Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Mike Enzi

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Bob Stewart

like a baptism, it clears you out for the new year.

Al Jefferson

Like Doc said, the trade will clear out a lot of negative stuff in the locker room without Mark Blount and Marcus Banks, who didn't really want to be here. It clears the negative stuff out of the locker room and off the team, period.

Nariman Behravesh

Let's be clear -- for the next couple of months the employment numbers are going to look terrible. There's going to be a lot of noise and problems gathering the data, so it's going to be tougher than usual to sift through the tea leaves and really get at the heart of what's going on here.

Harry Reid

Let's be clear about what Katrina was: a failure of leadership.

Andre Agassi

Let's be clear about something. I wasn't the winner, tennis was. I never felt I was going to win that match but somehow it just fell my way.

Sathya Baba

Make it sooner than later. Keep the goal clear before the eye and march on.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. It's a player's worst nightmare really. Hopefully it heals and everything goes to plan.

Robert Fisk

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

Albert Schweitzer

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

Richard Hills

Lee (Robinson) has gone back to the United and done very well,

J. J. Johnson

Several firms that have gone public recently and others that have been public for some time have seen their shares rise considerably.

Yuri Thamrin

Second-hand information is not enough and this has gone on for too long.

Thomas Blanton

Secrecy, the secrecy system and the pseudo secrecy system in the United States have gone out of control.

Edward Luck

So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.

Gary Waters

McNamara would've helped them, but I don't know how much he would've helped them. I can't say because he was gone that we were better, because they played like a team.

Kim Clijsters

My injury's not gone. The pain is gone because of the tablets I'm taking.

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.

Italo Calvino

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Mallory Ortberg

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

Lord Byron

My hair is grey, but not with years, / Nor grew it white / In a single night, / As men's have grown from sudden fears.

William T. Vollmann

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

Ellen DeGeneres

New Orleans holds a special place in my heart, because it is where I grew up,

Michael Gillman

Obviously, this is not what we wanted. But the result is not what's most important. We learned a lot this year and grew as a team.

George Romero

When I grew up, there was no such thing as videotape, TV was B&W.

Tyra Banks

I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed.

Daryl Sabara

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Carol Thorp

Motorists might see prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Movies might take five-six years, sometimes 10 years to produce. For television, when you have an idea, you put it to a network and within a week or so they have an answer.

Tom Tremont

One owner pays seven times more than another might pay.

Tessa Hafen

Senator Reid has done nothing wrong and he doesn't see any reason why he would need to return the money.

Don Braunecker

Megan Richardson was a big reason for our success (Tuesday) night.

Charles Spurgeon

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is reason at rest in God.

Deborah Tannen

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Taylor Vichorek

For some reason OTs haven't treated us as well as we hoped.

Ahmed Chalabi

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

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,

Tony Ierulli

Seven interceptions has got to be a school record.

Chuck Eddy

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

Jonathan Bennett

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

David Walliams

When I was at school I was watching The Young Ones,

Ludwig von Mises

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Chris Cuomo

I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"

Chris Crutcher

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

Charles Spurgeon

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

Charles Morgan

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

Susan Hayward

We had a very successful fair. We were thrilled.

Dick Wolf

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

Dennis Ritchie

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group

Deana Carter

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.

Edgar Allan Poe

The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.

Eddie Vedder

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.

Earl Nightingale

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

Earl Nightingale

Do, each day, all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork-or to rush blindly into your work, trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible amount of time. Don't try to do tomorrow's-or next week's-work today. It's not so much the number of the things you do but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that counts. . . . you need only to succeed in the small tasks of each day. This makes a successful day. With enough of these, you have a successful week, month, year-and lifetime.

Montae Reagor

I wouldn't say this is our measuring stick. We're 7-0. We're the undefeated team.

Don Shows

If we win out from here and go undefeated ... I know they'll be undefeated. That could be a big gate.

Ron Whitehurst

They're 8-0 for a reason. They're undefeated in the district, too. They're for real. We didn't have a whole lot in the way of statistics.

Chad Johnson

They're only undefeated until they come in here. We will win. That's a guarantee.

John Leguizamo

I did an HBO movie called Undefeated that I directed. It was too hard.

Del Ruiter

Luckily, Lord's will, we won and we're going to Canton and they're not.

Charles Spurgeon

None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.

Charles Spurgeon

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

Eileen Caddy

Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.

Dave Mustaine

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.

Chris Lowery

We've never done this. We've always been on eggshells wondering if we were going to get in or not.

Brian Cashman

If we had won today, we'd be going to New York.

Bill Young

If we'd had everyone, I think we could have won it.

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

Levance Fields

Of course, I'll be ready. I think I could have done it this year if Carl hadn't come back.

Cory Sarich

One year I had about 14 different returns. That's a lot of signatures when it comes time.

Jose Theodore

Obviously, this year I didn't play up to my level, but the year's not over yet.

Chris Evans

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Charles Spurgeon

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Charles Spurgeon

In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Dick Van Dyke

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.