Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn Russell

You hear about all kinds of things that go on; you turn on the TV, hear a patient has been murdered or robbed. I think a background check and registry is a very good idea.

Rob Neyland

Nobody else has a ski resort in the background to make their snow.

Maajid Nawaz

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

Suzanne Jones

They just kind of paired nicely. Mom really enjoyed sharing the background of his show and the story. She enjoyed sharing that with tourists.

John Hughs

The market is getting so oversold and has such a background of negativity that maybe we are finally getting to the point where a bottom could be set,

Sean Conway

They have indicated they are going about the appropriate due diligence, background checks, and I understand they have interviewed him. Senator Allard is pleased that they are looking at an individual on the original list and that the process seems to be moving forward.

Bryan Whitman

For a security clearance, you have to go through any number of specific background investigative checks.

Charles Schumer

This modification puts a stranglehold on the Brady law, it sets a 24-hour time limit for gun-show sale background checks,

Melanie Morgan

It was raw and powerful. It certainly lacked the professional polish to it that a Hollywood record producer could bring to it, but the depth of his voice and the intense emotions contrasted with the incredibly sweet background vocals.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

Mike Redmond

I've played through it, but it just got to the point where that was it. I couldn't basically run. I feel good about doing everything I could. I battled through a majority of the season, especially the last two weeks.

Steve Silverthorn

The whole idea is to basically beat the pass to where it's going. You have to have an idea, you wanna know at all times where everybody on the ice is.

Norman Cook

The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you sort of spreading the word in different cities.

Jesse Hathaway

The whole basis for Odyssey Interactive was basically a product of brainstorming at Donkey coffee. We literally sat around a coffee table shooting ideas off of one another.

Al Brown

That's what makes her so difficult to defend now. That's why she's put up the numbers she's put up this year. Before, she was basically a back-to-the-basket, low-post player. Now she's versatile enough to come outside, too.

Joe Main

That's normally issued to mine operators that basically thumb their nose to the law, these unwarrantable failure violations.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mark Rubin

That's where the oil is. It's the best place to look for oil in the United States, and there's predicted to be more oil there than any other place that we can look for oil in the U.S..

Henry David Thoreau

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all

Jane Yolen

Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.

Jorge Posada

Randy is Randy and his power is incredible. But Wang has the best stuff in our clubhouse, no doubt. He'll be our No. 1 pitcher eventually.

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Brad Pitt

This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?

Jane Goodall

Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother

Texas Battle

The difference in working on a TV series and a movie comes down to one thing for me, and that is the travel. With 'The Bold and the Beautiful,' we are in one remote location, but with a movie, you get to travel, explore, and experience different things every day. But I've really enjoyed doing both.

Bob Dylan

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy - and if I'm not, I don't know the difference. Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be - that's much more important than just being happy.

Charles Bukowski

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

David Nicholls

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you

Bob Snell

Another big thing that made a difference was we have a lot of seniors and we were able to hold onto our composure.

Paul Allen

If you think about making a difference in the community, my family has always had a strong interest in the arts. I'm always interested in finding ways to innovate... It's a blend; it's not a point focus.

Twyla Tharp

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

Jim Hueber

I think he is really driven. I think it is really important to him to do what he feels like he has to do to be as good as he can be. He wants to do everything right, I think that is what drives him. He doesn't want to make a mistake.

Page Thompson

It has to have a look that people will be happy to see for a long period of time, while still having an image that drives home what you are trying to sell.

Michael Pittman

Penalties are going to kill plays, kill drives and kill momentum and they did that to us (Sunday).

Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Jane Goodall

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Daniel Handler

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Bram Stoker

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Bram Stoker

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

e. e. cummings

since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things?

Albert Einstein

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

John Forsythe

Quite honestly, it takes a mayor a lot of guts to sit down and do this kind of show. But it's the old get-out-of-the-kitchen-if-you- can't-take-the-heat kind of thing.

Rich Greenfield

My gut instinct is they need to do something in the $350 million range to be seen as 'Disney's on its way back in animation,'

Tyrone Johnson

Kyle showed a lot of presence of mind not to panic when he went behind. It took a lot of guts to go for the reversal instead of just taking his one point and tying it.

Alec Baldwin

I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.

Phil Lesh

And many times that did take place, but what I've said in the past, and my gut feeling, is that it was started to calcify in a sense.

Paul Henderson

It's nice to see you and not hate your guts for once,

Shirley Chisholm

I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.

Don Dunn

With something of that magnitude, I thought, God, it can't be. My gut reaction was, gee, the whole thing is an error.

Mark McClain

Every time (Northwest negotiators) get at the table and they think they have an advantage, they want to gut the contract.

Dwight Freeney

Porter does a lot of talking, that's his game. He loves it.

Roy Black

He told me this is the first day of the rest of his life. He loves where he is right now.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Christopher McGrath

He'll never be the same as he used to be. He's never going to be able to do the things that he loves again.

Tony Robbins

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

Marge Piercy

Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

Michael Symon

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

Martin Luther

Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

Nicole Kidman

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.