Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adger Ross

We want to try and prevent this from happening again. We love our city and want it safe.

John Payne

We want to see the city come back, and we're willing to listen to proposals and ideas. We want to work with local and state officials to get the city back on its feet.

Kim Chance

We knew they were working back then and doing the improvement so I'm sure the city has it in well-capable hands.

Carl Peterson

The other suggestion was to play in Kansas City at noon Sunday, ... We don't expect any hurricanes here. That was considered, but the league made its decision. It creates some real problems for us with travel, and with trying to squeeze a Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice all into Thursday. But we have to do what the league orders us to do.

Bible Bible

The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

Artur Davis

the people who sat comfortably in this city last week.

Al Naomi

The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.

Kevin Jackson

We are a vibrant, growing city with a lot to offer. I think success in Rio Rancho will be success for Albuquerque.

Mike Birbiglia

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

Tom Morong

Just before that shot, Cousins had fouled out, so I felt pretty good, but then they hit their first two shots and I said maybe I shouldn't feel too good.

Richard Rogers

I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.

Larry Lewis

Our dads used to do this, and now us cousins always get together for it.

Orlando Jones

Sort of like the March of Dimes, the kids get sponsors uncles, classmates, older sisters and brothers, cousins to say, 'Hey, I'll give you a dollar or five dollars for one lap around the track. The kids do a quarter-mile lap, which is one lap around the track at Drake Stadium, and the kids raise money for other children.

Eric Henderson

I've still got cousins missing though, and they've all got kids. To me, this was just fitting in one piece of a puzzle.

Melvin Taylor

Is there any way to get back? ... I've got two aunties, Rosemary Parker and Bernice Taylor, and some cousins I can't find. I don't like it here.

Del McCoury

This kind of situation is something most people don't expect, ... I know I didn't expect it back when I was young. I just played because I enjoyed it. And when my sons were little, it never dawned on me that they would want to play music, too. I always had lots of cousins that wanted me to show them things on the guitar to play. But a week later, they would always be into something else. They forgot about the music. I thought that's how my sons would be. But they found the interest to stay in there with it." ()

Jeff Day

I've dropped a wanted poster for Dr. Slepian in the police department washroom. Our cousins in the U.S. have their list. We have our own.

Alan Barton

The girls have cousins and sisters with state championships so they know what it takes.

Leigh Steinberg

The fact that one plane crashed is tragic, and my heart goes out to those who are affected. But automobiles crash every day.

Allen Kenitzer

The plane, we're told, crashed into power lines for unknown reasons and was destroyed by fire.

Ben Martinez

I thought a plane had crashed into the place. It was a real loud bang, like an explosion.

Graham Hancock

Whether Earth was deliberately terraformed, in other words, or whether it was seeded with the spores of life from crashed comets or whether, indeed, life arose here spontaneously and accidentally, it is reasonable to hope that we might find traces of the same kind of process on Mars.

Steve Kinser

I was glad to see Kraig win the Nationals the other night, ... I probably would have given him a pretty good race if I wouldn't have crashed (in a preliminary race).

Richard Rodgers

It crashed so close, it could have hit Johnstown - but it's part of the whole nation's history.

David Hagen

It crashed and then about two seconds later the fuel went.

Marc Summers

It crashed and burned. It was on for 10 weeks and nobody watched it, and I'm glad they didn't . . . I hate reality TV. It sucks. I have never watched an episode of Survivor and never wanted to,

Alex Merry

I was shocked that we had a 3-on-0 after their defenseman fell down. I knew that if I crashed the net something would happen.

Alan Jackson

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

David Guterson

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Luke Bracey

'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.

We all grew up with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

Nnedi Okorafor

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

Elizabeth Moon

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

Edna O'Brien

Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.

Neve McIntosh

It's hard to get the downtrodden working-class wifey sometimes because 'You don't look like it'. Well, that's weird because I grew up on a scheme in Paisley. But everyone's got a viewpoint about what you should look like, and it's tainted by prejudices and assumptions.

Wendy Liebmann

Here's an interesting thought about what might result: a good-better-best approach, with Macy's the 'good', Bloomingdales the 'better' and Marshall Field's the 'best,'

Jim Graham

Marshall has a really strong team. We didn't play badly, they were just that much better.

Kate Christensen

Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.

Buzz Peterson

I've very disappointed Gregg Marshall didn't do more than he did. If I had been in the same position, I would have done anything I could.

Jeremy Durham

They play really well together as a team. It really reminded me of us playing Marshall or Jacksonville.

George Small

It's so close, ... That's a pretty tight race between Marshall and Rico.

Mack Brown

The Marshall story touched all of our hearts. It's something you can't even imagine.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Lloyd Edgecombe

The planes were very old. I think the plane was overworked.

David George

There are new explosions. A plane is bombing.

Michael Chang

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Jim Gibbons

very devastating to communities with a small tax base.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

Diana Gabaldon

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

We are at the brink. Time is short.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

Liza Minnelli

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

What is past is prologue.

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

What else may hap, to time I will commit.

I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Ben Bernanke

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

Bette Midler

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Hannah Baldwin

We're just a little town that did things that were unheard of at the time.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Charles Bukowski

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Alan Bennett

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Bill Jenkins

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

Agnes Varda

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

Bob McDonnell

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

Brooks Robinson

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

Brad Paisley

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

Argus Hamilton

The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

Argus Hamilton

Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Ron Gardenhire

Have you watched us bunt? Does it look like we have it down now?

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Chord Overstreet

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.'

Connor Franta

I watched a million coming-out videos, and that was kind of how I accepted it myself.

Cristela Alonzo

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

Hiroyuki Sanada

I was very comfortable on the set of 'Lost'. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the 'Lost' episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.

Virat Kohli

'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.

Ted Sarandos

Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised. ...

Ariel Sharon

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

Clyde Edgerton

Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.

Jana Kramer

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

Tobias Menzies

Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.