Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Glaser

We're not being critical. We certainly appreciated the good news and we appreciate what the governor is doing.

Trent Plaisted

Man, he's 7-foot-6. You don't really appreciate it until you see it in person.

Craig Marks

Like healthcare preparedness that preceded it, schools are one of the two 'magic bubbles' where we seem to think our children are somehow divinely protected when we put them on the bus each day. We have infrastructure that is in some cases over 100 years old, and built in a time, and in a manner, for the era when chewing gum was the major crime on campus. Today, we have to appreciate that natural disasters are on the rise, as is crime, in and around school campuses.

Mike Tice

Let's talk about Chicago. It's Friday. It's been a long week, very emotionally drained. I hope you can appreciate that.

Tim Allen

Lower-valued properties appreciate less quickly. Higher-valued properties appreciate more quickly. Someone with a $100,000 home benefits, but someone with a $1 million home benefits more.

Rose Mashigo

Love and appreciate me for me, not through set societal standards.

Rosalind Murray

Less than 10 years ago, Delray was home to several blues and jazz clubs. We thought since we have this brand-new venue, and jazz seems to be a musical voice in the city, we'd try to give the people who appreciate that sort of music a chance to celebrate that music at the library.

M. Wolfe

Many members of our community appreciate the diversity and quality of our offerings and support us by watching, pledging monetary support, donating used vehicles, and volunteering their time,

Steve Kaplan

Many of our cruisers are looking to take a last-minute vacation and appreciate the value available through our last-minute deals. We ensure that we offer high-value vacation options for all cruisers, from luxury travelers to bargain shoppers.

Wally Szczerbiak

We're not doing it. I'm not doing it. We can put forth as much of an effort as we want on defense, but teams who can shoot well are going to score points ? and we've got to execute. We're getting open looks. We're just not making them.

Tom Daschle

makes more explicit the purpose of the effort and ties down what it is we're authorizing the use of force for.

Deron Clark

Lufkin is a tough place to play, much less sweep. I'm very proud of the effort we put out on the field today.

Gerald Henderson

Scott puts a concentrated effort into everything he does. He's going to make things happen there.

Stephen Vizinczey

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

Mark Smith

Moving people out of the shelters and into temporary housing has been a source of frustration for us. It is a monumental effort that FEMA has undertaken, and we understand that effort is going to take time, but we had hoped it would come about quicker than it has.

Paul Day

Mental mistakes absolutely, but I am happy with the effort we are getting. We work so hard, but sometimes in the fourth quarter experience takes over.

Taylor Twellman

My job is to get it on the end. . . . I'm not going to score if my teammates don't get it to me. . . . Jay Heaps played great. (Pat) Noonan played great. It was a solid effort all around.

Miguel de Icaza

.NET was a company-wide branding effort at Microsoft that spanned multiple projects.

Alexandra Paul

I'm very much a lead by example person.

Andrew McCarthy

Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie,

Sven Eriksson

Many times the words I say don't come out in the papers. I could have as many examples as you want.

Scott Lang

one more example of this mayor being out of touch with the neighborhoods.

Tom Megeath

Obviously, we can't go back in time and look at the Trapezium when it was still forming, so we try to find younger examples in the sky.

Ethan Hawke

My grandfather was a great example of his generation,

Mark Fuhrman

Now those are the two--two examples -- pimps, three. They're your third... probably the three most worthless type people in a large city.

Tony Stewart

Now, this year, all it's done is motivate us more. And today is an example of that.

Nora Volkow

One of the most powerful things that makes us feel good is when someone we admire, appreciate, for example, values us.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Alexandra Fuller

Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain

Calvin Coolidge

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Randy Johnson

Obviously, it's a nice honor, but there's a lot of work between now and then.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

Joey Cheek

I feel like I'm not really worthy. It's a wonderful honor, and I'm thrilled that it happened. I really never imagined it would.

Ben Jonson

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Abraham Lincoln

Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.

George Carlin

One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people

Winston Churchill

My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather,

John Shepard

Now that Andrew's over his hamstring injury, it's nice to have him,

Joe Thornton

Obviously it would have been nice to win that game, but we've got to go right back at it (tonight).

Tom Selleck

Obviously, it's one passion of mine. I mean, I don't always want to do westerns, but it's nice to always kind of have one in the works.

Steven Smith

Obviously it's nice to win, but people are in it for the exposure.

Charles Olson

Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?

Diane Lane

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

Diane Kruger

When you are in a relationship, you want the other person to appreciate the things you like. It sounds superficial, but it's nice.