Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Charles Spurgeon

If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

Alan Alda

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Chris Christie

I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor.

David Hockney

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

Audrey Hepburn

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

Vince Carter

We still think we're a good team. We didn't get blown out of here (in Cleveland), for one. We're capable. We just have to step it up a little bit.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I'm as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be.

McKayla Maroney

I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.

Cooter Failla

We started the process in October, had 12 candidates which we reduced to three, then two, and today was the day the decision was made.

Peter Wong

We're in talks with about three to four Chinese candidates for a joint venture brokerage, and we should be able to set it up sometime this year.

Phil Price

We want to run candidates (for City Council) that will dissolve the city.

Ed Patru

What we're seeing around the country is a concerted effort by Democrats to manufacture momentum by talking up a lot of candidates with no resources.

Steve Ross

What this decision stands for is that there is a limit to the circumstances under which the federal government can dictate to the citizens of Nevada who they can or can not have as candidates for state or local office,

John Thune

With this much clutter out there and this much money being spent on the airwaves, the candidates start losing control of the message,

James Simmons

It's a small truncated segment of the electorate, voters who are reasonably informed of the issues. I don't think the candidates have to do very much to win votes from those who share their views.

Paul Hodgson

A lot of other candidates from the wider financial industry wouldn't raise the notion of a conflict of interest.

Rob Allyn

They don't want someone in office who truly signifies change, ... They want to hand-pick the candidates so they end up with someone who won't threaten the status quo here.

Milan Hejduk

We always have a chance to win every night. I'm looking forward to the upcoming season and this new NHL era.

Louis Sachar

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Chad Hurley

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

Lee Scott

The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Heather Williams

The point of it is to get people to sign it. We really want to give individuals their chance to voice their support.

Jose Gonzalez

We are probably in better shape than we were last year, ... Our chances to go all the way are very good. Right now, I don't think there isn't a way we can't make it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals.

Joe Toy

We've already hit some plateaus in the last few months, and in 2006 we are going to see things moderating. But even with that, hotels are going to be full and there will be a good chance of a record year in room numbers.

Wayne Rooney

We've a better chance than last season, said Sir Alex.

Alan Moore

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

Alan Moore

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

Lucien Smith

I started thinking about how rain is depicted in illustrations. In comics that use gouache or watercolor, they use light blue, so I started using that color.

Lee Bermejo

I think that comics can do things movies can't and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other.

Louis C. K.

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

Charles M. Schulz

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

David Roland

We're seeing comics in Hollywood, ... and we're also seeing Hollywood in comics.

Kenneth Choi

Comic fans are some of the toughest fans to please, and I'm one of them.

Joss Whedon

A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me.

Michael Moriarty

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.

Bill Thompson

The people who live there don't consider it a casino. It's a luxurious place to go for an evening out.

Chris Hanson

We usually wait until an athlete's senior year to consider going to Arcadia.

Naylond Hayes

When you've been here, and you consider it your house, you're at home.

Laurent Brancowitz

I always considered technical musicianship as something you should be ashamed of - I don't know why.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

Tim Sheens

We're not going to put Ryan into any sort of trial or consider him until he's sorted out his future.

Rob Enderle

Whenever the largest online retailer makes a decision, it's going to be a big deal. They're the bellwether for their segment. What they do, others will likely do or consider doing.

Scott Boras

When he got Boston's first offer, he realized that he thought of himself differently than the Red Sox did. He knew then that there was a possibility he may leave, and I don't think that he ever considered leaving prior to that.

David Cameron

We're in a very different era now. The style then was right for then, and a new style is needed for now.

Harvey Kushner

When you think of the coordination this took, it's historic. When you think of the measures that will have to be put into place to ratchet up security in the United States, it's monumental. This opens up a new era in the history of terrorism.

Cheryl Strayed

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

Linton Brooks

We're standing at the threshold of a new era in high-performance computing.

Charlton Heston

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Cheryl Palmer

This is the last of this era of illustrating,

Matt Moore

It's a sweet era to be a part of.

Deborah White

It was a warning that it is too soon to think we are in the era of a price meltdown.

Joe Sakic

It was a salary-cap thing to get us under (the $39 million ceiling). I understood exactly why and I had no problem with it at all. It was important to get the team under in this new era the way the game is.

Duncan Edwards

They get down and dirty. It's kind of The O'Reilly Factor of football.

Sheldon Jacobs

They say 'Most of the shareholders are in IRAs' and taxes aren't a factor in IRAs, ... They say 'I'm being paid on overall performance.'

Craig MacTavish

It's maybe the most important stretch we've had in a number of years. It can be a little overwhelming, but how we handle the pressure is going to be one of the big factors in the success that we're going to have.

Al Goldman

The number one factor next week will be the market's own internal dynamic. In other words, how much more momentum does the market have after going up 1,000 points in one month?

Stuart Ellis

Then there's ocean survival. That is a very likely an explanatory factor in how come you can have a relatively good return of jacks and suddenly the adults don't materialize out of that.

Michael Carty

It's one of these choppy days, where there are a lot of different factors at play.

Rick Clancy

It's not that we're getting out of the market. It's that we will be obtaining tubes from other Sony factories in the world, particularly in Singapore and in China.

Jay Sferra

It's only a factor if you make it a factor.

Paul Dernier

This means the world to us. It helps keep our factory open.

Al Michaels

We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

David Riesman

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

David Duke

When I began to talk publicly about the hatred that was in the Talmud, I was branded a hater, a bigot, and an anti-Semite by the media and by groups like the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The ADL is a multimillion-dollar, worldwide organization whose whole purpose is to defame and discredit those who simply tell the truth about Jewish supremacism and hatred against Gentiles.

David Brock

Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

Derek Jeter

Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.

Denis Leary

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

John Roberts

If it's a situation in which the public is being given access, you can't discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don't have access, because their access rights, of course, correspond with those of the public.

Mark Cuban

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

Bill Mumy

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

Charles Dickens

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Michael Beschloss

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.

Gary Andersen

There isn't much difference. The positions are very interchangeable.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Tony Padilla

Carroll is strong at all positions even cornerback. We've got to be ready when we play them.

Sarah Fisher

Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention,

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Alan Watts

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Alan Watts

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

Alan Greenspan

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Al Pacino

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

David Viscott

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

Bear Grylls

Without risk, there can be no growth.

Deborah Moggach

But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

John Roberts

There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Ted Schadler

It's not really about social networking. It's not wide open.

Jim Blake

As part of the deal, there's a social mobilization effort.

Jason Calacanis

Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.

Rachel Brosnahan

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

Kenneth Clarke

They suddenly thought they had someone with the X-factor.

Bill Xia

It's not that suddenly we did something new.

Lynsey Addario

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Rob Babcock

We can't get him unless he suddenly turns into a minimum-salary guy,

Khandi Alexander

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.