Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caitlin Kittredge

How can you be dour when you have a tiny duck?

Henry Samueli

For me, it's just a pleasure to be out in the community wearing my Ducks logo on shirts and hats and so forth in representing the team.

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.

Alan Sugar

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

Charles Rangel

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

Bill Maher

Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono.

Bobby Fischer

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

Brad Pitt

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Daniel Handler

Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

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.

Mel Rapozo

When you talk to the officers, it's pretty bad. Every day that goes by without some intervention, it's getting worse.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Mike Harris

We want them to understand we're here to help and do everything we can,

Javier Solana

We want to see how we can help organize the transfer.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

David Shuster

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

David Schwimmer

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

David Koechner

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

Dave Barry

Seriously? You won’t help me?” “Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.

Bernard Williams

We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots.

Cheryl Brown

We've already started looking at what we could do different and better for next year's show.

Peter Marshall

We are looking to jumpstart the program, ... This is not a short-term fix.

Monique Currie

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game.

Craig Barrett

We are looking to be the preeminent building-block supplier to the World Wide Web economy,

Bill Ryan

We are looking to be competitive with the middle of the league.

Mike Williams

We are looking into this matter, we have made no decision.

Mary Osako

We are looking into the report. We would not know the nature of an investigation.

Charles Ramsey

We are looking into the possibility that it is gang-related, but we are not certain,

Carolina Herrera

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

Jim Calhoun

We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does.

Pete Summerbell

We got to the state championship game. Nobody can take that away from us.

Bobby Cox

With two outs and nobody on you feel like you're going to win a ballgame, ... We just did not get big hits.

Andre Cook

We're just here to play basketball. When we were 2-5, nobody was protesting, so that's just how it is.

Rick Cornett

We're really cornered. Nobody wants our season to end in three games. We just have to keep working.

Romeo Miller

I feel nobody has limits. It's all in your head. If you have a big dream, go after it and go get it.

Rory Bremner

I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.

Manny Diaz

The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,

Mack Brown

Three years ago I would have said, 'Tell me why I owe YOU one?

Ellen McLaughlin

The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.

Mike Viesca

She has served her time for now. She does not owe the state any more time. She will not be on parole or anything.

John Maynard Keynes

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

Benedict Lucchesi

I don't know that I owe them an apology,

Joshua Jackson

I would say trustworthy too, but he owes me money.

John Lane

I think we owe it to them with what they did for us during Hugo,

Howard Dean

He got us into it. He owes it to the American people to get us out.

Rich Miller

We owe Pawtucket something. They played us very tough.

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Gareth Williams

Up until now it's been a psychological battle, but that doesn't preclude them reaching an out-of-court settlement.

Arvind Parmar

Reaching the quarterfinals of an important tournament like this is fantastic.

Leo Veness

In life, there are those who are reaching upward, and those who are reaching outward.

Mallory Factor

He's reaching out to all of us. He may not be winning converts, but he's making gains.

Chris Reid

It's like reaching back in time. This vase survived the years and made its way home.

Jason Kenney

It's going to impinge on underlying profitability ... profitability is reaching a peak.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Kathryn Schulz

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

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.

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.

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.

Shakira

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

Larry Brown

He reminds me so much of Isiah (Thomas).

Bobby Locke

He reminds me of Tracy McGrady without the flash.

Funkmaster Flex

He reminds me a lot of myself when I was young,

Pat Riley

This trip reminds me of when I started. You've got to get after it.

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.