Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Allen

We have no reason to believe there is any other usage among fire personnel,

Saleem Altaf

We have no problems if Australia or New Zealand or both combined want to bid for the tournament. We are confident about our bid given the huge commercial market for the sport in this region and the overwhelming interest it evokes among the people.

Michael Dell

We have some big plans for our growth here. In the last three years, our business outside the U.S. has grown from $12 billion to $22 billion with countries like India being among the fastest-growing markets for us.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They're attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That's certainly physics, but it's a kind of physics that is not yet testable.

Dan Peters

We want landowners to know they have choice when they are approached to lease their mineral rights. There is a difference among the independents and we want the communities where we operate to know that we have their best interests at heart. We always try to do the right thing for landowners and their property, drill safely and efficiently, and clean up the well site area once we've completed.

Mo Mowlam

We have had 30 years of murders and I think that what we need to do in the next 24 hours is show a determination among all parties to make sure we see no more.

Tim Murtaugh

The fact is, under his influence, Richmond had among the highest crime rates in the commonwealth, the schools were consistently ranked near the bottom statewide, and people paid more in taxes.

Fran Miller

There is a lot of depression and anxiety among children. This is a generation that is growing up without the emotional support, love and care of the family.

Janet Harris

There is a little bit of shell shock that's going on among donors. The tsunami got a huge response. . . . Katrina got a huge response, and I think that people are a little caught off guard by this one.

Chris Nelson

We want to push on with the issues that came up in the campaign.

Mike Bellotti

We have to find ways to utilize James Finley and find ways to do a better job of integrating Cameron Colvin into the offense.

Stephen Murphy

We have no idea who were coming over. There was no screening done by immigration authorities before these people came into the United States. There could have been drug dealers, terrorists and God knows who coming in those boats, cars and trains.

Brooke Adams

We have no clue where they came from, ... We don't know if someone raised them and let them go or they got loose. We just don't know.

Jim Tracy

What the schedule says is what you do. I think we came out of it pretty good, all things considered.

Jeremy Kendle

Whenever we needed something Antonio came up big. He really stepped up and picked up the team tonight.

George Porritt

Whenever we needed a big run, Anthony came through. His explosiveness is what sets him apart. His first step is fast.

Lincoln Phillips

Whenever these guys come back they always get into a fete match situation but now they have something solid to look forward to and they all came out this time.

Jarvis Herring

When he got hurt, I was devastated. I played in a daze for awhile. But when he came out of the tunnel on crutches and started cheering for us, it snapped me out of it. That's how much he means.

Carol Leifer

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

Carol Moseley Braun

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Vorderman

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Carol Vorderman

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

Carlos Mencia

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

Carlos Fuentes

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

Carlos Fuentes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Carlos Castaneda

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

Carl Andre

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

Carlos Boozer

I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings,

Carlos Castaneda

"Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world," the emissary said, "and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to them by us. Our world is connected to yours by a door called dreams. We know how to go through that door, but men don't. They have to learn it."

Carlos Castaneda

Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands.

Carlos Castaneda

Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.

Carlos Castaneda

In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two we would provide ourselves with enough energy to ... catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe."

Carlos Castaneda

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.

C. S. Lewis

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.

C. S. Lewis

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

C. S. Lewis

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

Bram Stoker

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

Alan Rickman

Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Al Pacino

I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

Edward Gibbon

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

Edmond H. Fischer

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

Edith Piaf

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

David Adams

Many of the folks that settled this region were from Alabama, escaping the excesses of Reconstruction.

Anton Chekhov

Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

Carlos Ghosn

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

Carlos Fuentes

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

Carlos Castaneda

Crows are not always available to give warning.

Carlos Castaneda

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Carl Andre

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

C. S. Lewis

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

C. S. Lewis

Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

Agnes Martin

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

Ashley Scott

I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

Jamie Foxx

With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Elizabeth Taylor

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

Aristotle

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

Beth Murrin

She's really motivated by the team format, and that makes her so much more valuable on her high school team. I think her gymnastics peak in time for the high school season. She's doing some skills now that she didn't even get to until November last year.

Bela Karolyi

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

Bela Karolyi

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

Bela Karolyi

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Masha Lipman

(Motherland's policies) are very, very popular with the Russian people.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Todd Young

We're getting in their face. And I'm sure it's not very popular with management.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Baruch Spinoza

Popular religion may be summed up as a respect for Ecclesiastes

Janie Allen

Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

Elliott Abrams

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

bell hooks

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

Brian Billick

The observation of this team being soft is conjecture. I know our training regimen has been sound.

Donald Rumsfeld

The remnants of the regime are going to school on us,

David Bloom

What everyone is worried about is the whole regime will disappear.

River Phoenix

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

Tony Blair

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

Carol Mann

[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.

Carol Mann

[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

Carlos Delgado

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.

Carl Everett

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Agnes Smedley

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

Aaron Tveit

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Alan Thicke

My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.

Alan Thicke

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

Alan Shepard

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Eckhart Tolle

Presence is a state of inner spaciousness

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Antonio Gramsci

Every State is a dictatorship.

Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

Toby Dawson

We are here representing the United States. The whole world is watching us.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.