Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin McGuinness

We have not accepted the document as a basis for negotiation, and we intend going to the talks to oppose the document.

Nick Russo

We want people to understand this deadline is for new disaster applications. If they have already applied, their cases will continue to be processed. New applications will not be accepted after the March 11, 2006, deadline.

Emilio Butragueno

We have received two bids from England, one of which has been accepted already. The other will be discussed by the directors today,

Erin Traudt

There is no doubt that software as a service has become a driving force within the software industry. Indications are that customer adoption will continue over the next five years and spending will remain on the rise. The software industry must adopt a new frame of reference for value creation. Software as a service delivery is at the forefront of this trend, and adoption will grow as more customers experience software as a service and the offerings mature, becoming more readily accepted and available in the market.

Rory Bremner

When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.

Thom Gunn

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

Sherri Shepherd

Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn't have a place to live, I still didn't have a car, but I had peace.

Stanley B. Prusiner

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms.

Tawni O'Dell

I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.

Larry Wall

Mr. Campbell paints a very rosy picture. It sounds too good to be true because it is too good to be true.

Matt Link

I can't fault my defense for that. Campbell just scored on shear strength, size and determination.

Bobby April

The only thing I was concerned about is it looked to me from the sideline like (Thomas) might have chopped Mark Campbell to cause the pileup, which is illegal. If he didn't do that, then the kid made a great play.

Marilyn Brewer

John Campbell refuses to stand in front of the very people whose vote he wants,

Sven Eriksson

I talked to Sol Campbell and he wants to be at the World Cup, that's for sure.

Tom Owens

God took her out of the misery. David Campbell exposed it for what it was.

Debbie Williams

We made some adjustments at the half and started running our offense. Campbell played hard and showed a lot of heart. They had nothing to lose. We knew it was going to be a tough game and that they live and die by the 3-point shot.

Curtis Higgins

We sure do hope to see Fort Campbell again. I just mentioned that to my kids -- if they're No. 1, we're No. 1-and-a-half, and we hope to see them again. It will mean more next time.

Rusty Granacker

Some of the younger guys like (freshmen) Mike Campbell and Jeff Gabriel really stepped up today and filled in nicely. I don't mind so much that we take penalties because we have good penalty killers.

Derrick Jensen

I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

Joseph Wu

China's move showed serious disrespect for Taiwan. The two sides haven't started negotiations on the panda offer but China, through propaganda manipulation, made it seem like Taiwan is sure to receive the gift.

Ozzie Guillen

I don't disrespect anybody. I want to make that clear. I'm not going to the White House because my kids are more important than anything in my life.

DeShawn Stevenson

No disrespect to Toronto, but you have to win these type of games.

Jason Richardson

No disrespect to the point guards who were here in the past, but Baron's the type of point guard that makes everybody better. He gets in the lane and just finds guys. I been waiting for a guy like him to come and he took my game to another level.

David Healy

No disrespect to Sammy, but we've made progress from day one when Lawrie took the job,

Chauncey Billups

No disrespect to anybody, but it's always fun to play the other elite teams in the league. It makes a difference.

Fred G. Gosman

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.

Kenny Guinn

To me, that is showing disrespect to the people of Nevada and disrespect to the first lady's position.

Julie Vallese

What the rule proposes to do is limit the spread and intensity of a mattress fire, which would give people more time to escape from their homes.

Herb Stratford

We want people to come into this room, into the auditorium, and we want them to escape and forget it's 2006.

Elizabeth Hand

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.

Mike Greene

We are talking about people plotting to escape from a sheriff department, plotting to kill witnesses. We take this very seriously,

Armando Padilla

We always escape with a victory. But it's just always been tough to go over there.

Frank Roder

We're not doing it to escape anything. We're doing it to help kids.

Alex Hernandez

But at the same time, I realize how lucky we were to escape with a tie. John made some big-time saves or else we would have been 0-1.

Rene Saguisag

Now that they are free men, if they have really escaped as the military claims, then the more they should be able to communicate with us with ease.

John McKay

No coach, no matter how successful, ever completely escapes the pressure of winning.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Tracy Morgan

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

Erin Cahill

I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

Khloe Kardashian

When you're at a lunch, enjoy being - I'm always on my phone when I'm at lunch or with things here or there. I've learned to put the phone down and be present.

Juan Pablo Galavis

I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

King Bach

I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story.

Junior Seau

From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised.

Laila Ali

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

David Tibbs

We have so many weapons we don't have enough footballs. But the thing I was proud of is that we weren't selfish.

Mike Roberts

We were as proud as we could be with the young man.

Alan Sugar

Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.

David Krumholtz

I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor.

Catherine Ashton

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Jason Bay

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American.

Charles Baudelaire

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

Vickie Simmons

We are proud we can give teachers the kind of salary we do.

Justin Glover

We are proud of the improvements that we have made since 2004. We are going to keep striving to do better.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Frank Vargo

We've seen this movie before. What Treasury is saying is pretty much of a rerun of what it said back in May.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Chad Caldwell

We're saying (this) is a lockout because of retaliation over that no-layoff arbitration that we won.

Richard Cate

We're saying if you've demonstrated success, you don't have to do as much paperwork.

Bruce Larner

We've tried to tone it down as much as possible. But every time you turn around, someone's saying something else about it.

Daniel Handler

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Raymond James

What they're saying is the conventional firms are waiting too long,

Charles Dickens

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Jandy Nelson

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Chris Abani

If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

Juvenal

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

Catherynne M. Valente

I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

Carl Jung

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

Carlos Mencia

Dee Dee Dee dosen't mean mentally retarded. It means stupid. This song goes out to all the stupid people out there. Your gonna find this song hilarious, and you don't even know it's about you.

C. S. Lewis

[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.

C. S. Lewis

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

C. S. Lewis

He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!

Agnetha Faltskog

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

Aaron Tveit

Basically, I didn't want to sing anything for the sake of singing it. There were some songs where I really wailed, but because it's such an intimate space anything I chose to sing simply to make sound was going to come off an inauthentic. So I was really happy with where it landed - every song I sang, I loved for one reason or another. I didn't have to worry about selling a song.

Alan Lomax

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

Alan Lomax

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

Alan Light

It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.

Dave Calloway

I tell him and Tyler this is it.

Don Lemon

If I had had someone like me who had chosen to live their lives out and proud, there would be no need for the Tyler Clementis of the world.