Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Brown

We started out good. We all talked about respecting them with Allen out. We had a seven-point lead and then we just completely wilted. We had a lot of guys that didn't bring it to tonight and they had a lot of people that brought it.

Mark Mears

We started off a little slow, but I thought the guys wrestled well. Outside of Allen (Park, at 119), everyone's still in it. We've got nine guys still wrestling, and five in the semis.

Nayvadius Cash

G-Rock from the Westside, from Allen Temple. He gave my name, The Future; he was like, 'Man, you the future.' Just stuck with the name.

Maurice Cheeks

We have to get other guys involved. We're not just trying to win games with Allen and Chris doing all the scoring.

Kyle Korver

We?re just playing together, we?re playing with a greater sense of urgency, and Allen is leading us. I really feel like he?s the key. He?s the leader and he?s been playing great. He?s been a lot more vocal. He has a different look in his eye. And when he has that look, he?s pretty tough to stop.

Jack Bicknell

We're basically back to where we were last year. Matt Kubik will start based on the fact he played the most last year. Donald Allen will play early on and we'll leave it at that and see where we go from there.

Corey Stoll

Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

Seth Shostak

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

Liu Xiang

When I got shoulder to shoulder with Allen Johnson, I felt that I was going to win. The crowd was amazing but they did give me pressure, too. From the moment I left the hotel to the moment I entered the stadium, they were shouting out my name and I had to respond. That distracted me a little, but it was okay.

Reggie Lee

We knew they had a couple players, both named Moore. Jennifer Hinton did a good job on Andrea Moore in holding her her to four points.

Arron Afflalo

We know how tough it is in Oregon and we know both of them are very good teams. We don't expect a cakewalk at all. Neither one will be easy.

Rafael Benitez

We know how important the final of this Cup is. The incident is not serious. Both managers had the same idea. Someone must be sensible.

Paul Levy

We know how competitive the market is and have great respect for our peer group, but we will continue to look for opportunities where we can both buy and create value over time.

Paul Evans

We know and respect the rich history Liz Waters had as an all-women's residence hall, ... But our main goal is to accommodate the preferences of as many residents as possible. We expect both Liz Waters and Cole Halls to thrive under this new arrangement.

Greg Matthews

Very few for both of us. It's a protected species, can't be shot by the farmer ... that would be a big fine.

Kevin Keatts

Very bright student; he's in the highest classes we've got here. I think both parties are going to move in a different direction.

Cai Rumohr

Versus the positions as we went into the strike, Boeing certainly looks like they did give more, ... would cost both sides more, so getting it settled earlier is definitely better.

Michelle Young

Veronica Arce and Odette Barcomb both did an excellent job as setters.

Dave Anderson

We're hoping Butler will only be out for two to four weeks,

Spike Jonze

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.

Jim Larranaga

I think the dome is a factor for a team that's never played in one. Lamar Butler was quoted yesterday saying he'd never even been in a dome. There's a problem developing the proper depth perception.

Lamar Butler

Lamar Butler will you marry me? No, marry me.

Nancy Winstel

I thought that Katie Butler in the first half did a heck of a job in the post.

Menzies Campbell

If the government hoped that the Butler inquiry was going to be no re-run of Hutton, I think it's pretty clear that Dr. Jones and others of similar view are going to prevent that happening.

Madeline Albright

Let me make this perfectly clear: I do not tell Chairman Butler what to do, ... Chairman Butler has made it perfectly clear that he makes the operational decisions and that he takes orders and instructions from no one. The Security Council itself talks to him about policy, but not on operations.

Steve Boone

John will be remembered and thought of as one of the premiere songwriters of the mid '60s era, ... Joe Butler and myself (they played together a long time before the Spoonful,) were unique as the rhythm section. We were very tight. Our original guitarist had a very unique style.

Karen Joy Fowler

Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

Alan Chadwick

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Alan Cooper

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Diane von Furstenberg

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

David R. Ellis

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

John Segrich

Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Carol Jordan

There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.

Gordon Brown

Where I think there is common ground now, and I think that goes for producer and consumer countries, is that everyone agrees we must have more stable long-term oil prices,

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, which is set at $5.15 an hour. After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, (which is set at $5.15 an hour). After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

Jaime Winstone

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Paul Rodio

We're getting there. I thought our players did everything they had to do (Saturday) except win.

Chris Taylor

We were in every game, except for Grand Rapids, and I really think we played well enough that we should have gotten a lot more points. We need to be better finishing the game. It's disappointing that we keep letting points slip by us.

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

Darrell Nichols

We know for a fact that several of the people staying at the motel were habitual burglars.

Michael Bennett

Wait just a minute. They didn't keep us out of the end zone. I was tackled in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter. Get your facts straight, or get a job working for the New York Times .

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

John Burness

There are some folks who want us to do a full investigation ourselves. But the fact of the matter is this is a police investigation, and we can't impede it. The more information we have, if the allegations are true, there will be grave consequences.

Charles Spurgeon

Giving is true loving.

Alan Bleasdale

It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

Bible Bible

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Bible Bible

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

Bible Bible

Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

Roger Gibbins

Ultimately we want to invest it so it generates income and then be able to use that income for a variety of purposes within the province.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

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.

Darren Shan

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

Dave Barry

Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Al Crellin

Ultimately, we only need one operations center, but for now we will maintain two.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Gretchen Rubin

I always feel calmer when I exercise. In fact, that's probably the main reason I exercise.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

John Vane

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

Jason Bruffy

Whenever we are not doing a show in our main theater or after the main show, we will do things down here.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Lennox Lewis

My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that.

Andy Wachowski

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

Elaine Post

Until you know where the source is, how do you know you're treating the right one?

Hayan Saad

What? He is the source of our troubles.

Ayn Rand

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

Arthur Baer

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Calvin Trillin

There's always a source for humor.

Mitch Kapor

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

Drew Goddard

Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie.

Travis Plunkett

What we have right now is exceedingly weak. It's virtually worthless.

Milton Glaser

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

Toby Keith

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

Harish Rawat

I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

Craig Venter

We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.

Councilwoman Mackin

I virtually begged for the money. (The project) is really going to be good. I'm thrilled.

Charles de Lint

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Alan Watts

Black implies white self implies other

Alan Bennett

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Al Sharpton

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

Don Cornelius

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Don Cooper

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.