Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Burke

The pictures are just the tip of the iceberg. I don't think we'll have difficulty because there's a heck of a lot of evidence.

David Stern

We've got teams that have been through stretches of difficulty. As fast as you can spell Clippers.

Kevin Duckworth

Were working to alleviate as much difficulty as possible by making sure the process in the parking lot runs smoothly ... and to make sure traffic is not in long lines,

Steve North

We have had difficulty in enforcing the occupancy limit requirements,

Elizabeth English

I think the teachers are just as excited as the kids. Many teachers told me they had difficulty sleeping because they had first day jitters.

Christopher Shilakes

Management may temper that outlook slightly given the ongoing difficulty in the PC environment.

Lord Falconer

We are not seeking a confrontation with the judiciary. They would have no difficulty with any legislation we might pass.

Zam Fredrick

We had difficulty with their zone, but we got some shots and they weren't going down for us. (The Tigers) play great defense. They get out into the passing lanes all the time, and we knew that but couldn't overcome it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Kristy Curry

That was the big question from the media so I guess I had to talk about it. I don't think it was me harping on it but when there is something not going well that seems to be the focus. It wasn't always pretty, but this team has found a way to win.

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.

Councilman Banks

We have worked together. We've held up our end.

Connie Clark

We have team rules and every member of our program is held accountable for them.

Chauncey Billups

We've done nothing. We've held serve with home-court advantage.

LaMont Jordan

We've done enough talking. What we have to do now is step up, be held accountable, realize we're professional athletes, that we have a job to do, and we have to go out there and do it,

Philip Schultz

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Peter Gallagher

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

Ron Zonen

Michael Jackson should be held responsible for what he did,

Denise Marshall

You can give away memberships to gyms, but unless the person is held accountable, they are not likely to keep up with it.

Clint Hurdle

I thought he took a very positive first step. He didn't get outside of himself. In the first inning he was mid-20s in pitches, but he battled. He didn't give up a big inning after that. Any time there was traffic, he held runners well. He made pitches when he had to. He mixed his pitches. He held the left-handers very effectively. A big outing for him and a big win for us.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Pico Iyer

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

Raymond Queneau

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Rick Warren

Relationships are always worth restoring.

Marty Smith

That was two too many. The first rule was you must shower every day.

Doug McBride

We have to have rules in place before we can do it.

Alan Dooley

We need to put the rules together very, very soon.

Dwight Mitchell

We haven't ruled out anything at this stage.

Stephanie Parker

You just don't want to rule anything out.

Lawrence Dallaglio

I wouldn't want to rule out the possibility of a return. It is something that has to be thought about very seriously.

Grant Teaff

What will come out of this is there will be uniform rules set.

Thomas Heywood

Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.

Guru Singh

He has no rival, no attacker, no enemy. His rule is unchanging and eternal, He does not come or go.

Carl Rakosi

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Lawrence Krauss

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

Caitlin Moran

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

Gary Knowles

We are doing it for their own protection. They are subjected to not just violence, but also social diseases.

John Oliver

When he (Shaw) wrote 'Pygmalion,' he was really making a statement about social classes.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

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.

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.

Arrigo Sacchi

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

Bill Vaughan

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

J. Stoltzfus

Today was a make-nice day, and I think it went well.

Ted Jr.

Today was a big, big win for us.

Paul Roos

Today that didn't happen, we've got to work out why?

Thomas Froehlich

We've made an announcement today and there is no other decision.

Toni Jennings

Where we are today is about where we were two weeks after Andrew,

Azzedine Alaia

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Dmitry Medvedev

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

Charles Krauthammer

To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that [President Obama] is living in a fantasy world...They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change is the biggest threat and they are shocked that the Russians actually are interested in territory.

Arthur Koestler

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

Angela Merkel

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

Marvin Kalb

Vladimir Putin is a Russian czar. He's kind of a mix of Peter the Great and Stalin. He's got both in his veins. And he looks out first and foremost for the national security interests of Russia. He accepts that, in Eastern Europe, that is a Russian backyard, that is a Russian sphere of influence. Ukraine lives most uncomfortably and unhappily in a Russian backyard.

Marvin Kalb

Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.

Marvin Kalb

Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of Ukraine that he could always use to advance Russian interests. And he is now at a point where nobody in the West is shouting, hey, stop. Give us back Crimea. It's all accepted. And so he has won.

George Orwell

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

Michael Hudson

Look at Ukraine. Its currency, the hernia, is plunging. The euro is really in a problem. Greece is problematic as to whether it can pay the IMF, which is threatening not to be part of the troika with the European Central Bank and the European Union making more loans to enable Greece to pay the bondholders and the banks. Britain is having a referendum as to whether to withdraw from the European Union, and it looks more and more like it may do so. So the world's politics are in turmoil.