Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Lopez

My god, I wanted to go in there and smash that window and try and see if I could pull her out. But the flames were too high. It's gone.

Debra Winger

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

Abdu'l Baha

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

Randy Adams

I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw flames from the back of my truck,

Christine Feehan

She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.

Kevin Taylor

Those flames are sky-high. This is really scary.

Alexander Pushkin

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

Charles de Gaulle

Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.

Alan Watts

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Murray Kempton

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

Patricia Briggs

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

Leo Rosten

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Rick Perlstein

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Steven Schier

Lightning probably won't strike again. Jesse's undistinguished tenure as governor in Minnesota, coupled with Arnold's troubles in California, make it unlikely that celebrity candidates will ever have the inviting luster of novelty that they had a few years ago.

Bill Col

Many of the candidates are known only as names and not individuals. People in Iowa and New Hampshire want to get to know you individually, or feel they do. . . . That kind of courtship takes a lot of time and effort.

Rick Greenspan

shares the university's mission in cultivating a diverse pool of candidates for coaching and staff positions.

David Johnson

None of these candidates really seems to be energizing anyone.

Peter Swire

One worry is that candidates will talk out of a thousand sides of their mouth. What if they have a thousand messages that are different for every tiny part of the population? It's much harder to get accountability for what candidates say.

Paul Richard

More limited- or low-income candidates need to be treated with respect. ... If we equate the dollars spent with the legitimacy of a candidate, we're in a dangerous situation.

Larry Price

Great teachers like those we honor this evening got us here, and they will continue to lead the way, ... That only one can be chosen Teacher of the Year is a classic example of overcrowding. We have so many worthy candidates and only one spot to fill.

Charles Schumer

New York has been the springboard from which the last two successful Democratic candidates for president won the White House, ... There is no doubt in my mind that New York's good fortune can launch a Democrat into the White House for the third time in 30 years.