Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Maddox

It becomes clear to me that in order for us to compete, we don't need a contested primary,

Jacky Ickx

Historic Grand Prix is a collective nostalgia in the discipline which becomes more and more hermetic to those who are not a part of it.

Michael Mann

I think it's easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes a star. It's hard for Russell Crowe to walk down a street or take a subway. I can fly coach.

Georgina Chapman

I think it's important for whatever you are doing, even if it's a collection, to seek outside advice. If your world becomes too insular, it limits your creativity.

Gene Smith

I think it's how someone becomes good at anything. You practice when nobody's watching - in the heat of the summer or even when its drizzling out.

Carl Olson

It could always happen. I'm just not going to get in a panic about it ... We can teach people how to overcome what otherwise becomes fear and paranoia of the bugs.

David Sanborn

I think the problem is when a genre or style becomes limiting, when it starts to define what you're going to do, then it becomes a problem.

Emily Oster

I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It's enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more.

Jeremy Corbyn

We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.

Andy Cerroni

Jake Wagner had one of his better games for us on Thursday. He's beginning to gain more and more confidence with each game.

Leon Panetta

Just when we should be getting ready for the 21st century, our education system is beginning to fall down in terms of preparing our students for that future.

Neal Cotts

I think in our case it's come together pretty well. I think Ozzie instilled that from the beginning in spring training, that we're going to be together six months and make the best out of it.

Will Durant

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I havenot had time to remake the world.

Joseph Brown

It begins with one voice and builds with other voices. The collective crescendo is just now reaching a volume where we are all hearing and understanding.

O. Singh

I always feel comfortable here, it's a lot like my home in Fiji. I was too far back to make any difference today, but I'm pleased with the way I've started my year. I wish I could have won at the Mercedes. That one was disappointing, but this is still a good way to begin 2006.

Thomas R. Insel

Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven.

John Snow

I think it's clearly beginning to show signs of a strong recovery, and a recovery that's accelerating, ... Late Edition.

Fran Cohen

I think it's beginning to sink in. More and more faculty are reporting plagiarism.

Floyd Hall

Kmart's sales for November were slightly below plan due to continued warm weather, which slowed sales of seasonal apparel. Categories showing particular strength for the month included home appliances, seasonal goods, home decor, jewelry, consumables and pharmaceuticals.

Jim McCamant

There are stocks that are so cheap and many of them are trading below their cash value.

Royal Bank

Having said this, the rise in U.S. rates overnight does suggest there is scope for another test below $1.20 in the euro today, but we would look to square shorts at $1.1950.

Craig Pennington

There is an increasing challenge for OPEC next year. If you look at what people expected last year, non-OPEC supplies have disappointed and demand has been stronger. The result has been in OPEC's favor. But next year will be tougher. And they will not want prices to drop below $50 a barrel. They will need to cut production.

Tevester Anderson

He's played below expectations at times, but he's also played well at times. I really like the way he's playing now, though. If he can continue to play like that, it would be big for us.

Toba Beta

Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface. I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.

Ethan Harris

Payrolls were well below the whisper number, so there's been a big sigh of relief in the market,

Ashu Kakkar

In the near term Budget would be the key to the direction of the market. As long as the Nifty does not close below 3000 levels, the bullish trend technically is intact.

Kyle Busch

I ran him below the yellow line, I guess, but I moved back up and gave him room.

Kathleen Blanco

We must give careful consideration to bold ideas while pressing forward with proven strategies,

Robert Latham

I don't know that I have a good solution to the problem. Now we have another challenge in public education: It's not about wind speed, it's about storm surge. I have some bold ideas but I'm not going to come and say this is what we're going to do. There's a certain percentage of the population that aren't going to leave, I don't care what.

Voltaire

Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Wes Miller

I'm not going to make any bold statements or anything, but magical things happen in March. The teams that are the tightest-knit groups, play smart and play together, the teams that do that are the teams that go deepest in the tournament.

Randy Graham

I'm fearful for my security guards. If you're bold enough to shoot somebody in front of a club with people out there, you're very brave and very dangerous.

Bible Bible

And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

John Snow

These are bold recommendations, ... These are recommendations that will challenge orthodoxy in a lot of ways on tax policy.

Harold Goldstein

This is a great day for California children. This is a bold and decisive move. The state Legislature has sent a clear message that the growing childhood obesity epidemic is not going to be solved by personal responsibility alone.

