Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Sharper

He might be a short guy, but short guys can get through small cracks and make plays.

W. S. Gilbert

If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!

William Goldman

Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.

Wendell Phillips

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

Reid Scott

I guess my favorite Web site would be theonion.com. I used to read that paper all the time in New York, and it still cracks me up. It's actually my homepage on my computer.

Greg Lowell

I'm just hoping he will get some more looks from colleges. He's slipping through the cracks when he doesn't need to be.

Darren Lehmann

It's not a great (pitch). There's a lot of cracks in it, but it's not a 114 (wicket). It's a 250 (wicket).

Karl Marx

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

Kristin Kreuk

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

Richard Dawkins

Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

Henry Ford

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

Kenneth Rogoff

Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.

Karl Marx

No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

Milton Friedman

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

John Howard

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

James Sinegal

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

Jim Rohn

Profits are better than wages.

Virgil

A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.

Samuel Johnson

The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

Richard Preston

The crown of a supertall redwood has a towering, cloudy, irregular form, and the crowns of the tallest redwoods can sometimes look like the plume of exhaust from a rocket taking off.

William Butler Yeats

Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh

Terry Pratchett

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

Thomas a Kempis

The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross.

John Dunning

The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

Joe Greene

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.

Joel Brown

Forget the haters! They just want the crown!