Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kumail Nanjiani

I stay home. It's the best place to be alone. There is hardly any walk-through traffic.

Mallory Ortberg

I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

Ralph Bellamy

Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

St. Teresa

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing:God alone suffices.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the yogi seated in solitude and alone having mind and senses under control and free from desires and attachments for possessions, try constantly to contemplate on the Supreme Self.

Mike Brey

Luke's been very solid there. He's come a long way with his post defense and his defensive rebounding. (Fordham) left him alone and he made shots and gave us a double-digit lead we didn't relinquish.

Kathy Heustess

Make time to go off together and be alone without the kids. The marital relationship is the primary relationship in the home. Children will feel most secure when they know Mom and Dad are secure.

Matthew Lombardi

Mac did an awesome job. I saw him wheeling down there and he got to the puck first and then battled it out and then a one-handed pass, it was great. I was all alone and he gave me all the time in the world so hats off to him.

John Oldham

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

Italo Calvino

My university work was not central to my education.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

Robert Mueller

And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

Mallory Ortberg

Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

Chuck Adams

Manhattan Associates' solutions have enabled us to transition our distribution operation from a warehouse that stored $4 million of goods to a true distribution center that manages just over $1 million of goods at any given time. Our products are now where they should be--within reach of our customers.

James Howard Kunstler

Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens.

Gerald Galloway

Major urban centers like Sacramento, like Los Angeles, remain protected only at the margin. Engineers and scientists have got to be fully involved in this decision process, this political process.

Dana Taylor

Lucas comes with a wealth of experience and will be slotted into a center midfield position. At 22 years of age, it will be great to have the leadership that he brings.

Frank Armstrong

Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important.

Koji Endo

Mazda is gaining on new models that are selling really well, lower production costs from platforms shared with Ford, and the weaker yen,

Tina Lange

Medical costs are rising significantly, so the fact that we offered a zero percent increase was substantial.

Sen. Bray

My impression from what has happened in other states is that student-loan costs have definitely gone up.

Robert Steidl

Nestlings probably suffered the highest energetic costs from disturbances because of their dependence on adults for food.

Pat Burns

One incentive is that energy costs are pretty low up here.

Scott Matthews

No one knows what the environmental costs of messing up the existing infrastructure will be.

Tim Jackson

Now the overhead for running dealerships has grown so much, it costs a lot more to operate all those franchises. If you're lucky, you're making a 1.5 percent to 3 percent profit.

John Conway

We had a very solid first quarter and are pleased with our performance. This is particularly true given the rapid increase in raw material prices and costs that we experienced.

Tatsuo Kageyama

Sentiment for gold is improving but the outlook largely depends on the fate of crude oil prices.

Jason Schenker

mitigated some of the upward pressure on crude oil prices.

Victor Shum

Natural gas pricing is an immediate telltale sign of the winter situation: it is fairly mild, and this is likely to impact heating oil and crude demand as well.

Ben Bernanke

Growth in U.S. real imports slowed to about 3 percent in 2006, in part reflecting a drop in real terms in imports of crude oil and petroleum products.

Bryant Gimlin

Given the crude price hikes, pump prices should top $3 a gallon in the next week or so.

Jason Schenker

Given OPEC's decision to keep quotas unchanged, Iranian guarantees of oil supply and U.S. statements excluding the possibility of oil sanctions, crude is poised to fall next week.

Aaron Kildow

From a purely fundamental basis, the market shouldn't be within $20 of the crude price that we're seeing. But people are reluctant to sell.

Rolayne Fairclough

Fuel prices have become particularly unstable in the past few weeks. Worries about the security of crude oil supplies are pushing prices up while growing domestic inventories of domestic crude oil and refined products are pushing prices down.

Dominic West

I'm a rather crude cook.

Michelle Meredith

I did enjoy it, it was good. I've eaten here before.

Don Thompson

Burgers and fries are an American staple. On the same token, my kids eat vegetables, and they always have eaten vegetables. They didn't have a choice but to eat vegetables.

Oliver North

In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they've got nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. So, something more stringent than what's been done to North Korea is going to have to work; otherwise, a military strike is the only option.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.

Jim Davidson

We were going to do a love scene but he hadn't shaved and I'd eaten pickled onions.

Thomas Jefferson

We rarely repent of having eaten too little.

Kenny Williams

Kids who come through and have eaten seem to be really satisfied.

Sarah Wilson

It hurts. I haven't slept or eaten since the accident. It seems every time you walk down the hall, there's an empty space.

Jill Lepore

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

Larry Schmit

Seton was just a bigger, faster team. And there were a lot of them out there too, so they were able to stay fresh.

Jonathan Gray

much faster growth rate than the number one company.

Ryan Lowmiller

My main goal was to get faster and quicker. It helped a lot with my quickness and overall speed.

Nicholas Garganas

My feeling is that euro-area growth will pick up at a faster pace.

Mark Zalewski

I feel stronger, I feel faster and healthier than I've ever felt. It's fun when you feel good.

Shawntae Spencer

I can't lie to you, I was beat. I fell down, and then he (Bruce) fell down. I just got up faster than he did.

Mike Watson

Getting faster and faster and faster isn't necessarily meeting the experience. You can go too fast, and then it's just messy.

Dan Adkins

Frankly it's going a lot faster than I had expected.

Jim Duarte

I don't think he's reached his potential. He'll be faster as he gets stronger.

Alexandra Paul

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Jill Soloway

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

Dieter Zetsche

Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States.

Rob McDonald

Fuel is now our number one cost. We regret having to increase fares but the numbers are stark.

