Famous Quotes & Sayings

Loren Thompson

Much of the Marine Corps equipment was purchased with the prospect of a shore assault in mind.

Jeff Wilson

Mr. Bates pled guilty to a count of manslaughter, two counts of assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury and guilty to making criminal threats and to transportation of more than one ounce of marijuana. They are all felonies.

Dan Quayle

mothers and fathers are sick and tired of seeing the values assaulted that they are trying to teach their children.

Ryan Tritch

Men have a lot of power to stop sexual assault and it doesn't make you less of a man.

Tullian Tchividjian

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

Carter Ham

I can tell you that they were a unit that was moving in an amphibious assault vehicle ... their normal vehicle to move in, ... It is an armored vehicle that they use in the conduct of their normal operations.

Morgan Tsvangirai

There are people in this country who have been killed, raped and assaulted and we're saying the government must take responsibility,

Lara Logan

After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

Elizabeth Dole

I'm a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, but I do not feel you need an Uzi or an assault weapon to defend your family. What use is there for an assault weapon? For cop-killer bullets?

Jonny Gomes

Like I always tell people, I'm a baseball player, it's what I do,

Robert Fick

Like I always say, I'm just glad to be in the lineup, playing baseball.

Paul Archey

Major League Baseball is very interested in playing games in Europe. We're investigating possibilities in Europe where we may be able to play regular-season games as early as the 2007 season.

Bud Selig

Major League Baseball is fortunate to have a man of Jimmie Lee's experience, intellect and dedication already on board to handle such a complex and important position as the chief of our baseball operations. Over the years, he has demonstrated considerable skill in working through the labyrinth of our minor league system. I have great confidence that he will be an enormous success in this key position.

Gary Wadler

Major League Baseball can't put its head in the sand and do a sound-bite press conference and say everything's going to be fine. Everything's not fine.

Mark Snyder

Major League Baseball and Holiday Inn are going to hit a home run. I just had to say that.

Mike Butters

Lets put it this way. If this was baseball, our magic number would be six.

Billy Beane

Lenny was so perfectly designed, emotionally, to play the game of baseball. He was able to instantly forget any failure and draw strength from every success. He had no concept of failure. And he had no idea of where he was.

Higinio Velez

Let's fight together so this event won't be held every four years but rather every two, so the baseball world won't have to wait so long to enjoy this.

Neil Payne

Man, I bet there is nobody on the golf course today. This is the biggest thing to happen to Andrews in a long time.

Leopold Sacher-Masoch

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Jimmy Jones

Make a bet every day; otherwise you might walk around lucky and never know it.

Alec Guinness

Luke : How did my father die? Obi-Wan : A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.

Jan C. Ting

Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don't think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that the results will be good. I suspect the results would be a disaster and the end of the American experiment.

Keith Ashdown

Senators are betting that pandering to the public with billions in election-year promises will pay off more than they lose by cutting the fiscal conservatives in their own party off at the knees.

Seo Ho

Sentiment on exporter shares will take a hit because of the stronger won. Investors will probably wait until making further bets on exporters and focus on domestic-demand related stocks.

Steve MacFarlane

Mike Hurley has betrayed his union brothers and sisters. Mike now has to live with the fact that his co-workers will forever view him as a scab.

Penny Circle

Mrs. Betty Ford remained in Eisenhower Medical Center overnight following tests late on Thursday afternoon. She has returned home and will resume a normal schedule.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Everything we can think of that should have a processor, and they'll all be connected. People talk about fridges re-ordering when you run out of milk, but it's going to be much bigger than that. The transition to this world will require a huge number of applications to be developed, and that's a huge opportunity for Infosys.

Robbie Earl

Like coach (Mike Eaves) said, the season's not over. We've got bigger accomplishments to seize in the next couple of weeks.

Gilbert Arenas

Lute Olson teaches the NBA system. If you look at his players, they may not be dominant in college but they're going to make a bigger impact in the NBA just because of the way they play up and down. Players learn and develop and make mistakes and learn for themselves.

Ken Worthington

Lehman is the winner so far this quarter. Lehman has a bigger fixed income business proportional to the size of the company.

Michael Ashcroft

Many people supported the Conservatives because of David Cameron, while many people supported Labour despite Ed Miliband. Deteriorating opinions of Cameron will therefore have a bigger impact on the Conservatives' vote share than worsening views of Miliband would have on Labour's.

Neil Stern

Sears is a store that is designed for suburbia. They sell a lot of things like major appliances, barbecues and power tools that intrinsically go to people with bigger houses and garages and room to put this stuff.

Neil Stern

Sears is a store that is designed for suburbia, ... They sell a lot of things like major appliances, barbecues and power tools that intrinsically go to people with bigger houses and garages and room to put this stuff.

Mack Brown

Selvin is 100 percent, ... He's gotten his speed back. He's gotten his vision back. He's bigger and strong, and he's definitely ready to go.

