Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luke Harding

There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.

Nile Rodgers

It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

Bernie Mac

My name is Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, but people know me as Bernie Mac. My mama, God rest her soul - she used to call me Beanie. Used to say, 'Don't you worry about Beanie. Beanie gonna be just fine. Beanie gonna surprise everyone.'

Larry Harrison

We started well, but we had some personal issues. We had to discipline a couple guys. A potential starter, Bo Taylor, was released from the team. Bernard Lowndes got hurt.

Robert Lefkowitz

My mother's parents, Bernard and Rivka Levine, were from Russia and also immigrated to New York City. My mother, Rose, was the elder of their two daughters. My maternal grandmother's family included several scholars and professionals.

Michael Moorcock

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

George Bernard Shaw

There are millions of vegetarians in the world but only one Bernard Shaw. You do not obtain eminence quite so cheaply as by eating macaroni instead of mutton chops.

Mark Hagen

But that guy has no fear of anything like that. Bernard has got a special knack for it.

David Kalish

I think it's important to realize that the union did not want this individual to become chief of police. Bernard C. Parks is a strict disciplinarian. He terminated over 100 officers in two years.

Arthur Erickson

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Leonard Mlodinow

The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.

Joe McKeown

She's a big-time player. I just have to keep convincing her of that.

Ben Nelson

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

Kenneth Osborne

There is considerable and quite convincing evidence that that could not have happened.

Kofi Annan

Leaders in the region remain engaged in the process of convincing President Saddam and the Iraqi leadership to disarm and cooperate with inspectors,

Bobby Womack

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

Max Planck

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it

Tim Page

It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game.

Josh Boone

When you want to stop, and you don't think you can give any more, you think about that Pittsburgh jersey in here. Looking up at the scoreboard, seeing that you're down 10 at the end of the game. That gives you a little extra motivation.

Bob Benincasa

When you want something it makes it extra special when you come through.

Shane Sisco

When you see a kid like him, who is as good as he is, it's because of the extra work he puts in. He's willing to put in the extra hours on his own to work on his game.

Jay Wright

When we double-teamed them, they made the extra pass and hit the 3.

Folarin Campbell

Uh, something about going the extra mile and not worrying about traffic, I think.

Peter Beattie

The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.

Lindy Ruff

We made a lot of things happen real slow. We always took the extra second to shoot.

Mike Hargrove

We're giving Jamie an extra day of rest. And this way it winds up giving him two starts at home.

Larry Buchanan

We're looking at getting some extra life out of them in a productive way by providing them to students.

David Richardson

We stand ready to support any organization that shares Scout values.

Liane Balaban

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.

Jeff Bambule

We have to get ready now for Plainfield South. They are another scrappy, tough team. We'll have to be ready.

Natalie Chanin

We have so many reasons to be here tonight. I'm also ready to do some shopping!

Charles de Lint

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Charlaine Harris

I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!

Mariano Rivera

Tomorrow? We have to go there and do it, ... Don't worry, I'll be ready for tomorrow.

Cliff Lusk

We're sitting there on go, ready to respond if we have to.

Larry Southard

We're sitting on a ticking time bomb. This town is ready to ignite.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Raymond James

What they're saying is the conventional firms are waiting too long,

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Tom Ferguson

We're just saying we want him to stay. He's saying he doesn't want any more than the teachers get.

Burke Stinson

We're just saying 'time out' to technology until the new year.

Cassie Johnson

We're getting a lot of e-mails saying they wish they could watch curling more often. They can't wait for Vancouver.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Daniel Handler

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Frank Vargo

We've seen this movie before. What Treasury is saying is pretty much of a rerun of what it said back in May.