Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

Russell Schweiss

Scripps serves as a prime example that it should not be assumed that when a biotech institute expands, they are planning on duplicating the research they are currently conducting at existing facilities.

Ron Nargang

Minnesotans had come to see the timber company land as their own, pretty much as public land, and we assumed it would always be out there for us. Now, it's getting sold off and developed. This has kind of caught us by surprise.

Charlton Heston

One of my first memories of my dad during that shoot was him coming home from the Coliseum set after filming the chariot race, and I assumed he was a professional chariot racer at that point, ... He'd bring me home sand from the massive arena.

Evelyn Glennie

Of course, I just assumed that the world was full of solo percussionists. It was only when I studied music full time, in London, that I realized that the career of a full-time classical percussionist did not in fact exist. It had to be created.

Ben Bernanke

One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.

Jack Schwartz

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

Robin Yount

Ned has been trying to get me back for quite a few years and the time just hasn't been right for me personally. I've been trying to get the family out of the house and get the kids grown up and move on. I always assumed I would go back one day to Milwaukee in some capacity, and I was very fortunate that the time to come back is now with these really talented young players that we have and hopefully get to watch their progress.

George Robertson

NATO nations have assumed their collective responsibilities toward Turkey, a nation at the moment under threat.

Rick Perlstein

I feel bound to respect Ronald Reagan, as every American should - not least because he chose a career of public service when he could have made a lot more money doing something else, and not least because he took genuine risks for peace.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.

Ken Keyes

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

Mark Connolly

Leave our boundaries alone. Let us solve our own problems.

Brad Woodhouse

Senator Santorum's remarks are divisive, hurtful and reckless and are completely out of bounds for someone who is supposed to be a leader in the United States Senate,

Sathya Baba

So long as you say I am . there is bound to be fear, but once you say and feel I am GOD , you get unconquerable strength.

Mike Buday

Nerves had a big thing to do with it. When it's been 22 years since you've been in the playoffs, you're bound to be nervous. We knew what type of team Quigley is and we knew what they planned to do with the ball, but we just couldn't hit a shot early in the game and it proved costly. One we settled down, we did all right.

Robert Half

No one has to become muscle bound by exercising the mind

Tom Schlesinger

More than any of his predecessors, he has gone public with every issue under the sun. I'm not sure there's a right answer, but I think it's worth talking about in a public forum what ought to be boundaries of the Fed governors' comments.

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.

Manolo Blahnik

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

Marc Bolan

I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!

Tim O'Brien

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism?the way you play it is free will.

Michael Ryan

Like everyone else, the school system will have to deal with increased utility costs. We already are running with a deficit from fuel oil for this year's budget.

John Glover

Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.

Kip Winger

Major labels they're not into me at all because the name is like - all they can remember is what I've done, so I don't even want to deal with that.

Patrick Quinn

Magazines and newspapers are loath to discuss these types of deals publicly.

Tim Fitzpatrick

Lexmark's cartridge return program deals exclusively with laser printer toner cartridges. It does not involve any inkjet products. The court's decision was very specifically about this program.

Alfred de Vigny

Let us dream that once upon a time have lived men stronger and greater, who were more determined for good or for evil; that does us good.

Adoniram Judson

Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is enkindled one spark of love.

Rich Thompson

Many races were determined by less than half a second in another exciting, full-house meet.

Daniel Costa

Much of the world's weather is determined by what happens in the Antarctic, so understanding the Southern Ocean is a key to understanding global climate.

Rep. Caruso

No one is excluded. But at this point, we haven't determined which individuals we want before the committee.

Tara Stewart

My great grandmother was feisty. She was determined to be around forever.

Matt Millen

Maybe it took me a while to really understand that. But I do understand it now, and if anything, you're more resolute and more determined and more, to be honest with you, downright ticked off to get this thing done.

Phil Jackson

Obviously the game was determined by Howard leaving so early. That took a lot of energy away from them and we played well as a group.

Frank Gonzalez

If a terrorist's determined enough, he'll find a way. I think some of the rules went too far, like (prohibiting) nail files. But people got used to it. So why not just leave it alone?

Isabella Rossellini

I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.

Jeff McInnis

Like everybody says, he's got to get to the playoffs -- that's the key. All this he's doing now, he's been doing that. But you've got to make the playoffs.

John Lowery

Like everybody else, this is a new season for us. Not that the other games don't mean something, because they do, but everybody wants to start off well in their league.

Uli Hoeness

Like everybody else in the whole country, I think the national team is a catastrophe.

Anna Ayala

Let this be an example. Everybody out there, all those young people, learn from this.

Tom Maurer

Luke played a great all-around game. He made everybody else on the team look better.

Ryan Tucker

Making plays I think was the difference. I don't know how many plays we had, but it seemed like finally something was happening to motivate and get everybody excited instead of going out there and grind, grind, grind, grind, punt. Grind, grind, grind, punt.

Larry Bowa

Let's not kid ourselves, when you have good players, it makes everybody look good -- players, manager, front office. The other thing is depth. That's what big payroll teams have. If they lose somebody, they've got somebody else. They don't go down to their farm system. That's a big difference.

Daniel Gibson

Let the fans and everybody else watching see for themselves. I'm gonna let everybody figure it out by the way that I play.

Juan Palacios

Making it to the Final Four last year was amazing. It was special.

Michael Graf

Looks like we're finally going to make it this February.

Jimmy Johnson

Last year was tough at the end. This year we want to make sure that we're mentally able to make it through all 36 races and especially in the final 10, regardless if we're on top of the world or if we're going through a tough time.

James Augustine

Last year, there was a little more pressure. We're more of an underdog. We want to be special and get back to the Final Four.

