Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Penny

Any time an umpire gets into an argument and won't call a strike, it's no fun.

Sydney Smith

An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument

Steve Squyres

The British mountaineer George Mallory was once famously asked why he was trying to climb Mount Everest and his famous reply was 'because it is there.' That's a compelling argument when you are a mountaineer. But for an $850 million rover mission you better have a better reason than that.

Ken Thompson

The more I think about the nettle argument, the more it makes me laugh. This country's awash with nettles. Butterflies that eat them are not in any difficulty at all.

Mary Deutsch

Any judge is going to look at what we do during the public review period. We need to present a fair argument that the city's measures aren't adequate.

Kim Norris

The specific argument we were making is now moot.

Dick Armey

The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment, ... After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons.

John Mackey

I've always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don't think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.

Trevor Noah

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.

Bob Costas

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

Dennis Ritchie

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

Edsger Dijkstra

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Ann Beattie

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

Robert Benchley

If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.

Brian Brohm

That's what Mike's going to do. He's a big guy. He'll pound away and pound away.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Baltasar Gracian

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

Bruce Dickinson

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

Paul Bello

During the season, (May through July), we go through 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of ribs a week.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

Dan Hendricks

I won't take him off for a pound or two.

John Gunter

I would've never thought that 40 pounds would make that much of a difference.

S. Walker

You don't have to be 6-4 and 280 pounds to be a kicker,'' he said.

Rain Bojangles

You're just as witty as you feel, just as witty as you feel inside.

Ayn Rand

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Al Capone

Vote early and vote often.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Baltasar Gracian

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Brian Blair

is not going to be a witch hunt; it's a fact-finding mission.

Dylan Moran

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty

Corey Pavin

I've never done anything like it, ... It's more than worth it.

Marissa Nowakowski

It was well worth the wait. (Being a senior) made it all the better.

Eric Greenberg

I'm worth $300 million, and I'm 34 years old,

Mother Teresa

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

Eddie Einhorn

All the frustration, it's been worth the wait. It's a generation-long wait. I mean, that's a long wait.

Robby Rodriguez

It probably did about $25,000 worth of damage.