Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

John Brady

We want to see the figures, refinery runs and all the others. There will be a decent draw in products, especially gasoline.

Andrew Flintoff

We are pleased with the total and the fashion we got it. I think we've had a decent day.

Robert Long

There are some genuinely problematic reports out today, like Merck, but there's a lot of good stuff, too, and people are taking some pretty decent earnings and focusing on the negative.

Mike McGowan

We're in pretty decent shape as it relates to fuel supply, but who knows what's going to happen here in the next few days.

Ron Fellows

We started our session a little late and when we finally got out there, we got 'black-flagged' just before I was going to start my quick lap, ... Our guys have been working hard and that's a decent result for my first time out. I just want to thank Paul.

Jean Nidetch

When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you're not so hungry that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't fight hunger, but we can fight habit.

Charles Schumer

Tom Ridge is a decent man and a fine public servant, but unfortunately was not given the leeway or resources to tighten up homeland security in the way it should be done,

Charles Barron

We're going to stay here until every one of them has a decent place to go.

Brad Shove

We got what we deserved today. We didn't come ready to play and we put ourselves in a big hole. We played very poorly. It was everybody. We played hard in the second half and made some good adjustments, but you can't expect to win with one decent half.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Jaime Winstone

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Paul Rodio

We're getting there. I thought our players did everything they had to do (Saturday) except win.

Molly Quinn

With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read.

Susan Mays

The places that would never be seen except by the people who worked here, they decorated just like they did the rest of the house.

Samuel Butler

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule.

John Wycliffe

We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.

Mike Boyajian

We're just going to keep looking forward. We have a tough stretch in front of us. We're playing all the top teams, except for Toll Gate (Feb. 10), over the next two weeks.

Claire Huang

We're reaching a whole new level pairing Fidelity Investments and Sir Paul McCartney.

Christine Benz

Some at Fidelity in top management view it as a concern.

Lindi Ortega

I like passion in voices. I like passion in music. And I find that, sometimes with today's music, it's just so perfect - it's that high fidelity and all of the auto-tuning and all that stuff. It's too perfect for my ears.

Greg Wise

I don't see the point in marriage: if you make a commitment, you make a commitment. Fidelity is important to me; it's about honouring that commitment.

Craig Berman

Now they can take that and use the relationship we have with Fidelity and turn that into something they can use.

Omar Sharif

Fidelity is a virtue which should be frequently proved, but not always.

Scott Turow

I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that's always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that.

Don Dion

The market is telling Fidelity it has to pay more.

Henry Van Dyke

Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

Louis Navellier

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

Hugh Davies

We are proud to be in a position to offer these funds to the community. Personally, I'm honored to represent this group of vintners who lend a hand whether it be for Hurricane Katrina relief or to help a neighbor in need.

Susan Uhrik

We want people to come, not only to raise funds for this family, but also for them to receive a blessing.

Jim Ritterbusch

What we're seeing now is that some funds had moved to the side making sure there wasn't a bearish surprise and now they are rotating back into the long side,

Lisa Nelson

We're looking at using the funds strategically for market and merit raises.

Sergey Galitsky

When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It's a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.

Terry J. Lundgren

When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer had the funds to pay for college. If I wanted to continue, I would have to do it on my own.

Thomas Hill

Since then there has been some rethinking and the goal has been raised because we are looking at trying to also generate some operating funds. To get the renovation is one thing, but then once it's renovated, we need funds to operate it.

Kevin Lowery

We shifted more funds to the communities in which we operate, versus solely in Pittsburgh, or New York, for that matter.

Dana Martell

We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.

Andrew Wallace

We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.

Richard Money

We still need a point, maybe two, to be sure of being in the top four.

Ed Gillespie

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Kendall Mills

We are getting better with each game. Maybe we are peaking at the right time.

Bill Miller

We're going to have to put 12 of them out there, ... maybe some snipers, too.

Mike Shula

We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.

Mike Davis

We know D.J. is out indefinitely and maybe out for the season.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

Jane Goodall

The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

Alexander Haig

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Alexander Hamilton

Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.

Colin Powell

We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.

Doris Lessing

Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.

Craig Newmark

Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.

Dalai Lama

The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.

Craig Woker

It is also getting an arms-length relationship with its own mutual funds.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Miley Cyrus

I don’t respect your statement because of the anger that came with it

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

Davey Havok

I don't really like to infuse music with politics - but I wouldn't say as a general statement that it shouldn't be.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Yuuki Sakurai

I'm speechless. What can you say when you can't trust a company's statements or the exchange's trading system.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

Rich Rodriguez

What makes it tough is they're better for sure than they were two years ago,

Ralph Neas

We're going to make sure that Americans understand what is at stake.

Ed Paulk

We're just making sure there is nothing we are missing. It's just being proactive.

James Wilcox

We want to make sure we're on the same page,

Steve Cox

We want to make sure we get them in preseason.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.