Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Ball

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

David Mitchell

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

Drew Brees

We've already got things lined up, and we'll be rocking and rolling the minute the clock strikes midnight.

Vernon Keenan

We are aggressively pursuing this around the clock and we are making progress in the case,

Mike Hill

There are clocks on there, I notice, but you still don't know what time it is.

David Cole

We're in a time where the clock is moving much more quickly on GM. I think they're fortunate to have Jerry because this thing is going to be played out in the next six months, not the next five years.

Chadwick Boseman

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

Chris Villarrial

We were a smash-mouth team. We'd dink and dunk you down the field and every once in a while we'd go for the big play. We were very conservative, working the clock all the time.

Michael Chertoff

We're racing the clock in terms of possible injury. We're racing the clock in terms of illness, and we're racing the clock to get them food and water.

Horace

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)

Horace

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment

Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Nolan Bushnell

I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.

Persius

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Thomas Tusser

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.

Juvenal Juvenal

Revenge is sweet, sweeter than life itself - so say fools

Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the fools of their tools

Charles Caleb Colton

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Alan Watts

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

Alan Greenspan

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

Alan Greenspan

Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

Alan Greenspan

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

Alan Greenspan

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

China Mieville

Anything for gold and experience.

Byron Katie

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

Buddy Hackett

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

Alan Hansen

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

Alan Arkin

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

Chris Cleave

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

David Mitchell

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

Camilo Villegas

I miss Colombia. It's a great place.

Camille Claudel

There is always something missing that torments me.

Catherynne M. Valente

Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.

Billy Joel

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.

David Brenner

We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness.

Lorraine Toussaint

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

Lorraine Toussaint

'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.

George Thorogood

The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece.

Earl Butz

I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

Karl Dorrell

Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.

Cheryl Strayed

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

Jim Gaylor

Whether that sparked our hitting, I don't know, but we needed a spark.

Chip Cook

We've been able to make adjustments needed to recover from breakdowns. This year we are much more deep.

Karin Slaughter

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Mitchell Davis

We started out well, and we made them take shots that we wanted them to. But Trinity's very good. And we just couldn't make any shots.

Scott Wilson

We struggled offensively all night. The shots just rolled off the rim.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

Mariusz Czerkawski

We have to get more traffic, simple plays, with more pucks on the net. Simple shots can work sometimes.

Dick Davey

We're making shots and that's something that we haven't been able to do this year.

Dick Bartholdi

We are getting more shots than we ever have. But we always have trouble scoring.

Mickey Williams

We're getting shots off but they've not been on target.

Mark Richard

We're getting closer. At least we didn't give up 52 shots this time.

Olli Jokinen

We're just trying to get as much of shots as possible,

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Hayden Schlossberg

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

Richard Holbrooke

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

Topher Grace

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

Obie Trice

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

Earl Butz

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.