Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Wallace

We have seen a continuation of the hotel recovery in almost all areas of the world helped both by higher occupancies and higher rates,

John Quinn

We have to get out of this rut of letting teams hang around and get back in the game. It's almost like we're playing from behind when we have the lead. We just have to finish out games better.

Dirk Nowitzki

We have to find our sense of urgency a little bit earlier. We gave up almost 70 in the first half. It looked like we just went through the motions.

Gary Milhollin

What the tapes show is that between the first gulf war and the second gulf war, Saddam Hussein had not lost his appetite for, or interest in, weapons of mass destruction. To the contrary, he was almost obsessed by them.

Mark Dindal

When everybody feels pretty good about themselves, and you have Champagne coming out of the water fountain, it's almost like we've got to burn the place down.

Duane Wallace

When your power bill is almost half of what your rent is it creates a real problem.

John M. Smith

We were at the cruise ship greeting all of our visitors as they departed, and almost everyone of them had just wonderful things to say about the city, about the volunteers, and I mean it was just...it was incredible.

Melissa Elmer

We were almost tasting it. Girls that went through it took it pretty hard. It wasn't easy to come out on the losing end of that match.

Russ Suemnicht

We were almost reluctant to go that way. But we knew we needed to follow the trend. New country was beginning to cross over into rock, which was creating a new style of music, and it caught on very heavily.

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

David Houghton

Whenever you get that sort of wetland component, you get a lot of productivity, ... People in the North Country would call that bugs.

John Heimlich

When your second-highest cost plummets, that's huge. I call it the saving grace of the fourth quarter after the (federal assistance). But we're not quite as sanguine that we can count on that this year.

Saul Klein

When you're visiting the page of an enterprise software vendor and you want to call their support number, that phone number will be highlighted and you'll instantly be connected.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Jason Mraz

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

Nancy Verderber

We want people to realize that while we are a national organization and our roots are in the community. We do raise a lot of money but we are also something patients can call on when they need something.

Curtis Green

We want her to know we love her, we miss her and we want her to come home. Please call someone.

Ryan Metcalf

We were trying to find a new shoe place and we were calling all these places. They told us they were going to call us and we never got a phone call back. There was always some problem that kept getting in the way.

Stephen Fleming

We have players who are playing well and can cover up for him. If he is dropped, it would be for tactical reason and not form.

Scott Johnson

We have retained Gavin Henson as cover for a number of positions in the backs.

George Lois

When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.

Kent Anderson

When I moved here I had a two bedroom, simple, 900 square feet, and rent was eight to nine hundred. For that same size unit it's now $1,500 per month. You take a $10-an-hour worker, pretty much all of their wages for the year would only cover rent.

Matisyahu

When I'm meditating on an idea, I try to let the idea completely saturate me to the point where I feel like I'm covering myself in it or totally immersing myself in it, so that everywhere I'm looking, everywhere I'm going, it's through the lens of that idea. And that's sort of what I do with the music - I try to lose myself in it.

Thomas Bulfinch

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.

Toni Collette

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

Thomas North

Without saying word to anybody, cover thy face.

Tawni O'Dell

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

J. Moore

We used to wave 'Terrible Towels' in December during 'Nutcracker' shows.

David Hahn

We're looking for quality yards that can deliver quality product in time for December (2008), and I think we've got a big obligation to the people of the north to see that take place.

Al Groh

we might be going till December without him, and I don't think about it. . . . The only time I have a discussion about it is when I'm talking with you guys.

Richard Doherty

Whether Microsoft launches on November 20 or December 5, we expect they will sell through every unit they can deliver before New Year's.

Andrew MacLeod

What they have on 1 December is what they have all winter.

Valentino Castellani

Most of the test events were held last winter with great success and in November and December we will have the final test events. We are getting close.

Randy Hendricks

Most people retire because their performance diminishes. I know he's wanted to do it before. I think he should just do it at a point in time where there will be no regrets. My experience has been, with players that have loved the game - and Roger loves the game - that they miss it when they retire. ... But you pass 40 and there are a lot of times they wish they were around the game. I think if he retires, May, June or July, he's retired. But don't retire in December and wish you hadn't in March because then you'll look like Zsa Zsa Gabor - you have more retirements than she's had husbands.

Brian Campbell

We better start turning things around. We're getting near the end of the season, and things change. It's not the same hockey you're playing in December. It's different. It's playoff hockey. We're still playing December hockey.

Kurt Eichenwald

A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.

Shane Voss

We want our players to be scholar-athletes. We emphasize that all year.

Paul Vachon

We've seen teams with strong inside games, and we've seen teams with strong outside games. They have both, and we haven't seen that, so we can't emphasize anywhere.

Tom Holland

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

Lydia Lunch

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

Michael Chertoff

We're going to go back and look at all of this after-action, when we have time, but I've got to emphasize something: We are still in the middle of an emergency.

Melanie Gruer

The prime minister emphasized that it makes little sense to negotiate a victory that we've already won.

John Otto

We knew we wanted to take the strong points of our groove and emphasize them as well, and we knew we wanted to just totally experiment.

Bill Fennelly

Right now, it's the old shoot-not-to-miss syndrome and passing up shots. We've emphasized that you don't pass up shots; if you miss, you miss. We've had a hard time scoring, but it's never been because of our inability to make a shot.

Jane Albright

Nichole has one goal in life, as far as basketball, and that is to help her team win. She has no selfishness about her. Really whatever we emphasize in a game, she really tries to do.

Allen Iverson

We have to get it done, that's no excuse.

Dan Sanso

We have no excuse for how we played. (Leonard) had to play in the rain, too. We just lacked the knockout punch.

