Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward R. Murrow

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

Jeff Morrow

Oh, wow. All you can say is, 'Wow.' It was like a circus, but a fun circus to watch.

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Dave Barry

I will spare you a gushy description of the dive itself, except to say that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

Matt Allen

I think it tastes like a circus peanut.

Denis Chatelier

I said, 'They gave me a transplant. Now people think I'm a circus freak.

Roberto Aguire

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.

Harper Lee

I think Ill be a clown when I get grown.. Yes, sir, a clown. There aint one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so Im gonna join the circus and laugh my head off Im gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Just looka yonder, every one of em oughta be ridin a broomstick.

Ray Moyer

I was proud of the kids. We kept our heads when that circus was going on.

Charlie Chaplin

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Alan Greenspan

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

Jason Alderman

Until divers go down and actually examine the rigs and engineers can make estimates on the repair times, we just won't know.

David Puttnam

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Cary Fowler

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.

Cary Fowler

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

Cary Fowler

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

Carter G. Woodson

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Bill Kurtis

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, which is set at $5.15 an hour. After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, (which is set at $5.15 an hour). After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

Jaime Winstone

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Paul Rodio

We're getting there. I thought our players did everything they had to do (Saturday) except win.

Chris Taylor

We were in every game, except for Grand Rapids, and I really think we played well enough that we should have gotten a lot more points. We need to be better finishing the game. It's disappointing that we keep letting points slip by us.

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Scott Skiles

We know we're not a title-contending team right now, but in the history of teams winning titles they tend to take their lumps for a little while before they finally get there.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Stew Morrill

We've got good shooters. That's finally starting to pay off for us at the line. Our percentages have steadily gone up as the year has gone on.

Michael Levy

We've wanted to be in Napa for a very long time. We finally got a great location.

Jim Lites

We've waited years and years for this announcement to come. It's finally here. It's been years in the making, really starting in 1993 when we got here.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Ericka Fangiullo

We're going to miss their spirit. In swimming, sometimes you're happy to get the season over with because it's so grueling. But, when it's finally over, you get sad and miss it.

Sidney Crosby

When we finally got going, we had them back on their heels.

Andy Fox

We're finally starting to come together as a team. I'm so proud of these girls.

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.

Alan Hansen

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

Alan Arkin

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

Chris Cleave

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

David Mitchell

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

Billy Joel

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.

David Brenner

We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things.

Denise Crosby

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

Deepak Chopra

Life is about fulfillment. If your life isn't fulfilled, your stomach can never supply what's missing.

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Al Pacino

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

Chloe Sevigny

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Chloe Sevigny

I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.

Darren Shan

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Antony Sher

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

Diane Abbott

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

Bill O'Reilly

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

Buddy Trask

We were at the rim, and didn't have to rely on outside shooting and we made the big plays when we had to make them. We always want to make it interesting though.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jan Egeland

The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Matt Mullenweg

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

Bob Elek

We are getting better the more we work on this. We realize we have a lot of work going on out there.

Tim Tebow

I think sometimes when things are taken away, then you don't realize how much fun it is to come out here and play this game. You can't play it forever, so I'm going to enjoy it.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Denise Albrecht

She's never been here and she doesn't realize that it will come down to her. She's about to puke.

David Berry

She makes me have fun. I don't even realize I'm learning, but I am,

Mohammed Ali

I feel sorry for the Shiites. They have been deceived. They don't realize Saddam will be released again. Look at Saddam. He is an eagle,

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Luciano Spalletti

Francesco also realized it, and immediately said 'I'm broken.

Lara Jean Chorostecki

I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.

William Hepworth Thompson

What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Michael Johnson

We can spare one on (the day shift), ... But when we're called, we'll go.

Dario Marenco

I tried to spare them this thing. But if they want to fight, I'm ready.

Alan Shearer

Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.

Purnomo Yusgiantoro

At the moment, there's nothing we can do. OPEC has spare capacity. However, whatever we do, there is no sensitivity in the market,

Jacob Lusk

In my spare time I like to sleep.

Michelle Wie

I just don't have a week to spare just to try to get into the 36-hole qualifying.

Bryan Cranston

I don't have spare time.

Kathryn Stockett

I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.

Gary Shaw

We try to give them a little leeway. They're not always staring at their watches.

Paul Ballew

We do have some payback out there staring us in the face.

Amanda Hocking

Wendy: Why are you staring at me? Finn: Because you're standing in front of me.

Burton Rascoe

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You gonna keep staring at me, Great Acheron, or are you ready to chew me a new one?

Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.

Paula McLain

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Marc Guggenheim

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

Scott Simon

Just pretty much staying within myself with my swing and not doing too much with it. That's usually when I'm at my best.

Phil Donahue

We'll be staying right here in the neighborhood,

Felipe Alou

He's a tough kid. We're staying with him.

Lily James

There are other things I want to focus on rather than staying in shape.

Husnu Ozyegin

Getting to the top is not so easy; staying there is more difficult.

Tinashe

I'm always about having integrity with my fans and staying true to what I say.

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.

Henry Thomas

The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.

Sean Badding

We're just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.

William Williams

My surface is myself.Under whichto witness, youth isburied. Roots?Everybody has roots.

Hal Joseph

We are just scratching the surface right now.

David Lynch

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

Bill Cowher

It may have been more that we're working out on a different surface than what we usually work on in Pittsburgh.

Gary Hume

The surface is all you get of me.

Tom Kleckner

There's three types of mines, and what we have in Texas is surface mining.

Nikki Sixx

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

Ivan Pavlov

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.