Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Native Proverb

It is better to return a borrowed pot with a little something you last cooked in it

Jack Zipes

I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.

Christopher Sullivan

He was concerned about going back to the board, ... I do remember saying 'You have to do something,' and he left. I was kind of surprised that there were any transactions from internal accounts. I thought the $1.5 million we borrowed at the start of the month and the $3 million that the school district borrowed later that month would have been sufficient.

John Adams

Had we known it was 9/11 money, we would not have borrowed it.

Ken Russell

There is no excuse these days for someone who wants to make movies; you just need yourself, one tape and a borrowed camera.

Sunny Thomas

Shooters start with borrowed weapons and seniors are more than willing to oblige and #8230; the sense of well-being pervades everywhere.

Sheridan Samuels

When I heard Evans on radio saying I borrowed money from him, I was most embarrassed.

Alan Greenspan

One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.

Brent Eddy

Reese Kizer is capable of playing some very good golf. We've got a number of guys who've worked very hard to improve and they'll be solid as well.

Christine Rosen

Rebuilding quickly is part of our self-identity, but we're getting more cynical about what we're capable of.

John H. Reagan

Our own Government succeeded because none but the white race, who were capable of self-government, were enfranchised with the rights of freemen.

Mike Bellotti

Oregon State played well. We played poorly. I felt we were capable of more.

Jay A. Sekulow

Pat Robertson's an influential conservative leader, ... He's quite capable of picking up the phone himself.

Tom Jones

Our offense is capable of making big plays. We want everything to be a big play. With players like Stanley, Mike (Martinez) and Alex, we are a big-play offense. We aren't going to grind it out on you.

Olli Jokinen

Our lineup looked pretty good early in the year, but obviously we haven't played at the level we're capable of doing. The past few weeks we've been the team we should have been every single night.

Jim Calhoun

Our defense was inconsistent. The defense got us going but that wasn't the key because we let up so many times. I think it was a good win but we didn't play as well as we're capable of.

Jay Frye

Sterling has always been popular with the fans. He never causes problems and he has no baggage. And of course we think he's capable of getting the job done on the track.

Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Ron Rivera

Some of the guys we counted on stepping up or needing to step up really didn't show up, and that was disappointing. We can't have that kind of drop-off between the first group and second group.

Ron Beard

Our four that we counted on are going (to state). We were hoping we'd get lucky and have another, but we're happy with the four that are going. They can all potentially win state.

Shawn Gilmer

Our young guys got to play a lot this week and that will help us down the road. It is a long season and you never know when one of those guys will be counted on to come in and make plays.

Ken Jr.

Just being able to go out there day in and day out where a lot of people counted me out says a lot for the work I put into it, and for the medical staff and the team.

Robbie Fowler

Last season I counted four fingers at them for the number of European Cups Liverpool had won. Next time, I can just stick my whole hand up.

Craig Gibson

That was the run that counted the most.

Nina Lovill

It has 800 squares. I walked and counted them all.

Sara White

I wish Reggie was here because he was so looking forward to this. He counted the time and dates after his retirement. He respected the men who played before him and made the way before him so much.

Byron Callan

Recent divestitures have created a pure-play military tactical vehicle company.

Patrick Phillips

Relaxed, definitely. Massimo was created by several friends who have a genuine passion for design, but don't have the same enthusiasm for 'pushy' retail. We're always glad to help our customers, but we understand that hovering is just plain irritating.

Kelly McBride

Relationships between men and women will change, and so will the workplace. Maybe it will create a truly equitable society or maybe it will flip it and women will become so politically, socially and economically powerful, we'll get whiplash.

George Clarke

Our passing game has really improved this season, ... Tonight, we were passing around the other team, which created a lot of opportunities.

Michael Kelly

Our real goal is to create hydrogen transportation corridors.

Christina Baker Kline

Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.

Rossi Ralenkotter

Part of what we do as destination markets is to fuel the local economy and create jobs in the community.

Ann Veneman

Part of what this report does is to highlight the issue to the public to create an outrage about what is going on.

Alexander Milinkevich

Our objective is to create a stir in society.

Kevin Beary

Our No. 1 priority throughout this crisis was to secure the release of all parties involved,

Mao Qun'an

Our news release mechanism has improved a lot since the SARS crisis and the outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza. We will try to do better in the future.

Jane Leavy

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.

Carlos Ghosn

Renault is not in crisis, but Renault is fragile.

Abdul Jalil

Resignation of the government is the only way to solve the present crisis.

Michael Chertoff

We now know people need gas during emergencies and they have a responsibility - those people who run stations and ultimately those people who provide the fuel - have responsibility to hold up their end when a crisis comes.

Kuniko Inoguchi

I think there is a sense of crisis.

Roger Altman

The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the U.S. economy and millions of American lives. But the U.S. economy will emerge from its trauma stronger and widely restructured.

John Zogby

It isn't important until there's a crisis on the radar screen. Otherwise, it's really like an orphan.

Andy Reid

Releasing players that have worked their tails off for the team is one of the toughest days for me,

Anne Coates

Preview days are the worst days of your life.

