Famous Quotes & Sayings

Curtis Sliwa

Our red is of the red, white and blue of America. We stand on our liberty.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Our oceans are facing innumerable threats - from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification and invasive species - yet we haven't had a blueprint for its use and development, incredible as that seems.

Duncan Potter

Our objective is to provide the reseller with that vision and blueprint to be able enter and be profitable in the business, and they understand what they need to do through the whole sales process.

Li Zhi

Optimism abounds on the market. Retail investors expect an influx of funds from institutions and the government to lure overseas-listed blue chips back to mainland markets.

Chelsea Cain

Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.

Dan Hamhuis

Our forwards can't hold up their forwards as they come over the blue line. So you know you're going to get hit. And some teams' third and fourth lines are just relentless about taking the body.

Sarah Allen

Out of the clear blue sky, they called and said we've got three children for you.

Patricia Cox

Out of the blue this roundabout came up.

Brian Setzer

Rockabilly is really part of our background, ... It's a cousin to the blues and country. And it's that important.

Eric Williams

Originally a one-day event, local schools would identify needy children who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

Suomi Sakai

Organizers of any demonstration or public gathering have a responsibility to ensure that children are out of harm's way, particularly children without family, such as street children who have no-one to look after them and are even more vulnerable.

Christine Jackson

Parents who smoke feel guilty about being role models for smoking; they feel hypocritical about trying to prevent their children from smoking. For these reasons, it's difficult to persuade parents who smoke to become anti-smoking advocates in the home.

Jim Duggan

Parents who send their children to school are entitled to expect that in that environment, at least, they will be protected from predatory sexual behaviour,

Walter Dellinger

Patently offensive material is widely disseminated on the Internet, and computer-literate children ... can easily find and retrieve it.

Imraan Ladak

Paul is my childhood idol and when sober is a wonderful person.

Quincy Jones

Peace is possible around the world, and children are the answer.

Rocky Watson

Our main concerns right now are the two children,

Barbara Schneider

Our lives are busy, but we have to find time to enjoy our family's company and share experiences. When parents and children do things together, it can relieve stress.

Susan Cain

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.

Lucy Punch

I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.

Adrienne Bailon

One of my favorite fall items is a turtleneck. Cozy pieces like that for the fall - cashmere, fluffy cream turtlenecks - I think that's so sexy.

Paul McNulty

Those who cozy up with state sponsors of terrorism will not be tolerated,

Ernie Mills

We want it to be cozy when they come in.

Gloria Shull

They love it. They walk in (and it's) so warm and cozy ... They can't get over how nice this place is.

Wayne Vutech

A cozy family atmosphere. And a wholesome start to the New Year.

Michael Leunig

Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.

Robert Brustein

Laurence Olivier once made the rather cruel remark that when you've got the strength to play Lear you're too young, but when you're old enough, you haven't got the strength. Well, Alvin is well muscled and trained.

Adolf Hitler

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

Felix Frankfurter

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling

Javier Solana

It is a cruel irony of history that he left at the moment he was most needed, the very moment he was expected to provide leadership in helping to settle the future status of Kosovo.

Tony Mowbray

It is a cruel game and it is very harsh on the players. To come in 3-1 down at half-time felt unfair and the penalty was a killer for us. It looked very soft. At 2-1 down, we were just one goal away from winning the tie and in with a real chance.

Bruce Lahn

If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier.

Paul Austin

I always heard that kids are cruel ... but these kids treat her like a sister. They look out for her.

Terry Jones

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

Ken Walsh

Our No. 1 job was to hire the most dynamic, energetic director that we could (for the job), and we feel we got our No. 1 free agent.

Sophie Turner

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite directors.

Tim McGary

Our previous director was pretty much under a lot of pressure from the trucking industry, and I think the governor was, to keep the trucks rolling.

Corinne Kowpak

Our goal is to have a new director to start by July 1.

B. J. Novak

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

Antoine Fuqua

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Paul Clarke

The 48-hour stoppage is aimed at CIS staff and CIS directors but unfortunately there will be an effect on some customers,

Liev Schreiber

I was out of my head. I was really frantic, ... I guess I was always under the misconception that a director makes the film, and it's not true. A director directs the people who make the film.

Trevor Nunn

I think a director does have a huge responsibility to draw strands together, and to seek extension and development of his or her own ideas.

Carolina Herrera

Lots of suits, lots of trousers, which I'm in heaven (about) because I love them. (They're) all made in men's materials like glen plaids and gray flannel and all in houndstooth. All those men's materials translated for a very feminine, wonderful woman.

Alessia Cara

Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.

Charles Dickens

Subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral pocket handkerchiefs.

Ryan Murphy

You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel.

Bhagat Singh

Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

Bernard Berenson

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

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.

Yiddish Proverb

He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral

Eugene Kennedy

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

Marilyn Miller

We want to make sure they can't do this at the funeral of a hero.

Alexander the Great

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

Dwight L. Moody

I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was.

Stephen Jay Gould

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

Daniel Dennett

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

Ami Ayalon

It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.

Stephen Jay Gould

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.

Golda Meir

There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.

Golda Meir

There is no such thing as a Palestinian.

Joyce Smith

This is the first time I've ever seen a pale one.

Evan Rachel Wood

I was always pale. And I'm glad that I can be open about my paleness now.

Jim Broadbent

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

Dave Ross

I think the state accidentally sent the wrong message,

Susana Almanza

It has sent a frightening wave of terror throughout the community.

Sergei Mitrokhin

If today or tomorrow the sentence had been pronounced there would simply have been international uproar.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Kraig Troxell

He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended.

Leonard Underwood

If they got trouble, they would be sent here and I would put them to work. But they weren't here very often.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Maureen O'Hara

One time I was taking a little too long in the toilet and Mr. Zanuck sent for me. And he said, what are you doing that takes so long?

Mark Johnson

She sent a laser in there. You look for breaks, you look for bounces, and we got one on that first goal.

Italian Proverb

It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets

Michael Allen

We put up sheets here so they can have their privacy,

Jeff Davidson

When plywood starts to go up to $23 a sheet ... that's a lot of dollars.

Debra Moore

We have the sheets where you can see on each side of her where it spilled over. The sheets were a maroon color, so it's real obvious.

Sandra Dee

I used to sign vouchers and sign-out sheets with 'Alexandra Dee.' Somehow it stuck.

Roger McNamee

They started out in a world of spread sheets and word processors,

Jimmy Hoffa

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

Ryan Murphy

I love crispy, cool sheets.

Scott Weiland

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Carl Jung

The other side of midnight’s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sun—together they come Sixteen winters hence—the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire

Dave Mattson

If they keep this up for years they are going to completely wipe out winter tourism.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Carroll Quigley

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

Atom Egoyan

One of the huge advantages of shooting in the winter is that locations that wouldn't have been available to us suddenly were, like Yorkville. ... It's just specific streets and specific angles. I think that's what's always kind of shocking about some cities: they are really about intersections.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Alfred Stieglitz

My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.