being committed, focused and mature enough to play to your ability every single inning. If we do that, the wins will take care of themselves.

Tom Drohner

This is probably the best infield I've had. Our infield has the ability to make so many big-time plays.

Tom Brokaw

This is so unfair and so outrageous and so maddening it's beyond my ability to express it in socially acceptable terms. So we'll just reserve our thoughts and our prayers for our friend and her family.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Dan Netto

It's never really been a place where we allowed the public access.

Khaled Fadl

They are not allowed to deviate from the curriculum that the government sets for them.

John Simley

They've been very well received with shoppers and people don't have problems with the new technology. We wanted to give customers a choice at the front end so that they could pay and leave quickly. The self-checkout has also allowed us to move staff away from registers and improve service in other areas of the store.

Shamil Tarpishchev

I took up tennis only because we were allowed to play soccer after our regular training.

Kyle Boller

It was a really good win. My teammates, my guys, they allowed me to do it. My job is to put points on the board and score, and that's what we did tonight.

Candice Accola

I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.

Ruby Rose

When I first started in the industry back home in Australia at 18, there was a lot of push and shove as to how I should dress, if I was allowed to cut my hair short, if I had too many tattoos. If I didn't get a campaign, or if I didn't get a role, they would always come back to, 'Well, she dresses like a boy.'

Martin O'Malley

Maryland first allowed early voting during the 2010 primary elections. In November 2012, more than 16 percent of registered voters in Maryland cast their ballots during the early voting period, and some polling places, particularly in our larger jurisdictions, witnessed early voting lines that were hours long.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Rocco Calo

This isn't about money because Sikorsky has plenty. The company has said it wants to cut our health care to teach us a financial lesson. That's not right and it won't fly.

Greg Lewis

This is something we will look more at (in the future). There are developers out there who care about the community.

Rep. Flores

This is something we have to take care of this year.

Cary Leahey

This is one of the days when nobody is really going to care because the employment report was definitely weak.

Gary Gait

This is obviously the first step. You can't get a home game without making the playoffs, and we took care of that.

Jamie Fellner

The U.S. takes more care killing dogs than people. Just because a prisoner may have killed without care or conscience does not mean that the state should follow suit.

Anne Morgan

You need to take care of the kids and the room temperature, ... For many school districts, they've been doing conservation for so long, it's hard to cut any more.

Elliot Cohen

This is cleaning house and taking care of business. The way the system is supposed to work.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Dylan Thomas

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

Dalai Lama

To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.

Anne Bradstreet

The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

Anne Sexton

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

D. H. Lawrence

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

D. H. Lawrence

Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?

D. H. Lawrence

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

D. H. Lawrence

O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

Trilby Lundberg

This is really a resumption of the 22-cent decline since the peak price, back on May 21,

Bobby Douglas

Trent will be OK. There is no reason to risk anything when the Big 12 meet is two weeks away.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Mary Ellen Mark

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

Lisa Kleypas

I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.

Paulo Coelho

Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need.

Marissa Mayer

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

Marjane Satrapi

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

Nick Vujicic

Sometimes we need to get over ourselves and actually realize that sometimes, God has a better plan. God's ways are higher than ours.

John Ruskin

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Ken Wilber

Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth, and we are introduced to the mysteries of the deep, the call of the within, the infinite radiance of a splendor that time and space forgot

Mark Twain

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Mary Roach

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

Natascha McElhone

Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

Muhammad Iqbal

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

Naomi Shihab Nye

I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

Rachel Dratch

All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

Scott McCloud

Space does for comics what time does for film!

Lin Yutang

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.