Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Ramharter

We are a different team with Aaron Powell healthy. He is such an outstanding hitter and having him in there really makes our lineup better, top to bottom.

Robert Gray

Weston Freehill and Aaron Lamie really ran well in the second half. They looked pretty good.

Jim Haslett

We got two guys beat right away, and Aaron probably should have thrown it (on the safety),

Don Waddell

We feel bad for Aaron that he's unable to be part of the team. At the same time we're extremely fortunate to be able to replace Aaron with someone the caliber of Bret Hedican.

Dule Hill

Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have to try so hard as an actor; you don't have to do so much. Just let the material sit inside you and let it come out. Just say the words. That was the main thing that I learned from doing Aaron Sorkin's work - say the words, and everything else will happen.

Linda Ronstadt

Singing with Aaron Neville, he pulled stuff out of my voice I never could have gotten, because if he's providing XYZ, I have to put in ABC, and usually I don't have to put in ABC.

Randy Nelson

We are very excited with the way Aaron pitched. He had a no-hitter going in the fifth. Andy did a nice job for us on the end of our road trip and was outstanding in the last few innings (Wednesday).

Tom Rossley

We really like Aaron Rodgers. He had about four bad plays in a game and that made people think he was way off. He's on target to contribute and help us.

Paul Chavez

Scotty and Aaron are competitors. They are going to grind and do whatever it takes, and that's good for the younger players to see on a day like (Mon-day).

Louise Jameson

He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.

Michael Strahan

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

Jason Hall

The powerful Superman Returns property will be rightfully brought to gamers with a strong creative vision supported by compelling new technology so they can experience The Man of Steel(TM)'s superpowers firsthand,

Richard Tucker

The person we chose brought a lot of skills and experience and credentials,

Alberto Romulo

The perpetrators of this heinous crime shall be brought to justice,

Mike Ryan

We are probably looking at six months to two years before some of these outbreaks can be brought under total control in the poultry population.

Roger Hatch

We've already brought people up for Akio and Christoph and the guys who just got onto the fire department. Between that and the injuries it's been unreal this year. I mean. it's great that our guys make the national team, but all this really tests our depth.

Paul Grayson

We started the game like a house on fire and scored three tries, then we lost our shape in the middle a bit, but brought it back towards the end.

Nate Dahlman

We started looking, and God brought us here.

Dave Barry

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

David Talbot

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

Michael Moriarty

Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.

Ibrahim Lipumba

The persistence of poverty in Tanzania, especially in the rural areas, is cause for concern.

Ken Jackson

We are seeing a substantial increase in our fuel prices. It's not like it's going to cause us to close our doors, but we would sure like to have that 15 percent to spend elsewhere.

Kevin McCarthy

We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95.

Colin Powell

We strongly oppose it, ... It will cause us international difficulties, and it opens up other opportunities for others to try to seek similar relief.

Steve Kernkraut

We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.

Marty DeJarnette

We started cold, but we found our rhythm in the second quarter. Their size caused us some problems, but our press got us some easy baskets off turnovers.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Alan Watts

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

Al Goldman

The possessed kid in 'The Exorcist,' whose head spins around.

Nicholas Byrne

The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Tracy Egeland

We're in a playoff race. There's no time to put your head down and pout. We've got to get ready to get back at it (today).

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Nick Woodman

I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys.

Hayley Orrantia

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Joyce Banda

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, without the True Name, all this paraphernalia shall disappear.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, you shall be saved, contemplating the True Name.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Garfield Ewings

We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.

Kofi Annan

We shall see, ... They want to end this.

L.A. Reid

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

William Kidd

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.

Karen Horney

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

Sophocles

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Bible Bible

And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

Bible Bible

And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, / Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.

Bible Bible

And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.

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And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

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And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.

Bible Bible

And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.

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And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

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And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.

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And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.