Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Leakey

It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

Abdullah Gul

We have completed our mission to the EU, now we are on our way to the Balkans. Our ancestors went on horse back, we are going by plane.

Kate Forsyth

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

Tom Snyder

Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors

Greg Iles

My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South.

Tristram Stuart

Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.

Paul Robeson

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

Cory Booker

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

Luanne Rice

My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'

Louis Stokes

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

Richard Butler

The only reason it's taken so long, ... is that from day one, Iraq dragged its feet, sought to conceal and obfuscate and keep us away from the things we have the legal right to find.

Lisa Borges

She concealed evidence. It's important to hold her accountable.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Loretta Lynch

Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.

Ari Fleischer

We still are in an environment where whatever they hid and whatever they concealed could remain hidden and concealed.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

Robert South

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Dan Brown

I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

Lynn Shelton

By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

Charles McCarry

I was swimming in my swimming pool when 'The Secret Lovers' popped entire into my head. I got out, dried off, went upstairs, and finished the book in about 50 days.

William Butler Yeats

I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.

Bob Lilley

We had streaks last year where we were good at putting the goals in and streaks where we dried up.

Robert Anderson

We had a false start. We pulled in and dried out.

Heather Wilson

Junk faxes dried up after that. People stopped doing it,

Bible Bible

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Ron Black

Then all of the sudden, the money slacked off here and there until it eventually dried up again.

Michael Carty

There's not a lot of steam in this market. The volume has really dried up.

John Randolph

Life is not so important as the duties of life

Doug Harvey

As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire is to make sure that the runner touches home. Well, if you're a true baseball fan, you need to visit Cooperstown. This is home.

William Osler

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Albert Barnes

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.

Orrin Hatch

There is little or no evidence that shows that states and localities are being derelict in their duties to enforce the law,

Rig Veda

Only those who perform their duties promptly become successful.

Christopher Cox

I look forward to returning to my duties very quickly. I plan to be back in the office in mid-February.

Stephanie Tran

We urge you to fulfill your fiduciary duties to all shareholders by immediately initiating a sale of the entire company.

Alan Greenspan

There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.

Jack McConnell

The possibilities could range from a full evidentiary hearing, a mini-trial, to just arguments on the evidence that exists or something in between." ()

Edward Gorey

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

Bernard Goldberg

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

Ahmad Chalabi

We have no evidence they have been killed in that attack. We know at least that Qusay, his son, has survived and he is occupying some houses in the Diyala area,

Neil Johnson

We have no evidence that he is deceased right now. We are hoping for a rescue.

Robert Francis

We have no evidence at this point that this was not an accident,

Richard Butler

What there is now is evidence that Saddam has reinvigorated his nuclear weapons program.

Joe Margulies

What we're saying is, 'Give us the opportunity to present our evidence on battering that the jury didn't hear.'

Charles Dickens

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Al Madrigal

I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon.

Chris Hanson

We want to set the stage to be successful the rest of the season in Arizona. This is an opportunity to see new faces and gain some big meet experience.

Chris Cleave

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Chin-Ning Chu

You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.

Dave Chappelle

What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!

David Sedaris

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

Carlos Slim

Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.

Thomas Lynch

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

David Raskin

He wishes there were more coffins, more funerals and much more pain.

Scott Taylor

Because of operational reasons we can't get back to the UK for funerals so it was just played as a mark of respect to the three guys who were lost out here last week,

Michael Green

The funerals are hard, so it's good to see all these people come out and show their support,

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Natasha Tsakos

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

Kim Priez

While Mardi Gras may be smaller this year, the pageantry is not going to be lacking in any way.

Lee H. Hamilton

What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.

Phillip Brown

With the lack of support there last night to stop the A&P tax, I don't see the need to do anything further.

Keke Palmer

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

Kelly Rowan

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

Tony Stewart

We're ready. I don't feel like we're lacking anything or waiting on anything.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Mark Shapiro

We lack upper-level, left-handed relief depth. (Heredia) could be a Major League alternative for us this year.

Jane Austen

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

Alphonsus Liguori

A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.

Terry Tucker

Our witness was the judge's assistant, a woman named Mary Cherry. So we had Terry, Terry, and Mary Cherry.

Ronnie Bond

Mary was superb. But we missed a lot of shots that we've got to make. That's been a problem for us in the past month, so maybe we'll be able to work our way through it next year.

Jon Birsner

Maryland played it well and Ian wasn't wide open. It really didn't matter because I was going to throw it to him no matter what.

Skip Lockwood

Maryland is the first state that seems to be going section-by-section through the bill, because so much opposition to this has come out of the woodwork that they are very concerned.

Steven Tyler

Mary had a little sheep,With the sheep she went to sleep.The sheep turned out to be a ram,And Mary had a little lamb.

Brian Glass

Mary Ann was just outstanding running the bases. Sometimes, I don't think she really understands just how important she is to our team.

Mary Beth Whitehead

Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.

Edith Wharton

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

Diana Gabaldon

He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

Chevy Chase

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

Chandra Wilson

I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.

Charles M. Schulz

A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection

Barry Williams

I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.

Brian Eno

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

Jim Murphy

She's just got a nose for the goal. But she is exceptionally unselfish, too. This is the third year we try to get her to shoot more.

Brad Gomez

She's really stepped up. She just has a nose for the ball.

Niki Tsongas

There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.

Yahya Jammeh

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

Glenn Martin

What you're going to start seeing is the infrastructure the roads, doctor's offices and stores come next.

J. M. Roberts

We see some representatives out here, but I think most sit in their offices and don't see the people that they affect,

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.

Jay Cairns

It sort of said we should be the standard as to what other prosecutor offices should be doing.

Herb Kohl

All the Wisconsin and Beloit stuff in their offices made me feel at home,

Peter Gould

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

Bob Stoops

Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dean Taylor

There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and evaluated their own players, and other players, better than any other team in recent memory.

Benjamin Franklin

What's proper, is becoming: See the Blacksmith with his white Silk Apron!

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Ai Weiwei

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

Diana Gabaldon

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

Bob Harper

It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body.

Nikki Sixx

When we were younger, you know, small stuff was small stuff. But we turned it into big stuff. It's just part of being young.

Charles Spurgeon

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

Chris Christie

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

David Sedaris

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

David Morrissey

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

William Shakespeare

Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!

Betty Who

I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!

Diego Della Valle

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

Dick Costolo

Twitter is a global town square.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Stefano Gabbana

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

Keith McKeown

All the various discussions are going on with all the different parties.

Roger Williams

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

Red Herring

Walker Digital's going to be around for a long, long time,

Abraham Lincoln

I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

Charles McDonald

Even the slowest walker will be done by noon.

Frank Melton

The whole thing with Walker was for his own protection. It had nothing to do with getting his testimony.