Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Kaser

Three years from now, Bristol could easily be viewed as one of the best.

Rusty Wallace

We're looking at it like we have some unfinished business to take care of this weekend. We certainly want to go out on top of our game at Bristol with a strong run, and I think we're primed to come in there and do just that.

Stephen Merchant

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.'

Neil Cross

I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.

Henry Williamson

The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many streams falling through wooded coombes below the moor.

Will Poulter

Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I'm still waiting for the phone call to say that they made a mistake and got the wrong person.

Tom Stutsman

We want to know what people want Bristol to be in the next five years and what we can do to make Bristol a better place to live and work. Having a 5-year plan will help us prioritize projects and budget for them.

Gary Baker

One thing Bristol doesn't need is more advertising, ... All they have to do is print the tickets and open the gates.

Laura Wade

In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.

Alan Arkin

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

Carl Hiaasen

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

Louise Christian

We want to see a prosecution of corporate manslaughter. This report has re-opened that possibility.

Vince Farrell

What the stock market is telling you is that the economy and corporate profits are going to recover sooner than thought.

Lou DiBella

We want his next fight to be in Little Rock, but it would have to make economic sense to us. I need to get a sense of the corporate reaction that, frankly, we haven't seen for the smaller fights in Little Rock. We need a gate that's competitive with Vegas.

Scotty George

What we're seeing today and what we have been seeing for the last week is a drying up of sentiment as investors wait for some definitive resolution of world events and some new corporate catalysts.

Ron Hill

We're focusing much too much on what's moving, which at the margin are the kind of that are negative for stocks and forgetting what's really crucial here. The fact is we are in an excess supply of money relative to the needs of the economy and corporate earnings growth will in fact be quite good in the third quarter.

Ronald Hill

Three things out there: very, very positive liquidity, a growing economy, and rising corporate profits. Put those three things together stock prices have only one way to go and that's up.

Ernest Collins

We knew this would be an uphill struggle to find corporate sponsors in so short a time frame.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Gary Johnson

The other two saw what was going on and grabbed the hostage, the store owner who was the only person in the store at the time, and held him at gunpoint,

Lucien Smith

I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.

Dan Wheldon

When you think Danica grabbed the headlines, you wait until he starts. She'll be jealous of him.

Tom Freeman

We have to have a melody line. So if one of our sax players needs to stick with one part, maybe the trombone player will grab the melody from another score.

Jim Davis

We're more individualized but we depersonalize meal time. We tend to grab something and run.

Rodney Atkins

Some people grab my hair and pull it out. People write on my jeans when I'm on stage. They write on my boots - their phone number, name or whatever.

Sergey Galitsky

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot.

John Irvine

She grabbed our daughter, and I looked frantically for my 5-year-old son, ... He was looking out to sea. He was mesmerized, hypnotized by the wall of water.

Noelle Kreykes

She didn't grab it and I could tell I could head it over her hands so I stuck my head out.

Charles Stanley

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Dave Davies

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

David Sze

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

Bryan Singer

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

Ai Weiwei

The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

David Hockney

The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.

David Brinkley

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

Bradley Cooper

Our posture NOW defines our portion later!

Kurt Cobain

I have very bad posture.

Sarah Rafferty

I honestly think I've gotten taller since I started doing Pilates. And my posture is totally different - no more slouching!

Flynt Leverett

It's an undeclared posture of 'regime change' on the cheap.

Tom Stoppard

Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Candace Parker

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Julia Mancuso

We're just used to it. Every race, there's always some stuff that happens, whether it's a teammate or not. You sort of have to refocus at the start and go.

Sarah Snook

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Lyle Bauer

What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder.

Kiesza

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

Becky Sarro

She's always been a very intrepid sort of girl.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mallory Ortberg

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

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Huseyin Sahin

She died. I will be making a statement shortly.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Sizwe Kupelo

This statement can be described only as utter rubbish.

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Sourav Ganguly

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

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Angelo Reyes

We are concerned. We are taking the appropriate measures, but we are not panicking.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

David Ramsey

The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Hans Vestberg

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

Charles Stanley

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

Charles Spurgeon

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

David Millar

The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

David Mitchell

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

William Shakespeare

I came, saw, and overcame.

Elizabeth May

You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.

Beth Moore

Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God.

Bob Marley

The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.

Bill Walsh

Victory is produced by and belongs to all.