Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Brown

We're finding more and more people coming out of the woodwork, ... They're appearing in places we didn't know they existed.

John P. Kotter

We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.

Darrel Good

Similar to corn, USDA soybean production forecasts had the largest impact on soybean futures prices in August, with recent price reactions appearing somewhat larger than in the past.

Tom Schatz

Given the current circumstances, whoever becomes majority leader will have to be careful about appearing to do something special for their friends or district.

Ruth Rendell

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

David Baldwin

Our goal is to put Rome in front of every demo and every audience segment by appearing every day of the week and in all the appropriate time slots from 8 p.m. to late night,

Elizabeth Gaskell

We were none of us musical, though Miss Jenkyns beat time, out of time, by way of appearing to be so.

Howard Duvall

It is new and it is chilling. Because it means we may have a hard time finding firms that won't have a conflict with appearing before city boards, county boards and others.

Kate Reardon

There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.

Judy Wade

Let's face it, she's not in the first blush of youth, ... And she hasn't had a face-lift like rich U.S. women would have.

John Whittier

Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,/ But spare your country's flag,' she said./ A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,/ Over the face of the leader came.

Nicholas Rowe

From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To revel in the roses.

Thomas Gray

Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Calvin Klein

There are shades of buff, nude and lots of blue, ... I was thinking of eye-shadow colors and blush and lip colors. There's peach, pink -- lots of blue, actually -- and lots of gray.

Peter Misek

I think it was the initial blush on subscriber numbers. That's what caused the stock to sell off.

John Coffee

There is no blushing when it comes to making these demands, as long as management is only negotiating with the compensation committee and not with shareholders.

Craig Bandoroff

He's a very nice horse, correct, a good mover. He's not a big horse. He kind of looks like his pedigree. She (his dam) is a Blushing Groom mare. I'd be surprised if he didn't go over well.

Charles Dickens

The question about everything was, would it bring a blush to the cheek of a young person?

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Stanley

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Charles Dickens

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

Diane von Furstenberg

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

Sean Ross

When you talk to guys in the record industry you do hear a lot of, 'Wow, she's 30, she's 35,' as if that completely ends any discussion.

Kurt Vonnegut

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

Beyonce Knowles

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

Audrey Hepburn

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Wolfgang Bernhard

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We regard the European proposals as an initial and not the final proposal.

James Monroe

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

Suzanne Fields

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Donald Tusk

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

James Peterson

So far the protectionists have won in the European Union,

Loretta Napoleoni

Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.

Elie Cohen

There is a resurgence of the nation-state in Europe. These nationalist and protectionist instincts are hard to reconcile with the idea of European integration.

Hu Jintao

We hope to see European Union plays a more important role on issues pertaining to Europe and the world as a whole,

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

Charles Dickens

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Charles Dickens

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

Charles Dickens

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

Alan Watts

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Al Lopez

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Denis Leary

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Chris Carpenter

When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing happened when I went up to hit.

Jonathan Orr

We're in this together. I'm sure outside sources will point fingers (at the defense). But last year it was a different story, remember? We're a team and that's what this all comes down to.

john bejo

Leaves are fingers of God: they're pliant, confident, proud and beautiful. That's how we should be...

Chris Kramer

There are only so many fingers we have for the hole in the dike,

Jarvis Johnson

Should it have been done properly? Yes. But I'm not here to point fingers who didn't do what they were supposed to do.

Laura Bush

She and I were like two fingers crossed,

Brooke Bingaman

Keep your fingers crossed. Wednesday looks like a break.

Bram Fischer

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

Edmund Burke

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Edmund Burke

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Elbert Hubbard

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ...

Deepak Chopra

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Abdu'l Baha

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

Charles Bukowski

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.

Source Unknown

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.

Judy Nadler

You have to publicly reprimand someone. If there are no consequences, things will not change. This is drive-by ethics.

Mayim Bialik

Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

David S. Goyer

Da Vinci always seemed like the prototype Tony Stark to me.

Dario Fo

We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

Rich Rodriguez

What makes it tough is they're better for sure than they were two years ago,

Ralph Neas

We're going to make sure that Americans understand what is at stake.

Ed Paulk

We're just making sure there is nothing we are missing. It's just being proactive.

Abby Wambach

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

Rick Adelman

We're just trying to make sure somebody's on him all the time.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

Ian Gray

It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy.

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.

Traci Bingham

He said she was beautiful. And that he'd never been with a woman so beautiful.