Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

Theodor Mommsen

If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.

Katie McGrath

I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne Westwood, McQueen and Balmain.

Phil Funkenbusch

When 'The Man Who Came To Dinner' opened on Broadway, everyone knew Alexander Woollcott. Today, no one knows him. And I'm not sure who is like that today. He was one of a kind, and it's such a different world.

Greek proverb

If Alexander wishes to be a god, let him set up as a god

Dr. Bice

It brings state, national, and international attention to the job that our school family is doing. I think it will be a huge economic development asset for the community to say that the Alexander City School System was the first in the state to have this designation.

Jeff Capel

I thought Alexander Harper was tremendous for us. He made tough plays.

Viswanathan Anand

He conducted the attack quite well and I had an unpleasant position despite the extra pawn. Alexander just played better than me today.

Matt Hasselbeck

Like we've all seen, Shaun Alexander plays his best games in the spotlight.

Ariel Garten

We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.

Leander Paes

When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

Ian Roberts

What they went on to tell me was that Arron had been under surveillance and that he had been, prior to him moving in he had often checked at known paedophile's house, houses.

Donald Trump

When we checked with the title insurance company, they said we had ... a complete right to that entrance and exit.

Paul Breslin

When we checked the pharmacology, it was identical to ibuprofen.

Blythe Danner

Yes, I am (going to be a grandmother again.) Well, I think so. Oh, well I have not checked lately,

Tom Megyesi

With what we had this year, I was hoping to end .500. When we were 2-6, I checked out schedule out and I said, 'I don't know if we can pull that off.' But our kids played their hearts out.

Melissa Baker

The eye doctor that I was going to since I was 7, for eight years never checked the pressure in my eye. If he had, my eye would have been saved.

Trevor Immelman

When I checked the stats, I saw that I was more than one putt per round more than I have been for the previous two years,

Scott Moore

We're in a David and Goliath type struggle, and we're David, ... And David won, as we all know.

Hermann Eilts

David Bruce, I think, is one of the outstanding persons for whom I've ever worked. He had a sense of balance. He was interested in everything that went on in the Embassy. He delegated authority, but at the same time when you needed the Ambassador's help on anything, you could go to him, and he would immediately respond.

Chris Widger

We've got David Carr and Michael Vick at quarterback. We've got Marvin Harrison and Roy Williams at receiver. ... Hey, A.J., who's our running backs?

Michael Korda

I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.

John Lone

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

Hersh Wolch

We'll be given an opportunity to show why David shouldn't be put through the trauma of reliving the horror.

Elton John

Throughout history, gay people such as myself and David have often been made scapegoats by those who fear that we are a threat to the status quo.

Scott Aukerman

I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about.

M. Wolfe

We needed a big play. I threw it up, David go under it touchdown!

Tim Smith

Foster is a tough little guard. She's the motor of our team.

Shelly Main

Foster has been a great addition. She has contributed with her skills and her (positive) attitude.

Ronald Reagan

It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. This Administration's objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy.

Hunter Hillenmeyer

I think that they do more to get Foster on the outside a little more. He's great in space, a make-you-miss guy who spins out of tackles.

Ann Thompson

We've got kids who have problems in school, kids who've been abused, some kids that this is their last resort before going into foster care. Sometimes our talks in circle-ups (around campfires) are so heart-touching that we all cry.

David Kirsch

We need to take hold of this thing. We need to foster it.

LaVonya Malveaux

We are here to foster stronger alliances. We are not in the parish to replace anyone.

Angela Shelton

We were taken to a foster home and my parents were never prosecuted for what they did to us, ... And meeting these women let me see I wasn't alone.

Kuniko Inoguchi

In my view, at this point, it is probably more important to foster a structural reform of mindset.

Charles de Lint

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Moore

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

John Tortorella

We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game.

John M. Ford

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

Jack Horner

where it actually goes from land into the water.

McKayla Maroney

When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing.

Nigel Barker

My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.

