Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Layton

People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

Blake Bailey

With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

Billy Collins

A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.

We were very lethargic and didn't play at either end in the first half.

We don't like to see any hits like that from either team. But whatever we use to motivate us won't come from the other team. It will come from us.

We really didn't have a big inning. It could have gone either way.

We want to get on with life. This was all hard on the team and the sponsors, so moving on is the way we'd rather do it. It's our fault, and I wish they had done whatever they're going to do - either today or tomorrow - last week and been done with it.

Twice a week I'll run fast quality workouts either on the track or road.

Tad Boyle

To get our guys, we've had to go into someone else's back yard and either out-recruit them or out-evaluate them.

To keep that all organized requires either headcount or a good software system.

Kim Harrison

My editor picked out the name she wanted. I was either going to be Kim Harrison or Lisa Harrison, because she wanted me shelved right next to Hamilton.

For that, what we're trying to do is get some famous people who either have homes here or come here often.

Jodie Foster

I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.

He pushed us around. He pushed us underneath the backboard. That's something that we talked about. He either fouls out in five minutes or gets seven offensive rebounds. Unfortunately, today he got seven offensive rebounds.

George H. W. Bush

He ought to let us know where he differed from the president on policy matters as well as everything else. Either you're part of an administration or you're not part of an administration is how I view it.

Richard Gere

People's reaction to opera the first time they hear it is extreme, ... They either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to love it, but it will never become part of their soul.

Margaret Keane

People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.

Normally these things fail on either management issues or price.

The motivation is either an interest in space, astronomy, science fiction or being at one with the universe. Some see it as a spiritual choice.

Arthur Bremer

Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.

Bryan Smolinski

Do you want to lose 5-1 or 3-2 in a tough game? Either way, it's a loss. We put them on their heels real quick, but they stormed back.

Do your analysis of energy costs. Either it comes from windmills and solar or things like nuclear and shale gas. You have to think about how you provide competitive energy for U.K. Ltd.

Jim Oberweis

During my time we've had four former governor's either serve time or be indicted.

Chris Geere

I used to do promo work, where you would be paid not very much to stand in the street for a very long time endorsing a product that you'd either A, never heard of, or B, didn't like.

David Belle

Sometimes you have to stop something to really measure the passion that you have, and either you feel like moving, or you don't, and then maybe it's time to stop.

Ridley Scott

Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial.

E. B. White

Sometimes the French houses have a yeastier flavor than the domestics. You either like it or you don't like it.

Carl Erskine

Sometimes it seems the more you know, the less sure you are of yourself, ... I can just sit back and watch and not have to sweat it out for either side. What I know is, anything can happen in a short series.

Yoweri Museveni

Some people say accident. It may be an accident, it may be something else, ... very well equipped . . . the one I am flying all the time. I am not ruling anything out. Either the pilot panicked, or there was some side wind, or the instruments failed, or there was an external factor.

Marsha Blackburn

Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor.

Thomas Campion

Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweetly gracing.

Russia could go down 50 percent or up 150 percent. Either they do it or they don't.