Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Kenneth Edmonds

So most of the acting that's done are usually Canadians and because it's shot in Toronto, there's this law that you have to use Canadians for extras.

Carter Jenkins

Sometimes it's just a piece of tape. The other day it was a box of cereal. When we're shooting, he's not there; it's all visual effects. Acting is reacting, and when you don't have anything to act to, it's tough.

Michael Gardner

The whole fourth quarter they were acting as if they were behind. I tried to use my timeouts judiciously to calm them down.

Elie Wiesel

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Tasnim Aslam

We have protested to the Indian government over this provocative act in which one fisherman's life has been lost.

Rob Edwards

Wolves need to act naturally, and they won't be able to do that if they are confined to the park. When they are seasonally unemployed during the winter, they will move outside the park.

Richard H. Davis

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.

Jonathan Zittrain

To me, Congress would have been wise to say 'If you build a system that approximates the balance of rights with copyright itself, we'll protect it. If you go overboard, you are on your own,' ... It would have been a harder act to create because it would have had a gray zone ... but that's what we pay legislators to do -- to write subtle legislation.

Carrie Catt

When a just cause reaches its flood tide - whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power

Michael Gartner

He's involved in a lot of central Iowa causes and issues and is just a terrific guy.

Richard Andrews

It's going to cause major damage, and there's very little that can be done in the short term to reduce that level of damage.

Brittany Daniel

It's going to be cool cause it will be warm weather.

Sam Page

At this time, I can't say anything as to cause of death,

Sathya Baba

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

Tim Kane

The interesting cause of organized labor's demise is perhaps earlier victories -- the vast majority of Americans are now empowered and skilled to the extent that they do not need collective bargaining,

Richard Byrd

We're focusing on evacuation and what would cause us to evacuate major portions of our population. One of the largest impacts on Davidson County would be the hopefully unlikely but catastrophic failure of the Wolf Creek Dam.

Leonardo da Vinci

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Merritt Patterson

Being outside and being in the sun is great for me.

Maisie Williams

'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.

Stan Musial

I have no hesitation to say that St. Louis is a great place in which to live and work.

Steve Sanger

Total has a great nutrition story, ... We need to offer variety and taste appeal.

Josh Silver

We think that we have great potential but never reach it.

Jim Calhoun

We went to see 'Glory Road' the other night and it was a great film.

Chris Scelfo

Though our wins and losses are not where we wanted them to be, to have 100 people see this season through is a great testament to their character.

Van Chancellor

Unbelievable. Oh, boy, she looks great. She's come back, lost weight, (is) in great shape, looks good.

Rob Schmidt

Twenty-one (points) is a great performance, but other guys stepped up.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Viktor E. Frankl

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

Alison Lohman

I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about

Alison Gopnik

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

Alison Gopnik

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

Anthony Jeselnik

Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.

Anthony Jeselnik

I'm very arrogant and mean. I'm almost like a bad guy professional wrestler.

Ann Landers

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

Ann Brashares

I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

Ally Condie

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

Anthony de Mello

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

Anthony de Mello

Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.

Annette Funicello

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

Cristina Saralegui

I'm a royal pain in the behind.

Conor Oberst

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

Clarence Darrow

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

Daniel Dennett

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

Dan Brown

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn..

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

William Goldman

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

Waylon Jennings

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

William Stafford

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

Walter Gilbert

I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. ... Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument .

Walter Gilbert

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

Winston Churchill

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

Winston Churchill

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Rhonda Byrne

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.