Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

Alan Alda

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.

Catherine Booth

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

Caitlin Moran

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

Joel Klein

We stopped short of asking for enjoining the product precisely because we believe in creating options, not restricting them. We are not seeking to impose a recall.

Shai Agassi

We started our planning by asking our customers what they needed. They needed continuous deployment options and a more strategic CRM...They wanted more than just a sliver of customer information. They wanted a full picture of the customer.

Keith Dory

We started it last year as a one-time shot on a Saturday. And on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we kept getting calls asking us if we were going to do it again.

Joe Hills

We start by asking a series of questions to try to get some clues going for us. The first is usually: Do you know which garage you're in? Not everybody does.

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Alan Guth

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Alan Greenspan

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Refuse to be average.

Chip Kelly

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

David Cross

I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

Buddy Rich

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

C. J. Cherryh

Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.

Nigel Collins

Wheeler's Luck is strongly promoted as a New Zealand play and in the past that may have been downplayed in the publicity, and that it is now so much a part of the marketing shows we are getting over our cultural cringe factor.

John Gleason

I cringe because I know there are going to be people preying on people subject to the immigration authorities.

Lyle Lovett

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

Christopher Hitchens

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Jason Isbell

I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Muffet McGraw

I don't really want to think about it. I really don't. I cringe when I think about next year without her.

Larry David

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

Jim Reuter

We want people transported downtown, to downtown South Elgin.

Michael Bergin

We were a loud, extended family. My grandparents had a store in downtown Waterbury called International Foods, and my grandmother runs it to this day.

Bob Hopkins

We're expecting some winds gusting up to around 50 miles an hour in the downtown and West Anchorage later today and this evening.

Eric Swanson

We're really excited about implementing these possible improvements in the downtown area,

Ed Wolverton

There are two big market segments driving downtown residential: the young professionals and the empty nesters. We've had a very low number of empty nesters.

Robert Wilson

At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion?

Erin Gray

We had been planning that for ages. That was our goal, to get her a downtown pass.

Chuck Jackson

We've spent a lot of money getting downtown back in shape and looking nice and wanting it to be a destination for people. And you've got a visual blight on the sidewalk.

Dennis Christopher

I had a bike as a kid, and when I worked in Manhattan - I had a 10-speed - I rode from downtown to 68th and Madison for my day job. I knew about fighting traffic, but nothing about racing.

Isaiah Stanback

Louis was going to surprise a lot of people, but he wasn't going to surprise us. What he did in that game, he can do more.

Bill Wagner

Louisville is notable for its accomplishments, but on the primary health-care side, we struggle to meet the needs.

Victor Shum

Louisiana refineries can process that, but they are shut down.

Peter Fricker

Louise is going gangbusters and her recovery is getting better and better from day to day,

Nelly

I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.

Wes Brown

Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.

Andy Kopplin

We are providing ways to keep homeowners as homeowners. You can successfully rebuild South Louisiana with the package we have proposed.

Pat Riley

I have a Louisville Slugger in my locker. It's like 42 ounces. We corked it also, with cement.

Steve Cleveland

I think you've got to look at Nevada, Utah State and Louisiana Tech immediately.

Aaron Gray

We want to send Carl out on top.

Jerry Gonzalez

We're making sure that we're sending the right message.

Tom Robbins

I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.

Ron Gardenhire

Most of the time you send Rad back out there. But this isn't most of the time any more.

Ron Gardenhire

Most of the time, you'd send (Radke) back out there, but this isn't 'most of the time' anymore.

Joe Gibbs

Yes, I will send that in. I feel like that one was obvious.

Junichiro Kawaguchi

Sending Minerva to the surface did not work.

Sunita Narain

Sending in the commandos sounds very hip, but it isn't the whole solution.

Ron Gardenhire

Sending him back out there, that's a little silly to try to do something stupid with a man's career. We haven't done that to him all year, and we weren't going to start today.

Louis C. K.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Adam Braun

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

Anais Nin

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

David Letterman

This Osama bin Laden, now they say he has had plastic surgery. They say he sneaked across the border into Pakistan, which by the way is the place to go to have plastic surgery. He looks great. A tourist came up to him earlier this week and said, 'May I have your autograph, Mr. Hasselhoff?'

Kamal

Without tourists come to me, I'm dead, do you understand?

Andrew Zimbalist

You are substituting one set of tourists for another.

Khaled Hosseini

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

Erin O'Connor

I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.

Jamaica Kincaid

A tourist is an ugly human being.

Diane Abbott

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

Brad Thor

Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can't imagine that it is real because it looks like a movie lot.