Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paula Carney

We started three years ago with 150 people attending the event. This year we had more than 400.

Luis Walter Alvarez

Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.

Adoniram Judson

The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion.

Robert Burton

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Twyla Tharp

Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.

Ann Hood

For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck.

Nina Easton

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.

W. G. Sebald

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.

Yolanda Adams

Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.

Win Butler

The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

Grace Slick

The raw wood of a sawed off tree was turned, stripped, and varnished into a traveling violin that could only squeal in carnival colors.

Daniele Pasca

Carnival is the feast of joy, freedom, and dreams?nothing better to close the great dream of the Olympic Games, with a touch of nostalgia.

Peter Ratcliffe

Carnival has nothing at stake here and therefore has no downside, ... We, on the other hand, have a valuable transaction that could be put at risk.

David Mamet

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

Sandra Shilstone

Going into the carnival season, we really didn't know what to expect. But it has been heartwarming ? the support tourists have shown for our city.

William Roe

I think the cruise lines are going to do better, ... Carnival is the No. 1 cruise line that we have in the world today. They've got new ships coming on board. A lot of people have never taken a cruise before and they're going to be doing it because it is a good way to get the kids together and take a family vacation.

Jay Hall

If we don't raise a lot of money this year, the services we provide will be completely limited. I hope it's not going to be really restricted, but without a carnival I feel it will be.

Erin Gruwell

Paying to teach in the trenches was like putting my face through a cutout hole at a carnival while a quarterback threw pies at me. At least with a carnival, I'd see it coming.

Geoff Sundstrom

We're going to continue to see not only higher prices but gasoline availability issues on the Gulf Coast and other issues in the southeast United States, mainly due to fuel distribution problems over the short term.

Adam Cohen

Ultimately, it will go to help the hurricane victims in Bloomington and also be transported down to the Gulf Coast region to help the victims down there.

Kyra Sedgwick

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

Ellen Gilchrist

The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now and then.

Eugenie Clark

It would be nice if we didn't have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continental shelf on the west coast of Florida, and it would be a real disaster if we had a major oil spill there. It would be wonderful if we could find some other source of energy.

Jack Lavin

Shipments come in from the west coast that are sent directly to the Midwest and then distributed throughout the rest of the country.

Matthew Davis

Yesterday's good rate may well be unobtainable tomorrow -- leading to unpredictable hotel coasts and, occasionally, an inability to obtain a suitable room,

Sue Hershey

We have a workforce in the Treasure Coast that is mostly in the service industry. It doesn't have to be that way.

Stephen Doyle

We've seen everything from 30 to 40 percent increase for transportation hauls that are really going far to the coast and as high as 100 percent for the hauls that are within 300 to 400 miles,

Rick Reynolds

We're in a lodge. We're not in a tent. It's a way to relax at night. A little television indoors doesn't take away from my experience enjoying the scenery here.

Alexander Ovechkin

We have nine games more, we have to try to win five or six. We don't have any pressure right now and we're enjoying ourselves.

Phil Jackson

We're exploring life without Shaq, ... and enjoying it, too.

Zach Keene

We're focused, but yet we're still enjoying the moment. No matter how many times you've been there, it's still something special.

Alan Nicholl

We're really enjoying the role of the underdog.

Kylie Minogue

I am really not looking further than my next trip. I'm enjoying being in the moment.

Taron Egerton

If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

Scott Proctor

She's doing good. She's at home right now, and we're just enjoying getting back to normal life.

Brian K. Vaughan

As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.

Charles Caleb Colton

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Alan Watts

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

Alan Greenspan

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

Alan Greenspan

Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

Alan Greenspan

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

Alan Greenspan

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

China Mieville

Anything for gold and experience.

Byron Katie

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

Buddy Hackett

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

Joe Kantarik

Make sure that you tell everyone that right now we are leading in points.

Klaus Steinbach

We have proved our leading position in the world.

Lawrence Lindsey

We have rising real incomes for households, leading to rising real consumption. That looks unlikely to be disrupted,

Theodor Mommsen

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Imelda Staunton

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Brian Cox

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

Conrad Hilton

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

David Chang

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

Denny Hamlin

The recent actions by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of M&M'S and we're very disappointed. Like you, we hold those who represent our brand to a higher standard and we have expressed our concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing.

Dennis Anderson

Second place is the first loser.

Chad Knaus

The racing that we've got in our industry right now is the best racing in the worldperiod.

Charlie Kimball

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

Charlie Munger

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

Bode Miller

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

Bode Miller

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

Dan Aykroyd

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

Ayrton Senna

Pure driving, pure racing, that´s what makes me happy.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Dickens

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Charles Dickens

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

David Suzuki

Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

Catherynne M. Valente

There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a gap in the hedgerows or a mushroom ring or a tornado or a wardrobe full of winter coats.

Benjamin Graham

Always buy your straw hats in the Winter

Billy Herman

Boston has two seasons: August and winter.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.