Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

C. S. Lewis

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

Adam Everett

We want to produce as much as anybody else. It gives us a boost, no doubt about it. When we're hitting, there's a lot more pressure on the pitcher. Plus, we're adding on, which is something that we haven't done as much as we'd like to.

Vincent Loporchio

We have seen a growing demand from ... employers, who want to provide their employees with additional assistance both in making investment decisions and allocating their assets to help them be more retirement ready.

Charles Bickers

We have seen a gradual recovery in our commercial airplane business and we have been adding employees where necessary.

Dwight Rawlings

We have to go out and do the things that we do and try to do them well. Battle Mountain's got a good team. They've got the height advantage on us. We're going to have to play well. We're going to have to play good defense. We're going to have to box out. We're going to have to get on the boards, the fundamentals of basketball.

John Knight

We have to go for whatever advantages we can, whatever weaknesses we can spot.

Ellen Johnson

We have to first secure the peace, we have to make our nation secure, people must feel safe and confident, ... That means we have to address the issue of young people particularly, the war-affected youths ? both ex-combatants as well as the victims.

James Foulsham

We have seen a lot of traders buying on pull backs but then taking small profits as the market recovers rather than sitting on their positions waiting for a big market move.

Dan Cavanaugh

We have some backs that are good runners, but our offensive line is really coming on. That was one of our questions coming into the season, and we've got some guys that are really stepping up.

Ken Hitchcock

We want him to want the puck, to skate with the puck and find people open with the puck. Hopefully, he can do it. He's shown flashes where he takes off and goes, and sometimes he backs off and becomes conservative.

Elizabeth Hill

The fact that our budget was balanced on the backs of students should not be celebrated,

Becky Anderson

The problem with the Capitol Theater is it was built for movies, there's no backstage area. Now, all of our backstage, all of our dressing rooms, everything like that will be in the other building. The restrooms will be in the other building, plus the concessions will be there.

James Nesbitt

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

Chuck Long

We want to tailor our offense to our personnel. We have good running backs, and we want to feature those guys, as you saw today. I thought those guys stood out. The running backs did a nice job.

Jeremy Paul

The Plummer boys were the only ones who wanted to try and put the team on their backs at that point.

Laurent Gbagbo

The plotters of yesterday, the plotters of today ... they swim in the water and think we don't see their backs but we see them.

Karen McDougal

When I'm interested in a man I don't tell him outright. Instead I bite my lower lip, look him in the eye and then shyly turn away.

Brad Buckman

We know everybody thinks Illinois will come out of it. Maybe that's a way to sneak up and bite somebody, and we can show the world what we can do.

Kris Carr

When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.

Gail Simmons

There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

Laurie Metcalf

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

Kathryn Lasky

I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet.

Tina Brown

Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.

E. O. Wilson

She'd fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites

Craig Rudolph

Most of the venomous snakes bite pretty readily.

William Shakespeare

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Stuart Gauthier

Fleas actually like warm weather. I don't know that in the summer we'll see a reduction.

Kelley Armstrong

He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.

Samuel Johnson

Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.

Stephen King

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Alan Greenspan

the pressure to enlarge the pool of skilled workers also requires that we strengthen the significant contributions of other types of training and educational programs, especially for those with lesser skills.

Joe Hopkins

What you saw was the lesser of two beatings.

Kaz Matsui

I think it was a meaningful day. Just because he retired, I don't think there's any lesser competition. I just want to be on my toes all the time.

Meg White

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Richard Harris

They often have a lesser curriculum, less challenges, less demands. And it's totally unfair to have these two different systems.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

English 17th Century Proverbs

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.

Jewish Proverb

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

French Proverbs

One may go a long way after one is tired.

English 19th Century Proverbs

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

English 17th Century Proverbs

There is reason in the roasting of eggs.

English 14th Century Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

Scottish Proverb

We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.

English 18th Century Proverbs

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.