Mitch Daniels

Everybody wants to find some way to be helpful and there is no state at this point that has stepped forward more boldly than ours, ... That's like Hoosiers.

B.J. Upton

Just little things like footwork, just keeping my feet moving. I have a tendency of being flat-footed when I catch the ball. Keeping my feet moving. And that's what I've been working on.

Ted Lilly

I think I realize how necessary it is to prepare for a long season. I thought last year I would be able to catch up and get myself ready to go to start the season. But I was just never as prepared as I needed to be.

Scott Lang

Hand water daily for six to eight weeks when you first plant. A lot of people put plants in thinking sprinkling will be enough. Sprinkling won't catch the feeder roots, and the plant's going to go crispy.

Ben Braun

He's a great defender, he challenges shots and he runs the floor well. His post skills are catching up. He's been a real factor for us.

Randy Johnson

I think it's important that the catcher realize that even if you think something is going well and it really isn't but you're convinced it is, that he still try to get you through the game when things aren't going well.

Paul Duca

It is a lot of fun catching these guys. You have four guys who can throw a no-hitter at any time. That makes it interesting.

Marty Williamson

We've been trying to catch them all year as far as the regular-season standings, and we couldn't do. Now, we get to face them in a best-of-seven and that's a challenge we want.

Danny Nee

I thought we competed. We wanted to play a certain way and for most of the game, we tried to play that way. We stayed and fought as well as we could. But the percentages catch up with you.

Bob Letsch

I thought that they were one of the finest shooting teams that we have played. When they could catch and face they were tough, they worked hard and caused problems for us.

Michael Robinson

Joe has complete control of this team, honestly.

Tommy Russell

It can be labor intensive. But with any industry, machines make it possible to complete the job fastest and make it less stressful on the employees. We've been integrating these machines into our repairs a little at a time the past 20 years or so.

Jim Tressel

He's a dynamic young man. He loves to compete. He's working to become a complete quarterback.

Ben Howland

He's a complete player. He is going to be an excellent pro and he could be playing for the Sonics right now just as much as for the Huskies.

Ron Hassey

He's a guy that wants to be the leader and wants to take complete control, which is what you want in a catcher, and what we have in ours.

Roland Fite

(Hernandez) produced for us. He did very well. He didn't give up anything. There was a part where it seemed like he lost his cool, but other than that I had complete confidence in him.

Tim Sandidge

He said I could help out in spots, defending the run and stuff like that, and that made me feel like he didn't really think I was a complete player.

Sufjan Stevens

I think the implausibility in some ways redeems me from having to complete it.

Angela Jackson

We just have to be more consistent. We have to start playing a complete game. We can't play 35 minutes and expect to win. We have to go the full 40 minutes in order to be successful.

John Eade

It has got the broadest product portfolio and the deepest pipeline of any drug stock.

Jacques Chirac

I share the pain of those families who have lost a loved one, and I offer my deepest condolences and sympathy,

Jim Hall

This is a sad way to end his career. His family has my deepest sympathy.

Laura Lopez

This is the deepest snow we've had in a long time. I never thought we'd get this much.

Ed Morgan

We join with Jewish communities around the world in expressing our deepest condolences to the Bronfman family on this tragic loss.

Ted Stevens

Governor Hammond impacted more lives than any other Alaskan who has ever lived. ... He was a public servant in the deepest sense of the word.

John Tesh

for people who are (a) trying to find their purpose in life and (b) trying to find the deepest desire of their life.

James Pennebaker

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now or even your career. How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now?

Guy Finley

What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?

Peter Crouch

I had doubts about whether I would make it or not but I've come through training fine,

Milan Protic

They will kill every and each of us, I don't have any doubts about it, but we are going to continue. We are going to be here the next day again.

David Gold

This would unquestionably strengthen English football, but I have serious doubts as to whether this would work,

Huston Smith

There are wonderfully intrinsic moments when life makes sense, and doubts are banished as irrelevant in those moments. Of course, we can't stay in that state. We're not here to be blissed out all the time.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

Sarah Palin

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Richard Ford

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Tupac Shakur

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

Trey Gowdy

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

Richard Dawkins

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

Warren Buffett

You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

David Cole

This is not a place for weaklings or the faint of heart. It's a rugged part of the business.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Lorenzo Bundy

He just goes with the flow, wherever the water takes him. He knows he's going to play in the leagues. He knows he's a big leaguer waiting to happen.

