Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Phil Harrison

There are the born teachers who just want to do it. People will do it because they want to put something back into the community. Or they will have a passion for what they do and want other people to share that passion.

Laura Schlessinger

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Pavel Fomin

I was born into a very, very poor family during the war in 1941. Life was miserable for everyone.

Tommy Burns

I was born into a drug infested environment back in October of 1984, ... I witnessed things that many only see in movies. I saw a lot of gang violence and drug use while I was growing up. I used to see people dying all around me.

Jeffrey Kluger

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Carlo Rubbia

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

Matthew Fox

I think when people watch this show and get to the end of the episode, they're dying to find out what's going to happen next week and they really don't have any idea.

Walter Long

I think that dying is something that Napoleon has thought about from the very moment the sentence was pronounced in his case.

Raymond Chandler

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

Vladimir Lenin

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

Samuel Goldwyn

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

Robert Penn Warren

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

Walt Whitman

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots,

Sandra Brown

Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

Rod McKuen

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

Jay Brown

He wants the place to feel like a family environment.

James Sarni

What will keep swap spreads from widening dramatically is that we are still in (a relatively) low yield environment.

Deb Patterson

I thought about the fans and how incredible it was for us to have competed in that environment. I thought about our players and just how proud I was of how tough-minded they had become as competitors and how happy I was for them. I thought about our staff and how hard they've worked.

Mary Walker

It gives our workforce a great opportunity to expand their knowledge within the normal working environment.

Jeff VanArsdel

It is important if they are going to get into a sectional environment they needed to be in tonight's environment as long as they could be. We were able to get them quality minutes tonight.

Daniel Nepstad

There is a notion that the presence of people can be harmful to the environment. But this is not always true.

Richard Chu

I don't have high expectations for revenue gains from HP in this environment.

Jason Griggs

He felt trapped in an environment where he could do nothing right. He could do nothing to make his family or his father happy.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

James Forrestal

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

Ruben Studdard

I am a product of the public school system ... and I had a lot of friends involved in gang activity.

Jim Sheridan

I just knew his world. It was like the world I grew up in in Dublin. I knew gangsters and drugs and I was even in a band. It was like he was a long lost brother.

Stuart Smith

I'm going to have a gang here. I don't know where I'm going to put them all.

Geno Auriemma

You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.

Selwyn Pieters

The drug dealers and gang members are waiting for these teenagers.

Norman Vincent Peale

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

Bobby Scott

The after-school programs that have been disparaged are the kinds of things that will actually reduce gang involvement.

Kirk Ferentz

It's hard to gang up one, ... when there are two that are pretty good.

Javier Solana

Just yesterday there were very significant and important demonstrations in Belgrade that are growing and growing in numbers because the very violence of Milosevic's police ... is making more and more people go to the demonstrations,

Barclay Tagg

He kept going lame. He was going through growing pains, I guess.

Jessica Sanders

He really wants to sit down and work with us, ... I think that's so important because we are growing so much.

Danny Clark

He's a smart guy. He's getting better every time he lines up. But he's still got some growing to do, and hopefully we can stunt some of his growth this week.

Mike King

I think it should get big. It's growing pretty rapidly.

Bobby Schindler

I think you're seeing the growing support of the pro-life movement.

Akio Yoshino

There is a growing view that insurers have had their run for the short term, ... Money is shifting to the laggards of the markets now, such as the technology companies.

Rita Ora

What I'll remember about New York is growing up really fast.

Matt Applebaum

I think we all have to keep working as a unit to get better. Offensive line, more than any position on the field, has to work as a cohesive group. If we keep growing as a group, we'll be pretty good.

William Golding

The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.

Bruce Babbitt

It's going to be a long tough summer, ... There's no relief in sight. We've got September and October to go.

Leon Trotsky

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

Johnny Damon

This is the playoffs right now. It's amazing. It's here already before October comes.

Vance Joy

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

Adrian McKinty

The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.

Benazir Bhutto

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

Ben Bernanke

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression,

Don Wylie

August, September and some of October tend to be our peak months. We are seeing some volume pickup, but it's not the kind of peak we've seen previously.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Mark Serdjenian

He was a very sweet kid, really likable. It's very traumatic for people here.

Bill Cowher

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. He saw something in me I'm not sure I saw in myself.

Denny Green

He didn't get in. I thought he was in until I saw the replay.

Mike Patterson

He just saw the same things in me and him.

Danny Aiello

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

Shun Long

I tipped it. I just saw it and I took it.

Jim Tressel

I didn't really see it at all. All I saw was there was a big pileup.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was.

Annika Sorenstam

I come from a little town just like she does, ... So for her to travel all the way from Sweden and live your dream, when I saw that headline, I said, 'That's what I want to do.'

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

William H. Macy

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

Wendell Berry

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

Yoko Ono

All I'm saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

Morgan Saylor

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

Mahatma Gandhi

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

Mahatma Gandhi

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing enduring can be built on violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.