Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

Will Rogers

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise 'em. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

Cassandra Wright

When he found out, he had a broken heart. He gave up.

Charlotte Bronte

But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current...

Charlotte Bronte

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Jim Paulsen

The fact that oil broke close to US$60 today caused a drop in S&P 500 energy stocks.

Paul Saffo

The creative IT department is going to be where it's broken up so that IT people are out on the front lines.

Tony McCoy

When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.

Mary Landrieu

The people of our states have survived storms before. That was not what put us under. It was the levee system that broke in New Orleans.

Greg Shaw

We have said since before the case was filed that we're willing to listen to the government but there are some very important principles at stake in the case that have not been negotiable.

Thomas Bach

We have to find out what the settlement means. The case is still on. We want to clear up all the circumstances as far as possible. We're still looking for evidence.

Thomas Bach

We have to find out what the settlement means. The case is still on.

Jonathan Turley

What the president ordered in this case was a crime.

Bobby Pace

We want people to vote for a strike. If they don't, we lose our horsepower (in case of a contract rejection).

Lawrence Fisher

We want Mr. Hose to do the right thing and take responsibility for his actions, and spare the family the ordeal of a trial. The evidence is overwhelming. The case is cut and dried. He was 37 years old, she was under 16, and they had sex. Case closed.

David Thwaites

We've still got worries about corporate earnings and I think that's going to be the case for a couple of months yet.

Alice Fisher

We have a zero tolerance for people stealing funds meant for storm victims. Many of the cases we are prosecuting involve small amounts. But we wanted to get out there with these arrests in part to deter people.

Roy Wadia

We've seen that happening in other cases as well, so it's not surprising.

Jim Sherman

We've seen where young guys are somewhat already damaged goods when they come out of high school. They've had some problems before, but it really doesn't come to the forefront until they get to college.

Geoff Coulson

We have reports of damage -- tree damage right now fairly significant, also some reports of some vehicles that were overturned, and reports of damage to at least one home in the area.

Nobutaka Machimura

There is no doubt that (the visit) will damage Japan-China relations,

Leigh Matthews

The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee).

Don Childress

We are going to make it very specific as to what the process will be and what the differences are between a general season, a management season and a game damage season.

Eva Vertes

It seems that cancer is a direct result to injury. If you smoke, you damage your lung tissue, and then lung cancer arises. If you drink, you damage your liver, and then liver cancer occurs.

Jeff Schexnaider

We did not execute the simple plays. We were not prepared mentally, and when we did get focused, the damage had been done.

Jeff Schexnaider

We did not execute on the simple parts of the game tonight. We were not ready mentally and when we got focused, the damage had been done. Hopefully, we can come out and be ready to play a full nine innings on Saturday.

Dave Miller

We did find some damage we didn't find before.

Steve Tracy

We have responded to several fires at this location in the past. This one was a large fire. The structure is going to be deemed unsafe.

Mitch Miller

We're focusing on responding to small fires once they've been reported to make sure these small fires don't turn into large fires and further tax our resources.

Steve Ogden

One of the issues that the Legislature needs to look at now that we've had serious outbreaks of fires is whether or not in hindsight we should have funded that.

Ed Sennett

I have great kids, one through 15. We knew we weren't going to have to put out any fires all year. They're great people and they're a lot of to be around.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

Ruth Winstrom

Fires can do anything. It's still a ways away from Palm Springs at this point. What I think is more at risk is that the fire will get established in rugged terrain and we will spend a long time and a lot of resources putting it out.

Laura Smith

We've just got a ton of fires going on.

John Winters

While the fires are less likely to be running strongly, we're still going to need a lot of firefighting work done.

Pat Walsh

We were watching to make sure nothing pops up. The winds - you never know what they're going to do. Winds can actually push fires back down the hill.

Carl Bernstein

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Bob Watters

What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Brian Eno

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

Dave Barry

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Jase Robertson

It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

Alan Rickman

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Alan Bennett

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Charlize Theron

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

Carol P. Christ

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Carlos Castaneda

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

Carlos Castaneda

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

Carl Bernstein

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

C. S. Lewis

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Pat Gelsinger

We have new platforms, new process technology and new products. It's a very powerful one-two-three.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...

Alan Kay

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

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

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

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.

Bill Wright

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