Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Granholm

Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. . . . (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.

Gene Luen Yang

I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier.

Justin Ramsey

We took very seriously our responsibilities with the government. All of us have a very strong belief in the Army and how it operates and what it does for us. We took a lot of pride in supporting the soldier in whatever way we could. When we left the Arsenal, it was very difficult for us. We wanted to let them know we would support them in any way we could.

James Barber

He had his mind set for what he wanted. And he was going to get it no matter what, ... He went into the Army thinking, 'I'll give it a try.'

Truman Capote

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

Trey Songz

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

Rick Riordan

Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.

Woody Hayes

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.

William G. Boykin

Those Muslims in Americas army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.

Andy Cerroni

Jake Wagner had one of his better games for us on Thursday. He's beginning to gain more and more confidence with each game.

Leon Panetta

Just when we should be getting ready for the 21st century, our education system is beginning to fall down in terms of preparing our students for that future.

Neal Cotts

I think in our case it's come together pretty well. I think Ozzie instilled that from the beginning in spring training, that we're going to be together six months and make the best out of it.

John Snow

I think it's clearly beginning to show signs of a strong recovery, and a recovery that's accelerating, ... Late Edition.

Fran Cohen

I think it's beginning to sink in. More and more faculty are reporting plagiarism.

Barry Hyman

I think the movement we've seen since the beginning of the year, with a few weeks up, a few weeks down, is likely to continue at least through the end of the quarter.

Winston Justice

I thought from the beginning of the season that we could be a talented line. I think that when you actually like the guy playing next to you, it helps out during the game. I've played on lines when it's different. Now you want to play well for the guy next to you.

Teddy Atlas

I thought from the beginning he would be an outstanding pro. He has a pleasing style, is strong, and likes to come forward. I am looking forward to Friday's broadcast.

Aaron Johnston

I thought from beginning to end, that was a very complete game. We've had complete games in terms of our intensity and focus before, but we haven't necessarily done it on offense and defense.

Todd Martin

We told the kids we weren't going to play any zone, no gimmicks. We wanted to chase Scott (Kin) and Justin (Frey) all over the floor. We did a nice job.

Amara Packwood

He has a jealousy problem. He's knocked a man down before, and he chased an ex-boyfriend out of the field.

Rob Mileski

He has a lot of pride playing defense and he just chased him around all night long. ..He?s got that mentality.

Philip Hobbs

He doesn't run on Saturday. He might run in the AON Chase or he might go straight for the Gold Cup, I don't know yet.

Mary Tillman

Pat chased this guy down and ended up chipping his teeth.

Derek Lam

Investors are now less eager to chase prices higher after the big rally recently.

April Six

In the evening after they've had their supper and it's play time, they like to take their clothes off. They like to be down to their diaper. And they're wild men. They're crazy. They crawl around and chase each other. Then they'll stop and look at each other and they'll just laugh. Just giggle. It's so much fun to sit back and watch them.

Alan Sherman

In north Biscayne Bay, there are schools of small pilchards, threadfin herring, large Spanish sardines and the first schools of finger mullet. Offshore, there are schools of ballyhoo and flying fish being chased by jacks, bonito, cero mackerel and dolphin.

Scott Caan

I remember an umpire called one of our players out, and he clearly wasn't, so my dad chased the umpire around the field.

Richard Dawkins

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

Raymond Chandler

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Robin Wright

I just love getting dirty.

Walt Disney

When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point--mine wouldn't be.

Vinod Khosla

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

Roseanne Barr

Don't call people names you dirty name caller you.

Warren Farrell

Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship.

Zach Parise

I don't score highlight reel goals. They come from work, from getting into the corners, getting a little dirty.?

Walter Wriston

Risk is not a dirty word.

Steve Jenkins

He's come to the realization that he has to be more assertive. ... In the past he's had a tendency to disappear on offense at times. He's a great shooter, and for him to shoot (only) three or four times in a game is a sin.

Will Oldham

You're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.

Jonathan Tropper

That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.

Benjamin Tal

A low quality job is better than no job whatsoever. But if many of these jobs don't pay very well, and they're not very stable, it means that in the next economic slowdown, we may see all of them disappear very quickly.

Geno Auriemma

It just kind of disappears out of nowhere. There'll be five possessions where you'll think, 'Holy cow, that's an unbelievable play!' And then it just disappears.

Leonard Cohen

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

Lois Lowry

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

Tim Samuelson

This kind of drawing was in a lot of Sullivan and Adler buildings, and once Wright leaves their offices, this kind of ornament disappears altogether, but reappears in Wright's independent projects. So this is probably his design.

David Sutton

We've all put in a lot of effort and energy. We want success. We don't want this to disappear one year because we don't have a grant.

Patricia Johnson

It ain't about the money, it's about the people. I see them more than some of their family do.

Vernon Keenan

It is gratifying to the GBI when we can identify and return remains to family members. We hope that by using the latest technology in our identification efforts, we will have other success stories as this project continues.

Jeff Fisher

Lastly, the holiday season is a season for family, so I guess it makes sense that we will kickoff the holidays with the Manning family visiting Nashville in consecutive weeks.

Wolf Blitzer

What does the Levy family want to hear from Gary Condit Thursday night?

Jeff Cohen

There is no better time than the holidays to make that introduction. You have so many family members together, you don't have to go out of your way to plan a special function.

Allan Evridge

The people that molded me were my parents. They've always been there for me and provided good leadership. My family made me the type of person I am today.

Fiona McIntosh

We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

Gary Kleeblatt

We think that kids are better off with their parents if they can remain safely in their home. What we had before us in 2004 was an allegation of neglect. It was investigated. It was substantiated and the family was provided services.

Ron Rash

I think a lot of times when you grow up in the South, if you're white at least, you think your family fought Confederate.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Bill Schneider

He's going to be given very different treatment than he had in the past, ... celebrity.

Jack Kokinda

He's given up one run in the last 42 innings. That's the reason why we're winning. If teams can't score, they can't win.

Gary Patterson

He's given TCU three great years. All you can say is it shows that TCU has arrived.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Larry Brown

He'd be in a lot more trouble when he got at home if he didn't do what he did.

Mark Mersel

He knows those guys. It's more of a homecoming than you might know.

Simon Spurr

I'll always be a Brit abroad, and I love London so much, but New York is my home.

Larry Ellison

When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Traian Basescu

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Robert Byrd

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Sandy Berger

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

Walter Cronkite

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Richard Engel

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north.

Don Evans

I'm not scared here, ... I feel very safe here, quite frankly. And I'll tell you what else -- the people of Iraq are not scared.

Nancy Pelosi

The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader,

Nancy Pelosi

Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There's no question about that.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Marc Berman

Each network has at least one new show that's doing well. That's a real positive. There's not a single network where everything bombed.

Bruce Kasrel

The network shouldn't have to make much difference. It's going to happen.

Joe Wilcox

It is the most visually oriented social networking application I have seen thus far.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

E. B. White

The most vulnerable part of the network are the undersea pipelines.

Chris Morris

Now if you have a wireless network that won't connect, well, you need someone on-site.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Tammara Rosenleaf

It will not be whether it's wrong or right to be there. There's no politicking at this table. If our soldiers are over there in harm's way, they should have the very best.

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Townsend Harris

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Rick Riordan

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

Rick Riordan

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Rick Riordan

Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

Rick Riordan

I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously

Regis Philbin

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.