Tony Delk

So he comes in one day and tells us they went and got her new shoes and when Ella was measured, she was like three sizes bigger than the shoes they had been squeezing her feet into, ... She was walking like a day later. He was so embarrassed.

Ronald Kessler

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.

Audrey Hepburn

Let me tell you something, Mister. If I had her money, I'd be richer than she is.' - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Kevin Garnett

makes us, at times, unstoppable because the break is going so fast.

Mary Pearl

Lethal viruses tend to flare up and disappear. The fact that the outbreak is over does not mean we can pretend it's not a problem, or that it's not coming back. But by identifying the link between SARS and the human population, we can take steps to break that link.

John Cleveland

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

Brent Gentry

Last year we had 55 teams, and we're on pace to break 60 teams this year. We have fathers bringing in their sons and daughters to fish. Some of the teams are coming from as far away as Indiana and Missouri.

Mark Shapiro

Last year was a breakout year for him in terms of command. Hopefully he can help us during the year at some point.

Bobby Jones

Lets collide and get it over with. We've had our list of streaks to break and been checking them off. This is our improvised list. Everybody knows what it takes. We're playing the team expected to win the national championship. Either you bring it or you don't.

Cherie Blair

Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children.

Budge Pountney

Sean went extremely well for the Wanderers on Monday night. He deserves his chance. We want to make the Wanderers competitive in that if a player plays better for the Wanderers than the player who played for the Saints, they will be up for selection.

Chad Comroe

Obviously we're frustrated. We don't like being down 2-0 to a team that we don't think even deserves to be on the same field as us.

Michael Franke

No one deserves it better than David. He was a great player when we had him. We're glad he's doing well at Roanoke.

Paul Carvel

Music deserves to be the mandatory second language of all schools in the world.

Gary Condit

My family vote would be that he doesn't. I don't think that he deserves this.

Al From

No political party deserves to win unless it lays out a plan for Americans to win.

Jim Christian

Now we have to represent the league in the right way. We have to show people this league deserves to get multiple bids.

Jessie Cave

Getting a role in 'Harry Potter' was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.

Bryan Gilmore

Give him a glowing article. He deserves that.

Rodel Natividad

Life. You either live with or live without.

George Lucas

Luke, there is no try, there is either do or not do.

Linda Todd

Many of them left in a hurry and either forgot their prescriptions or their prescriptions have run out. No one anticipated they were going to be stranded here this long or that they would be unable to get their medications (through prescription transfers).

Bill Bray

Many of the founding fathers either traveled through or at some point stayed here in our city.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Many chefs are either technically or artistically better than me, but I know my food has soul.

Daniel Brodsky

Mr. Magee, in retrospect, would've been far better off in a penitentiary. He would've either been in a minimum-security institution by now or he would be living in the community.

Stan Domin

Maureen is either really hot or really cold. When she's on she is really on though.

Sathya Baba

Meditate on me either with form or without form, that is pure bliss.

Newt Gingrich

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

Isabella Rossellini

I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.

Jeff McInnis

Like everybody says, he's got to get to the playoffs -- that's the key. All this he's doing now, he's been doing that. But you've got to make the playoffs.

John Lowery

Like everybody else, this is a new season for us. Not that the other games don't mean something, because they do, but everybody wants to start off well in their league.

Uli Hoeness

Like everybody else in the whole country, I think the national team is a catastrophe.

Anna Ayala

Let this be an example. Everybody out there, all those young people, learn from this.

Tom Maurer

Luke played a great all-around game. He made everybody else on the team look better.

Ryan Tucker

Making plays I think was the difference. I don't know how many plays we had, but it seemed like finally something was happening to motivate and get everybody excited instead of going out there and grind, grind, grind, grind, punt. Grind, grind, grind, punt.

Larry Bowa

Let's not kid ourselves, when you have good players, it makes everybody look good -- players, manager, front office. The other thing is depth. That's what big payroll teams have. If they lose somebody, they've got somebody else. They don't go down to their farm system. That's a big difference.

Daniel Gibson

Let the fans and everybody else watching see for themselves. I'm gonna let everybody figure it out by the way that I play.

Peter Woolley

One month ago, people were on the fence. A month later, people are off the fence and forming hard opinions. A month ago, people were waiting to see what the governor would do. Now they've seen some of it and their initial reaction is negative.

Tony Stewart

We need to be a little better than we are. But I didn't knock the fence down.

Roman Phifer

I was right on the fence (between playing and retirement).

Brian Giles

I had it in the palm of my glove, ... but my wrist hit the top of the fence and knocked it out.

Jose Vidro

If they really cared. They'd move the fences in.

Akiva ben Joseph

The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

Mark Metzger

We still have the land issues to resolve and a lot of work to do. I think one of the things we need to do is to mend fences with people about the boundaries.

Philip Dunne

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.

Mark Davis

Typically, we do not have fences on our property. Usually, responsibility for maintenance of these fences is that of the property owner.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.

Alexandra Paul

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

Alexandra Adornetto

(Beth) "I don't care anymore." I turned my face up toward Heaven. "That's not my home anymore. You are.

