Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zdenko Tomanovic

Mister Milosevic said there were attempts to poison him in the prison.

Pranab Mukherjee

Militants have made about five infiltration attempts since the October 8 earthquake, including two on a single day,

John Gurdon

My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.

Patrick Page

more of what I know about me. I think you live more and become more familiar with the workings of your own mind -- the darkness in it, the narcissism -- and the desperate attempts the ego makes to cover that up.

Rick Sherlund

may be the twist that makes this more successful than other attempts to erode the (Microsoft) Office franchise.

Brad Cashman

If any private school coach attempts to recruit from a public system, or vice versa, that will be in clear violation of our new bylaw and could result in a hearing or penalties.

Ehud Barak

I have always said that when we go forward, there will be attempts to torpedo the process.

Brian Levine

Traditionally, people who are trying to smuggle narcotics into the country stick to one type. But we've been seeing an increase in the attempts to bring in what we call a mixed load.

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Italo Calvino

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Maiara Walsh

My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.

Linda Wallace

Like any vibrant economy, the house prices have gone up. But more than that, we're facing a bit of a housing crunch.

Chris Vance

Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?

I. Stone

Life is too short to be really bitter about anything for so long. Sometimes, you have to turn the page. After all, he found a great career in Houston, and he made the Hall of Fame. He should get on with his life.

Jennifer Saunders

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

William Walker

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Stephen Ames

Life is a bit easier not worrying about the future of where the family is going to be or what is happening in the future.

Kevin Kodama

Luckily, the north side got a bit of a break last night.

Gene Edwards

Scott's the 'go to' guy for Between the Lions. The guys from Boston and New York were blown away by him.

Jim Butch

One passed through the Monterey community of Rankin County. You saw what that did. Weak structures will be blown down.

Joe Girardi

Obviously we've lost a bunch of tough games this year. Then we pretty much got blown out two days in a row. For our guys to bounce back, it says something about our guys. ... Guys picked it up.

John Milton

O fairest flower, no sooner blown but blasted, / Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

Dale Sveum

Obviously I saw him trip. I thought he was going to get up. He wasn't grabbing anything, and it looked like he was smiling. But when I got to him, he said, 'It's blown out.' He knew.

Bill Wright

I can tell you that I was blown away; they had 36 states represented last year and right about 300 teams. Because they take over Oklahoma City, they play in all the gyms around the city.

Elizabeth Johnson

I found her head over here. Her body was blown into the next yard.

Christine Benz

Fund companies are increasingly looking at this as a retention tool. Perhaps its one way to keep your fund manager on board. I don't know if it's a full blown turning point, but companies realize it could be a brain drain so they're taking steps to stay competitive.

Brad Holmes

When we speak of the Day of Judgment, they're going to get blown out of their seats.

Richard Meritzer

We have a long way to go before cyclists and motorists ride on each other's wheels, instead of walk in each other's shoes.

David Millar

In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.

Clara Hughes

I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.

Bob Colarossi

For us, this is a great time to invest. The number of recreational cyclists has never been higher. For me, it all points upward -- that we are on the upswing of growth.

Susan Mitchell

Cyclists have a right to be on the road just like any driver. People on the road don't respect cyclists.

Daniel Tosh

The day I notice a cyclist obey a stop sign is the day I'll stop enjoying watching them bounce off my hood.

Ty Wigginton

Seth deserved to win. The offense just wasn't there to support him.

Ty Wigginton

Seth deserved a W, and the offense wasn't there to support him.

David Brabham

Sebastien and Scotty did a great job and the guys deserved everything they got tonight.

Derek Karcich

Matt pitched a great game. We had two pitchers out there who deserved to win. It was a toss-up. My hats off to him (Zupan). He had a good fastball and we didn't go with some of his pitches.

Dave Duncan

Mulder really deserved this game today, because he's probably had the opportunity, or been in position, to win four or five games that we let get away from us after he's been out of the game. It's nice for him to get a special win, and I know this is special for him.

John Pepper

Monticello has a very good team. They deserved to win.

Alan Pardew

Maybe he deserved to wear George Best's old number seven shirt - he was that good.

Alejandro Moreno

Obviously, this is special. I feel perhaps I didn't get the opportunity I deserved in L.A. So it's nice to show them they let a good player go.

Ben Jacobson

I feel terrible for those guys that they didn't get in. They deserved to get in.

Frank Roder

We're not doing it to escape anything. We're doing it to help kids.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

Alberto Gonzales

Obviously we would have preferred the escape not to have occurred,

Lord Falconer

No one should be able to escape justice by not turning up when they're supposed to.

Romesh Gunesekera

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines.

Rene Saguisag

Now that they are free men, if they have really escaped as the military claims, then the more they should be able to communicate with us with ease.

Kathleen Blanco

I can't feel we escaped the worst, because we don't know what the worst is.

Joel Heesch

If we don't start playing like an experienced team, this year will escape us, without us doing what we want to do.

George H. W. Bush

Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops, so we can escape the violence,

Juan Palacios

Making it to the Final Four last year was amazing. It was special.

Michael Graf

Looks like we're finally going to make it this February.

Jimmy Johnson

Last year was tough at the end. This year we want to make sure that we're mentally able to make it through all 36 races and especially in the final 10, regardless if we're on top of the world or if we're going through a tough time.

James Augustine

Last year, there was a little more pressure. We're more of an underdog. We want to be special and get back to the Final Four.

Carlos Emmons

Last year we would look at film and see linebackers not getting touched and making plays. I was like, 'If we don't get touched I'll make every play.' So finally we get to run around and make plays.

