Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burn Gorman

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves.

Lynn Plett

Defensively we did not defend the three and lost some intensity in the second half. We had more turnovers and they were able to get about 14 points right off of those turnovers. Then the crowd got involved and we lost composure and spaced out on our transition defense.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Steve Bennett

I think it's going to continue to be difficult. They won't be working together.

Eddy Curry

I think it's going to continue spreading throughout the league because what players are finding is once they try them they really work. It's not just a fashion thing.

Greg Kennett

I think it's going to be tough playing in Des Moines over the weekend because Drake has a home court advantage. We are going to continue our same strategy, which is winning the doubles point and winning down low. If we keep our course, I think we will be in good shape.

Craig Thomas

I think it's fair to say if I'm going to continue working, I can do more for Wyoming with my seniority in the Senate than as governor.

Steve Nicol

I think it's been a steady focus. So far this year we've done it, and we need to continue to do it. It's good to hear the guys think that way; that's where they want to go.

Rick Johnson

I think it's been a group effort. We've got a ways to go, but we're making strides every day. And it's been through a group effort. I think those relationships are solid, and hopefully they'll continue that way.

David Whiles

I think it's an important vehicle for them to continue to help us meet their needs in terms of system design and usability of the system.

Jim Ewan

We just couldn't make plays. Too many times we weren't successful on first down and that just makes it really difficult to sustain drives. We wanted to be in a position to win the game in the fourth quarter and we were there.

Todd Greene

We have to stand by our president during this most difficult of times. He has a really tough job. But right now I am looking forward to some time off. I'm actually planning a hunting trip with Vice President Cheney next weekend. It should be a good way to relax.

Melissa Arms

Heather tried a more difficult first pass on floor. It's a big risk, and it could have a big payoff. Unfortunately she fell in the meet even though she nailed it in warm-ups. But its good, she needs to make a statement if she wants to make nationals.

Rafael Nadal

He plays all the time inside the court. He returns very fast all time. And at the difficult moments, I think maybe the 15-40, 4-all, he has a lot of confidence.

Iris Chang

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

Lamon Brewster

I felt that after the Meehan fight, which was difficult for me for a number of reasons, I had to make a statement with Golota. And I did that.

Mary Ellen Mark

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

Eleanor Mondale

I don't want to name names. But sometimes when actors are monosyllabic it makes it difficult to have a good story.

Erik Morales

He was very difficult to fight. He's very elusive. He never really put up a fight because he was moving around so much. He hit me with a lot of punches, but he also missed a lot.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Bristol Palin

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

Doug Stanhope

My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag.

Doug Stanhope

"Close your mouth when you chew." That was my mother's big one.Why do people eat lunch together? I want to eat by myself. Chewing is one of the most revolting things to me. Wind makes me unnerved, too.

Doug Stanhope

You want to help mother Earth? Try sodomy. Sodomy is eco-friendly, and abortion is green.

Douglas Adams

You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen.

Douglas Adams

Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.

Dwight L. Moody

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

Dudley Nichols

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

Duke Ellington

My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of - or reincarnated from - royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Friedrich Schiller

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Friedrich Schiller

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

Peter Abrahams

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.