Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Edwards

We want to scale this across the community of users in a systematic approach to ensure we keep in mind the users' needs and requirements.

Adam Mackillop

We have seen buying across products and client types. But clearly they're being overwhelmed by the selling in New York.

David Allen

We have seen bears in the trees across from Signal Hill Elementary. Some fruit-bearing trees don't attract bears such as cherry trees because the fruit is quite small.

David Sandor

We have seen across all genders a very healthy increase in home improvement projects, particularly those geared toward the inside of the home.

Shaukat Aziz

We have as of last night opened relief centers on various proposed points of movement across the Line of Control,

Ian Shepherdson

We have no real idea what the number next week will be, but we can be pretty sure that for the next few weeks the data will tell us next to nothing about the state of the economy across the country outside the areas hit by the storm.

Gary Sheffer

We have no layoff targets and no company-wide numbers. We never announce overall layoffs because we don't plan for them across GE. We leave it up to individual businesses to decide what actions are necessary to meet their objectives. However, it's clear we'll need fewer jobs at GE because of redundancies from the Honeywell acquisition, the Montgomery Ward bankruptcy, modest volume-related reductions and GE's digitization activities.

Alastair Reynolds

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.

Jay Remy

We want parents to talk to kids. It's free speech. We can't stop students from participating. But if they do this, first of all, it's skipping school. And second, talk to them about safety. If you're walking across town, be careful.

Muqtada al Sadr

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

John Adams

Mobs will never do to govern states or command armies

Steve Capus

Look, this is what we are built for. You've got mundane days in the business and then days like this when all your work and planning are put to the test. We've got two small armies in two different parts of the world.

John Reid

Nato today faces greater threats to its long-term future than it ever did at the height of the Cold War. Now is the time to replace immobile armies with more flexible, rapid response forces.

Bob Dole

I have ... been uplifted by the extraordinary power of the American heart -- by those armies of compassion, who are willing to cross town or cross the globe to minister to those they've never met and will never see again.

Christina Rocca

We are worried about the continued mobilization of both armies facing each other,

Richard Perle

We can train Iraqi soldiers to combat insurgencies while respecting human rights, as we have trained armies in the Philippines and Latin America.

Ahmed Ben Bella

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.

Adam Michnik

The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

Michael Brewer

When you said you were a battered husband, you intended that someone battered you?

Ellen Potter

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

Yvette Girouard

Leslie Klein came up with a huge hit today. Camille Harris has just been a warrior for us. She is battered and bruised, but she continues to make plays. It was a good sweep.

Nasser Hussain

One thing I'm not going to do is walk away from this team in their present bruised and battered state and give it to some young lad and say, 'Here, you take them out there,'

Georgia Johnson

I battered the cordons around me/ And cradled my wings on the breeze,/ Then soared to the uttermost reaches/ With rapture, with power, with ease!

John Abraham

I don't think we were battered at all. We just missed tackles. They were self-inflicted wounds.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.

Steve Bruce

We've been battered all week, and at least (the players) have responded. We showed courage to take them on.

John Ortberg

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

Carlos Mencia

It is never okay to use the toilet with the door open... I never want to know what comes out of there because sometimes I eat at that restaurant.

Charlie Daniels

As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Charles Studd

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

Charles Stanley

(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

Ann Davis

We use many skylights, which provide a bright, well-lit home. Most of the homes also have at least one side to the house which is visible and has windows and doors for a more conventional look,

Brian Eno

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

Brandon Boyd

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

Diane von Furstenberg

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

Barbara Hambly

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

Brian Tracy

If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.

Brian Tracy

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

Perry Miller

would be like not spraying your fields and hoping the weeds will stay away.

Pete Vagenas

We're right where we want to be. It would have been nice to score some goals (at home), but it was the first time a lot of us had gotten together in a long time. We're going to have to win on other fields at some point (in this tournament) -- we might as well start in the first round.

Charles Rangel

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

Charles Francis Richter

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Clarence Day

The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

Arthur Hugh Clough

There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.