Ben Macklin

Fueled by a poker craze, the growth of broadband, and television coverage, online gambling is quickly moving to the mainstream.

Tad Hutcheson

The price of fuel has just gotten out of hand.

Gerald Grinstein

If we had fuel at the price it was three years ago, we would have had probably record operating profits in the first and second quarters of the year. That's how much fuel has impacted Delta.

Micky Arison

Significant improvements in pricing, particularly for our North American brands, more than compensated for increases in fuel costs.

Ricky Craven

If we come into the race with the idea that we have to do everything we can to save fuel, there will be 36 cautions and fuel will be irrelevant,

Jeremy Bates

One thing that stands out is that the better shot I hit, the better shot he hit. I was playing serve and volley, and he had incredible passing shots from the most ridiculous positions.

Jeff Wachtel

One thing we've learned over the past three seasons is that there's an incredible pool of talented performers whose voices have yet to be heard.

Tony Duckworth

Four-hundred is a special milestone. This was an incredible victory to get that win.

Dionne Warwick

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

Neill Blomkamp

On one hand, I think people are destined for something incredible if we don't wipe ourselves out, but I think we're going to wipe 90 percent of ourselves out.

James Kirkwood

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.

Bob Braman

She's going to be our leader. Kirsten Hagen has also had an incredible summer.

Peter Strianse

If they're able to prove this, it would show an incredible lack of judgment.

Chellie Pingree

If they put up something that just looks like window-dressing, it won't be supported by the public. This is an incredible moment.

Bruton Smith

For several years before that, I had a picture of the jet on the mirror. I used to look at it while I shaved.

Mike Serba

One of the big mistakes a team can make is get a one or two-goal lead and start sitting back ... while the other team has the opportunity to turn on the jets offensively and put some pucks in the net. We didn't want that.

Emily Hughes

I got to run through my short program and it went really well. I think I'm pretty much over my jet lag.

Ric Flair

I'm a limousine ridin', jet flyin', kiss stealin', wheelin' dealin' son of a gun. WOOOO!!

Patricia Schroeder

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.

Nick Woodman

I realized that a surf trip on a jet can be like a road trip. If you see a road you want to turn down, you can just go there.

Richard Aboulafia

We have no idea how the market for very light jets will look in 25 years from now. There are several players trying to get into this market, but we really don't know what the market wants yet.

Chris Taylor

We've all talked about it. Our main office would have to send temps, or it would shut down. I wouldn't give my two weeks notice. Who cares? You are a multimillionaire on the next jet to the Bahamas.

Kelly Holcomb

I think the offensive line did a heckuva job of opening it up. We knew what the Jets were going to do to us. They really didn't present us with many problems. It was just kind of smashmouth.

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.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Source Unknown

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Jean Chatzky

Eliminating or substantially lowering just one major monthly expense can give you enough cushion to move into a more comfortable place financially.

Richard Reeves

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

Ed Silliere

Everyone is lowering their expectations for demand. It's taken the urgency out of the market.

J. Taylor

A lowering of tariffs will help. However, it's not the only issue.

Roger Andrew Taylor

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Granger Whitelaw

Now that we're headquartered here, you may see some announcements in the months to come.

Dave Smith

I feel more optimistic at this time than I did 12 months ago, but we've still got a lot of work to do.

Mariella Frostrup

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

Dave Parker

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

Martin Havlat

If we don't play, then my month is over. That'd be just great.

H. Hart

because of war and other considerations, that may slip another month or so to April.

Nelva Ancona

I feel the sadness of this family. She is two months pregnant and she has two kids.

Patrick Biancone

She has been treated and will spend a month at Ashford Stud.

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.

Kristin Cast

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

Frank Haith

Like anything you do, it'll work for a short period of time. But he's so intelligent that he's going to keep working.

Ben Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate? I didn't know if there were 12 or 1 (who were alive).

Bennett Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate?

Mark Krikorian

Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration.

Mark Geragos

Seventy percent of what's in there is not true.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side.

Terry Fox

Ms. Garcia is stretching the truth for her own personal gain,

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Albert Schweitzer

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

Ludwig von Mises

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

Denis Hayes

That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.

Edgar Allan Poe

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

Christopher Hill

I can't say really that there has been progress,

Chris Corrigan

I don't think any progress has been made on that front.

Bart Stupak

Ill put my progressive credentials up against anyones.

Brendan Bell

We need to make sure there is some tangible progress in November,

Jake Eakin

I got up to try to stop him, and he just pushed me.

Albert Young

When you saw us getting pushed back over things that were non-existent ... come on. I don't know what to say about that.

Ted Ligety

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

Gordon Richards

But that's not to say they're not here - they just got pushed over the sides,

Stansfield Turner

I think he's being pushed out or made a scapegoat,

Ricky Ford

Sri Lanka pushed us all the way. We've been tested and bounced back stronger every time.

Danny White

We flat-out got pushed around tonight by a bigger, stronger team than us.

Richard Remus

Correctional officers, you really can't tell them what they can't do. They like to stand their ground. They don't get pushed around. They get that confrontational attitude.

Katherine Johnson

We got some quick baskets. We scored on transition and we really pushed the pace.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Nick Zito

Since he's come back to Kentucky, he's been super. I think he's rising up at the right time.

Ludwig von Mises

Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands for higher wages and reiterated credit expansion; in short, protracted inflation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Charlie Munger

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Robert Mahon

That's not a real savings for the taxpayers.

Theron Roschen

It's thinner than conventional asphalt, and that's where the savings comes in.