Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

David Mitchell

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

Michael Moriarty

I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.

Orrin Hatch

The position that you have been nominated for is chief justice of the United States. Do you plan to use that role as a bully pulpit to encourage members of the bar to take seriously their responsibility to undertake pro bono work as you have done throughout your legal career?

Kathleen Blanco

We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what happened to it.

Jim Evans

We've already turned down arbitration. We wish to settle our differences at the bargaining table, and are ready to return to the table to do so.

Ray Corn

We vaulted the best we have vaulted and probably ... had one of the best (floor) performances of the year. The debacle on bars and beam really cost us.

Adam Sieminski

We believe that the oil ministers are inclined to defend a $55 per barrel floor in the near term.

Britani Pittullo

We are going to see if she can come back on bars for the rest of the year. Until then, we're going to really miss her.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Sturt

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Greg Yurek

We're exceeding some of the models from which we worked.

Howard Staunton

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.

Ron Wilson

I thought he could score 40 this year, and now he's there. He's exceeding all my expectations as far as I'm concerned.

Alan Shepherd

We are exceeding our management levels for these two wild horse populations.

Mark E. Smith

The players are exceeding our expectations. The kids are hustling and not getting down if they make a mistake.

Nigel Wright

We are very pleased with how Jeff and his team have gotten off to a running start at Spirit. They are meeting or exceeding our expectations on every metric that we had set out.

James Thurber

seems to be exceeding the quota one or two.

Don Hamson

The thing is, the market keeps expecting it to set new highs. We have had two or three years of exceeding expectations, so you have to keep exceeding it more each year.

Greek proverb

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small

Ricardo Zuniga

We're doing all we can do to facilitate the recovery of the deceased from the city.

Patrick Bradley

We're pleased we can help facilitate the generosity of our customers.

Shimon Peres

We are going to take steps...immediate, unconditional steps -- to facilitate the life of the people in the territories in every possible way.

Tristram Stuart

Food redistribution is economically sensible, ecologically pressing, and socially responsible; it is high time food corporations woke up to it and governments started funding the organisations that facilitate it.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

Forrest Bird

In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

Drew Kesse

If they feel as if they'd like to go on TV and say, hey, they're mistaking me as Jennifer, we'll help to facilitate that. That would be great if she needs, obviously, not to be harassed any longer.

Al Borges

We can always facilitate not having a pure fullback. We'd rather have a guy that can give us the type of productivity that (departed senior) Jake Slaughter did, but if we don't, then we'll go to Plan B.

Navneet Sikera

We have succeeded in identifying some strangers in the wedding clips. Very soon, we will prepare the sketches of such people to facilitate the identification of the suspects.

David Denby

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

Bob Young

Whenever something like that happens, it's always a function of poor organization less than poor talented people.

Artur Schnabel

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

Brian Wilson

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

Brian Kernighan

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

Kate Bush

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

Gary Weiss

Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

Bruce Hyde

We need to make it a more functional area.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Philip Shaw

The PMI is a big upside surprise ... and is at least hinting that services growth stepped up at the end of last year.

Mel Karmazin

We are pleased with the ongoing growth of radio and outdoor (advertising), the television stations and the network.

Charles Lee

Growth is ignited anytime you put in expressways and interchanges. It's a synergistic effect.

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Albert Schweitzer

The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

Juvenal

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

George Jackson

No guidance. Not enough mentors to teach younger people what's right and what's wrong.

Chris Lozier

I'm a little surprised they didn't raise guidance after this kind of a quarter, but I think that's probably just conservatism right now.

Safa Rashtchy

For some reason, people had their hopes much higher than this, especially for the guidance. Everything seems to be in line.

Laura Paro

I have a very experienced defense. I'll be looking for strong senior leadership and guidance back there.

Dalai Lama

Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.

Cindy Shaw

I think investors will be happy with that guidance.

Dennis Hastert

I also think there has to be real guidance, ... So they can rule and tell people and give them guidance before they take a trip about what's right and what's acceptable.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Source Unknown

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Jean Chatzky

Eliminating or substantially lowering just one major monthly expense can give you enough cushion to move into a more comfortable place financially.

Richard Reeves

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

Ed Silliere

Everyone is lowering their expectations for demand. It's taken the urgency out of the market.

J. Taylor

A lowering of tariffs will help. However, it's not the only issue.

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Charles Stanley

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Alan Moore

I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

China Mieville

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

Dave Barry

Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.

Dave Barry

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

Buenaventura Durruti

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Richard Berthelsen

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

Jim Calhoun

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

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Thomas Mars

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

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.

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.