Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Rakoff

I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.

Carl Pavano

Yeah, I've been anxious for six months. I feel great. The consistency is there, and that's something I didn't have at all last year. I'm definitely seeing things this year that I didn't see from myself at all last year, and that's the most encouraging thing about it.

Jacquia Winstead

We know the feeling and how much it takes to take it to the next level. We were anxious to be here, especially after what happened last year.

Jorge Amaya

We had two guys that transferred in that I'm confident will go to state. And, they were so anxious to get out there -- this was their first night -- and they didn't get to.

Kyle Whittingham

We have a lot of guys who have not been in that situation, and I'm just anxious to see how they react.

Joe Girardi

We have a lot of guys who are in a hurry to get hits. They are trying to do too much. They want to have a good start and are anxious to prove they belong here. They need to be patient.

Abbas Kiarostami

Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.

Deborah Mailman

If I look at the one thorn that is in my side, of all my life, it is my weight. I fret about it, I'm anxious about it, being an actor on television - it drives me insane. It just seems to be something that plays a central part in waking up in the morning and thinking, 'How am I with myself today?'

Cass Elliot

You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes.

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Jerry McSwords

Grove City is good. It will be a battle. They match up with us relatively well. They graduated a lot of seniors last year, but it will be a good match.

Mike McCarthy

Getting the lights has nothing to do with the city of Mechanicville so we haven't contacted them. Our counsel's review of the matter said we don't have to pay for them. Right now there are differing opinions as to who does. We're working them out.

Paul Briggs

Frankly, it is not really clear to me where the demand would come from to fill a tower, especially of that size. I don't see how, economically, it works. I think for the mayor to come out and say the city needs more office space -- it really shows he is out of touch with the (real estate market).

Gary LaGrange

From a commercial and psychological standpoint, this is five stars. This shows the people of New Orleans their city is back in business.

Jeremy Paul

From a political standpoint, the city might be better off trying to reach some settlement with the homeowners.

Alexander Garvin

From that point on, his plan was very clear how the city should progress.

Paul Walters

Furthermore, it justifies the significant investment in the event by title sponsors Dunlop and hosting partner Manchester City Council .

Susan Tully

I don't think a city should ever be involved in helping to find employment for illegal aliens.

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Richard Bach

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Robert Frost

... War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.

Robert Blair

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

Robert Bly

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Thomas More

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

Thomas Paine

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

Thomas Paine

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

Thomas Paine

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Peter Beutel

We don't know how much of the refinery is down or for how long. But not to negate the human tragedy, it happened at the worst time of the year seasonally. And it happens at a time the market is nervous and looking for reasons to go higher anyway.

Peter Lonard

Three in a row would be nice because it hasn't happened very often, but we'll just have to see what happens.

Larry Harrison

Every time it seemed like we were making progress, something happened ... Bernard's injury, Bo Taylor's dismissal. For a while, we struggled.

Christo

But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.

Karen Clark

But nothing's happened yet -- nothing that I know of.

Roger Wicker

Yet, I can see what has happened to others as controversy swirls. Friends can head for the hills,

Chris Rock

I love what's happened to me, but when I was a kid, I wanted to be the president of the United States.

Casey Fossum

Welcome to the neighborhood, huh? It's a gated community. It's supposed to be safe. I'm not sure if we're even going to stay there now. We moved in at 8 o'clock (Thursday) night, and I woke up at 7 and saw this. The police said it happened between 4 and 5. Unbelievable.

Ken Koelbl

Even when things were tough, I kept things in perspective. I looked at what we were going through as paying our dues. Sometimes you have to struggle before you can get to where you want to go.

Jose Contreras

Even when Jose was struggling we kept sending him back in there to get over it. It was a long process and it paid real well,

Patrick Kaler

That just kept people away, because they couldn't get out of their own hometowns.

Lee Smith

It's much more valuable kept together than it is in pieces.

Stephanie Spell

Students are being kept in school as a precaution.

Andy Schmitz

It looked like we were going to let them do it again. We just kept working. We did the little things we didn't do last time.

Chris Garvin

It just wasn't our day at all. You keep telling the kids to play thought it, but it's hard. They kept hustling, but we weren't making our shots.

Harry Taylor

It kept them from really concentrating on their duties, because it was very distracting what was going on.

Henry Hall

It kept on and got worse and worse.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Kenneth Anger

If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.

Kelly Osbourne

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

Sean Parker

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

Lennox Lewis

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

Laurie Garrett

[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.

Laura Bush

Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

Thom Yorke

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

Lawrence Lessig

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

James Thurber

The unicorn is a mythical beast,

Robert Scoble

Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.

Cindy Sheehan

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Jan Egeland

Are we going to have tens of thousands of people staying in the rubble and in the snow until it's too late? Maybe. It's a logistical nightmare,

Julie Hall

Are people still sleeping with their chickens? Yes, they are.

Ayad Allawi

are outlaws or terrorists ... who do not represent the sentiments of the people of the towns.

Randeep Hooda

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

Pablo Picasso

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.

Carl Olson

And then people got all excited. Why was it there?

Constantin Oclei

The situation is very bad. We need to evacuate 1,200 people from Bechet and its surroundings by this evening.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Jerome Bettis

Detroit, you are incredible. Pittsburgh here we come.

Dusty Baker

You want him to go out and pitch the way he has pitched before.

Koby Clemens

I wish I could talk to Satchel Paige and find out what he did to pitch at 50,

Mariano Rivera

I could've thrown 100 pitches today, ... It didn't matter.

Buddy Bell

Walk A-Rod? And pitch to Giambi? How about that one?

Charles Dickens

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Brandy Norwood

It feels so great to be back on the scene.

Bobby Hernandez

He's the one who called it in so we were on the scene right away.

Domhnall Gleeson

In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.

Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Rasmus Lerdorf

I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.

Ratan Tata

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

Rajneesh

My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.

Thomas Jefferson

With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.

Thomas Jefferson

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.

Rick Perry

My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

Talib Kweli

I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Melissa Etheridge

Somebody bring me some water/can’t you see I’m burning alive.

Michael Ondaatje

In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.

Michael Lomenda

I'm learning that the times I felt the best about my life and career, I'm most like the water finding that path.

Michael Lomenda

Water finds the easiest path down a mountain.

Max Lucado

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

Max Ernst

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

Matthew Henry

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

Maya Angelou

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.