Carlos Emmons

Last year we would look at film and see linebackers not getting touched and making plays. I was like, 'If we don't get touched I'll make every play.' So finally we get to run around and make plays.

Jeff Caldwell

Last year we were the host and we didn't have a lot to be happy about because we weren't playing - especially when we made the Final Four the previous year.

Rory Bremner

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

Oprah Winfrey

SEND ME BACK TO PRISON! My final plea is to you Miss Winfrey, ... The Oprah Winfrey Show.

David Gallop

So finally it is time for kick off ... and what a season it is going to be.

Isabella Rossellini

As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn't really available. I'm so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school.

Lauri Hakala

Let's just say I'm glad that I stayed and nothing this year is the same as last.

Jason Shirey

Leah threw a great ballgame. It's great to see her back to her normal self. I was glad to see that.

Mike Radke

Mitchell is a quality kid. I'm glad that we got to see him this early, because now we know what we have to work on. The next time Logan might possibly see him is at state.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' you have to show off your vocal abilities, so I stuck to the ballads, so I'm glad my first single is 'Tonight' so I can show off my fun, young side, and what I want to do as an artist.

Doug Mientkiewicz

Me, my family, went through hell and back. It should have been handled differently. I'm glad it's over. I can put my (World Series) ring back on with pride now.

S. Walker

Maybe if I didn't have my injury, I wouldn't have studied as well in the classroom. I'm on pace to graduate right now. So I'm glad for that.

David Chaney

No one's more surprised than me. Very surprised. I hadn't trained very hard this winter. It (the course) wasn't too bad. I was glad the wind and the rain held off.

Mike Babcock

No part of me is glad to lose,

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

Richard Jefferies

The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.

Reggie Ball

I was just going through the motions a little bit. I'm trying to work myself back in there.

Harvey Pekar

I worry about getting work, and then when I get it, I worry about doing it well. I don't want to just go through the motions and give people stuff. This stuff is really important to me.

Kip Harris

We played half-hearted. We went through the motions and let them push us around.

LeeAnn Palo

Let them do it next year. They've got a lot of time left.

Al Reynolds

Many if not most of the property owners out there have taken the next steps.

Jake Gyllenhaal

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

Craig Bradshaw

One more chance. Next season, we have one more chance.

Ed Belfour

One minute, you're a slug. And the next minute, you're a hero.

Sal Mineo

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

Sidney Ponson

One at a time. The next one after one is two. It's not 10.

Laurence Barron

One in six planes sold this year will go to China. Next year that will be one in five.

Chad Knaus

Obviously, we're parked right next to each other in the garage,

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Nancy Morris

One woman said it was things like this that made her proud to be a resident of Watertown.

Frank Maloney

Now, we had something we could be proud of showing the recruits.

Dennis Christopher

I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

Dennis Eckersley

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Dean Smith

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

Shawn Almond

I can't say enough how proud I am of them tonight.

Mark Gerald

From where we started to where we came, I'm pretty proud of them.

Eddie Vedder

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

Dave Ramsey

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

Vedran Pavlek

She's taking a little break. It's just too many races for her right now, at the end of the season.

Jeff Bonde

She's at the top of her game. She has trained excellent, and she does well when her races are spaced.

Joseph Bruno

She's going to have one of the most competitive races in the state,

Dale Jr

We are going to win six or seven races and be in the top three in the Chase. If we don't win the championship, it won't be by much.

Richard Childress

We were going to keep the 3, he just wanted to see it winning races and winning championships.

Dan Wheldon

To win six races is something I'll look back on and think that was a strong season.

Keith Williams

I thought the races would be a little closer,

Jenson Button

We want to be winning races and so just being on the podium is disappointing.

Bobby Hamilton

I don't think you can do it with 10 races to go in trucks because we only run 25 races,

CeeLo Green

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.

Rabih Alameddine

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

George Jessel

This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.

Scott Weiss

I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.

Gene Ween

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.

Larry Ellison

Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

Roy Moore

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

Alexandra Stoddard

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

Iris Krebber

Much too much time has already been lost. In mid-2004 we already saw the first signs of a serious drought.

Pat Cleland

Much better shooters than what we saw statistically and from what we saw on film.

Craig Schlanger

Of course, no one saw him do this, no one is saying they saw him do it.

Joshua Michael Stern

Of course, I saw 'The Social Network,' which is a beautiful film.

Talulah Riley

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Donna Smith

I can't live over water. I can't swim. I wouldn't want to see no more water. I saw enough already.

Richard Foreman

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Scott Moody

Like I have to start from scratch, I don't have anything.

David Collins

One way to start all over is to find a young woman and start a family.

John Beilein

Now we just go back and teach. We start over.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Marco Buechel

If Bode wants to start winning, he could start winning tomorrow, immediately.

Karel Bruckner

I can tell you that the starting lineup will be very different this time.

Melissa Carlson

Get out there and start talking to people.

Kevin McHale

Getting Marko was something we really wanted to do. It's all starting to come together.

Ian Mckellen

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

Peter Steele

If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.

Ethan Suplee

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Ricky Rudd

I wish it could have been a little better, better than Tony ran, ... But it didn't work out that way.

Audra McDonald

I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.

Bette Midler

I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.

Jeff Gordon

I'll take part of the blame. I think Tony should take part of it as well.

Louise Nurding

I'm a big fan of Tony Blair. I'm not saying that I think his judgment has always been right, but I look at him as a person.

I. Stone

A lot of this has to do with the Tony Awards.

Lin Yutang

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.

Aaron Levie

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

David Ginola

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Derek Jeter

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

Dennis Miller

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Bob Holthus

When you put up a million-dollar purse, naturally, you're going to try to win it.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.