Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Banville

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Brandon Burks

We've shot below 300 the last few rounds. It's just a matter of finding the right guys.

Rep. Bentz

We have had a great deal of Katrina issues. It was a big learning curve for us and people in the utility industry. The most important thing we need to do is ensure people have reliable electric, phone, gas and water services and keep the rates at or below national averages.

Rob Gould

The fact is that since the passage of the Maryland electric industry restructuring law in 1999, BGE residential customers have benefited from a substantially lower rate structure ... well below the market rates paid in other parts of the country. BGE has no choice but to procure power at prevailing market rates. Every dollar deferred is a dollar that might not be invested in infrastructure for the utility.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I have a feeling that there is a gap in the food retail market - a niche below some of the current budget operators such as Aldi and Lidl.

Barry Hyman

The productivity numbers today (Thursday) and tomorrow's (Friday's) report do nothing to support a bullish market. I would be concerned if we saw the unemployment drop below 4 percent because that would show the economy is not slowing down.

Tempestt Bledsoe

'Cosby' opened up so many people's vision to something that they had never seen before or really contemplated before and exposed them to things that were going on that were completely below their radar.

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

J. Hoover

We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time.

Juvenal

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

Albert Schweitzer

The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

Chris Lozier

I'm a little surprised they didn't raise guidance after this kind of a quarter, but I think that's probably just conservatism right now.

George Jackson

No guidance. Not enough mentors to teach younger people what's right and what's wrong.

Safa Rashtchy

For some reason, people had their hopes much higher than this, especially for the guidance. Everything seems to be in line.

Laura Paro

I have a very experienced defense. I'll be looking for strong senior leadership and guidance back there.

Asa Hutchinson

extraordinarily helpful guidance as we go through this historic process and very important process.

Robert King

We didn't get a whole lot of guidance from the Supreme Court,

Jay Cooperider

We are essentially cloaking him with some guidance and letting him say his piece. And not letting the guy twist away in the wind.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

John Tyson

We said the second quarter would be very tough, and it was even tougher than we anticipated.

Glenn Reicin

We view this as a relatively uneventful quarter for Abbott.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Clint Hurdle

We've seen him play short and how he can play there. We want to keep getting a feel for him at second base.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Jandy Nelson

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Jan de Bont

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Charles M. Schwab

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

Elinor Wylie

An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.

Annika Sorenstam

so I can feel the steel and be more in touch with the workout.

A. E. Housman

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

Andrew Carnegie

Steel is prince or pauper.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Tell me again how great you are, asshole. Nothing like a steel enema to ruin even your best day. (Fang)

Herb Kelleher

It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.

Geraldine Chaplin

If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.

Simon Hughes

You don't need a helmet facing Waqar [Younis] so much as a steel toe cap

Jack Thompson

We are teaming up with the financially strongest partner,

Lex Luger

I used to be known as one of the strongest guys on the planet.

Bob Starkell

Cara always has some of the strongest performances.

Sonny Rollins

I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.

Chris Moneymaker

I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.

Charles Darwin

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

Bart Schouten

I think it's the strongest team we've ever fielded.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Mark Schubert

It's one of the strongest teams we've had in years.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!