Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Vitter

The situation has gotten a lot better. The water is not rising right now in New Orleans.

Rich Aurilia

The one thing I wish would have happened was we would have scored one more run for Milton. I wish he could have gotten a win out of that instead of a no-decision.

Alan Thicke

The Seavers would have properly registered all firearms. They would have obeyed all the rules about firearms. And they would also have gotten training. ... Growing Pains

Bucky Dent

The rivalry's gotten back to where it used to be.

William Kristol

The White House has now gotten itself in the worst of all possible worlds. She's a stealth candidate, but now she's not a stealth candidate, and she's not a distinguished candidate,

Donald Rumsfeld

That number included people, as we said, that had uneven training and uneven equipment. We improved our analysis, and we've gotten much better visibility into the situation,

Gordon Hartwell

We'd gotten the momentum back, but the thing is, in order to be even with them, we had to do some extraordinary things. How many of those do you have in you in a particular game?

Arthur Johnson

We're always the last priority, ... But people here have gotten to the point where they know that already.

Rachel Tolkien

Everything to me that is the most important, and the most moving in the book, they've gotten on the stage.

Rob Andrew

This is an unfortunate setback, and is in the hands of the medics, who will continually monitor the situation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

Barbara Kingsolver

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Burt Ward

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Carnie Wilson

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

Diana Vreeland

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

Elizabeth Scott

Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Rashid Johnson

The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.

William Petersen

That's how television works, you find something that hits and you mass produce it. I understand that. I just didn't want to do it myself.

Alan Trammel

We got a lot of big hits today and that was one of them.

Ed Rappaport

We think it'll be moving about 20 to 25 mph by the time it hits Florida,

Gene Stephenson

Noah Krol really didn't pitch well today. But he battled through it, and we got hits when we needed to.

Preston Wilson

More than anything you just try to feel comfortable out there. Right now it's not about getting hits I want to feel like I am accomplishing what I want to out there.

John Schuerholz

He's an accomplished, veteran hitter who has had big hits through the years as a pinch-hitter, including some in the postseason. That's something we had targeted.

Barry Shelton

Maybe we used up all of our hits yesterday.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Jane Byrne

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

Jan Schakowsky

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

James Theodore Bent

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

James Weldon Johnson

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.