Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jedd Gould

We want to try to bring services to our community that would not otherwise be here.

Don Reynolds

We want to take the concept as big as we can. To really ramp the company up and roll it out the way we want to, we really wanted to take some time and bring somebody in of this caliber.

John Shadegg

The other two candidates are good people but neither one of them would bring real reform.

Johnny Davis

The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.

Carl Krauser

The other teams I played on were more keyed in on defense. The defense was going to bring our offense and that was it. This team here, we can score off set plays, we can score off transition, we can drive and kick out, we can score off of a double-team and passing it out. We have a lot of weapons to play with. We're just using them out there and it's helping us score points.

Vikas Khanna

The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table, but also brings the whole world together.

J. M. Roberts

The person who did this to these two needs to pay for it. He will never bring my son back or Sebastian back, but I want justice done.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

Chris Hernandez

The only reason I think about it is that you guys (reporters) bring it up. It's worse if you think about it, so I try not to.

Fred Engh

We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.

Steve McDonald

We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Lucas Till

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

Louis Stokes

There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation.

Lisa Cholodenko

I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas.

Michael Moriarty

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

David Mitchell

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

Peter Hamilton

The poultry market has been incrementally down for a year. There is a lot more chicken than chicken customers.

Billy Jones

The people who worked on the farm, who did not know the child, placed him in the chicken coop and were looking after him and then called the police.

Michael Keaton

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

Marion Nestle

What this does is to turn food into medicine, ... Omega-3's occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?

Ken Howe

When we do our cuts, I still do it the old fashion chicken ways. I put up a list of the guys who are going to continue to practice.

Mary LeBlanc

When we got married, we had nothing. We had no water, no utilities. There were no screens on the house. There were cracks in the floor big enough you could see the chickens walking under the house.

Scott Faber

What he said was incredibly encouraging, but I'm not counting any chickens yet.

Dave Navarro

We're going to have the hottest chicks in Hollywood here,

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Charles Dickens

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Charles Dickens

In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.

Charles Stanley

I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute.

Charles Spurgeon

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

Charles Spurgeon

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

Alan Watts

Billions of years ago you were a big bang. But now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off. And don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

Denis Leary

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

Charlaine Harris

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

Chris Carpenter

When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing happened when I went up to hit.

Jan Brett

When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Jonathan Orr

We're in this together. I'm sure outside sources will point fingers (at the defense). But last year it was a different story, remember? We're a team and that's what this all comes down to.

Chris Kramer

There are only so many fingers we have for the hole in the dike,

George A. Romero

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

Elton John

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

Charles Dickens

You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart. You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child's dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father ,from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear. Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it. " My dear Louisa," said he, you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me, my dear girl.

Charles Dickens

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

Charles Dickens

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs. Boffin, and then to Mr. Boffin. Both understood her instantly, with a more delicate subtlety than much better educated people, whose perception came less directly from the heart, could have brought to bear upon the case.

Charles Dickens

Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her.

Charles Dickens

For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.

Charles Dickens

I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.

Charles Spurgeon

But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.

Alanis Morissette

I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that's exactly what happened.

Alan Watts

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

Chogyam Trungpa

As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

Chinua Achebe

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

Catherine Bell

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff

Will Blalock

We're not going to settle for jump shots because they say they are going to stop it. They still have to stop it. We're going to run our offense.

Bill Russell

A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.

Charles M. Schulz

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

Bill Walton

If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?

Demetri Martin

Jumping jacks are easier to do than crawling jacks.

R. Robinson

We're going to see him take some leaps here.

Elizabeth Bowen

to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

Adam Burish

The promise was I was going to do a Lambeau Leap into the glass, but I got so wrapped up in the moment, I didn't know what I was doing out there.

John Clarke

When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows

Ashton Kutcher

In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.

Will Whitehorn

Putting it in ITAR termsthis is one small step for ITAR, one big leap for Virgin Galactic.

Marc Benioff

It's a big leap for us. We think it will show the world the next step for on-demand computing, just as we showed the world the first step.

Shea Hillenbrand

It was tough at first. It was tough to go out there and trust what I was working on because it takes a leap of faith.

Dick Cook

This was a three-way leap of faith, frankly.

Bon Bean

We're going all the way. It's a done deal. Put 'Gladiators' on the rings and set up the parade.

will.i.am

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

David M. Shoup

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

Steve Stirling

He's a real steady presence, on and off the ice. He has two championship rings and that's impressive.

Richard Grimes

Standing in the ring awaiting the first round to start is not the time to think; I wish I'd trained for this. 

Crystal Robinson

Man, that championship ring is what we play for,

Emanuel Steward

We get into the ring and we say, 'Welcome to big time boxing,'

Tiffany Jackson

Sometimes our doorbell will ring at 1 in the morning.

Alan Faneca

They got the rings and we went home.

Jane Goodall

To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.

Sarah Newton

We didn't want to have them come down to do the work if we weren't sure we would be able to save the building.

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

Nina Garcia

If my closet were burning, it'd be my collection of jackets I would save - they always make me feel pulled-together.

George Foreman

The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything.

Coolio

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

Joseph Roth

You do a little, we do a little, we all save a lot.

Adrian Rogers

You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.

Patrick Ness

We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Ai Weiwei

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Bill Richardson

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

Beyonce Knowles

That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love.

Deepak Chopra

There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

Edward Gibbon

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

Edward Gibbon

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Ed Sheeran

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Matt Lauer

Making sure you're on the straight and narrow?

Douglas Alexander

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

Kathleen McCarthy

When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look voluminous.

Ang Lee

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Pierce Brosnan

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Rochelle Cancienne

We can't get a straight answer. There's just a lot of unknowns right now.

Ron Polk

A lot of things need to go right to win 14 straight times. But I think a lot of it isn't because we've been lucky. A lot of it has been because we've been pretty good.

James Harrison

Superman ain't got nothing on me, ... Kryptonite? C'mon now.

Bobby Johnson

He can do some Superman stuff. I'd like to see it.

Ashley Boehnel

She's a big girl. She's tall and very, very strong. She was very physical.

Kevin Estes

I'm always a little worried when we play teams that are taller than us.

Greg Long

We all had a go and we probably surfed the tallest waves of our lives.

Adam Baker

They're tall ... real tall. And real pretty.

Eric Osmundson

That's why they're top Division-I athletes. They get the fastest, quickest, tallest players.

Tom Thomson

Even with 'stealth' it's still a tall pole,

Peter Falk

Usually, I get hired because I`m tall.

Scott Westerfeld

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

William Golding

You'll get back to where you came from.