Byron Scott

He just doesn't seem real sure of what he's doing out there right now. Again, it goes back to repetition and knowing how to run our offense. . . . I can't wait for Speedy to get back.

Ozzie Guillen

He reminds me of Greg Maddux. He goes out, throws 200-plus innings and throws as quick as he can.

Kathy Hotchner

Hers is a very specific sense of humor. It's not for someone who is very conservative. She is all out there. She goes after everyone.

Cole Porter

Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes

Steve Martinson

He's got a strong resume. So when the situation comes up he goes in and does a great job it makes you feel good.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

John Gibson

I think it's a great opportunity to showcase our city.

Randy Smith

I think it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to him, but more important than that, I think it tells me that he's listening and that's really important to me.

David Pascoe

Law enforcement officers are held in a position of trust and they are held to a higher standard. That is why allegations like this are so troubling.

Gary Mitchell

I just held him like I would my own son.

Stacy Kim

I played pretty well. I missed a lot of putts that I could have made. I stuck it out and held it together.

Islam Karimov

The trial will ... be held in mid-September, on September 20,

Adrian Beltre

It's not a physical thing; my body's held up fine,

Ann Cooper

They're held for months at a time, never charged.

Wayne Coyne

People think its more high-tech than it really is with all the video and all that. It's still held together with duct tape.

Shawn Amos

Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us.

Ian Stacker

The team has to be held accountable for wresting back the momentum.

Robert Khayat

Rod means a lot to all of us. He's been wonderfully successful. He's an honorable man and I have the highest regard for him.

Giuseppe Pisanu

We are considering the highest possible risk of an attack, ... and we are preparing ourselves for the worse possible threat.

Publilius Syrus

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

Tom Brokaw

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Susan Rosenberg

Quite honestly, this is actually the highest it's ever been.

Brian Cantrell

The safety of our people and our operation is really our highest priority.

John Reid

I understand also that the Minister of the Interior, at the highest level, instructed that they should be (handed over), that the local judicial authorities said the same,

Gail Dudack

The (stocks) with the highest (price-to-earnings) take that news the hardest.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Taizo Nishimuro

It is necessary to raise the level of screening for start-up firms when they are to be listed.

Peter Lai

Hutchison has risen more than HK$10 this week so at this level it will see some profit taking.

Dennis Wiese

He has a wide level of support, but it doesn't seem to be very deep.

Ron Atkinson

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Chris Patten

The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,

Pope Benedict XVI

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

Peter Jackson

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

Kendrick Lamar

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Larry Niven

The majority is always sane.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Henrik Ibsen

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

Thomas Reed

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Umberto Eco

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

Jim Rogers

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is founded upon opinion.

Moby

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

Mike Rounds

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

Paul O'Grady

If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.

Oswald Chambers

Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.

Patrick Kavanagh

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

William S. Burroughs

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

William Shatner

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

Tucker Max

I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.

Tupac Shakur

Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.

Tracy McMillan

Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.

Robin Wright

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

Robin Williams

She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other

Stephen Hadley

I would say that is some real progress.

Samuel Johnson

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Melanie Sloan

Particularly in the House, the progress is very slow and may end up with very little reform.

James Cook

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

Olympia Snowe

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

Octavio Paz

The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

Emile M. Cioran

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

William Whewell

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

William Shatner

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

William James

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

Tracy Kidder

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

Whittaker Chambers

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

William Banting

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

Walter Kirn

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

William Ralph Inge

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Ziggy Marley

I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.

Nhat Hanh

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Gayle Forman

When the sun shines, you let it shine on you

David Gower

As they say the sun shines on the righteous.

Stephen King

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

Myrtle Reed

Somewhere on this great world the sun is always shining, and it will sometimes shine on you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

Sgt. Reynolds

His statement was that it was a very small amount.

Ian Fleming

To come and see them live at a small track has appeal.

Dale Maharidge

In a small town, there is a thin veil of anonymity,

Mikhail Prokhorov

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

James Fenton

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.

Philippa Gregory

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

Peter Ustinov

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer

John Irving

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George Andrews

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

Roy Halladay

We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible,

Chuck Palahniuk

No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

George R. R. Martin

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Dave Peters

Of course, as soon as I say that, we'll get hit.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Raymond Chandler

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

William Howard Taft

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

Tyrese Gibson

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

Rod Serling

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Ron Chernow

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Umberto Eco

But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.

Umberto Eco

When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.