Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Nichols

We accept, no questions asked, tombstones that someone has at their home or wherever. If someone has a tombstone because they think it looks nice in their garden, they can keep it, but if they'd like to get rid of it, we will figure where it belongs and return the tombstone.

M.I.A.

In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

Peter Beutel

We can debate what percentage of the profits should be plowed back into the company and what percentage belongs to the shareholders. Not being a shareholder, I'd prefer to see them err in the direction of spending a larger portion on refineries and new (oil and gas) fields and infrastructure.

John Wesley Powell

Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic.

Rick Perlstein

The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger than its liberal wing, and as such, when progressives speak of the party as a vehicle that naturally belongs to them, as if by right - until conservatives stole it from them - they weaken progressivism.

Rick Warren

Life is all about stewardship. It all belongs to God - he just loans it to us for a short period of time. The first command God gave to man was to take care of the Earth, which includes managing and protecting the environment.

Selman Waksman

Streptomycin belongs to a group of compounds, known as antibiotics, which are produced by microorganisms and which possess the property of inhibiting the growth and even of destroying other microorganisms.

Talib Kweli

I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

Tom Mann

The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.

Alain Robert

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

David Sedaris

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

Mark Parrish

The only difference between tonight's game and last night's game is that 40 guys were a little more tired tonight, and the building was different, ... All I know is that if we play 82 games like this, I'm going to die.

Michael Miles

The Postal Service really isn't in a building mode anymore, and that's throughout the whole country.

Sen. Sakamoto

The per-pupil (funding) covers everything a school needs ? electricity, water, all the expenses a regular school has ? except it doesn't cover capital improvement or building a new school.

Rudi Giuliani

The people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.

Ron Holt

The point, I think, is that Camden Yards really fits into that neighborhood but it has the 'wow' factor. A great new building that excites people but doesn't take away from the neighborhood.

Bill Seltenheim

The point is inventories are building over the ideal 60-day marks. They've maybe reached a point where the market is getting saturated.

Chris Boone

The plaza is a culmination of about two years work designing, raising funds, and the building the plaza. Originally we had planned to do this in the fall, but because of the hurricane it was sidetracked.

Jonathan Vilma

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

Jeff Lowell

The point of the sport is to try to peak at the end of the season, and our guys did that today.

Kelly Green

We are always playing for something. We told our guys that we need to get better and that's what we did.

Jon Clark

We started out with a lot of expectations and we didn't meet some of those. The guys will always remember the last stand and will be proud of it.

Jason Treutelaar

We struggled to score and that has been the issue for this team the whole season. We need guys to step up and knock down shots. When we get good, open looks, we need to make the shots, and we're not doing that right now.

Lute Olson

There are some guys you have to kick in the butt to get the response you want. There are some you need to pat on the back. He's one you need to pat on the back.

Joe Becerra

There are some guys here who could play in the NBA.

Edward Atorino

There are some deep-pocketed guys who want to own newspapers.

Gary Player

When you've got two guys 1-up with two to play, you automatically think, 'we've got it', especially after they'd battled their hearts out to get back in those matches.

Alan Ball

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

Byron Katie

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

Buddy Valastro

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

James Touchton

The only reason I can think of is that the students are happy with the job we have done.

Cindy Cohn

We are pretty happy with the tenor of the questions asked.

Ben Gunn

We've all been training since October and this (state title) was what we were all going for. I'm just so happy to be a part of this team.

O. Henry

We usually struggle to go through but I think we are all happy about qualifying. Other teams are struggling to go through -- and we have been there -- but we are in the last 16 now and it's a nice thing to already be through.

Libby Trickett

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

Ai Weiwei

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Camille Paglia

There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.

C. L. R. James

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

Ai Weiwei

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

Arnold J. Toynbee

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Antony Beevor

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Cassie Steele

I like mythology - anything historical.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Kerry Stokes

We are pleased to be back in football.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk him, even before Mo was here.

Denise Levertov

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Lakpa Sherpa

We have no car, no bicycle, and no roads. We have to walk everywhere.

Charles Lamb

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

Charles Baudelaire

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

Bessie Coleman

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

Ayumi Hamasaki

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

Frank Robinson

With us right now, you can give us 20 walks and it'll still be a 2-1 or 3-2 game.

Red Herring

Walker Digital's going to be around for a long, long time,