Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Al Oerter

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Ries

Good things happen when you narrow your focus

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Chris Christie

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Chris Albrecht

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

Chin-Ning Chu

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

David Rusenko

To gain paying customers you'll need to focus on attracting the right followers, and not just on attracting the most. Communicate often with useful information to increase your value, and focus on pitching your product in a genuine way. Make sure you have a professional web presence, and with any luck, you should start noticing your efforts pay off.

Michael Strahan

People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that. Opposite shows, opposite coasts, opposite demographics, opposite everything - I love it, man!

Arlen Specter

We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go.

Bill Nye

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

Golf Brooks

We have no practices at all. We just wing it. It's spontaneous. No one knows what to expect. Even hearing the same song we played the week before, it could come off different. Everything's off the wall. It comes out better that way.

Orrin Hatch

We want everything so if hearings aren't justified, we won't hold them, ... If they are, we will.

Charles Rosen

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

Beth Moore

When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

Desi Arnaz

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

Vonetta Flowers

When they tell him to do something he doesn't want to do, he'll reach up and take off his hearing aid.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Chris Christie

The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Charles Spurgeon

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Charles Spurgeon

When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

Alan Greenspan

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

Alan Bennett

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

Al Sharpton

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Al Pacino

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Henry Hyde

The Senate shouldn't tell us how to try our case,

Harry Reid

the Senate must be vigilant in considering this nomination.

John Deane

The Senate has the right to look at Roberts' papers.

George Stephanopoulos

It only works in the Senate if everyone agrees,

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Beth Moore

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Andy Brandt

When we get a lead, we have a tendency to sit back.

Charles Osgood

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

Roy Makaay

I have already spoken to him about Bayern.

Nadine Gordimer

Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,

Sachin Tendulkar

I think I have already spoken a lot. Now it is time for me to play.

Mike Vogel

They're very quiet. You can tell that there's something that they're about to do. They have the track walks before the race. They go and do their thing, and not a word is spoken between any of them. They're just staring at the track.

Horace

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

Stephen Hess

Besides, he's already spoken extensively about the hurricanes.

Shawn Roop

I've never spoken to her. We communicate with e-mail and faxes. That pretty much sums up what the Web can do for a company.

Dick Jauron

I haven't even thought about it, and we haven't spoken about it.

Allen Weinstein

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Jay Carson

Forty-one just wanted to come by and say hello. He was really great, and our staff really appreciated it.

Ed Fulton

We've got a better infield that we had a year ago. With the staff that we have that should work pretty good.

Mike Gonzalez

We're struggling in the bullpen, too. The whole staff is struggling.

Cynthia Johnson

Our staff don't take to rhetoric, they need proof.

Ralph Brennan

Staff is our most significant challenge. We already know that many of them will not return.

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

Cherry Loney

We are already strained in terms of our staff and space.