Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Daniels

It's quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back... You're in a war zone, you're dodging IED's and bullets one day and a couple days later you're back in society again with a bunch of people that have no idea of what you've been through.

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Carol Marsh

She was a feisty woman. She was a clown. She made everyone laugh. Everyone loved to be around her.

Johnny Gonzales

Mark played super. It was also good to see Reid get on track with a goal. Hempstead is a feisty bunch, but we played well. We are happy with the win and look forward to next week.

Fred Matua

I am a feisty guy. I like to get after guys. I want to come out here and work hard and push to get better.

Willie McGinest

Tom is a feisty guy. He says what's on his mind. He's on our team so I support whatever he says.

Chris Abani

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

Amanda Hocking

You should get married more often," Loki teased. "It makes you feisty.

Jena Malone

But Lydia is the type of girl who will make things happen. If she has to go live with her sister Lizzie and Darcy, she'll just show up on their doorstep. She's a feisty little monkey.

Tyson Chandler

We were feisty out there, but they just hit some tough shots to win.

Murry Bartow

They play so hard. That's a very scrappy, feisty team. Tony Ingle has done a great job.

Rafa Benitez

We started really well with two goals and good counter-attacks. But, after we conceded, it was difficult. But the most important thing is to start with a win.

Rick Bowers

We accomplished one more of our goals. We just have to perform.

Cory Schneider

We want it. It's so prestigious and something you'll always remember if you win it. That's the first of many goals we have for ourselves this season.

Angie Murphy

We're going to need a lot of help to win conference. But our goals are still there. We're getting ready for the tournament and hopefully a run to the state tournament.

Douglas Smith

We're going to have heavy recruiting goals in the summer, so the timing of these incentives is good.

John Stanton

working with other staff to restructure constituent services to better serve the governor's goals.

Ronnie Stubbs

We're getting better. We're working hard with a sense of urgency and accomplishing our goals. (The players) realize how hard they have to work.

Amy Rymer

We're ready to start talking about next year's goals. We'd like to become one of those regular teams that are at state, year in and year out.

J. Wince

We've set some team goals and we'll just see how it goes for this game. We've told the guys that why it can't be us to make the news and upset the No. 1 ranked team in the state.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

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.

Dave Barry

We've actually gotten better musically over the years, ... But we've come to realize that we will never be good.

Dom Capers

We've got a lot of young guys that have gotten on the job training.

Nelson Peltz

You know what term you don't hear anymore? Arbitrage. The markets have gotten too efficient.

Nellie McKay

If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.

Samantha Quigley

Yeah, it did. I thought it was going to hit the fence, so I was going so fast. Then I saw it went over and I was like, 'All right, all right.' The wind may have gotten it a bit, but I'll take it.

Rick Johnson

We're going to get serious. We've been playing around with this for too long, ... It's gotten totally out of hand.

Charlie Norwood

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

Kenneth Bonert

When I was growing up, Mandela's name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn't see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.

Donald Pleasence

It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.

Domonique Foxworth

We've all seen it over and over again, those kinds of plays. It's just Champ. That's what he does.

Jean Kelly

We have no idea yet how long it's going to take to get rid of it. We're working on all kinds of different ways to get rid of debris, but we won't know if any of them are valid until we see what we've got to get rid of.

Katori Hall

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

John Moynihan

With these kinds of horses, you just dont know, ... Shes just one we really, really wanted.

Abby Wambach

I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.

Bertrand Russell

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Bill Dunn

Last year we did 36 kinds of beer.

Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Source Unknown

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

Craig Smith

We know what to do and what not to do because of last year. That's why we're in this position right now.

Bruce McMiller

We know we made a lot of progress last year, but there is still a lot out there.

Tony Russa

We know him and technically a position player can get here the last two or three weeks and that's plenty of camp. I'm sure he's been working.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Lorraine Toussaint

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

Lorraine Toussaint

'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.

George Thorogood

The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece.

Earl Butz

I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

Karl Dorrell

Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.

Jim Gaylor

Whether that sparked our hitting, I don't know, but we needed a spark.

Chip Cook

We've been able to make adjustments needed to recover from breakdowns. This year we are much more deep.

Corey Nakatani

When I needed him in the spot that I needed him, he was there.

Corey Nakatani

When I needed him in spots, he was there for me.

Thomas Doll

We know we have signed quality players - but they will need time.

Jerry Jones

The position that's on the table by the players just isn't acceptable.

Kiki Chesterton

We've got a very multi-diverse attack. I have seven players at the restraining line, and all seven can put it in the net. We got some sick shooters.

Justin Vincent

We have so many players from New Orleans. It's always in the back of our minds.

Brett Favre

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Dwight Freeman

We're starting to do some things but we can't let up. It's a do-or-die situation, so the players are playing with a sense of urgency.

Mike Carey

We're just not comfortable with our go-to players in the stretch.

Pat Gillick

We're getting better. We have players who are pretty focused.

Ben Braaten

We usually have 10 different players in every quarter.

David Gower

Vaughan now plays more on the crease than he did,

Patrick Marleau

We want to play them in their end and always have the puck and start making plays in their zone. When we're successful, we get results like this.

Wayne Chrebet

When it comes down to it, everyone is just trying to get their plays and get to the season healthy. I don't think it'll be anything too crazy.

Chauncey Billups

We're going to run some decoys for him. We're not going to run plays for him.

Sarah Snook

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

Jeff Banks

We had backups ready to go. We charted his plays to see how many times he touched the ball, worried about overusing him.

Michele Jackson

She understands that if she plays well, this team plays well. Defensively, she buckled down and the rest of them followed.

Donny Burnett

She's our leader. When she plays well, we all play well. When she is off, we're all off.

Arthur Clough

Shady in Latin, said Lindsay, but topping in Plays and Aldrich.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Alan Bennett

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

David Sedaris

My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.

Bob Marley

You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going.

Charles Kuralt

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Bobbi Brown

Im not really Type A, but A minus.

Billy Bob Thornton

I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.

Kevin Rahm

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

Abdul Kalam

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

Daniel Handler

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.