Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Eid Kabalu

We have no confirmation (of their presence in Mindanao). As far as the MILF is concerned, there have been no sightings. We have no personal knowledge that they are here,

Steve Howard

Whenever they focus on risk, the Houston region will fare well.

Greg Gilchrist

When you're winning, you don't have to make excuses, or when you're losing, you shouldn't come up with any, either. As far as I'm concerned, we just got outrun today.

William H. Macy

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

Bob Grantham

We want our property tax rates lowered significantly and substantially and meaningfully. So far we have not seen anything in that direction.

David Jones

We want it (the fire) far enough out and in an open spot.

Mats Sundin

We were back on our heels far too much.

Tony Woody

We were a step late all night long. We did not do a good job of matching their intensity. They played hard. They played like a team that wanted to go a little farther (in the playoffs).

Stephen Ryan

We have had 6,000 hits in the first 24 hours,

Victor Lazarovici

The real impact of what we've seen in the first quarter will hit the second-quarter results, from the increasing momentum of the metal price.

Josh Smith

When I've had to score, if they leave me open, I'm going to try to make them pay by hitting the jump shot like I did tonight.

Larry Wall

When Ivan hit last year, it passed over 150 platforms.

Craig Barlow

When it was in the air, I never thought of it going in. I just knew I'd hit it good.

Tom Seaver

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

Kelly Hawthorne

We know if we pass it out they can hit the shots.

Jim Tracy

We know he's very capable. He has the pitches to get major-league hitters out.

Brad Lidge

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

Edward Hirsch

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

Oliver Luck

From this day forward, the Houston 1836 logo will be a symbol of a hardworking team. This is a team for Houston. If you live in Houston, you must like it here. If you like Houston, come out and support another Houston franchise.

Ray Stone

We pre-positioned about 60, some in Houston and some in Atlanta, so we could set up a storm office as it unfolded and move the others in quickly.

Bill White

Hurricane Rita is dangerous, and Houston is well-prepared,

Roger Clemens

When I tried the sandwich, I had to invest with Nolan Ryan in the Houston market.

David Foster

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

Conan O'Brien

A store in Houston is selling Donald Trump piñatas filled with candy. So finally something good is going to come out of Donald Trump.

Chase Utley

We knew Houston had lost today. We wanted to get it, and somehow we did.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Marjorie Gubelmann

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

Donald Sterling

When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.

Katrina Kelner

We were already worried about the 2004 paper and this doesn't make us any less worried.

John Landgraf

There is a lot less overt bigotry in America.

Celso Senise

There is a lot less money for high-risk investments and no liquidity. The polls are not enough.

J. C. Watts

The popular things become more popular and the less-popular things get less popular.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Dan Savage

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

Raymond Domenech

We have reviewed the tape of the match and there were many situations in which we looked anything but comfortable. They put us under a lot of pressure and we were lucky to win.

Gail Simmons

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

Eric Rignot

We did not look at one or two glaciers. We looked at all of them.

David Strathairn

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

David Parry

We stopped for some plays that weren't worthy of being looked at.

Herb Trimpe

When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Jason Terry

When I looked at the mistakes I made in the playoffs, it was more because I was indecisive. This year, I'll be more deliberate, more assertive.

Dustin Moskovitz

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

C. S. Lewis

Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

C. S. Lewis

I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion.

Kelli White

We want people to think about today and tomorrow. It looks like you are.

Aaron Siskind

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

Alan K. Simpson

I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

Charles Spurgeon

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

David Quarmby

We've seen at least three theatres in difficulties and it looks as if they're closed, West End theatres. We've seen restaurants and pubs and all sort of visitor attractions 20 or 30 percent down.

Brian Eno

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them,

Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Jamie Wyeth

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

Jamie Wyeth

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

Jamaal Magloire

Portland has a lot of talent on their team. Their talent speaks more than their record.

Elizabeth Banks

Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.

Robert Brady

More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!