Ed Smith

We were anything but nervous. They are a loose group. Maybe they're too loose. And we were healthy. No excuses for our play tonight.

Alan Nevin

The reality is that there should not be an impact. However, many of the material suppliers and subcontractors are using that as an excuse for raising prices.

Stacy Robinson

Very angry, there is no excuse for this.

Jim Provuncher

We did have mental breakdowns. There are no excuses for that.

Angela Merkel

We stand by the constitution. The pause for reflection is not an excuse for putting it aside,

Joe Mullen

We're not going to make any excuses. We outplayed them for two periods and held them to nine shots (in that stretch). Then for whatever reason, we let them back in the game in the third.

Bruce Nauman

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Jeffrey Williams

We have salvageable patients we are going to lose because we can't get these people out of here. They are human beings, after all.

Elias Canetti

We have no standard any more for anything, ever since human life is no longer the standard.

John Salmons

When you're up like that it's human nature just to be like, 'We've got this game. But we've got to stop doing that.

Alan Rudolph

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

John Cassavetes

We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

Alan Clark

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Bob Lutz

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

Alice McDermott

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

Arthur C. Clarke

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Kevin Connors

People will move to the (Mac-Intel) products at the same rate they move over to the new systems. It will take some time for the transition to happen, but it's inevitable that it will.

Jay Farrar

but at this point it seems kind of inevitable or unstoppable.

David Rakoff

I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.

Jorge Chabat

With all the money and power of the drug cartels, it was inevitable the AFI would become corrupted.

Donald Farish

Tuition is the last place we'll go. It's inevitable that it will go up some. The question is, how much?

Maurice Jackson

But Jones - they are a tough, tough team.

Walter Veltroni

Today, when Quincy Jones wants to stage a concert, he comes to Rome.

Jenny Teater

When we tried to make a run, Pitts or Jones always stepped up.

Tommy Aldridge

Jones doesn't shoot as many threes or is as physical, but she's a scorer, a slasher.

Antonio Tarver

Whatever Roy Jones brings, it won't be enough. I've trained hard. I'm a better fighter.

Stephen Hunter

The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me.

Steve Riddick

I say 'stick around' to people who think Marion Jones is done.

Tim Riordan

Matt Jones at 80 percent is more than many teams can handle. He should be 90 percent next week so things are looking up.

John Harper

Who do we want to take for U.S. history? Mrs. Jones requires a term paper and outside reading. Mrs. Smith you pretty much need a pulse and you'll get by,

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Sandra Goldstein

What have they done there to justify that?

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

Curt Schilling

I'd love to sit here and justify why I should throw more (on Friday). But I can't do that.

Yoshiharu Izumi

This seems to justify the Westinghouse acquisition from a strategic perspective.

Blake Shelton

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

John Casesa

which is a tough number to justify without tangible results.

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

Harold Vogel

The question is, will there be enough new advertisers to justify the cost.

Marcelo Porto

Many are saying that it is the end of their liquidity. But I think they will stay for a while, because there are too many derivatives linked to the receipts.

Shyla Nelson

So in that sense, it's a story that really is vitally linked to a staged situation.

Bret Harte

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

John McGahern

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

Gen. Hermogenes

It is presumed that they have already linked up.

Mike Williams

I think we're always going to be linked together,

Charles Clark

I think it would be very, very surprising if they weren't linked in some way,

Ian Williams

This is an unusual outbreak because it is linked to one source that has nationwide implications,

Jason Miller

1 out of every 3 professionals on the planet is on LinkedIn.

Brady Quinn

We live in a society of social networks, with Twitter pages and Facebook, and that’s fine, but we have contact with our work associates, our family, our friends, and it seems like half the time we are more preoccupied with our phone and other things going on instead of the actual relationships that we have right in front of us. Hopefully, people can learn from this and try to actually help if someone is battling something deeper on the inside than what they are revealing on a day-to-day basis.

David Sedaris

I always used to reach for the cigarette when the phone rang, and I figured nobody would ever call me in Tokyo. The time difference is so profound it's, like, already September in Tokyo, and I figured nobody would be able to work it out.

David Mitchell

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

David Crystal

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

Dave Barry

You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?

Dave Barry

I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

David Murphy

The future of mobile is the future of online. It is how people access online content now.

Byron Katie

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

Chris Black

If someone is interested in working with me, I would much rather them email me and we sit down or get on the phone, than them look at a client list and decide if I'm worth it or not. It should be based on work, and based on how we get along. As opposed to like, "Oh, he's worked with this, this, and this. Let's go. That's fine."

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Patrik Elias

Would we rather play a team with Jagr or without Jagr? Yeah. We'd rather play without Jagr.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Dennis Hastert

Back in 1935, there were 42 workers for every retiree. Today, in regards to Social Security, we only have 3 workers for every retiree.

Kenneth Edmonds

In regards to the play, I'll just keep watching it and go out on the road every now and then to see how it's going and to tweak it to make it better.

Brandon Banks

At this time, we are corroborating witness statements in regards to suspect description.

Sergei Lavrov

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

Charles de Gaulle

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Andy North

We have had a long-standing relationship with UPS. That's not going to change.

Barry Hyman

The P&G story is a lot more significant than just its relationship to P&G.

Richard G. Scott

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Brian Weiss

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Diane von Furstenberg

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

David Sedaris

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

David Thewlis

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Paul McNulty

Ms. Lewinsky's testimony has never been more important than it is now,

Cam Newton

I'm a living testimony that anything is possible.

Christopher Low

It's the same tone that he took in his testimony two weeks ago.

Mark Strand

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Michael Ramsey

The value of the testimony of such witnesses is about zero.