John Cross

My fists get clenched, my muscles get tight, I'm getting hot.

Curtis Jones

He seemed kind of ticked-off. His fists were doubled, clenched down by his side.

Andy Roddick

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

Danny Devito

When we get out of this, I'm gonna shove my fist right into your ass, hard and fast Not in the sexual way! In the 'I am pissed off' sort of way.

Jesse Ventura

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

Margaret Atwood

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Fiona Apple

Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest

George Herbert

He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.

Jim Carrey

Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.

Umar Juoro

There is a conflict, there's no question about it. The generals are unhappy.

Marianne Williamson

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

Howard Dean

Some of the generals have said we can withdraw some of the troops. ... We have others saying, we're not going to leave. These people do not know what they are doing,

Sergei Ivanov

We should reduce the number of generals and admirals to maintain the ratio of one senior officer per thousand servicemen.

Franjo Tudjman

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

Ken Bacon

Enterprising generals and admirals will always find ways -- very good ways -- to spend more money.

Bill Herrion

At times we looked like the Washington Generals on defense. Their guys were wheeling around in the post and laying it in.

Philip Gibbs

The cheery optimism of our generals always thought we were going forward, and therefore it was not worth while making ourselves comfortable and safe.

Mike Rush

When you say goodbye to so many great volunteers, it's always hard, but it's good to know there's always a new generation of leaders emerging.

Liz Ellis

The real beneficiaries will be the next generation of netballers and other professional sportswomen.

Susan B. Anthony

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

Rob Pike

The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

Bible Bible

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Bible Bible

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

Bible Bible

Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

Carol Shields

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

Carlos Castaneda

Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.

Carlos Castaneda

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

C. S. Lewis

I don't want to hold you hand!

Aaron Tveit

I can clap with one hand.

Alan K. Simpson

It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens.

Alan Keyes

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.

Charlotte Bronte

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

Charlotte Bronte

... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'

Selman Waksman

The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.

Kelvin Garnett

We'd get a led and then tend to relax.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Doug Bleadorn

West led us and we rode the third period to victory.

Harmony Korine

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

Steve Martarano

There doesn't seem to be anything that really led to the attack.

Kevin Anderson

Mr. Benitez has led a law-abiding life not even a traffic ticket. Nothing.

Hunter S. Thompson

McComb is big and strong up front. They made some mistakes and led us 14-0 at halftime.

Elliott Abrams

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

Cesc Fabregas

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

Maria Schmidt

We're overwhelmed by the bidding. This is already way over what any of us thought the shirts would bring.

Peter Kovacs

We showed up with just the shirts on our backs, and they took us in. That's how we got back into operation.

Neil Young

You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.

Travis Johnson

He took like twelve shirts from my closet.

Lisa McMann

So, ah, I'm not sure if you know this, but you're not wearing a shirt." "Distracting, isn't it?

Nate Parker

You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it.

Thomas Carlyle

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Shaun White

Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.

David Allen

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

Dave Gibbons

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Jane Smiley

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

David Cornwell

We want to take a step forward. There's some worries. But you just go in there and play.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Brandon Sanderson

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Jack Jones

We are taking steps one at a time.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Jennifer Lopez

She is so smart. But she is trapped in her body.

Anais Nin

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Harold Schaitberger

There's a breakdown. We've got firefighters still trapped in New Orleans.

C. S. Lewis

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

Agnes Repplier

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

Aasif Mandvi

You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world - your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?

Charles Caleb Colton

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

Brian Wilson

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

Brian Wilson

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

Brian Wilson

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Brian Eno

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Carlos Mencia

When white people eat potato chips, they're called white people. When black people eat potato chips, they're called niggas.

Dino Brugioni

We have to get these to the White House.

Agnes Varda

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

Alan Shearer

No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.

Alan Keyes

Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.

Charlie Gonzalez

Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

Charles de Lint

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Don Cornelius

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Charlotte Bronte

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Charles Dudley Warner

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Charles Dudley Warner

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.