Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Hendrickson

One needs only to look at the adjectives used by the media to describe chemicals to understand why the general public is frightened: toxic, killer, lethal, deadly,

David Cross

If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.

William Gibson

The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school.

Doug Evans

Tyler has been one of the biggest promoters of Seth. It almost brings a tear to my eye just talking about it. He's been like a big brother to him. I don't have enough adjectives to describe how great Tyler has been this year.

Bipasha Basu

I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman.

William Strunk

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

William White

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjectivehasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tightplace.

Thomas Sadoski

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

Brian Eno

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

James Thurber

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness

Neil Peart

Lessons taught but never learned,all around us anger burns.Guide the future by the past.Long ago the mould was cast.

Toba Beta

Leash the anger on purpose. Unleash it when falling apart.

Bryan Lee

Many of our clients receiving a buyout package have broken down and cried in our office, either from anger or joy. Emotionally, people need someone to turn to so they can get everything out, if not a financial planner, then their spouse or friends.

Ghassan Khatib

Many of us noticed this accumulation of anger and frustration. In our public opinion polls it was very clear that there is a decline in the level of support to the peace process...

John Edwards

One of the striking things about seeing Edwards up close is the degree of raw anger he evinces in his speeches -- and the level of anger he elicits from his audiences toward the president.

Bhagavad Gita

One develops attachment to sense objects by thinking about sense objects. Desire for sense objects comes from attachment to sense objects, and anger comes from unfulfilled desires.

James Gray

Obviously you can't commit a crime this heinous unless you've got a lot of hate and anger in your heart,

Ta-Nehisi Coates

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

Tom Renney

Maybe we got too full of ourselves after the last game and figured we had arrived. I'm not going to blow a gasket, but I'm angry that we didn't respond to a really terrific challenge for us.

Floyd Ciruli

My feeling is the Democrats in the 2nd Congressional District and a lot of voters in general are not going to be angry that Udall has done that.

Donman Phongmahung

My friends and I were very angry to hear the comments.

Rob Enderle

Never in my career have I seen the customer base so angry at Microsoft,

Charles de Gaulle

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Daniel Portman

If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

Ruud Nistelrooy

I feel sick. I'm devastated and very angry at the same time. I don't know what I feel.

Gibril Wilson

I can't put my hand on what the problem is. It's not rocket science. You've either got to get the ball out or you've got to stop them. Guys are angry that we're not getting off the field.

Larry Ellison

Four years ago at Telecom 95, I made some people very angry when I said the PC is a ridiculous device. Now the Internet has pushed the PC off stage, and will eventually change, not just the industry, but our economies and cultures.

Alexandra Paul

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Robert Osborne

When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD.

Kurt Browning

Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

Lee Bennett

Maguire answered. That was big. We just didn't make a couple of plays down the stretch. That's the way it goes.

Rick Taylor

Lynn had three crucial hits that led to runs and made a couple of defensive plays that ended Pleasant Hill rallies.

Lanny Wadkins

Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I had Fred Couples and Loren Roberts on my team at Oak Hill, as straight as Loren drives it and as good an iron player as Fred is, my thinking was, if Loren hit off the even tees, he would putt first six times on the front and eight times on the back. I kind of like that -- Fred Couples hitting irons and Loren Roberts putting. That's a helluva combination.

Charley Juris

Last year we had two or three stars ? a couple kids who dominated. This year we have an entire team of 'no stars.' It's really been a major team effort here.

Jon Tremayne

Many of these (outages) are one or two customers, and others are a couple hundred customers.

Frank Robinson

Second pitch. Line drive off the center-field fence. Missed hitting a home run by a couple of feet. Double.

Ugo Betti

Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Seamus Mallon

Let me describe it as a momentous meeting. It was a good, workman-like meeting.

Jeannie Thompson

Moments like this are why you get into coaching. The girls have such a passion for the game, and to be a part of this team in a moment like this: There are really no words to describe it, just seeing how much fun they had and how much they enjoyed being out there tonight.

Alexandra Orlando

I can't describe what happened. Everything is very vivid within my mind. I knew I could get good results, I was sure of my skill, but this... Well, this was more than I expected. It was a surprise for me, too.

John Prezzia

I can't really describe it. I just always knew I could win.

Felicia Lofton

I can't even describe the feeling I'm feeling right now. The girls have worked so hard. We've had our ups and downs, but the girls finished strongly. We set a goal to win a state championship and we did it.

Dick Cheney

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; ""consistent"" is not one of them.

Brad Dean

I can't give you one term to describe us today. There is such a mix of visitors.

Bill Gates

Four or five years from now, you will wonder when somebody called up to get technical support how they just used the phone to try and describe what was going on with their PC.

Ernie Accorsi

Lewis was different because he not only was a starter here a year ago, he had been here since the 2000 season. When someone like that walks back into your locker room, they're popular, they're known, they've been a teammate.

James Johnson

Lewis really understands the game. He can run a team.

Cindy Mydland

Lewis Drug is a partnership that we've done with several Sioux Valley clinics.

Patrick Valenzuela

Mr. Lewis made me part of the Budweiser family. Which is pretty ironic, when you think about it.

Bart Chilton

I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'

Buzz Aldrin

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

Huey Lewis

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

Marshall Bloom

We wanted a unique perspective on Lewis and Clark.

Jonathan Vilma

What can Ray Lewis do that you can't do?

Democritus

Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

Jerry Conway

Because of the mild weather we've been having there's no ice, and the seals now have to find an alternative place to pup.

Karen Goodman

She's very mild in her speech, but she's hard-working.

Phil Klay

I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.

Robert Webb

Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist.

Mike Scioscia

I think you can characterize it as a mild surprise that we are here.

Chris Kozak

We've had a mild winter and we've got a higher-than-normal storage inventory.

George Taylor

I think it will keep raining well into March. I also think spring is going to be relatively mild and dry.

Hitoshi Oshitani

If there are many mild or asymptomatic cases, we may have missed many cases.

Michael Redd

Oh, yeah, naturally it's going to be disappointing,

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

Starsmith

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Leon Askin

We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.

Edmund Hillary

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed, ... It will just naturally be replaced by something else.

Jeff Barker

People are naturally curious, they want to see what's going on.

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.

Jack Abramoff

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

ASAP Ferg

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

Ludwig von Mises

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of the word All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

Charles Spurgeon

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

Diane Kruger

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

Dennis Prager

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Dennis Prager

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Dennis Prager

The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.