Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christine Karbowiak

We want to set the record straight. At no time during yesterday's meeting between Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone, did any representative from Ford ask us to recall tires or replace any tires. They did not ask us to join with them on a recall or a replacement program. They told us they had made absolutely NO decision concerning our tires on their vehicles. Comments by Ford to the contrary are inaccurate.

Louis Navellier

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

Louis Stokes

Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie.

Pamela Atkinson

The poverty here is real, there's absolutely no doubt about it. If you can help them gradually take those steps out of poverty, you're going to fix many things.

Jack Straw

The people who will finally decide will not be the British Government or the Spanish Government, but the people of Gibraltar in a referendum, ... That was a solemn undertaking given in 1969 to the people of Gibraltar. We absolutely stand by it.

Terry Teachout

The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.

John Whitehead

We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this.

Walt Dabney

We've absolutely been existing day to day. We haven't bought any equipment. We haven't filled full-time jobs.

Eric Schmidt

We believe that the decision that we made to follow the law in China was absolutely the right one.

Darin Schreck

The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time.

Ron Beck

The person we interviewed is definitely the person we got. He's real. He's doing everything we asked to do.

Raul Cisneros

The people who got star loans, they just went to the bank and asked for a loan, so they didn't take away in any way money someone in New York.

Lee Huenecke

We are pleased with this decision. We asked them to talk to us when they made this change, and they wouldn't. That forced us to go through the court system. And yet again, the courts have supported our position.

Ann Thomas

We've always asked people to leave earlier, but because of Katrina, they are now listening to us and they're leaving as we say,

Gary Woods

We started talking and half-jokingly, I think, I asked if he would be in (the movie), and he said 'Yeah, I could do that,'

Luis Walter Alvarez

If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.

Liane Balaban

I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind.

Chris Cain

We actually got it from a guy that works at a U-Haul truck place in Berkeley. He thought that the three of us all looked very similar to one anotherwe all had on glassesand he asked whether we were all brothers and we said no and he asked whether we were all scientists. We said that we were not, but that was the theme of the name.

Donnie English

We started off slow. Male was getting good pitching and we weren't swinging the bats that well, but we got going later on and the hits started to drop in for us. We haven't played in several days and it took us awhile to get going.

Rick Carlisle

We have to go on the idea that he's not going to be here. We can't be hanging our hopes on his return. It's going to be awhile if he comes back at all.

Lovie Smith

We're confident. It's been awhile since we've been 3-3 and where the next game means quite a bit. We're just trying to get respect. The NFC North has talked quite a bit about the records. But I see it getting better and I think we're leading the charge.

Mallory Ortberg

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

Lori Crunk

She could have scored a lot more points if she wanted to. But she uses her teammates and gets them the ball, even if it took them awhile to get ready for it.

Lloyd Hulit

Since we have not played in more than a week, I thought it would take awhile to get our motors going but we scored two runs in each of the first three innings.

Ally McBeal

Men are like gum, after you chew them awhile they loose their flavor

Sean Sullivan

She was pretty humbled by winning Miss Utah. I remember it took awhile for it to sink in. Weeks after she won she was still grasping the fact that she is Miss Utah now.

Logan Marshall-Green

It takes awhile for writers to get to know actors rhythms, not just as actors, but what they bring to the characters. I think it takes a few episodes for the writing room to catch up to the actors and vice versa.

Hiltrud Breyer

We want to show the red card to forced prostitution. It has nothing to do with fair play, it's a crime.

Steve Loucks

The other thing we're doing is making sure the customers pay with credit cards so they can get their money back more easily if the tickets can't be used.

Judy McDonald

We usually just play cards - there's always a card game going on. Or we sit around. Sit around and talk.

Sandy Prince

We are a full service florist with fresh-cut flowers, silk arrangements, balloons, table decorations, cake-a-grams, plush, greeting cards and candy.

Ken Hammond

We are looking for the owners of the cards to find out how they last used them,

Luke Mitchell

I do weights and work out different body parts on different days. I don't do cardio - I did too much in my tennis-playing days!

Dan Casey

When you think of the person who goes to Disneyland and spends $500 and puts it on the credit card and their interest rate is 15 percent (debt) ... the person that puts it in the credit union is getting 4 percent (gain). The difference is close to 20 percent.

Eddie Izzard

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

Lesa Young

We also send cards to acknowledge illnesses, births and deaths in the family. One officer who was out on leave for a while told me how much it meant to him that he got a card from us and that we were thinking of him during that time.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Sturt

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Rob Walton

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

Navtej Sarna

We've also decided to permit relief material being sent by private organizations and international (charities) to Pakistan.

Glenn Matthews

We spoke and decided we didn't need to. We just want to let things settle down.

Luis von Ahn

I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's... might be a good idea.

Nolan Gerard Funk

I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky.

