Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Brad Clark

The building has been vacant for so long that it's almost like starting from scratch.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

David Hendler

The brokers have been almost like the old Internet stocks. The stocks have been on a huge ride and they're starting to cool off and come back to reality.

Rocky Smith

The business is doing really well. Each semester my customer base almost doubles.

Peter Capaldi

The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!

Scott Elarton

The big thing is, there is no tension on this team. I've been with some (Houston) clubs going down the stretch in a playoff race, and teams get on edge. On this club, everyone is so relaxed it's almost like they don't care. But the results say otherwise.

Carrie Barker

The Big Ten is almost like restarting the season again. Once the Big Ten starts, it's like starting from scratch. The Big Ten is like a different life.

Tom Orlich

At this time of the year everybody is ready for almost anything.

Tom Wopat

These classic shows deserve to be revived. Otherwise, people have no context for these great songs which become such a visceral part of our awareness.

S. Walker

This is great news for The Johnnie Walker Classic and is a true reflection of its standing as one of the most competitive, international and high profile tournaments in the world.

Elizabeth Searle

This is the classic envy story. And it was just so strange, and got stranger by the day.

Annika Sorenstam

The Mizuno Classic has been good to me, ... This is the first time I've had no bogeys in a 54-hole round and the first time with no 3-putts so I was very consistent and solid.

John Baumann

We did it the classic way. We went to a gear shop, got some ropes and then were wise enough to back away when we realized we needed more training. Luckily, we picked something forgiving, nothing that was too outrageous or too difficult.

Elisha Cuthbert

We have a lot of throwbacks to, I think, the classic ideas of what horror film was all about, I think when we were younger.

Paul Kocin

You got some wind up there. And how many January days do you get temperatures of 60 early in the morning? That's a sign of how unusual the storm was. It was not your classic nor'easter.

Clive James

An education without a Bible education is no education.

Raymond Sokolov

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John Tate

Raymond had a .22-caliber rifle with him when he confronted Betancourt, and shot him.

Alexander Downer

that there are some people on earth who are so wicked and so evil that nothing can be done but to confront them.

Mike Martz

I do know some of the player issues that we have, and the guys that played well and did not play well. That will be confronted and corrected, and if we have to make a change, we'll make a change.

Brian Greene

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.

William Westmoreland

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

Charles B. Rangel

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

Lawrence Woodward

Three independent bystanders said Marcus never had a gun in his hand. Marcus admits that those three said something rude to his girlfriend, and he verbally confronted them.

Henry Cabot Lodge

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

Richard DeKaser

extremely overvalued and confront a high risk of a future price correction.

Stefano Fiore

We knew it was 2-1 to Denmark when we scored. After the goal we found out that it was 2-2 and you could see the reaction.

Dave Vaclavik

We're hopeful to keep Denmark as a potential future customer.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

R. Ingram

What I can say is that U.S. forces helped to provide urgent medical support at the scene of the incident, something for which I know our forces are grateful,

Charles Sawyer

Of all of the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful as hope

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

Jackie Williams

The hardship and inconvenience of traveling forces many people out.

Douglas Wood

The Iraqi forces did a very good job of saving me.

George Casey

The development of the Iraqi security forces is very much on track,

Dan Harel

All in all this is a victory for the security forces and for the settlers.

Muqtada al Sadr

The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

John Linder

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

Kenneth Branagh

I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.

Damon Dash

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

Jessie Miller

She is what inspired me. I was so angry.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Chris Tucker

You just inspired me and my whole generation,

Wayne Dyer

When you're inspired you attract abundance.

Elaine Stritch

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

Phoebe Cates

You'd be surprised how inspired you'll be when you go into a different store than the one you normally go to for gifts.

Dennis Kucinich

the United States must seize this moment and end the occupation of Iraq.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Brett Ratner

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Argus Hamilton

Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.

Barbara Mandrell

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

Ayelet Waldman

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

Atticus Shaffer

My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself." So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.

Brian Sandoval

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

Brian K. Vaughan

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

Barbara Kingsolver

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Baruch Spinoza

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

Ayn Rand

You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Brian Tracy

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

Brian Bosworth

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

Boyd Rice

Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-out unearned "rights" in an attempt to make its doctrine a living reality. In short: humanity is Democratic, nature is Fascist.

Jane Hirshfield

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

Mitch Hedberg

I sick of "soup of the day" it's time we made a decision, i want to know what "soup from now on" is

Doris Wallace

You're just sick to your stomach, wondering who in the world can come, because everyone is busy; everyone who's touring already has dates.

Elizabeth Scott

There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just-- smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the--" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life.

Edward Abbey

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

Andre Leon Talley

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

Anais Nin

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

Ann Aguirre

I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm." My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

Rupert Murdoch

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

Brandon Roy

It would have been really special if he had come here. We would have been really good.

Christian Maraker

They all feel great. This one is special in its own way.

Charlie Warner

This is a special group. They never quit.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before. We don't know how much we'll be getting or how it will be dispersed.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before,

Melanie Sloan

That, to me, would be special treatment that he doesn't really deserve.

Jan Karon

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

Bon Scott

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Shannon Staub

Englewood wants sidewalks. So do a lot of other people. I am not sure what happened.

Seneca Wallace

We just make sure they get their work in.

Mark Schubert

We just talk all week about the Lexus Gauntlet. We just want to make sure that we make our contribution.

John Chandler

We just had to be sure there wasn't anything out there,

Bruce Hapke

We weren't sure what we were going to get,

Terri Gallegos

We weren't sure what she was going to do next.

Don Catlin

We were pretty sure of its structure, but it wasn't a molecule that had ever been described before,

Jamie Lokoff

We want to be sure we get it right.

O. Henry

What we're trying to do is make sure we unearth the players, if we haven't already done so, who are going to be there for 2007.

R. Robinson

Every day, he talked to us about being responsible,

Sandy Montgomery

We talked about it as a team once, and that's it. Now we have to go out, play, and see what happens.

Scott Ritter

How do I know this? I've talked to Bolton's speechwriter.

Tom Streicher

SWAT negotiators talked to him about an hour,

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Dan McDonald

We have talked about (going to state) every day this year.

Mark Grudzielanek

We talked a lot and we had to get comfortable,

Dave McDermott

I was worried about rebounding. We talked about that at halftime.

Robert Bennett

In fact, I even talked to the parents. They were there at the same time.