Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judy Olson

We have had a limitation on how many people we can take in. We have at least 10 applications for every position we're able to admit into the program.

Suzanne Collins

It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.'

Sarah Monette

Life on Mars would be awesome! Even single-celled life, although I admit that in my heart of hearts, I want it to be the barge-people of the canals.

Tom Bissell

Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other storytelling mediums, and that's when I became more, shall we say, evangelistic in my position. Prior to that, I don't know how enthusiastically I would have admitted that I game.

Trinny Woodall

I would advise women not to be shy about admitting they've had Botox - it just shows you want to look your best, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Peter Lewis

The poor had to deal with charity hospitals. If admitted to these institutions, they were housed and fed, but they also shared beds and germs with all the other diseased patients in their wards, and often received little medical help; if they were refused admission, they suffered and died in the streets.

Jodi Picoult

Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never wanted to actually hear the words out loud, because then you'd have to admit to yourself that you'd wanted proof, and that somehow made you baser, less civilized.

Dawn Medley

Ultimately, we want to know, 'Can a student be successful here? We don't want to admit people who are going to be here one or two semesters and leave.

Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Elias Canetti

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

Joseph Tacopina

She's pretty much totally deaf now. She can't hear me. We have to write things back and forth. Anything I have to communicate with her now has to be written.

William Shakespeare

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Janie Bess

No one told him he had limitations. We just told him he was deaf and blind.

Ed Morgan

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

Jewish Proverb

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.

O. Henry

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Mark Serwotka

When you have a dialogue with the deaf you have to stand up and be counted. My message to the Government is stop this disgraceful butchery of public service jobs.

Brian Richardson

We've been fighting for a long time to strengthen the levees and get full funding for these. Hopefully, it will no longer fall on deaf ears, ... Would the money have saved us? Unfortunately, we'll never know.

Stephen Harper

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

Ivan Radenovic

Whenever we played them, we played well in either the first half or the second half. This time we've got to put it together for 40 minutes if we want to win.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Tim Parmeter

When he gets the opportunity to be in the open court, he's so good with the ball. He makes good plays by either scoring or kicking it out to other people.

Ed Beattie

We were behind, and that forces things to happen. It either makes things better or makes it a little worse, and it made it a little worse tonight.

Brian Norberg

We were an all-zone team early, but we've gone back to a man-to-man late in the season. I feel we can play either one. In the post-season it's nice to be able to fall back on a zone if the man isn't working.

Will Muschamp

We were trying to improve fundamentally. You either take a step forward or a step back every day. You've got 15 opportunities, and we need to get better all 15 times out.

Brandon Farr

We were trying to get some young guys some work, guys who hadn't been getting as many innings on the weekend. So that was the initial plan either way. So it worked out where a guy would struggle, but we had a guy ready to go.

Rod Thorn

We've started looking at other options because players that we may have an interest in are either signing every day or they are about to sign.

Jordan Metzl

We were always encouraged to do whatever it was we wanted to do. There was never a goal that was too high or too crazy.

Uzo Aduba

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Johnny McDaid

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Tom Lantos

(We) strongly encouraged them to understand that in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, the focus of the American people will turn inward,

Lev Yilmaz

We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

Kate Bush

Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

Mahesh Acharya

There is no need to be excited or encouraged by the appeal.

Paul Rice

She always encouraged her kids to do whatever they wanted.

Bertrand Russell

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Billy Collins

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Peter Schuyler

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Bonnie Raitt

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

Rivers Cuomo

I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!

Steve Ross

I think they said they were looking to read the law more aggressively than it has ever been read before. It was a mistake for them to pursue this matter. They ignored the original intent of the statute.

Patterson Hood

Most everything on it is real new. Lord knows I've got a backlog of songs, but when we went into the studio I pretty much ignored it. Everything else we've written since we started recording.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Carl Forti

We have no knowledge who they are, no affiliation.

Ralph Boyd

We have no knowledge of who they are and who they represent, and we have no relationship to that organization in any way, shape, or form,

Agnes Repplier

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

Agnes Repplier

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

Charles Wagner

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Brian Dawkins

The questions you have are the things we just have to go play through,

Scott Anderson

The questions will be, who can have at that resource?

Aaron Miles

There are a lot of questions around here.

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.

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Brian Jacques

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

Jim Loehr

She's going to come out when she's ready, probably sooner than later, and set the world on fire,

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Jacob Tucker

We thought they would get tired sooner or later. We're conditioned real well.

Darrent Williams

We want you to throw at us. Sooner or later, you are going to make a mistake.

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Harish Rawat

I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

Toby Keith

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

Travis Plunkett

What we have right now is exceedingly weak. It's virtually worthless.

Milton Glaser

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

Craig Venter

We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.

Drew Goddard

Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie.

Councilwoman Mackin

I virtually begged for the money. (The project) is really going to be good. I'm thrilled.