Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Dan Bloom

All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Al Hubbard

There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Alan Milstein

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.

Tony Blair

At that point we close the chapter or we close the book.

James T. Mccay

What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Jack Harris

You have to go by the handbook. We have all the guidelines in that book. ... Coming out at a meeting and saying you can do this or that, we can't do that in a meeting.

Keira Knightley

It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.'

Chamberlain Oguchi

I was looking for my shot early and they were leaving me open. It's a certain way they play defense, and I wanted to get us going.

Suzy Merchant

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

Lloyd Carr

I think it is certainly one of the better defensive teams in the country.

Jan Pronk

I think it is to a certain extent youngness of the administration and overemphasis on domestic policies rather than on international policy-making,

Tom Schrader

I think investors are reacting positively to what's going on right now, with this new phase of the war. The more certain investors are that things are going well -- and they seem to be going very well -- the more hints we have that Saddam may be dead, the more investors are going to jump in.

Stephen Hess

It certainly has some effect on his immediate domestic agenda. He has no money for anything but Katrina.

Aaron Boone

It certainly doesn't impact me much this year. You never know what's going to happen down the road, but I wouldn't expect it to have much effect on me this year. If it does, then I'm not doing my job, anyway.

Art Hogan

It certainly doesn't hurt, ... It always helps to hear her say that she's still confident but it's 12 months out.

Brian Doyle

The incident was resolved before anything was moved.

John Peck

The incident is of a de minimis nature; and since the resources of this office are limited, I will not expend the resources upon a prosecution that lacks merit,

O. J. Simpson

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

John Lyly

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

Tyler Baskfield

This is a very rare incident to happen. Mountain lions tend to be very elusive. Typically mountain lions don't want any part of people.

Tyler Baskfield

This is a very rare incident to happen.

Lajos Egri

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

Gerard Kennedy

Every serious incident obviously tells us that we need to be doing better,

Wayne Minnaar

There have been no reported incidents so far, but we are monitoring the situation as usual.

Tom Gavin

He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement.

Chenzira Kahina

The intention is not just sexual, but it's intimate in a sacred way.

Eric Holder

I don't have any intention of resigning.

Brian Billick

It's our intention to live up to the contract.

Andy Baker

That project is moving. We have no intention of stopping.

Sean Benson

That is our intention. We want to get the lake back, if possible.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.

Alan Cohen

Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

Moby

I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

Keith Guttin

We'll just have to wait and see how long it takes to get the swelling down and flexibility back in his finger.

Nicholas D. Kristof

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Moshe Sharett

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

Jewel

I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.

Gregory Benford

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.

Cormac McCarthy

It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.