M.V. Govindan

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

Christopher Hill

Whether we have a draft that everyone agrees on, or whether it's decided that there should be a recess of some kind, we don't know yet,

Katie Cook

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we're in India, we've decided that we're going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Ericka Fangiullo

We're going to miss their spirit. In swimming, sometimes you're happy to get the season over with because it's so grueling. But, when it's finally over, you get sad and miss it.

Sidney Crosby

When we finally got going, we had them back on their heels.

Andy Fox

We're finally starting to come together as a team. I'm so proud of these girls.

James Denney

We're finally seeing dividend payers starting to outperform. That's a healthy long-awaited sign that people are seeking out quality.

Eric Nicoli

We're finally seeing a raft of new initiatives from really big players. This stuff is happening all day, every day now.

John Lamb

We're finally putting it together. It's been really hard getting everything together. We didn't have time to mesh. We are finally showing some good signs.

Muffet McGraw

We're finally playing the way we can. You're always 0-0 when you start the tournament. For this team, that's a good thing.

Mariel Hemingway

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Delos Smith

When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.

Holly Holm

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

Jon Gruden

We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year,

Nicholas Burns

We remember what happened in March 2004, ... There is no place for that in U.N.-sponsored negotiations.

Zell Miller

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

Edward Keon

What has happened over the past several months is valuations have come down a lot to where we think stocks are pretty reasonably valued here.

Kapil Sibal

What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all. We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country.

Kapil Sibal

What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all, ... We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country.

Derrick Jensen

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

Mo Ibrahim

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Jennifer Freeman

We're limited as to what we can say,

Seth Godin

Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.

James T. Walsh

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

Calvin Klein

There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

Sonya Boralv

We don't have other announcements of any other hotspots. At this point, we're testing these limited locations.

Siri Hustvedt

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

Jeff Chambers

MSU is on a limited budget. We don't have enough money to tape every athlete.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Hal Mumme

We've already done that. The two quarterbacks we have, Vincent hasn't played before and Gill played JC. We've taken out as much as we can.

Mike Pomerenke

We stopped doing all the little things that we did earlier. We reverted back to some of our old ways and played with not a lot of intensity.

Dave Odom

We stood up to the challenge. We played very well. We did not play well enough to win.

Scooter Dunn

We started a little slow, but we hadn't played any.

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

Neal McDonough

'Justified' is one of the greatest teams I've ever played for. It's just awesome.

Jeff Halpern

When we weren't in the box, I thought we played pretty well.

Travis Paquet

We're starting to come together. We played as a team, and I was very proud of them tonight.

Jeff Perreault

We're more prepared for it than the first time we played them.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Leslie Sloane

She's OK. She starts work in about two weeks.

Jack Smith

We are going to take it to them. Zero-zero starts the game.

Mo Ibrahim

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

Milan Hejduk

We did not win a lot of games. But the tournament really starts with the quarter-finals.

Bill Young

What I think you probably couldn't put on TV, but it starts with a 'B' and starts with an 'S'.

Jay Hopson

It all starts with him. He can do it all.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

M. Thompson

We struggled with that, ... made all the sense in the world.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, ... Tomorrow, I'm back in the bullpen.

Peter Zoppi

We struggled offensively. We didn't make enough contact. We couldn't deliver.

Bill Beasley

She hadn't thrown all year, so she struggled a bit.

Stephen Merchant

Generally, I'm terrified of shopping. I like the idea of being well-dressed, but I've always struggled to get anything that fits. I envy those that go into old vintage shops.

Jeff Knoy

She struggled early; I think she had two or three turnovers right off the bat. I yanked her tail out and said, 'Hey, you're going to have to play better if we're going to be successful.' And it usually rotates through her and Helen on how well we're going to play.

Andrea Gaston

She's one of our top players, but she's struggled all semester.

Charles Rosser

I always thought we shouldn't have been in 4A in the first place. In '99, we skipped from 2A to 4A. We struggled in 4A for a while. I feel like now we are right where we belong.

Ned Yost

We had struggled to that point. We were going down in order, boom, boom, boom.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Bryan Robson

When you beat Arsenal, they are a good three points.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Steve Alford

We've already got three up on the board.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Charles L. Allen

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Casey Affleck

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

Audre Lorde

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

Maggie Q

You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

Austin Carlile

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

Tyra Banks

I don't wake up with naturally sculpted cheekbones - I paint them on!

Bailee Madison

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Paul Begala

no one will wake up Nov. 8 and not know what they were getting.

Conan O'Brien

Tomorrow is Election Day. That's the day we Americans wake up, consider our options, and then remember we didn't register to vote.

Andrew Rannells

I can't wake up at all without caffeine.

Bobby Womack

Leave them wanting more and you know theyll call you back.

Brad Meltzer

There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

Brad Meltzer

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

Jarome Iginla

We're about wanting to be in your face. We want to be aggressive. That's how we play this game.

Michael Taylor

I'm always wanting to score. I want to win the game.

Ron Gardenhire

I can't see Rad not wanting to go out there.

Oscar Isaac

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

Craig Thompson

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Delta Goodrem

I was just burning, wanting to be on stage.