Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Casey

We spent millions on this. The taxpayers trusted us. Bringing people in here who can't see questions our credibility. We need to please the people who sit in the seats.

Thomas Donohue

We have to get over the paranoia and start bringing people to the US.

Brian Nelson

We have no intention of duplicating those efforts. We get incredible content from our partners, but in this case, we are covering largely under-reported stories and bringing them to our audience.

Mark Joseph

We've always had a School Committee member or two on these committees, and I feel very strongly that should continue. We need to know what we're bringing in.

John Tortorella

We're going to miss him. He's a main piece to our puzzle, offensively, defensively, on our power play, all the things. Having said that, we'll hope he comes back but if he doesn't we have to be concerned about bringing someone up and we have to keep on playing.

Gifford Miller

Unless he wants to make Portland the sixth borough, this seems to be the opposite of bringing jobs to middle-class New Yorkers,

Brett Galloway

Working with Intel, Nokia, RIM and others, we are unifying a triad: bringing together wired and wireless networks, voice and data offerings, and industry support for Cisco and partner offerings.

Jeff Kinney

Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!

Ron Holmes

With Nebraska being at the event, it will be tough because they will always be a solid team. They are pretty much bringing the same group they had last year. If we play up to our level, we will play them very closely.

David Seabury

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

Michael Moriarty

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.

Bill Thompson

The people who live there don't consider it a casino. It's a luxurious place to go for an evening out.

Jim Cicconi

The point is the industry itself shouldn't be straddled with constraints that many of our direct competitors don't have. We feel the number 30 percent isn't really justified. It's very, very arbitrary. We consider a number around 40 percent to be more appropriate given the economics in the industry.

Chris Hanson

We usually wait until an athlete's senior year to consider going to Arcadia.

Michelle Clark

We strive for excellence, and we empower women. We consider ourselves the ladies on campus.

Naylond Hayes

When you've been here, and you consider it your house, you're at home.

Grace Morgan

When you usher, you meet a lot of people who are not involved with the theater, but (who still consider it) a very big part of their lives, and love to see the shows,

Laurent Brancowitz

I always considered technical musicianship as something you should be ashamed of - I don't know why.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Alan Watts

Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.

Al Madrigal

You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy.

Chris Colfer

I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

David Sedaris

Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

David Sedaris

If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.

David Krumholtz

I was sent this thing called 10 Things I Hate About You, which I thought was really sweet and female-centric and kind of cute and smart, with a really smart script. So I auditioned for it and got it, and I'm really glad I did, because the movie has a life of its own.

Dave Barry

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

Dave Barry

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Charles Caleb Colton

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Charles Caleb Colton

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

Charles Dickens

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Charles Dickens

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

Charles Simmons

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Charles Stanley

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

Ramakrishna

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Alice Morse Earle

Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.

Walter Kirn

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

Dennis Campbell

We are looking at a variety of forms in which investment could take place. There are no specific items that I'm in a position to discuss.

Andy Serkis

I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

Robert Thompson

When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more.

Li Yuanchao

Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

Vladimir Litvin

Watching how simultaneously statements are made, including at the top level, it can be understood that this is an organized campaign.

Yossi Alpher

We've never encountered this situation before. Everyone, including the U.S., is playing this by ear.

Tawni O'Dell

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Ernest Mandel

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Kevin Lynch

With Typekit, you sign on, you pay a single subscription fee. We're including that as part of Creative Cloud.

Anil Kumar

Most of the victims were local labourers, including women workers with infants and small children.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Chris Colfer

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Chris Colfer

My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

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.

John Whiting

We are aggressively trying to get the word out to parents about how they can tap into this resource.

The Talmud

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

John Banks

Throughout our lives, we were in the system. Our parents weren't stable enough.

Joyce Haldeman

The outcry from the parents was so terrific. Safety issues.

Ronda Reid

We're able to make more successful connections between student sitters and parents.

David Bell

We're a product of our parents, whether we like it or not.

Pete Carroll

We're always worried that the parents are going to be shocked.

Kristen Staab

Yes, she was treated differently. She was treated better by my parents than she's been treated her whole life.

Michael Williams

There is a stereotype to the word travel being somewhat of an all-star team. Why else would parents want to do it?

Alan Watts

You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe.

Alan Moore

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

Edith Wharton

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

Brian Henson

And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up."

Brian Henson

We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and in Aspen, there was a producer from the Edinborough Fringe Festival, who said, "Please come to Edinborough."

Henry Selick

Puppets seem like vampires sometimes. They live, and you're depleted.

Daniel Tosh

You know who likes to get fisted? Sock puppets.

Madeleine Albright

Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.

Bob Balaban

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

Camille Paglia

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

Camille Paglia

Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?

Bo Derek

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

Betty Williams

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

Edward James Olmos

Education is a vacine for violence

Athol Fugard

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

Aasif Mandvi

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Violence recoils on the violent.

Baltasar Gracian

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.