Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Wallace

When I met his dad (Chuck), we talked about Toby, but that didn't have any bearing on me hiring him.

Jerome Bettis

The outcome will have a bearing on my decision. If it is my last game, all the people that saw me start my career get an opportunity to see me end it. My career will have come full circle.

Tina Brown

'Wingnuts' is the first book bearing the imprint of Beast Books.

Flip Saunders

Whether we play well or don't play well come Sunday, will have no bearing on how we've done this season. As I recall, we lost our last couple games in the exhibition season and got off to a pretty good start in the regular season.

Larry Richardson

What they'll determine or what they'll recommend will have a lot bearing on saving cats that might want to migrate north of here.

Howard Johnson

She has held some very prestigious positions and brings a wealth of experience to our university and to the College of Business Administration in particular, ... She has the bearing of one who has handled positions of high visibility and demand with excellence. There are not many people that have the breadth of experience that she has.

Robert Fraser

Look out for all the T-shirts bearing the images of the candidates making the rounds at the arena. While Mr. Patterson and his anticipated farewell message will hold centre stage, no less visible will be the number of supporters each candidate will be bringing to the table.

Thomas Mann

Separation would likely do more harm than good for congressional Republicans. They need to try to rehabilitate the president's political standing, which will have a large bearing on the size of their seat loss in 2006.

Heather Boushey

So far, the debt payment ratio (of loan payments to income) hasn't been higher this decade than during the 1990s, but it's been partly held in check by lower interest rates. In some sense, we haven't seen the whole burden bearing down yet.

Garry Trudeau

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Toshihiko Matsuno

The extent of the U.S. economic damage caused by Katrina is so unclear, and that could weigh on stocks there.

Paul Offit

The problem with the original vaccine is when given to kids over 7, it caused some pretty severe reactions,

Ted Cruz

What is problematic about Obamacare is that it is killing millions of jobs in this country and has killed millions of jobs. It has forced millions of people into part time work. It has caused millions of people to lose their insurance, to lose their doctors, and to face skyrocketing insurance premiums. That is unacceptable.

Caroline Allen

We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the repairs are made, we will turn them back on. This is extremely unusual, and we are really looking into what exactly caused that ignition, but we just won't know for some time.

Tom Coughlin

This was not an easy decision. I regret the embarrassment this matter has caused my family and friends and I thank them for their support, love and friendship.

Eugene Fama

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.

Edward P. Jones

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

Charles de Secondat

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Makoto Ebata

We are looking into all potential locations, but eastern Europe is a strong contender.

Kim Jee-woon

I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.

Mark Russell

The regulation on the PGA Tour is 72 holes -- that was put in place by the players, ... We make every effort to finish on Sunday by 6Êp.m. Eastern time, but if we don't, we go to Monday.

Suzy Merchant

She's the face of Eastern Michigan basketball. She can do it all.

Michael Roach

Unfortunately, Middle Eastern people are going to be approached more often than not,

Martti Ahtisaari

With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.

Frank Holmes

Money will flow to where there are solid returns on capital. There are great opportunities in Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. We're seeing economic growth twice that of the U.S. but stocks are trading at a discount.

Brad Taylor

From what we can see, it's a trend that is moving into Eastern Washington from Western Washington.

Gene Luen Yang

For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.

Larry McKibben

We have a real opportunity on renewable fuels to take this to a whole new level in Iowa.

Jill Soloway

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

Greg Brunner

Just making shots slows (Michigan State) down a little bit. And then we had some silly turnovers that we don't normally have. That just better fuels their offensive aggression.

Lydia Lunch

I watch the news. It fuels my rage; it informs my work.

Angel Mata

If it's down a lot (people are investing in it). Everyone says this can't be sustained, but that's what fuels the markets.

Taylor Wilson

My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.

Clara Furse

This all fuels growth on SETS ... it's a secular story.

Chauncey Billups

Any time something like that happens, it just fuels our fire. Good luck other team.

Stephen Ryan

We have had 6,000 hits in the first 24 hours,

Victor Lazarovici

The real impact of what we've seen in the first quarter will hit the second-quarter results, from the increasing momentum of the metal price.

Josh Smith

When I've had to score, if they leave me open, I'm going to try to make them pay by hitting the jump shot like I did tonight.

Larry Wall

When Ivan hit last year, it passed over 150 platforms.

Craig Barlow

When it was in the air, I never thought of it going in. I just knew I'd hit it good.

Tom Seaver

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

Kelly Hawthorne

We know if we pass it out they can hit the shots.

Jim Tracy

We know he's very capable. He has the pitches to get major-league hitters out.

Emmanuelle Vaugier

Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

Charles Baudelaire

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

Michael Todd

We've always been into horror movies. The Nightmare on Elm Street films, I've seen a million times. We watch a wide variety of horror movies. Travis just has a huge folder of them on the bus.

Jane Goldman

I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me, they're so few and far between. I loved ghost stories, I love horror stories, I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me.

Carolyn Maloney

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

Dean Koontz

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

William Shakespeare

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

Bela Lugosi

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

Bong Joon-ho

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

When I'm in London, I get a veggie-box sent up every week, with the latest pickings.

Elizabeth Thornton

There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

Venus Williams

No, I don't really watch the news. In some ways, I'm very unaware of the latest happenings in the world. I kind of leave it like that because sometimes it's better not to know.

David A. R. White

We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

Cheryl Ward

You know how some people just need the latest cell-phone technology? If you could say, I just got this from Punt, you were at the top of the heap.

Tony Blair

Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse,

Douglas Kirkland

Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.

Chuck D.

We never received the latest version of the principles. I think they were waiting to see if we were still going to participate, which they now know.

C. S. Lewis

Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

C. S. Lewis

I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion.

Kelli White

We want people to think about today and tomorrow. It looks like you are.

Aaron Siskind

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

Alan K. Simpson

I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

Charles Spurgeon

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

David Quarmby

We've seen at least three theatres in difficulties and it looks as if they're closed, West End theatres. We've seen restaurants and pubs and all sort of visitor attractions 20 or 30 percent down.

Brian Eno

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them,

Sue Fox

We've sent quilts to Kosovo, the Middle East, any time people have been devastated. They need the basics. They need to be warm and protected.

Randy Simmons

When I was a middle school principal it disgusts me, some of the things I had to work through at that young age.

Lance Lattin

We struggled to clog up the middle and prevent shots from outside the 18.

Kurt Vonnegut

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

Madeleine Albright

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

Anthony Rapp

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

Jerry Miller

Working 5 to 9, Monday through Sunday, and being out in the middle of nowhere that combo is really something.

Tom Warner

We're right smack in the middle of winter. This has the potential to be the coldest spell we've had so far.

Diane Sawyer

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

Brian Kilmeade

Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim.

Richard Engel

To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

Wissam Nasr

This is a teachable moment. When you see Muslims praying, it's not a terrorist act. It's not a prelude to terror.

Chuck Hagel

This is not how you win the people of the world over to our side, especially the Muslim world.

Maajid Nawaz

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

Olivier Roy

This is what Muslims want - to be treated the same as other faiths.

Daniel Yankelovich

Americans are broadly uneasy about the quality of our relations with the rest of the world, especially Muslim nations,

Otto Schily

The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

Stephen Colbert

I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

C. S. Lewis

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Susan B. Anthony

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Tracy Chapman

I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Carl Sagan

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

Alan Watts

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Chief Joseph

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Michel Onfray

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Kurt Vonnegut

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.