Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Ham

There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact.

Stephen Fried

I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and to work with him once. I felt as if I had been allowed to try on the Crown Jewels. He was a great, remarkable man.

Kurt Warner

I was looking for someone that was willing to give me a chance to play the game the way I played again. He definitely allowed me to do that. ... It wasn't necessarily what he had done with quarterbacks in the past, although it never hurts to be a part of a team or with a coach that has had great offensive success and great success with quarterbacks.

Ben Wizner

Kidnapping an innocent man and sending him to a secret location to be tortured is not only illegal, it is immoral. We need a full and complete investigation of a policy that has allowed countless detainees, some of them entirely innocent, to be tortured in our names.

Owen Williams

Know your stuff. That makes it easier to avoid nasty surprises, such as a contract coming up for renewal with no clauses capping price increases in it, when you have allowed yourself no time to renegotiate anything.

S. Hughes

Here's a conference with the Foreign Secretary tackling some of the most controversial issues of the day and people aren't allowed to stay in their seats if they shout any protest, even restrained protest,

Tommy Amaker

He's a good basketball player, certainly he played very well this afternoon. I think that he was the catalyst that allowed them to get such a big lead early.

Deborah Ann Woll

I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.

Robert Bennett

There is, I am convinced, a very strong majority if not unanimity among the senators that the president should not be allowed to exit this situation without some kind of formal notice being taken of his behavior.

Scott Rowland

Guys are expected to perform well. I think our guys that we really weren't counting on playing, they have learned the system a little bit.

David Piehler

He's been the go-to guy all year. It's a hard thing knowing we lost by just three. I'm sure we'll be counting the free throws and offensive rebounds they got.

Jason Grilli

I think a lot of people are not taking us seriously. I think they're counting us out. We might surprise some people when they don't expect us to win. It takes a lot of the pressure and heat off of us. That might work to our advantage.

John Marshall

If you're just counting the stats that's probably accurate. But he's had a good year. He's a tone-setter.

H. Hart

In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

Jim Thomas

I had a lot to gain from missing the shot (in regulation). I'm a senior leader, so the guys are counting on me to make plays like that.

Zach Parise

I knew the team was counting on me to take it to the next step. I had to elevate my game. And I know I did that.

Johan Bruyneel

I'm not counting out anything. With what's happened in France, he would have a little extra motivation.

Roger Staubach

I'm not counting on winning a race soon, but I don't want to be too old before I win.

Terry Thompson

I think it makes a big difference, ... Especially going a distance and on fillies, it helps fillies out a lot.

B. R. Hayden

Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time. If hogs receive a lot of hunting pressure, they'll pick up and move, often a mile or two away. So when you have hogs on your property, all your neighbors soon will have hogs on their lands too, whether they want them or not.

Harry Shearer

I think it's the distance between what we're supposed to think their job entails and what their job really entails.

Steve Rice

It has been a long time since a shot putter has thrown that kind of distance for Lead-Deadwood.

Graham Motion

I think this is more this filly's deal. The distance is what she's going to appreciate. We got away with it last time because she was very fresh.

Mark Hagen

He has done some good things for us. We would like to see some more distance with his punting.

Mark Hagen

He has done some good things for us, ... We would like to see some more distance with his punting.

Rick Barnes

He did well going the distance because he did not even practice yesterday.

Jon Davidson

He is a tough kid, but he has a lot to learn about distance running. When he learns it, look out.

Winston Churchill

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

Ben Goldacre

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity,

Aristotle

The first principle of all action is leisure.

Steve Earle

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Sutton Foster

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

Mortimer Adler

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Peter Drucker

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

Frank Tyger

When you like your work every day is a holiday.

Warren G. Bennis

Cicero talks, and people marvel; Ceasar talks and people march

Barbara Boxer

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

Chris Quest

Even if we marched without the uniforms, even if we marched without the marching 100, you know, it's in us, you can't take our spirit away.

Sam Smith

Tuesday, March 7, Dumpsters will be in place, so they can turn in their garbage.

Barry McGuire

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

Jenny Williams

We were marching to say we want more than day to day survival.

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Rick Riordan

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

William Morris

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Rebecca Stead

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Roald Dahl

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Richard Dawkins

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Robin Williams

We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

Brad Todd

If we want to get better, we've got to get a tougher schedule. It's time to turn it up a notch, but I think we're taking steps in the right direction.

Khaleda Zia

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

John C. Maxwell

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

Liberace

Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?

Martha Beck

In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.

Mike Krzyzewski

There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person you are.

Simon Baker

In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

Pedro Martinez

If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.

Kevin Hart

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.