Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carey

Any positive thing like that will absolutely create problems. But I thought it was and still is a wonderful thing.

Carl Mydans

As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent. And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished.

John Scarlett

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.

David Call

As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.

Carole Strayhorn

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

Michael Shaw

The bottom line -- GPS is absolutely critical to our nation's economic well being.

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Frank Hancock

The boy did absolutely what you'd want children to do. Quite honestly, he should be commended for the job he did, not criticized for it.

Carrie Martin

The bottom line is we will be clearer. We will make every effort to explain that better. We will be absolutely clear that this is a reimbursement.

Michael Greve

Any industry that confronts cases under consumer protection statutes ? and that is every industry in America ? will breathe a huge sigh of relief after this ruling.

Jen Rizzotti

Any road game in the America East that you can win, no matter how you do it, is a positive. There are a lot of teams that play well at home and Vermont is one of them.

Diane Johnson

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

Cynthia Ozick

A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

David Gross

As far as I can tell, these discussions about Internet governance won't put one more computer or one more cell phone or one more anything into the hands of somebody who doesn't have it in Africa, Asia, South America or elsewhere,

Professor Jafar

As far as I can see there is no prospect of America providing nuclear reactors to Pakistan or giving this country the status of a nuclear power - the chances of any such thing is zero.

John Hawkes

As he was telling us about these pleasures, at that very moment, in the ruin and the tall grass, I stepped on a hornets, nest and got stung.

Leigh Steinberg

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Damian Fraser

This number combined with the other high numbers is going to force the government to keep interest rates high and make sure the budget is austere for the next year. High rates are bad news for equity holders.

Robert Bruno

The neighborhood butcher wouldn't have sold meat to you. You would be shunned at church.

Konrad Adenauer

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

Author unknown

I told the butcher I'd give him $10 if he got the meat down off the top shelf. He said he couldn't. The steaks were too high.

Mike Reeves

As a general rule, people in this country don't know much about dairy cows. My job is to teach them with these animals. Without these animals, we don't have all the things we like every day like milk, cheese, pudding, yogurt, butter and whipped cream.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

Damian Lewis

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

Alexander Pope

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

Annika Sorenstam

I still get butterflies on the first tee. I still get sweaty hands, and my heart pumps a lot going down the 18th. But I know what winning is all about now, and that's a feeling that I like.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I want to chase the butterflies.

Anthony Kiedis

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

Alice Hoffman

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

Anne Lamott

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

Joseph Conrad

Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow

Juan Goytisolo

Count Julian is, simultaneously, a work of fiction and a work of criticism, which defies deliberately a tyrannical conception of genre.

Henry Eyring

The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

Justin Rose

When I first turned pro, I didn't really have any conception of how long it would take me,

Maori Proverb

Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating

Brian Ernst

You're always eating fast food and stuff, living in the hotels. You're not getting as probably as much sleep as you should. This home series is huge for us. Just getting a little home field advantage, getting our home fans here is going to be nice.

Lori Jones

What we really need to do is get in tune with our inner selves. We've gotten way out of whack with our hunger cues. Is it hunger, is it thirst, am I eating because I'm upset or depressed, am I eating because it's there?

Matt Cartwright

Education can help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. Teaching students to make healthy decisions can improve habits now and instill healthy eating habits for a lifetime.

Bruce Trock

At the time most of these studies were done, few Western women were eating tofu, but many were getting soy without noticing it.

Steve Campbell

You have a greater ethnic mix in the population and people also are trying different foods. People are eating healthier.

David Foster Wallace

Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier").

Stephen Furst

I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

Michael Pollan

If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.

Dwayne Peel

People say there is a lot of expectation on the England side but I can't speak for them. We are just concentrating on ourselves and doing our homework. I think we have been doing that pretty well and we can look forward to going there.

Rob Andrew

Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money.

Lawyer Milloy

The way the Patriots tried to back me into a corner. It didn't show a lot on their part, ... New England tried to squeeze me with a last-minute deal, so we took a risk and went on the market.

Jane Austen

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

Jim Calhoun

When I walk down with Cousy I'm walking in as the face of New England as the face of so many people who weren't fortunate enough to get into what I got into.

Rupert Brooke

And think, this heart, all evil shed away, / A pulse in the eternal mind, no less / Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given.

Ryan Giggs

England got the luck this time, but if we keep producing performances like that it'll come our way,

Andrew Eldritch

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

Zach Galligan

I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.

Henry Rollins

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

Maeve Binchy

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

Maryann Keller

These were people who grew up inside those companies,

Corneille Ewango

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

Scott Weiland

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

Joy Hollingsworth

It would have been nice to play for the Huskies. I grew up watching them. It would have been nice but things didn't work out that way. I'm happy where I am.

Tim Thomas

That's what you want as a player, to play the way you grew up on the playground and YMCA. Look around here. Guys here are loose.

Mike Grell

That's not even a question. You go with what you grew up with.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

Rodney Selph

Actually, I thought I was going to throw up. We got lucky, but sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

Taylor Snell

Now I know how all those people felt, being out of their homes. We were lucky to have somewhere to go.

Steve McClain

Sometimes you have to get a little lucky, and we can't seem to get a little lucky right now.

Julie White

Ten years ago a superintendent search would have 40 applicants. Now you are lucky to get five.

Richard Thompson

It was upsetting at first, but then you realize there's not much you can do about it. We were very lucky no one was hurt. You can always replace buildings, but not someone's life.

Brad Dourif

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

Diane Keaton

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

Anton Yelchin

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

Massimo Moratti

First of all we have to reach Paris this season. Then we can see if Paris is really our lucky town.

Dakota Blue Richards

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

Daniel Sharman

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Rick Riordan

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

Rocco Calo

As a stockholder myself, I want to see the stock do well but I also want to see them treat people well.

Shawn Amos

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

John Eales

As a captain, it's important to have the right people around you,

Peter Ueberroth

As a lot of people said, 'The U.S. is back,' in a way. We were well received.

Ray Santiago

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

W. H. Murray

The big thing is getting more infrastructure in place so that people can just pull up and get the fuel.

and City

the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.

Paul Stoddart

And we were only seeing, at best, the sort of mid-30s.

Bruce Sevy

We all kind of get to go to Italy. Sometimes you just need a break, and that's sort of what this play is about.

Before Veeder

When it did, it really hurt, and that's when I started getting trouble. It was like $280,000 we lost. I sort of got stupid.

Robert Manne

You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Thom Browne

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Phil Klay

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

Bashar al-Assad

Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Bashar al-Assad

In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.