Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

John Sharpe

Back then, the big national holding companies were the bad guys and the little small, sort of renegade shops were the outlaw, good guys. They wanted to maintain that outlaw perspective, but they wanted to see how far they could take it.

Al Wilson

Back in my second year I had a dislocated shoulder and a separated shoulder. That was probably the hardest time I've had to play. Trying to play middle linebacker with two bad shoulders was extremely tough.

Steve Manguso

Athletically, he can play with anyone. He sometimes takes bad shots, but he works hard and is really quick.

Dave Rose

At his press conference, Wade Phillips said that he'd feel really, really bad not being the coach of the Denver Broncos if they only fired bad coaches. But they fire good coaches everyday.

Marcellus Wiley

As long as there was an NFL game on, especially the one Tennessee was in, it hurt bad to watch.

Tom Bettag

As long as the quality is there, ... a different kind of broadcast is not necessarily a bad idea.

Bill Rhodes

As long as the government is of the opinion that it's going to resolve this problem, than I think the market's sense is that this is going to be a mess, but it's something that will be cleaned up eventually. But if we lose the political will to sustain this fight, you're going to see the market react in a very bad way.

Anne Worcester

She's as composed and graceful and confident as I've seen in any 17 year old. But it's hard to come off that big a win and keep the momentum going. It's so much easier to get there than to maintain that level of success.

Laura Davis

She's pretty tough to beat. She's very composed and never seems to miss a putt.

Jim Nestor

She's doing a great job in the back. Composed and confident back there. So, with that we don't have to take one of our outside half(backs) that we were thinking (and moving them to sweeper).

Phil Garner

I thought he was as composed as I've ever seen him,

Mignon McLaughlin

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show

Tom Inman

We've got right now what I was hoping to have in mid-January. I see a really seasoned, composed team.

Joseph Roux

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Helen Garner

I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of... rather an introverted child, probably.

Yngwie Malmsteen

This was a huge, huge undertaking. I composed this concerto from the ground up. It took about two years total to compose, but there were interruptions when I was touring and making rock albums,

Susanne Bier

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

Pam Marshall

I've lived here since 1982, and when the trees start re-budding in November and the winters are lame like they have been, and each summer it seems the heat comes earlier and stays longer. ... I just think it's unfortunate we have to think extreme heat could have devastating consequences on people's health in Minnesota. But it's creeping north.

Dr. Miglietta

Sometimes it takes days or weeks to figure out what the long-term consequences are going to be.

Randy Dunn

Schools rely on these results. It has tremendous consequences for hundreds of our schools.

Tom Hudson

This is a situation that could have had some tragic consequences. But the students who alerted the staff showed an interest in the safety of their school -- and they did the right thing.

John Husing

This is one of the consequences of the permanent loss of manufacturing jobs to Asia. In the past, that sector was the route to upward income mobility for marginally educated workers.

David Kramer

We have indicated to them that should there be incidents like there were today, there will be consequences.

Ken Goldstein

Down the road, there are significant consequences in terms of what could be developing with the federal budget.

Tim Rogers

Don't rescue (your) son/daughter from consequences he/she deserves for forgetfulness or irresponsibility.

Aaron Rodgers

I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

Robert Brown

Though Rome's gross yoke / Drops off, no more to be endured, / Her teaching is not so obscured / By errors and perversities, / That no truth shines athwart the lies.

James Farrior

He had a lot of drops today. I don't know what it was. Maybe Joey got in his head. His game plan all week was to try to get in Stevens' head and I think he might have done that.

Thomas Hardy

And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate-bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

John Breaux

San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?

Christine Gregoire

The viaduct is our levees, ... The earthquake is our hurricane.

Barbara Kingsolver

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Brian Jacques

You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace

Jan Schakowsky

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Al Capone

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

John Cross

We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80,

Brigham Young

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

Max Mutchnick

It was time for us to come up with a new series, and Peter Roth, whom we work for at Paramount, really liked the story of our (personal) dynamic. Everything pretty much that goes on with us speaks to our history, and we thought this would really be a great place to write from, because we would just have an endless supply of stories to tell.

Seth Shostak

'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen.

John Roberts

be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule of law and safeguards those liberties that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans.

Carson McCullers

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Sherwood Anderson

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

Joseph Seamon

I am so tired and weary,/ So tired of endless fight,/ So weary of waiting the dawn/ And finding endless night.

Tommy Lasorda

She's a package of dynamite, an endless worker.

Sarah Jewett

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.'

Larry Sabato

It splits his base, and it will be endless trouble for him if it goes forward, and I'm sure he won't let it happen.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Paul Hewitt

People seem to understand even in the NBA when a really good team loses its players it's going to be a struggle,

Gary Robb

People still need to use good judgement. The river is still pretty treacherous out there.

Jeremy Jaramillo

People are starved for this kind of service. The level of outreach we have now makes people feel good that they can say, 'I have answers.' It's immediate. You don't need an appointment or insurance.

Jack Mintz

People don't understand productivity but they do understand if you have a job with a good level of pay, it's better over the long run.

Phil Cowell

People don't need a good telescope. Just wander outside and look up.

Jim Jenkins

People don't have to wait here. She has a good method. If they're a regular customer, we already have their prescription filled.

Swedish Proverb

A life without love is like a year without summer.

Benjamin Franklin

A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things.

Conor McGregor

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.

Jeff Bezos

You've taken 16 years off of your life by smoking.

Carlos Slim

You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.

Julie Brown

Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

Edie Bailey

Your smile makes life more beautiful.... so smile all day, every day as often as you can.... share the beauty!!

Marcus Aurelius

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Wu Dawei

a process of all six parties overcoming one mountain after another, one wall after another.

Baltasar Gracian

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

Brent Weeks

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

Bob Iger

Though our mountain may be slightly smaller in scale to the one you find in Asia, it is remarkable in its authenticity.

Donald Miller

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

Andrew Garfield

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

Mike Zafirovski

We have a very tall mountain to climb.

T. S. Eliot

In the mountains, there you feel free.

Sylvester Stallone

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Ben Okri

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.

Brendan Fraser

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some...

Jane Campion

I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.

James Theodore Bent

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

Charles Kettering

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Jami Attenberg

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Anton Chekhov

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Craig Ferguson

Ocean's 13 is all about cool people having a good time, and who doesn't want to see that? Well you, apparantly, 'cause you're watching me.

Bob Dylan

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

Brandon McArthur

The series isn't over. Tomorrow is another day.

Scott Hatteberg

The whole series was tough. When I look back on things, yeah, I wish they were different.

Rahul Dravid

The way we've won this series is heartening.

James Van Der Beek

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

Joe Berlinger

Each film stands on its own. But we have a series that hangs together and is visually arresting.

Pat Murray

We fumbled on our first series and then threw the interception on our second,

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Victor Diaz

I was so stressed. Every at-bat's been like the World Series for me.

Robert Kennedy

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Sophia Loren

I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.

Laini Taylor

No, tiny violent one.

Halle Berry

I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.

Richard Flanagan

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.

Wislawa Szymborska

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Darren Shan

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Imtiaz Ali

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.