Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leon Bridges

One time, when I was about eight, these guys started throwing water balloons at me. That really did ruin my summer.

Dave Opton

Obviously it has to do with the puncture in the balloon in the tech world.

Allan Gregg

If I was Harper right now, I'd go right into Quebec and hold big rallies. Big balloons and marching bands and just feel-good stuff.

Karen Fullmer

Shortly before the clock strikes 12, everyone is invited onto the rink. We hand out noisemakers and at midnight, everyone yells, makes a lot of noise and we drop balloons onto the crowd. It's a lot of fun for everyone.

Don Graham

With the temperatures you get around here (in autumn), the balloon works better than it does right now, ... The colder the day, the quicker (balloons) react.

Katie King

We want to have a relaxed atmosphere, so we will have music, and will offer our customers snacks and drinks when they enter the store. Folks won't be able to miss our grand opening. We plan to hang banners, have balloons out front and have some live entertainment.

Martin Short

Two words, sweetie: Balloon mortgage -- and the need to be loved.

David McCullough

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Larry Evans

We want to see broad public participation, (which is) part of what's missing with the Balloon Track, anyway.

Jim Laughlin

For something to be officially and legally categorized as Champagne, it must come from the Champagne region in France. It's a legally designated region just a little northeast of Paris. Anything we make in America, or anything made in Italy or any other country, is sparkling wine.

Antoine Deneriaz

I was so sure I could do it that I had already ordered the champagne yesterday. I was really convinced I could do it today.

Reuben Droughns

I got some very good champagne for the guys back in Denver when I went over 1,000 yards last year. But this was a lot different situation here because a 1,000-yard season hadn't been done in a while. I had to do more.

Ken Ramsey

I have a ticket for Sunday but I'm not going home, I'm going to party. It's going to be a champagne and roses party!

Don Shula

We didn't have any champagne to toast each other. But we did have some Diet Cokes up there. We lifted the Diet Cokes.

Robin Leach

There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is not the real me. I am a father, and I am a grandfather, too.

Kurt Vonnegut

The champagne was dead. So it goes.

Gary Gillette

I think the odds are good that the Red Sox will resist that kind of stuff. I don't see any evidence in new ownership history that they will go hog wild on all the champagne they swilled last night and spend money in a foolish way.

Gary Gillette

I think the odds are good that the Red Sox will resist that kind of stuff, ... I don't see any evidence in new ownership history that they will go hog wild on all the champagne they swilled last night and spend money in a foolish way.

Keith Sinclair

Obviously, we want to defend our LIC crown and be a playoff qualifier,

William Shakespeare

My crown is in my heart, not in my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen; my crown is called contentment; A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy

Charles Spurgeon

You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I found the crown of France lying on the ground, and I picked it up with a sword.

Scott Kessler

For some time now Western Union has been the crown jewel of this company.

Bible Bible

For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? / The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

Dave Parker

When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

Francois Fenelon

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all

Francois FTNelon

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

Dave Pelzer

Life can be tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid. You think you got problems? Get in my private jet and we'll go to Somalia or Rwanda. I'll drop you off in the middle of Baghdad.

Meg Rosoff

Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

Mark Richt

Sean had a great first game and a great last game. In between he did OK, but was not as productive as I hoped. He had some trouble dropping the ball, as did some other guys.

Dennis Green

Seattle blitzed us a few times, but what really hurt us was dropped passes. I've said it before -- dropped passes and penalties will send out your punter, and that's what happened.

Richard Bove

Mr. Oken may have lost some credibility with analysts when the bank's net interest margin dropped dramatically,

John Tavares

Me and (Generals GM Brad) Selwood will obviously talk about that next summer and see how it goes, ... I'd obviously like to keep going in lacrosse, but if I have to drop it, it's going to happen sooner or later. When I have to do it, I have to do it.

Francis Lun

More fund managers are selling their stocks in the market in the past two days, which could be a sign for a rapid drop in market.

Bob Barr

Mortgage interest rates aren't dropping because of the interest rate cuts, but because of the anticipated economic slowdown and the lack of inflation,

Michael Farr

Now that the dropping has stopped, when do we start with the moving back up? That is the big question.

Mike Middleton

We're not doing any favors by having too many elk out there.

Anonymous Toast

May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed

Jennifer Duffy

When this (the presidential) race gets under way, favors will be cashed in and collected, ... They'll hope the favors they did are returned.

Abraham Lincoln

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Brian Mullan

I was praying for rain. Whenever it's wet it favors the offense. And when you need to score goals that's what you want.

Bob Yagge

We did them some favors on defense. That's what happens when you play on your heels instead of on your toes. We made some adjustments. Hopefully, we'll learn from those adjustments. We've got to.

Bruce Arena

There are other players who could be here who aren't here because of their positions in the league. To get some favors in return ? that means a lot to send those players back. This is a time we could do it.

Ludwig von Mises

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.

Michael Gardner

Love is like handing someone a gun, having them point it at your heart, and trusting them to never pull the trigger.

Diana Medina

My grandfather actually remembers Martinez's grandmother handing him a flier back when all that happened,' Deahn said.

John Updike

Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one.

Jose Vicente

Some low-ranking officers were passing information to the Pentagon . . . handing over secrets of the state.

Kathleen Glynn

It can be really tough sometimes. It's more than just handing out Band-Aids.

Andy Serkis

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

Joe Dumars

When you have a team like we have right now, it's very important the person that you're handing the team over to is qualified and is going to have your respect from day one. I'm very comfortable, Mr. D (owner William Davidson) is very comfortable, we're all very, very comfortable handing the keys to this team over to Flip. We know he's up for the challenge.

Todd Jones

You feel kind of stupid actually handing out Marlin T-shirts to somebody like that.

Chris Evans

At the end of the day, you're handing your performance over. If a director says after a take, 'You know what, try it just really angry. Just get furious'... you're like, 'Well, I don't know if I want to give you that because I don't know if I trust what you're going to do with it.'

Steve Elmendorf

No congressional party is ever going to speak with one voice. It?s not possible. And I?m not worried about that.

Ludwig von Mises

In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

Dennis Prager

Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents.

Dennis Hastert

It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

Denis Kearney

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Deborah Tannen

The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.

Eleanor Clift

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Eleanor Clift

Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Maria Semple

Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.

Ian Hamilton

One or two in the back room is all it takes,

John Galliano

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

Chris Klug

When you read the qualification criteria, it's very clear. There's really no room for error. (I) should be the winner.

Charles Spurgeon

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

Dennis Ritchie

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

Eileen Caddy

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Suzanne Collins

I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.

Ving Rhames

My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

Holly Black

When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

Pat Robertson

I've managed stations.

Tom Waits

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.