Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Dunton

Life is a do-it-yourself project and we Jack Kevorkian-ed ourselves tonight. It was assisted suicide.

Matt Clark

Mitchell had a great game. He had his best game passing ever going 12 for 26 and still rushed for 98 yards. He did great on defense with seven solo tackles and three assisted tackles.

Jane Austen

Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society . . .

Tony Perkins

Today's Supreme Court decision is not an endorsement of assisted suicide. All it means is that under this particular statute the attorney general may not prohibit a state from permitting federally-regulated drugs to be use in assisted suicide.

Wanda Yuhas

What we did in the meantime was that we assisted with transportation for those Japanese students to the Triangle.

Chris Sullivan

We have received numerous complaints about the place from the neighbors, ... We stepped up our routine tavern checks. The sheriff?s office cooperated with us and assisted us, and we are very grateful for their assistance.

Eliseo Medina

We are going to need more people to take care of older people. Nursing homes and assisted living is going to be huge in terms of the need for workers.

Mayer Morganroth

Jack said it shows the trend, and the trend is toward legalizing assisted suicide.

Jamie Spiteri

I think it is a rebound from yesterday. The moves in markets overseas, particularly the U.S., just assisted with some renewed confidence first thing this morning.

Ronald Kessler

'Fox lies' has become a favorite mantra of the Left, yet there is a reason Fox News blows away the other cable networks in ratings and is more trusted as a news source than any other television network.

Cliff Robinson

We're not blowing the whistles. We're not committing the fouls. We're not the ones making the calls.

Jamie Sharper

Mack? He's strong. He's out there every time blowing up the linebacker.

Guru Nanak

Let him not blow a fire with his mouth, let him not look at a naked woman, let him not throw any impure substance into the fire, and let him not warm his feet at it.

Anthony Chan

Lower energy prices will cushion the blow to the economy from the higher prices so far. Psychologically, it helps the consumer and that means the hit to the economy will not be as great as feared earlier.

Ronnie McFall

Losing Wesley is a further blow but we have every confidence in the players who will come in. They will do a job for us.

Chris Stephens

Losing Mike Powell was a disaster, a big blow for us, but what pulled us through was our team spirit,

Thomas Smith

Losing is a blow to the gut, no matter how it happens. A loss is a loss. We, the team, didn't get the job done and here we play as a team, win or lose. Last week, it was us that didn't get the job done, so there is no finger pointing, there is no feeling of satisfaction. We all need to go out and work hard and find a way to get a win.

Charlie Christie

Losing Craig was a big blow to us.

Isabella Rossellini

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Carolyn See

Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.

Jim Daugherty

Last year we had a recruit in here, and all we had to show them was the blueprints. Now the courts have made us feel like we have had a home from Day 1.

James Valentine

Senior Burlington management have been saying since March that if the moratorium is (upheld), the deal is in trouble. (The court decision) last Friday was the big event.

Tom Donohue

Missouri is a great example of a state that has taken substantive steps to fix its legal system. In the last year, Missouri has passed one of the most comprehensive legal reform packages in the country, including legislation that keeps people from shopping around the state for the friendliest courts in which to sue.

John Myers

Miss Ciccone (Madonna's given name) struts in this courtroom and thinks she's the star. Her problem is she comes in here and can't stop acting.

Stephen Saltzburg

Miranda was meant to be easy to use. I think what you have is a court interpreting Miranda in an overly technical manner.

Mary Stillinger

Mr. Crawford has had this hanging over his head for two and a half years, and we are glad to have the opportunity to go to court and defend him.

Eugene Lawrence

Me and Quincy go way back. We talk on the court all the time. I was trying to mess with him. I was telling him, 'Settle down. I know you're going to shoot.' He can really shoot the ball.

Manolo Blahnik

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

Marc Bolan

I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!

Tim O'Brien

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism?the way you play it is free will.

Michael Ryan

Like everyone else, the school system will have to deal with increased utility costs. We already are running with a deficit from fuel oil for this year's budget.

John Glover

Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.

Kip Winger

Major labels they're not into me at all because the name is like - all they can remember is what I've done, so I don't even want to deal with that.

Patrick Quinn

Magazines and newspapers are loath to discuss these types of deals publicly.

Tim Fitzpatrick

Lexmark's cartridge return program deals exclusively with laser printer toner cartridges. It does not involve any inkjet products. The court's decision was very specifically about this program.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Chris Healy

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Ellen Tolley

Looks like last-minute shoppers lived up to their high expectations.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Charles Greene

less respect for high standard and more interest in high enrollment.

Vince Cable

Many voters still...associate us with high taxes and big spending.

Angel Guzman

Now that I have this opportunity to show them that I can pitch, I have to just go out there and make pitches.

Brian Aldridge

Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,

Jeff Suppan

Obviously, if you get the opportunity that's great,

Laveranues Coles

When you're a quarterback, I think that's the most important thing for you to get the opportunity to get out and not only show the world, but show yourself and prove to yourself that you still have everything.

Chris Cuomo

We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.

Daniel Adair

I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

Uday Kotak

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

Charles R. Swindoll

While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.

Dick Van Dyke

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

Alexandra Paul

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

Brad Smith

Seth Burris showed the kind of shooter he is. We see that in practice a lot, and I'm awfully proud of him.

Mike Lingle

Monday, it's back to business. Time to work. They come here every single day and practice hard. We practice like we play, and it shows.

Dennis Prager

You know what I ask Jewish liberals? 'Why don't you preach what you practice?'

Democritus

One should practice much sense, not much learning.

Deborah Smith

Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both stylistically and politically, influenced by her own translation practice (she's translated the likes of Kafka, Pessoa, and Sadeq Hedayat into Korean). Her language is simply extraordinary.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Patrice Lauzon

I did it in the first practice, I don't have to do it again.

Carmelo Anthony

I can't even remember. To me, it's just going to be like practice. . . . I don't even look at it as trying out.

George Washington

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.

Edward Castronova

One thing that's surprising is how serious this is. It's now my career.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Edsger Dijkstra

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

Edward Abbey

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

Steve MacFarlane

If all sides are serious about getting this done before the deadline, I think it can be done.

Dom DeLuise

I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

David Nicholls

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

Christine Lavin

I was a very, very serious child, ... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Mallory Ortberg

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

Larry Jacobs

No one state is the same. You wouldn't want to look at that ranking and think 'Minnesotans are getting screwed' because that really isn't the case.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

David Wojciechowski

For sure he's going to play. It's a state championship game.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Wendell Byrd

When we say local, we say the state of Virginia and Maryland.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Sourav Ganguly

Only time will tell. It's not right for me to make a statement now.

David Jensen

Iwish the state would have done that, and Ithink they will in two years,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man." Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Edward Abbey

We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?

David Bowie

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

Dave Navarro

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

Dave Mustaine

If I'm gonna commit suicide, I'll go out eatin' pussy to death.

Abraham Lincoln

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

Abraham Lincoln

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Charles Clarke

I wish we didn't have the problem. I wish we didn't have suicide bombers at all. I wish I could go like that and they're gone,

Alphonso Jackson

So it's a very, very unique job, but at the same time, it's very, very rewarding.

Dennis Haysbert

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

Deborah Tannen

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

Edgar Allan Poe

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out...

Eleanor Roosevelt

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

Edvard Munch

I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.

Elizabeth Bowen

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

Eliot Engel

Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.

Eleanor Smeal

We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also think that she is a unique person that deserves it and would help advance women's rights.