David Alan Grier

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

Denise Miller

We've tried to not lay a lot on him right now. I don't think Heath even realizes what an impact he has had.

Roy Jenkins

I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.

Paulla Solar

We sat down and talked about Heather and he said he really liked No. 13 (Fernandes), too.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

Joe Hudak

Heath threw very, very well. We made some adjustments with his delivery, and he is still working on those. But when he focuses and throws strikes, he is great.

Scott Kerstetter

Heather has battled a knee problem all season and that?s limited her mobility. She?s making up for it on the glass.

Mark Bruener

Heath and I could really relate. And I know he'll go through a lot of the things I did 10 years earlier.

Christian Slater

The extreme always seems to make an impression.

Tim Read

What a horrible way to go. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

Sean Bergenheim

We were horrible in the first two periods. We played a little better in the third. I know I had a horrible game.

Marcel Shipp

The red zone has just been horrible for us. It's been terrible. It's unacceptable as an offense because we have too many weapons and we're too talented not to get in the end zone.

Tom Wolfe

If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer.

Edgar Allan Poe

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

Danielle Taylor

She has horrible rages over nothing. She needs help. She needs to talk to somebody.

Ken Tutt

We didn't want to go through what we went through last year. It was a horrible feeling. I would say that has been in the back of my mind this whole season. Every time I went in the gym, I just thought about that loss.

Michael Young

I think there is a horrible stereotype that suggests that minorities are lacking in terms of their knowledge of the fundamentals of baseball.

Louis Cataldie

I don't want people being alarmed, ... I don't want inflated numbers. My God, it's horrible enough.

Lorde

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

Jimmy Spencer

Kurt was lucky last year, and he was lucky again.

Don Miller

Kurt also has had a lot of respect for Ryan.

King Tuff

I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain.

Amani Toomer

I wish Kurt luck every week but this one.

Denny Green

I think that Kurt (Warner) had a solid first half,

Jimmy Fennig

Yeah, Kurt Busch is ready to win a championship. Because he's so good, that's why.

William Burroughs

To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, "There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no reason.

Mark Bartelstein

If Kurt plays the way he played last year, he'll wind up making between $22 (million) to $23 million over three years.

bell hooks

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

Bess Myerson

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Bob Marley

One lifetime is not enough to live

Al Franken

I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

Brian Lumley

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

Dimitar Sasselov

In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.

Laura Ahearn

What we really would like to see is lifetime supervision and GPS monitoring.

Fred Hoiberg

I scared her enough for one lifetime when I passed out. I still think about how scary that was for her. I would never want to put her in a position where I would scare her like that again.

Charlize Theron

I know what I'm capable of wearing in one lifetime and what I really need.

P. J. Harvey

The one thing we preach is mental toughness and we showed it tonight.

Orlando Bloom

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

Roberto Torres

Where is your mental GPS taking you today? Is that where you want to go?

A man should be what he seems.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

There's daggers in men's smiles.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

Jared Bernstein

Ultimately unemployment will peak somewhere around 6.2 or 6.3 percent,

Moon Unit Zappa

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

Chuck Hill

It always takes a toll. These are the peak weeks for warnings and it's going to be worse than normal, but we probably need a little of that.

Mike Jensen

I think we're starting to peak at the right time.

Jeff Tedford

He doesn't go through the peaks and valleys that some people would. He just has an easy-going attitude.

Dan Hill

So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.

David Beckham

I would like to think that we can peak in the same way as the rugby team did,

Jim Skipper

But at the peak of traffic, you can't run that stop sign or you will get killed,

Brian McInerney

We're running out of snow for the watershed. This will probably be the peak they see this year, but there's no guarantee.

David Amram

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

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 Douglass

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

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.

Richard Herrington

If we see an upward trend in delinquency ratios, we tighten our lending, but we have not had to do that.

Chris Dancy

It has slowed some, but the trend is still down.

C. L. R. James

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

Dylan Moran

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