Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sammy Sosa

Everyone knows that what happened to me is great, but at the other side I care about winning. I care about the team and the situation right now.

Arna Bontemps

Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

Karl Shapiro

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

Robert Frost

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Emily Dickinson

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Muriel Rukeyser

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

William Cullen Bryant

A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.

Jones Very

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

Philip Levine

It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it.

John Taylor

I think we ought to assume that $59.99 is going to be the place we start for game prices,

Mary McAleese

It is important that we do not complacently assume that economic success and social disparity inevitably go hand-in-hand.

Michael Hayes

He is a proven leader, and we think he is an excellent choice to assume this important new role at Fred's,

Ron Phipps

Price is always pivotal. If a house is under priced, people sometimes assume that there is something wrong with it.

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

William Daley

Our legal team has concluded the ballot was unlawful, ... I assume that this is an issue that will end up in dispute.

John Schuerholz

If you assume the worst, you have to also assume with modern medical technology he'll be fixed and may very well be ready for the next several years.

Joseph Campbell

If you assume these 17,000 guys go away and never come back, it'd make a difference. But if they come back in two weeks rather than one week, I don't see it making a difference. They don't even have a strike fund. I'm a long way from getting worried.

Martin Fleischmann

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.

Aaron D. O'Connell

We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.

Steven Hadley

There is an opportunity for Iran to do what the EU-3 and we, and I think most of the board of governors (of the International Atomic Energy Agency) hope they will do, which is come back into compliance, stop the conversion activity, and then to resume discussions and negotiations with the EU-3 about a more permanent arrangement.

Sergei Kiriyenko

Iran has the right to peaceful development of atomic energy, but this right must be combined with guarantees of the fulfillment of nuclear nonproliferation demands.

Johannes Stark

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

Terry Jones

The Earth is slowing down. The Earth is spinning slower than it was when the international second was defined using atomic clocks, so we're losing time on those clocks.

Colin Firth

It's an Atom Egoyan movie, ... We know he's not the world's great pornographer. It's hard to quantify what kind of damage (the rating) will have done.

Neil Clarke

It looks like an atomic bomb hit the place. It is severe damage. This is more than a local disaster, this is a national disaster.

John Dalton

Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.

Albert Einstein

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Bible Bible

And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

Harold Mentzer

It belongs in Petaluma, as far as we're concerned.

Jim Tracy

He's a good little offensive player. He looks like he belongs in the majors. This kid knows how to play. And he's a winner.

Lao Tzu

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.

Jim Tracy

It helps convince (him) that he belongs playing in the major leagues. He's a winning player. He understands situational baseball, he can steal, he knows how to read pitchers.

Mike Vogel

I really don't feel my tax dollars should be involved in renovating something that belongs in the private sector. To be perfectly honest, the fact that it's an architectural jewel doesn't really push my buttons.

Guru Nanak

If one marries, either knowingly or unknowingly, a pregnant ,bride , the child in her womb belongs to him who weds her, and is called ,a son received with the bride .

Granth Sahib

Everyone belongs to the One who rules the Universe.

Joseph Wu

Taiwan is an independent sovereign country and its sovereignty belongs to the 23 million Taiwanese people.

Bob Reece

It's completely normal and natural. Brandon belongs here. We've never thought about it, and it's never been mentioned.

S. Walker

I was cheering our guys on and watching those guys celebrate in the other dugout. It would have been tough for us to hold in our emotions if we were in the same situation.

Justin Doellman

It has been a tough week for us. A lot of things have gone wrong, but we're moving on. We've got to take this win, celebrate it tonight and look forward to Saint Joe's (on Tuesday).

Al Thornton

I was just trying to celebrate with the fans. I didn't know they were going to rush the court.

Ram Kapoor

Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.

Rafael Benitez

I prefer to talk about this game, to celebrate our victory and to show respect for my players,

Geoffrey Rush

I mean, we are talking about one of the most celebrated and twisted characters of Western tradition. It gives you a sense of a do-or-die bravado.

Dwyane Wade

I mean, you can't really celebrate after you hit the free throw. But if you miss the free throw, yeah, it takes the whole and-one thing out the window. Then it's just a basket.

Jason Perry

I'm really enjoying this. But I always enjoy coming up here and visiting my sister, my parents, my nephews. The fireworks, they're just a way that we can come together and celebrate together. Seeing them go off is fun, but doing this with family is what's important.

Jane Smith

I hope we will all continue to support the King Center and think of it being as important as any national monument. And we should celebrate the King holiday now as a holiday for two very special people.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Olin Browne

I'm thrilled to be here. I would like to play well enough to be invited back. And there's only one way to get back.

Morihei Ueshiba

Fill yourself with Ki, invite the attack.

John Lackey

Nolensville has been invited to the party, and they didn't show up to the dance.

Colin Egglesfield

I've been struggling so long with my career that I haven't been in a position to invite a woman into my life. It would have been like, 'Hey, come live with me and my two roommates, and let's make ramen noodles tonight.'

Alex Davis

Big River. Trent Anthony invited me to Young Life in my eighth-grade year, and I have been involved ever since.

Sarah Mlynowski

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

Felipe Roque

Those who are not invited to the party should keep silent and take their music elsewhere,

Cindy Stein

Honestly, I don't know how we couldn't be in. But at the same time we don't have that invite yet, so we're trying to get the automatic.

Fred Funk

I'm still in shock that I was invited to be in this thing,

Teddy Dyess

I really think he's just about back at square one. I don't think he's leaning one way or another right now.

Josh Silver

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

Terry Mattingly

You could tell he was leaning toward Buddhism.

Gino Guyer

From here on out, we've just got to lean on each other and push each other and be there to support each other.

Mike Garcia

If we're not there on the routine basis, some will get relaxed a bit. They'll lean toward getting away from (meeting standards). We just don't have the manpower to be there as often as we should.

Natalie Imbruglia

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

Axl Rose

I'm in California, and that usually leans Democratic, and that's usually where I lean anyway... I would lean Democrat; I would lean Obama.

Otto Rehhagel

I have been observing Samaras for quite a while and now was the appropriate time to select him.

Richard Jefferies

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

Gayle Korczyk

It is was a "GOD MOMENT" that I shall never forget.

Donald Hall

now i have time to do stuff, and do stuff i shall do!

Bible Bible

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.

William Blake

Father! father! where are you going? / O do not walk so fast. / Speak, father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost.

Leonardo da Vinci

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other.

Dolly Parton

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Brian Waldron

We can co-exist with soccer, absolutely. They're essentially a summer sport and we're winter. We'll make it work beautifully.

Truman Capote

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

Rick Riordan

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

William Law

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

William Wordsworth

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

Will Durant

The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

Sarah Rees Brennan

The poor lady must have dropped that", she said, and undid the gate stepping out to get it. Jared put his hand on it, "No". Mrs Jeffries stared down at him. "What do you mean...no?" Jared and Mrs.Jeffries stared back at each other,neither breaking eye contact in a perfect deadlock. Then Jared smiled at her. "I mean", he said with conviction, "it's mine." "It's what?" Jared stood up, pocketing the lipstick. "I know", he responded. "Everyone tells me i'm more of a summer". Mrs.Jeffries continued to stare. Jared continued to speak. "I'm going to go now. Me... and my lipstick.

Sarah Silverman

People who follow their religion to the letter of the law are just silly. I mean, I want to tell Hasidic Jews I promise you, God will not mind if you wear a nice cotton blend in the summer.

Sarah Silverman

Summer camp: the second worst camp for Jews.