Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Whipple

I was ordered by the Colony to go to the Island of Bermuda in order to seize on the Gunpowder in the British Magazines.

Robert E. Lee

Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it.

James Stockdale

We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.

Walter Reed

If it happens, it happens... We can't stop living.

John B. Hood

I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for out independence.

Robert Patterson

I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.

Robert Patterson

I began developing the plug-in collection because of several severe shortcomings in Finale that were causing me many hours of tedious manual work.

Calamity Jane

In 1865 we emigrated from our homes in Missourri by the overland route to Virginia City, Montana, taking five months to make the journey.

John B. Hood

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Kirby Dean

It would certainly help. I think that would go a long way to deciding the team that comes out victorious. I think they probably feel like they can win playing our style and we feel like, if the chips fall right, we can win playing their style.

Gary Bardini

The rise won't be as high as we saw a week ago, certainly not as high as we saw three months ago.

Lisa Finstrom

That the claims data were back at 356,000 was certainly better than expected and the dollar is gaining.

Philip Rivers

That's not all on my shoulders, but I certainly feel like I can get in there and manage it and handle the situation.

Herb Sendek

That's just kind of how this team has taken shape. I don't know if you're going to have that many guys night in and night out, but we certainly had terrific balance. Just a good team win.

Carl Everett

That's how we've done it all year long, and it's certainly not going to change now.

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Gavin Graham

You're still paying cold, hard cash, but because the product is considered better, it's counted as a price-cut.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.

Roberto Orci

If something is wrong, it'll prove to be wrong in the wash, and if it's right, you don't want to not expose yourself to it - so I read everything, no matter how horrible it gets. You listen and take it in and if it doesn't sway you, you'll know you considered it.

Jason Tsai

It will be considered a one-time adjustment, rather than any real growth in a company's value.

Hailee Steinfeld

Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

People in their early 20s are not often considered the target demographic for new plays; musicals have had much more success in exploring that coming-of-age period of life.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

Stella Young

The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage.

Dennis Smith

A year ago, I think I filled my tanks in the $1.15, ($1.18) range, and this year, we're pushing $2.25 to $2.30.

Atharva Veda

The One Lord of the Universe is the Support of His humble servants. They love the One Lord; their minds are filled with love for the Lord. The Name of the Lord is all treasures for them.

Robert Gottlieb

'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it's front and center, it isn't crucial.

Joe Scott

Friday was just filled with anger, not so much sadness. As the weekend went on, it just got sadder and tougher.

E. P. Thompson

We have filled that niche. People are very satisfied with this product.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.