David Stevens

Or, from time to time, I've spotted people a few days until we can get something worked out.

Dana Williams

Our office has 30 days to make sure this petition is significant.

John Mattos

Our next twenty days are our rest days. We get to fine-tune all the little things we have maybe done wrong and concentrate on the those we've done right.

Roy Blumberg

Oracle is putting pressure on the technology stocks, but the Dow was up for seven days in a row before yesterday. The market was more than due for some kind of a sell-off.

Ellen Wheeler

People invite these families and actors into their homes five days a week,

Judy Tenzer

Sports is like life you have good days and not-so-good days, ... We always think about the what-ifs. We are making some adjustments with the ad....Andy will still be visible.

Lauren Pelletreau

Some of these 4-pass products may not have all 4 days left on them.

Linda Fox

I think they're fabulous, the way they're handling this. I didn't plan on doing anything today. I can't shop or anything.

J. Taylor

I'd like to thank the management for handling this issue in such a sensitive way,

Don Imus

He didn't shoot Harry on purpose, but you're handling this horribly and you're just trying to spin me.

Jiang Zemin

Handling well the issue of the people's livelihood is the fundamental task of the party and government.

Dick Ward

There are so many ways by which materials handling technologies and processes serve that need.

Randolph Bourne

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

William Poole

From what I know of that situation, markets are handling it very well,

Gregg Langbehn

His two-out RBI was a big run for us. It seems like he's handling all the pressure pretty well. He's holding his own.

Jim Haslett

I got a nice e-mail from Tom Coughlin . 'Thinking of you.' How about that? He said he thought I was doing a nice job handling things. I'll tell you what I wrote him back.

Bob McLaughlin

Regardless of the numbers, everyone is held accountable for every single child.

Mark Blondin

Our members spoke out and held the line.

Avi Cover

People in policy positions need to be held accountable. We're waiting to see more acknowledgement of those mistakes.

Bill Riley

Our pitching has to come through. It hasn't held up.

Stephen Ames

Overall I held it together. I just couldn't make enough birdies.

Gary Turcott

Our big kids played solid. I don't know if anybody's held them (Argos) to 71 points.

Tracy Egeland

I think they held up pretty well. We had a lot of skating, a lot of skill work. I think they did pretty good.

Rob Moore

That's what impressed me the most. He got in those situations and rose to the occasion. He held his own.

Donald Bough

That's been our trademark. We held on. Antilles had the momentum.

Gene Upshaw

Our number has to start with a six.

Jose Ramos-Horta

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.

Scott Morris

Surprisingly, there are actually a number of useful resources already working on Linux.

Brendan Wilders

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly.

Tony Batista

I'm here, that's what I can say. I know for sure the numbers are going to come. You just have to wait, but I know at the end of the season the numbers are going to be there.

Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Barry McGuire

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

B. F. Skinner

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

Tom Epperson

Regina just couldn't do anything about her power. She was a very powerful player.

Mark Goodman

Stay off the roads. Stay away from water. (There) could be live power lines.

Jesse Schultz

Our power play just isn't getting us any goals.

Don Lucia

Our power play has got to get better.

Dave Tippett

Our power play got us back into the game. And we pushed in the third and got the ones we needed.

Dana Taylor

Robby is fast, very powerful and has a quick shot.

Lamar Odom

Right now you have a lot of power forwards who have small-forward athleticism and abilities,

Becca Fitzpatrick

You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes lifted, meeting Chauncey's. "Half fallen angel." Chauncey's tutor's voice drifted up from the recesses of his mind, reading passages from the Bible, telling of a deviant race created when angels cast from heaven mated with mortal women. A fearsome and powerful race. A chill that wasn't entirely revulsion crept through Chauncey. "Who are you?

Barry Lopez

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

Chris Simcox

President Bush, read my lips: secure our borders.

Joe Pojman

Our president is with us on these issues. Our governor, Rick Perry, is strongly with us on these issues. But they need our help.

Parris Chang

Our president can be seen in public for the first time.

Bill Vaughan

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Bill Vaughan

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Bob Ney

I will vote to impeach the president because he has shattered the trust of the American people.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

Mary Matalin

He is to the vice president what the vice president is to the president.

Mike O'Connell

Part of it was the uncertainty of not being able to sign him. If it comes to the summer and he wants to come back, we'll listen. ... I wasn't sure of which way he wanted to go.

Horst Koehler

It is a symbol of reconciliation and a sign that there should never be war again,

Peter Kretzmer

It is a strong number. There is little sign of a slowdown,

Adam Ereli

It is a sign that we are all working together.

Manny Acta

It is a sign of what we can do.

M. Wolfe

I still think we could be better, though. We showed signs in the first inning of being very good. We let up after that.

Bruce Bochy

He wanted me to sign it, ... He took it over to me.

Pam Schild

He didn't even tell us until after he'd signed up.

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Chauncey Billups

We didn't play that great, but we got it done. Sixty wins, that sounds good.

Michael Robotham

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.