Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mallory Ortberg

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

Rod Wright

We're not coming out here to just hang with those guys and hopefully we can win the game in the fourth quarter. We want to dominate. That's not been said about USC.

Chipper Jones

We're not coming out here to go home after the first round. That would be a supreme disappointment.

Kurt Melton

We're not coming out at halftime with the intensity we need.

Herman Cain

We're not coming into Virginia to be a one-note Johnny.

E. B. White

We're not coming here with any false illusions.

Leinaala Lopes

We're not coming back until it is safe and secure.

Doug Holmes

Mandatory dues. Not only that, they were coming in there telling me you need to do this, you need to do that.

Susan Cohen

Life is lived in a circle. The dates keep coming back to you. People say, 'Move on.' But that implies a straight road taking you somewhere else. Nothing can take you out of the seasons of the years and the dates that recall your life. And since we were a happy family together, we had many happy days and those days are now sad days.

Paul Kurtz

Since then, we've really been on a downward slope. There are some places where we see some limited progress, but the overall strategic level of leadership -- someone who is there full time, all the time making sure programs are in place and properly funded -- that's what's lacking.

Mike Right

Since that time, it's been drifting downward ... about 10 cents. It might be time for another start up.

Summer Sanders

One of my favorite workouts to do with my girlfriends is yoga. We are equally impatient with our yoga. We are those people who are sweating in the back, and we'll be in downward dog giggling and looking at each other. And I know what we're all thinking: What are we going to order for dinner afterward?

John Cridland

UK Plc feels it has gone as far as it can in accommodating tax rises that have weakened our international competitive position. The trend we now want to see is a downward one not an upward one,

Shelley Berkley

This project is in a downward spiral, even members of the nuclear industry are looking for other ways to store the waste,and throwing more money at this problem-ridden albatross will not fill gaps in the science because the science is not there.

Patrick Fearon

The fact that (core inflation) has been on a downward trend for two months is more evidence that Fed policy-makers might stop raising interest rates sooner rather than later.

Robert Walberg

Overall, we'll probably see a continuation of the choppy nature of the market, probably with a slight downward bias.

Lara Rhame

Markets initially seem to be focusing more on the downward revision in growth than the upward revision to the deflator.

O. Singh

Our message is simply: that we should try and get out of the present downward spiral.

Archibald Hill

One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

Craig Ray

Maybe the number of travelers aren't as high, but the money spent is way up. The travelers are staying longer and spending more money. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say it's very positive.

Jake Bugg

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.

Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

David Givens

I was surprised to win, I thought for sure someone else would have a longer commute.

Michael Vick

I would have been able to come back and play ... With an injury, the longer you sit on the sideline and kind of nurse it a little bit, the stiffer you get. Once I got stiff, there was no need to go back in.

Seth Harp

I have always said when people first marry there is a whole lot of lust and not a whole lot of understanding. The longer you are married the more you understand each other.

Henry Rollins

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Bill Rodgers

So, I would recommend one longer run daily, with your longest run when you can get the time.

Dennis Weaver

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Dennis Weaver

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

Deng Xiaoping

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

Edgar Allan Poe

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

Edvard Munch

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Ed Markey

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Dizzy Dean

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

George Baker

To produce this oil efficiently and quickly, you need people who've done it before.

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Kat Edmonson

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

will.i.am

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

C. L. R. James

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

David Douglass

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations...

Daymond John

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

David Amram

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

Bruce Sterling

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

Jane Krakowski

I've never been so on trend in my entire life.

Dylan Moran

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

Anna Deavere Smith

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Catherynne M. Valente

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

M. Thompson

When they're still on a ventilator and under a warming blanket,

Sven Butenschon

He would do it before a game, like when some of us would warm up in the gym.

Bill Burns

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

Irving Berlin

I've got my love to keep me warm.

Geoff Coulson

The weather has been pretty amazing. It's much warmer than normal.

Emeka Okafor

It made me feel real special, all warm inside,

Mike Hargrove

I probably would not use him for more than one inning. And if I got him warming up in the bullpen, I'd want to get him in the game.

Spider Robinson

It's always coldest before the warm.

Deepak Chopra

What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them.

Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

Edgar Friedenberg

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

Benjamin Franklin

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Barbara Tuchman

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Blaise Pascal

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Dick Van Dyke

We should never judge a day by its weather.

Alexander Pushkin

Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.

Alexander Smith

There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.

Charles Dickens

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

Charles Spurgeon

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

Chris Cleave

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

David Suzuki

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

Catherine Bell

I love cold, rainy weather.

Carole Lombard

Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

Daniel Craig

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.