Famous Quotes & Sayings

A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.

As far as I know there is nothing like that (in Arizona). That is really beneficial to folks accustomed to a retail center like that.

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

Vinton Cerf

Of course, you do have to get accustomed to being satisfied a little bit at second-hand by people who actually do some of the key work.

The NASCAR guys are accustomed to this type of car, this type of tire, and this racetrack. They do have an advantage.

Once we got accustomed to it and slowed down.

Scott Lynch

Compared to what she was running, these things are pig heavy and have no power. If I had to jump into an Indy Car, I'd be as lost as she was. Now that she's getting accustomed to the cars, we are beginning to see her potential.

The so-called pathological liar has learned from an early age that they get punished more often for telling the truth than they do for lying. They get so accustomed to devious behavior that they lie without much thought or emotion.

The talent was there, but we had to bring the winning out. Sometimes you can grow accustomed to losing. We had to change that mentality and make believers out of them. Doing that got the ball rolling.

Bronson Arroyo

I've become accustomed to it. It's always a soap opera around here, no matter what. If there's not a soap opera going on, it's not Boston.

South African cinema-goers are accustomed to seeing the top global hits very soon after they are launched internationally, but if we are not attracting the audiences, we won't be able to afford the going prices for the top new releases.

Hines Ward

Teams seem to put us in black jerseys whenever we go anywhere that's hot. We're accustomed to playing in that.

Perhaps participants are growing accustomed to market fluctuations or they are simply waiting until the volatility subsides.

Bruce Bochy

I've touched base with him just to make sure he is ahead of schedule at this point. He's fully aware of how important it is for him to be in a little better shape to start out spring training than what he's probably accustomed to.

The whole project is somewhere north of $3 million. We want it to basically be a spa for your car, and we know we have to match the expectations of what people in this area are accustomed to.

Maynard Jackson

This is a situation, in my opinion, where Terry is accustomed to saying African-American. His script writers wrote in 'people of color.' He's trying to go from memory and got confused and said

This is such a different type of disaster than we're accustomed to dealing with.

Kevin Sullivan

This is something discussed in advance each week. This is an option always available to us. It took a matter of minutes to make it all happen. At least we were moving it to a place where race fans are accustomed to watching races.

That swing at the end of the first half was an example of something happening that we're not accustomed to. We're usually pretty good in that situation ... but not that time.

Kofi Annan

The model of development we are accustomed to has been fruitful for few and flawed for many. A path to prosperity that ravages the environment and leaves a majority of humankind behind in squalor will soon prove to be a dead-end road for everyone.

We're growing accustomed to him doing the things that he does.

Andy Geiger

This program is much more about players than most. Jim came in, immediately got to know so much about each individual player and his family and about their experiences. It's a much more personal approach than most were accustomed to. Within the family, it became a small-college feel.

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

Tom Rachman

The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free.

Twyla Tharp

My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went to college, and I'm accustomed to everybody can buy a ticket and everybody should be taken into account.

We're accustomed to this. I'm just glad we don't have to travel.

We're accustomed to the insights of government officials being authoritative. Greenspan's comments may be wise, but they aren't actionable anymore.

Steve Phillips

We ran into a really good basketball team. They played at a level that our girls are not accustomed to playing against. Our girls didn't know how to handle it until it was late in the third and fourth. Our intensity level picked up, but it was too little, too late.

The real constitution of things is accustomed to hide itself

When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.

And when it did come back, it wasn't in the spot she was normally accustomed to getting the ball. She's a prime player, she showed she could shoot at the end of the game. She's a great passer.

Dan Burton

Due to the unrelenting 'self-promoting' actions of the committee's investigative coordinator, I have been unable to implement the standards of professional conduct I have been accustomed to at the United States attorney's office,