Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Tagliabue

We want to really emphasize above all that sport is a small part of life. We want to use are visibility and the respect we have with the public and the respect our teams have to support the national recovery program. That's the big thing.

Paul Tagliabue

We want to really emphasize above all that sport is a small part of life, ... We want to use our visibility and the respect we have with the public and the respect our teams have to support the national recovery program. That's the big thing.

Nathan Barankin

What the state of California expects to recover as a result of our lawsuits goes well above and beyond the resolution that was reached today.

Paul Komar

Whenever there is a rivalry, people play above their potential. It's more important to them. Expect a fast pace and more aggressive style in this game.

Todd Akin

When federal judges arbitrarily choose to dismiss the will of the nation's elected representatives and chief executive, they place themselves above the law they are sworn to uphold.

Tim Woods

We were traversing across a snow field and he was ahead of me and then the avalanche broke above him, and just took him away and, you know, you're always running against the clock in a situation like this and I tried to do my best. I found him and he was still alive, eventually the doctor got there and it was out of my hands at that point.

John Lonski

The fact that oil is remaining above $40 leaves me all the more convinced that core CPI will continue to climb higher, that we're on the verge of having the annual rate break above 2 percent.

Maureen McCarthy

We've stayed above some key support levels right now, despite the news, so that's a good thing.

Kofi Annan

The process has been difficult, but the outcome is a clear demonstration of the will of all the members of the Security Council to place the interest of the Iraqi people above all other considerations.

Charli Thorne

There is certainly a bright side to that (UCLA) game. You win 10 in a row. You're a young team. You still have a lot that you can improve on, and you know you haven't fully peaked. Here we are with a chance to really look at the shortcomings that we had in the Pac-10 Tournament and regroup. We have a long window to get fresh again.

Richard Wallace

The outlook for 2006 is bright and continues to improve.

Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

As for what I might wear, my mantra is that, no matter how chic the event, I don't want to look too prim. I like wearing short cocktail frocks to black-tie events; it just always feels more like me, and a bright red lip is always a staple.

Cameron Russell

Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

Steve Wiggs

We did end up raising a little more than we were actually anticipating. As a result of that we will have to use less of the reserves than we had previously thought we would. So there is at least a little bright side.

Johnny Kidd

Yes, the future certainly looks brighter now. I'm very happy with my group.

Jandy Nelson

I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.

Scott Teeters

We are looking like we are going to taper well. Brighton is going to come at us. I think Novi is a solid third place team in the league. We are looking poised to give them a challenge. It's close.

Joy Crisp

We're interested in finding out whether that bright rim material is the same as the outcrop rock or something different. It may have a different water story.

Carol Leifer

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

Carol Moseley Braun

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Vorderman

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Carol Vorderman

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

Carlos Mencia

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

Carlos Fuentes

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

Carlos Fuentes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Carlos Castaneda

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

Carl Andre

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

C. S. Lewis

Always winter but never Christmas.

Bruce Johnson

We want everyone to understand that this effort didn't end at Christmas. Our troops need to know someone's thinking about them.

Alan K. Simpson

People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

Charles Dudley Warner

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Charles Dickens

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Carol Roth

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.

Robert Watson

We want to reinforce the fact that we're a global company.

Mark Hurd

We have to grow our company, invest and deal with competitive forces at the same time we need to be efficient on the cost side,

David Brown

We have no plans to make any significant changes. ... The mill won't close. We understand the importance of the company to the Longview community. We would expect a significant portion of management would stay in place.

Ben Hatfield

We have no interest in getting into finger-pointing of what went on a year ago. This is a mine that operated for some significant time before my company was involved with it.

Vijay Mallya

We have registered a company in the name of Kingfisher International in the US. We will be flying to India and other international destinations, provided we get all necessary approvals at the right time.

James Falvey

The Exxon-Mobil deal has definitely raised the bar. It's going to be hard to compete with a company that size.

Michael Armstrong

We set out to transform this company from a point-to-point long-distance company. The results today are strong. They need to be better, and they will be. But it's now time to recognize the value creation phase of our strategy.

Thayer David

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

Toots Thielemans

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

JR

My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't see the borders.

Greg Steinhoff

We've always been looking, everywhere we can, to find money for the life sciences.

Jeff McCracken

We're in good shape. The system's working everywhere it should. This is a wet storm, but there's not a lot of snow to melt like there was in '96-'97." ()

Peter Johnston

There is no question, ... everywhere is getting warmer.

Tyga

I don't follow trends. I'm a trendsetter. I represent all the younger generations; fly kids, creative kids - they look up to me. I got a program that's called ROAR. I go to all high schools everywhere we go, and I talk to all the kids, and I give away 30-35 tickets and passes to the kids doing good in school. Stuff like that means a lot to me.

Friedrich List

liberty and civilisation have everywhere and at all times emanated from towns

Carl Sandburg

There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they seem to get nowhere

Max Schneider

I bring my ukulele everywhere I go, play a little music in the park, always have it with me.

Alan Sugar

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

David Whyte

When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.

David Aebischer

We are going to have to win over Germany and Italy, that's where we focus.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Klaus Schulze

Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.

Peter Bichsel

Writers lock up themselves into their language. I locked up myself into my language situation, where only new high German is spoken.

Douglas Sirk

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.

Douglas Sirk

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Douglas Sirk

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

Lou Davis

We have no sour grapes. We're looking to the future.

Fred Thompson

We have no idea at this time (why he killed himself), ... But we are looking into it.

Neil Shubin

We were always looking over our shoulders; we saw lots of tracks.

Lisa Dutton

We were always looking for the open player. Sometimes we took a shot too soon.

Jeremy Sweet

We were always looking around for cottonmouth, rattlesnakes and alligators.

Robert Wood

We've seen the report and are looking into it.

Jason Koumas

We've still got a lot to play for and we're looking to win in Poland, definitely,

Adolf Rosenstock

The outlook for recovery is fading. We are looking at another possible recession in manufacturing which would not bode well for the overall economy.

David Young

Ulster will be a much tougher side than Connacht so we will be looking for big improvements.

Ayn Rand

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

Harry Shearer

I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.

George Herbert

All are not merry that dance lightly.

Megan McCafferty

She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cleared his throat. "Dear Marcus. Merry Christmas. I'm breaking up with you. Mia.

Nat King Cole

Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!

Norm MacDonald

Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!

Rick Riordan

Leo had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo!

P. C. Cast

merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again

Thomas S. Monson

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

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.

John Dunn

We're just trying to make sure that we're right there ... ultimately to protect people's lives. There's just a multitude of things that can happen.

Tina Brown

There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves.

Edmund Burke

The tyranny of the multitude is a multiplied tyranny

Frederick Douglass

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

Oswald Spengler

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

Catriona Matthew

I am a little surprised, but delighted, to be back in it and with two rounds to go anything is still possible,

Steven Gerrard

This season will be his season. His all round game's a lot better and there's a lot more to come from him.

Lefty Grove

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Marsha Sinetar

All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.

Peter Mandelson

If we scale back in Hong Kong, we should not scale back for the round as a whole. It is too important.

Cliff Thompson

Overall, I'm happy. During the first round of the state tournament, you just want to get a win and get the jitters out.

Pat Toomey

Laffey was in Washington making the rounds and I spoke with him then,

John Lennon

I would have turned round right then and walked away.

C. S. Lewis

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

Charles Dickens

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Jane Austen

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

Alan Watts

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Chinua Achebe

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Chinua Achebe

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Cheryl Strayed

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

Chanakya

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Charlaine Harris

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.