Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Brent Plater

Green sturgeon are on the brink of extinction, and we have a moral obligation to ensure that this ancient creature survives for future generations to enjoy.

Jack Gleeson

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

Rig Veda

The gods sacrificed with the sacrifice to the sacrifice. These were the first rites. These powers reached the firmament, where the ancient demi-gods and the gods are.

Michael Brand

The Getty is a contemporary museum of ancient art, in some ways.

Shinzo Abe

The dolphin fishing that takes place in Taiji town is an ancient fishing practice deeply rooted in their culture and their practices and supports their livelihoods.

Edith Hamilton

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Yotam Tepper

This is a very ancient structure, maybe the oldest in our area.

M.I.A.

Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.

Mike Modano

It's ancient history. It is what it is. It's been two years since that series. We've been looking forward to just the chance to get back in the playoffs and kind of put something together that we think could be fun and rewarding for everybody.

Bible Bible

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Michael Williams

He has big ears and he's real skinny. People like to pick on him. It was like that as long as I could remember.

Merv Adams

He'll reach up and take one of those big old floppy ears and he'll say, 'I can't hear you,' and they'll start that all over again.

Margaret Thatcher

[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

Plutarch

The belly has no ears.

John D. Rockefeller

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

Phyllis Bottome

... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

Pericles

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

Joyce Carol Oates

It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.

Stephen Campbell

Kentucky has a rich history, and we want to do our small part to preserve it for future generations.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Thomas Piketty

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Eric Davis

We've got to think about everything possible that there is to think about. We have got to turn over every stone, and look into the future to find out what's waiting for us. What can physics do ... where should physics be going?

Tom Lemming

I think Urban Meyer has a future Heisman Trophy candidate, a guy who's going to lead them to a national championship.

Kim Stanley Robinson

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

John Smoltz

Huddy is Opening Day starter for the future here.

Craig Patrick

He wasn't playing like he was two years ago, and I didn't see us re-signing him. This was a good opportunity to get a player for the future and someone who can do the job defensively this year and possibly beyond.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Laura Stromberg

I think, in general, people just want a new, refreshing voice, and they're hearing that from Kinky.

Dean Acosta

He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say.

Mannie DeCastro

He used a quote from the movie, 'For Love of the Game,' where the pitcher made it so he couldn't hear the crowd.

Demetra Blevins

He kicked her all the way down the stairs. You could hear her hit every step.

S. Hughes

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

Q-Tip

I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

Daniel Inouye

Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people of Hawaii, who are still struggling for their moment in the sun,

William Vickrey

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

Rowan D. Williams

If you think of intersecting circles, holy wisdom is that point at which the realities meet, overlap, intersect, interpenetrate.

William Wordsworth

The holy time is quiet as a nunBreathless with adoration.

Karl Marlantes

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Don Lucia

First of all, I would like to congratulate Holy Cross. I thought they played terrific.

Charles Spurgeon

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

Alan Bennett

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

Randy Teeney

When we got it in sight of the boat, HOLY SMOKES! It's a big halibut.

John Pironti

The Social Security number is the Holy Grail. It's the one piece of information about a person that can be used to unlock all other pieces of their personal information.

Carl Jung

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

Richelle Mead

Only what?” I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. “Only… more human.” And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. “Get out,” I said.

Richelle Mead

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

Trey Songz

Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice

Will Cuppy

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

Sarah Silverman

As soon as a woman is old enough to have an opinion and have a voice and be unafraid, she's very much encouraged by all sorts of people to crawl under a rock and die. And it's so weird. My crime is not dying.

Sarah Bernhardt

You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.

Reba McEntire

Whenever a natural disaster occurs, it is always the Red Cross that responds quickly and compassionately. I am honored to lend my voice to their cause, and thrilled to serve on the Celebrity Cabinet for 2010.

Verne Lundquist

Pardon me while I lower my voice.

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Alex Honnold

I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.

Dr. Beebe

You've got to try and normalize your life. I just walked around every morning, the same as I do here (in Connecticut).

Curtis Strange

I know he doesn't like the word 'ceremonial,'

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Paramahansa Yogananda

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

Darrell Royal

Amazing. There's just no other word for it. Amazing.

Cynthia Lennon

There was no word from him between 1971 and 1974,

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.