Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Massey

The other stores don't seem to be hit like they are -- there was an attempted break just a week ago, ... I'm not sure if what they sell is more attractive.

Allen Stockberger

We approached it in a way that attempted to give the sheriff incentive to raise money. He doesn't like that approach.

Lana Tomlin

Until the end of the game I knew that we had attempted only one free throw shot all night. And I told the girls to quit being content with perimeter shots and drive to the basket. It'll get you to the foul line.

Yusuf Stanikzai

A suicide attacker attempted to enter the police station at 10:30 a.m. When police stopped him, he blew himself up and killed 13 people on the spot besides wounding 13 others.

Yusuf Stanikzai

A suicide attacker attempted to enter the police station at 10:30 a.m. (6:00 a.m. GMT). When police stopped him, he blew himself up and killed 13 people on the spot besides wounding 13 others.

Robert Sloan

All of us are stunned by these revelations of an attempted cover-up, ... The good news is that the cover-up didn't work.

Arne Ljungqvist

It's just as much a violation to be in possession of forbidden doping substances or to have attempted to use them or distributed them to others. All of those are doping violations of the same significance as a positive test.

Wolfgang Schaeuble

This attempted fraud must be punished more severely than as if it were simply another rules infraction.

John McDermott

It's used in serious crimes, such as murder, attempted murder, sexual offences, abductions and missing persons where foul play is suspected, internet luring and child pornography,

Murray Gell-Mann

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.

Lindsey Kildow

World Cups are important because you have to ski well and gain confidence for the Olympics. You have to have other goals besides the Olympics because the Olympics is only one race.

Matt Link

We're hoping to build on last year. Our goal is to get by the second round of the tournament and to be competitive with some of the big teams in the SCC and get into the SCC tournament. We want to capitalize on our experience. These guys all have a lot of time as varsity players last year. We are working on solidifying our defense. We're hoping we can get a couple of guys besides Matt to score some goals. If we do those things, we should be all right.

Ashton Youboty

They had a few dinks and dunks, but besides that, I think we did a good job of containing them. We eliminated the big plays.

Andrew Wilson

They're the best 3-10 team you're going to see in any league out there. And besides that, we've got too much at stake.

Bruce Bochy

It's very close between the two. I wish I had a better reason besides what I just told you. I think Sweeney is our best guy coming off the bench.

Josh Beckett

It's about scoring runs. Pitching, your top three pitchers are going to be out there but besides that, they are going to be yanking guys pretty quick. All the teams will do this, Houston, Philly.

Michael Kennedy

It's a huge undertaking for a community. There is a lot going on besides football.

Ryan Karl

This is the time. There's no other time to do it besides right now. If I don't do it now, it's never going to happen.

Tyga

I'm a creative person, and I've got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I made 'Rack City' and it blew up fast, but I have over 1,000 songs recorded.

Chelsea Peretti

When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.

Chike Okeafor

We'll see. I think we have a lot of talent. They (the critics) were all down on them (the 49ers) in the preseason, and they came out and blew out St. Louis, who has a lot of talent and is going to be a power. So we'll see.

Elton Brand

The referees blew the whistle a lot. Anthony got to the line a lot. Our guys on our team got to the line a few times.

Mark Roman

We blew the coverage. But I still have to get the guy down.

Byron Young

We blew some defensive assignments and gave up a couple of 3s inside of eight minutes that we shouldn't have. Then we couldn't score for a few minutes and that hurt us.

Herman Gooden

We blew everybody out (in the league), and then when we played Regis it was an unnecessarily close game. I told my team, 'How is it that we can blow everybody out, Regis struggled with everybody, and we can't blow Regis out?' And they sat back and they thought about it.

Paul Dretsch

We blew a huge opportunity to take a step toward second place tonight.

Avi Zelba

A suicide bomber blew himself up on the street before he could get on a bus. At least 10 people were wounded, two of them seriously.

Eartha Kitt

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

David Walliams

I haven't traditionally been a family entertainer.

David Boreanaz

The potential for their personal lives entering in their professional lives is dynamic.

Andrew Patel

The plea that will be entered next Thursday will be 'not guilty'.

E. Hurley

We are providing a stage where everyone can participate and everyone can be seen. We see ourselves as a combination of America's Funniest Home Videos and Entertainment Tonight.

Mike deMaine

We're interested in providing something for people of all types and ages. It's going to be family-friendly, and there'll be entertainment between each inning.

Eric Kraus

We have never ventured globally into hair care, ... And our whole enterprise is on a global basis.

Charice Pempengco

I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.

Jacques Chirac

There is no question to enter into the logic of quotas,

Mark Twain

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar

George Bernard Shaw

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow of his interest in himself

Kevin Hallinan

It's not something that would have been seen at the gate. The person knew where he was sitting and positioned himself perfectly.

Carson Palmer

It's not offensive, it's harmless. He's just being Chad. He's being himself and doing what comes to his head.

Tony Stewart

For a kid like him to put himself even into that position was pretty remarkable.

Phaedrus

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

Troy Robinson

We prayed for the families. We prayed that he would get tired of running. We prayed that he would give himself up and we prayed that it would be a peaceful surrender, and that's how it happened,

Robert Taggart

We know who the shooter is, ... It would be better for him to turn himself in before we have to find him.

Joe Torre

Randy's more into challenging himself than something else has to stimulate him.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Al Sharpton

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Chris Chocola

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

Eddie Izzard

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

August Strindberg

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Chester Brown

One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship.

Charlaine Harris

I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

Bill Maher

Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

Dick Durbin

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

Chase Utley

I don't really like the spotlight.

Norv Turner

It's not in the same spot as before. They don't know if it's torn, if it's a sprain or strain, or whatever that is.

Matt Painter

There's a spot for him on our team, but we've got to make some strides in practice.

Kurt Tsue

The surf spots are still not deemed safe.

Denny Green

Some spots you have to be a starter or it doesn't work,

Charles Biderman

Sometimes it doesn't work as spot on as we would like, ... Nothing has worked all the time, and if it did, it wouldn't, because everyone would be doing it.

Josh Paul

It was very, very disappointing for us. Our guys, especially Escobar, battled to get to that spot (and) got the out, so it's very frustrating it wasn't called the right way.

Steven Wright

I spilled Spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

James Lind

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

Holly Black

When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

Thomas Williams

This is the third station we've been to and there is no gas, ... I don't know what we're gong to do.

Tom Richardson

It pretty well emptied our station for a while.

Sylvester Stallone

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Mary Roach

A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.

Timothy Brown

We are taking this station from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Tariq Anwar

You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.

Tom Waits

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.

Curtis Myles

If they come to the station and try the system, I think we've got a customer.

Jessica Raine

The most common place I get stopped by fans is the ladies'.

Joe Torre

They stopped thinking and went out there and reacted.

Rick DiPietro

They're a little bright. But they stopped the puck.

Trevor Rabin

The reason I stopped doing the band is that I wanted to do something different... Yes had become like 'Groundhog Day' for me. I loved being in the band, but it was album-tour, album-tour, different album-different tour.

Dave Ketterman

We just stopped working. I don't understand, but that's what happens.

Scott White

We had the energy. It was there. And then they stopped the punt and it deflated everything.

G. H. Hardy

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

Dave Wood

I feel that I got stopped (because I'm black),

Charles Caleb Colton

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Charles Caleb Colton

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

Edward Gibbon

The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

David Hume

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.

David Hume

When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?

David Duke

Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Political courage is not political suicide.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.