Jeff Caldwell

Last year we were the host and we didn't have a lot to be happy about because we weren't playing - especially when we made the Final Four the previous year.

Rory Bremner

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

Oprah Winfrey

SEND ME BACK TO PRISON! My final plea is to you Miss Winfrey, ... The Oprah Winfrey Show.

David Gallop

So finally it is time for kick off ... and what a season it is going to be.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Isabella Rossellini

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

Lucia Shook

Like everyone else I need all the help I can get.

Ted Stevens

Luke would have been a big help to us as our captain. That was a big loss.

Kris Benson

Making one mistake instead of two helped me,

Jon Hogenson

Making it to the second day shows our kids we can do this. Playing in that competitive level helped us.

Fernando Torres

Let's hope what we've done this week helps us to get something positive in our next games.

Justin Huber

Levi's been more of the outside guy; I'm more of the inside game. That helps us out a lot. It helps keep each of us rested and ready to go.

John Prescott

Legislation in itself will not end the dispute, but it is prudent to take these powers to use if necessary to help reach an agreement.

Ken Tutt

Losing last year I think really helped us win this year. And it makes it that much more special.

Chris Evert

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

Charles Osgood

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

Dick Van Dyke

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

David Nicholls

Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.

S. Hughes

She won't be missing a practice. And she wants to go see some events, but that probably will be after her event.

Anthony Baccam

Sitting out and missing the whole season was really frustrating, especially seeing the team wrestle and you can't wrestle.

Danny Coyne

When I got expelled, it opened up my eyes. It made me realize what I was missing and things I needed to be doing.

Walter Benjamin

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

Charles R. Swindoll

God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense.

Louis Orr

I can't speak for Seton Hall. I don't know what their plans are. I can only speak for me and our team.

Dave Ramsey

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

Walter Kirn

My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.

William Edwards

We printed 10,000, and we've got plans for the other 2,500.

Patrik Elias

When they call, I have to talk to them about what their plans are -- if they call.

Brian Cashman

We haven't made any contingency plans on if he doesn't come back.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Charlie Worsham

Things have always happened better for me than I could plan them to.

Elbert Hubbard

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Ryk Neethling

What makes it important is the kind of rivalry we've been talking about with Australia, with England, with New Zealand, with Canada.

Bernard Hinault

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

Todd Wuerger

Verona has kind of become a rival for us.

Benjamin Franklin

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

Carl Jung

Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.

Keith Primeau

From the travel standpoint, it's a lot better for the players. From the rivalry standpoint, it's a lot better for everyone.

Joe Horn

When I was walking out of their stadium, (the fans) were like, 'Joe, are we rivals now?' I was like, 'You got it.'

C. S. Lewis

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

James Matthews

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.

Megan Smith

Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code.

Steve Frady

Obviously, you don't want to see a second collapse.

Kelli Johnson

We had better shot selection in the second half.

Yash Chopra

When I come to England, I feel as if I am in my second home.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Pavel Datsyuk

I can't play with one leg. I need a second leg, too.

Antawn Jamison

Gilbert told me going into the second half, 'You can't do anything if you don't let it ride,'? He shouldn't have to tell me that.

David Jarolim

If Bayern win at Bremen it is better for us as we want to keep second spot.

E. Helm

Mom, I just couldn't think of a better way to spend your birthday. Sorry I'm not with you, though.

Charles Olson

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

Diane Keaton

I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.

Edward Abbey

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

Brian Deegan

I feel so sorry for them and I feel so despondent for them. It's just so needless, it's just so pointless.

Elizabeth Bishop

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

Dominic Cooper

There's this exhausting energy from you getting your lines out and your words right, especially if it's a complicated scene. And as soon as the camera is off you and goes on the other person, you're talking garbled garbage and you feel so sorry for them because you've lost the will to live, after 18 hours of saying those lines. That's terribly unfair. So, I do love the quick-paced nature of it.

David Nicholls

Sorry' he said. 'No, I'm sorry.' 'What are you sorry for?' 'Rattling on like a mad old cow. I'm sorry, I'm tired, bad day, and I'm sorry for being so...boring.' 'You're not that boring.' 'I am, Dex. God, I swear I bore myself.' 'Well, you don't bore me.' He took her hand in his. 'You could never bore me. You're one in a million, Em.

David Nicholls

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

Matt Lauer

Making sure you're on the straight and narrow?

Douglas Alexander

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Ang Lee

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Kathleen McCarthy

When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look voluminous.

Pierce Brosnan

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Rochelle Cancienne

We can't get a straight answer. There's just a lot of unknowns right now.

Ron Polk

A lot of things need to go right to win 14 straight times. But I think a lot of it isn't because we've been lucky. A lot of it has been because we've been pretty good.

Jim Haslett

I don't know that his teammates would actually want him back for what he did.

David Castillo

We want to let him know we're here for him as teammates and family.

Mike Eaves

He just has to do his part, let his teammates do their part and we should come out all right.

Jerome Bettis

My teammates put me on their back and wouldn't let me down.

Curt Shaw

When Jared got hot, his teammates got him the ball.

Vince Young

I'm not too much getting into the Heisman right now. It's all about my teammates right now. Whatever they want to say, let them talk, man.

Amanda Padilla

I just have to know I can make the shots. My teammates were there to get me the ball.

Jevon Kearse

It's not me at all, ... But we're winning and my teammates are getting sacks. That's really all I can say.

Clive James

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Abraham Cowley

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Ameen Rihani

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

David Byrne

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

Juvenal

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

George Eliot

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Hugo Chavez

Your triumph is the triumph of all of Venezuela,

Iris Murdoch

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

Gunter Grass

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?