Italo Calvino

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

Dave Gahan

Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.

Andy Landers

Let's be honest. It will be very much like a home game.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely

Joseph Gallagher

Lumber is up by about 25 percent over two weeks ago and carpeting and all the things that go into a home are up and spiked.

Greg McBride

Make sure you're in your home long enough to recoup those costs.

Rick Perlstein

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Bill Flott

Make it your top priority in this next week to get these issues resolved.

Christopher Klaus

Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door,

Gerardo Copca

Many issues that had lagged are rising this week.

Christopher Richter

Setting those two issues aside, we would have seen a pretty nice rise.

Matthew Fassler

Mr. Edmondson's personal issues ... are tangential to the firm's recent lack of execution, results and direction.

Ron Pollack

Of all the policy issues going on right now in Washington, this is probably the most important.

Richard Boucher

Non-proliferation is one of the most important issues on our agenda.

Gene Green

On issues like this, we are trying to pull together,

James M. Barrie

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Paola Mendoza

From what she tells me, she loves school and can't wait to go every day.

Gail Simmons

I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.

Richard Hatch

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.

Laura Moore

She's so in shape and she loves sports.

Curtis Jackson

She's a typical girl. She loves shoes. She loves going shoe shopping, right in mom's closet.

Sally Zimmerman

She's been doing that all year. She did it in the district. She loves this type of atmosphere. It's in her blood. She doesn't have any fear.

Jennifer Gray

She has a lot of social stimulation and she loves music, so she has singing activities, ... She's safe and well-cared for - I know that.

Joe Martin

She always wanted to do music, she loves performing and composition.

Diane Sawyer

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

Charles Schumer

I for one wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it and have been unsure how to vote.

Charles Schumer

I, for one, have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, being unsure how to vote.

Larry Fitzgerald

I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.

Stephnie Weir

I'm a middle child, and I have a younger sister who is stunning - just beautiful and smart.

Dale Jones

If they put in a bridge, it would save a lot of (driving) miles, but they'll never put that in out here in the middle of nowhere.

John McMillin

If they see United Way of Middle Tennessee, in a nutshell, sometimes they may not know that that isn't the United Way that represents their county.

Dr. Selzer

I don't dawdle. I'm a surgeon. I make an incision, do what needs to be done and sew up the wound. There is a beginning, a middle and an end.

Dannel Malloy

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Calvin Branch

Scouting is something I'll be able to do later, but a player can play only so long.

Tim Purpura

Scouting and player development are the R&D of baseball,

Gary Wadler

One high-profile player tests positive, and look at the chaos. The problem, once again, is in the system.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

Obviously, you can't replace a player like that.

Dick Vermeil

Now the players are going to say we don't need to practice on Thursday.

Paula Creamer

When the No. 1 player in the world is in the field, everything starts higher. It will be more known. But a win is a win at the end of the day.

Chris Davis

I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.

Sven Kramer

Me and Carl skate well together and twice before one of us has set a world record when we raced together.

Miikka Kiprusoff

Of course, I want to win games, but I don't think about records too much.

Tom Scholz

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

Arthur Vint

Now we have more recordings of us playing, which is great.

John Owen

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

John Edward

Frankly, senator, ... you have a record that's not very distinguished.

Alexander Ovechkin

For sure, Pavel Bure was my hero. I was very young, but I remember this moment. I recorded the game.

Wayne Patterson

From all of our records and correspondence with EPD, they have done that.

Jack Straw

If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,

Alexandra Adornetto

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.

Jim Fuller

Megan was also another one that kind of got run to death.

Scott Bakula

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

Steve Prefontaine

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Brian Calhoun

Obviously, I'm a running back and I wanted to play running back and they had different plans, which is fine. It was just time to split ways.

Marcel Shipp

When you're a running back on this team, you have to take that personal.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Ludwig von Mises

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

Jerome Groover

We had been working with them all summer. Mostly, we wanted to work on their speed. They know what they need to run. They have to run a 14.5 if they think they are going to state.

Joe Keller

Now we won't be sitting on each other's laps. This will be nice.

Dean Smith

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

Eric Takamura

From where I am sitting now, 2008 is not realistic.

Bulgarian Proverb

From walking - something; from sitting - nothing

Eddie Van Halen

Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.

Jim Butler

We want to make sure the vessel was not compromised when it was sitting on the beach.

Anne Donovan

I was stunned. I was sitting over here (on the sideline) stunned that it was happening.

Michelle Johnston

I was sitting there thinking how to give her condolences if she lost. All of a sudden, like wham, she won.

Scott Young

I was sitting over there and all of a sudden bam, bam, bam.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

Vincent Sarubbi

One of the things that weighed heavily on our mind,

Chris Farley

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Farley

I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.

Diane Sawyer

Ive always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

Diane Kruger

I do watch what I eat, but not for weight reasons.

Diane Kruger

I don't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight.

Janet Jackson

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

Ellen G. White

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.