Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.

Isobelle Carmody

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

Gilbert White

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Zac Goldsmith

I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

Yehuda Berg

At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

E. Hicks

The police received a call from a pay phone in the high school that a student heard a conversation in the bathroom about a bomb, ... But someone may not have overheard anything.

Brian Bethune

The overall momentum in construction remains solid. We expect this pattern to continue, with public and commercial construction taking the leadership baton in 2006 as housing starts ease back moderately.

Mandy Close

The past two games were battles, so we have to be ready to go to battle (again). We'll prepare this full week for them, we'll come out with a lot of energy and be ready to go.

Virginia Hey

When I was younger, my mum used to put fresh flowers in bath water instead of rubber ducks, and since then I had a love of perfumes.

Thomas Friedman

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Irwin M. Jacobs

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

Gail Carson Levine

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Giraldus Cambrensis

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Vanessa Hudgens

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Frank Lampard

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

Steve Jaksa

That would be nice. Obviously that would be tough to do but hopefully someone can step up like J.T. did this weekend.

Mark Zuckerberg

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.

Ray Winstone

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

Greg Zipadelli

We'll race the way that got us here, and hopefully we can lead some laps, win some races and not make mistakes,

Allan Bristow

Well probably get it up to 18 players. We've got some young players (already on the roster), and hopefully they'll shine and show their potential that they belong.

Brian Barwick

We have the opportunity, if we want, to get the person in place hopefully before the finals.

David Gill

We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.

C. S. Lewis

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

C. S. Lewis

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Michael Greco

The ABA position is that some of these provisions are so invasive of individual liberties that there has to be a sunset provision. They're offensive, I think, to democracy,

Skip Holtz

Today was a teaching day. We were able to spend the majority of our time on individual work with a corrective mindset. We had the opportunity to throw it around a little more and key on execution.

Robert Waterston

We're really looking at an individual evolutionary event, and this is spectacular.

Pierre Omidyar

In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.

Larry Jackson

Most of them have an individual drive, knowing they have to come in at a state level.

Tom Taulli

I think this will be a volatile stock. Individual investors should be wary.

Bede Griffiths

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

Chuck Michaelson

The pins killed us. When we're in those matches and go to being pinned ... that killed (us).

Bobbi Brown

Nobody is the color of translucent powder. Instead, choose a powder that matches your skin tone.

John M. Smith

That was real important, those two wins there. Maybe in the big picture at the end, those two matches might have made the difference.

Kurt Warner

With the talent I've been around, and I've been around a lot of talent, this team matches up very favorably with the talent that I've been around.

Rick Adelman

Who matches up well with them? Detroit, maybe.

Massimo Moratti

Mancini will stay with us ... Adriano will have to play well in the remaining matches (of the season) and should stay with us too.

Ben Russell

We had to play more. Playing in matches during the week wasn't enough.

Maria Sharapova

We have tough matches and I've been able to pull through, so I'm very happy.

Song Zhenhua

If a scent sent to us matches with any sample from our bank, then we have a clue.

Brea Grant

'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison is my favorite series of all time.

Albert Pujols

winning and getting back to the World Series and getting a ring.

Victor Diaz

I was so stressed. Every at-bat's been like the World Series for me.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Lorraine Toussaint

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

L. J. Smith

I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Olga Kurylenko

On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.

Brandon Ferguson

To be that disciplined about it speaks volumes.

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Chaka Khan

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

Bev Perdue

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

August Strindberg

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Irish Sayings

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Camille Paglia

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

William Shakespeare

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

Karen Armstrong

It can be confusing. But it's a wonderful organization.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Cheryl Strayed

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.