Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Ortiz

We might experience some kind of unforeseen upsets in repairing the city, but we are hoping to reopen Port Arthur by Friday.

Kenneth Langone

A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.

Fred Thompson

I'd much rather be pitching to Arthur Branch, sitting behind you there, on 'Law and Order,' than you.

Ray Depwe

When Arthur spoke, everyone listened because of the money he had made them before.

Vincent Bugliosi

I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.

Robert Williams

The outstanding challenges associated with managing electronic information assets have the potential to be devastating in terms of professional careers and even corporate reputations. Just look at the impact that deficient records management practices had at Arthur Andersen and Morgan Stanley.

Bradley James

As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.

Bradley James

Because of the nature of King Arthur and the resonance he has, not only with within the U.K., but right around the world, I have found it a huge honour to play the part. I will look back on it very fondly and be very proud to have been King Arthur when I finally hang up the chain mail!

Bradley James

In Merlin, Arthur has a very loyal friend who keeps him on his toes. Arthur enjoys those challenges, and there is a lot of great banter between them. Meanwhile, in Arthur, Merlin has a friend he can really rely on. Merlin knows that when it comes the crunch, Arthur will always do the right thing.

Tom Woodruff

We're not being productive with runners on base. That's the bottom line. When we get runners on base, no one is stepping up and making the big hit for us. That's what you've got to do in close games.

Bob Kirby

Madison looked very comfortable shooting. The bottom line is that if we can get that third wheel in the scorebook each week, we could be tough down the stretch.

Adan Dualle

Let the Government get to the bottom of the matter and leave no stone unturned.

David Yost

Look, these people are not street-level dealers. This is not the bottom of the food chain.

Steven Camarota

Millions of people are going to keep coming every decade unless we restrict it. That's the bottom line.

Skip Rimer

Much of the Midwest is at the bottom of the rankings because the Midwest is heavy in manufacturing, and that sector simply hasn't done well over the years. Manufacturing is seeing some growth but isn't creating jobs like other sectors.

Anonymous Toast

May the ships at sea never be bottoms up

Al Horford

Maybe we don't look like we're tough guys, but the bottom line is we get the job done. I know, Villanova was tough. They were city kids. But we're going to play our game no matter who the other team has.

Tom Kettman

(Media) comparing us to this team and that team, we're not looking into any of that comparison stuff. The bottom line is, we've got to stay focused, keep wrestling the way we've been wrestling all season.

Mike Birbiglia

When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was an intern there.

Stephen Lang

I love the role I'm playing in 'Conan.' I'm enjoying making the film tremendously. It's very physically demanding. You know, Conan is 28 years younger than me and a big dude, so I have to depend upon my wolf-like wiles to defeat this young bull.

Martin Millar

When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

Kofi Annan

Let us remember that every person who is infected, whatever the reason, is a fellow human being with human rights and human needs,

William Blake

Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep.

Robert Browning

Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth

Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, there's an old saying that ""nothing spreads so quickly as a rumor,"" so I thought it was time to speak with you directly, to tell you first hand about our dealings with Iran.

Brian Fritz

One reason we have (etiquette) rules is because some people don't follow them. It's not a huge problem, but it has to be addressed every once in a while out of respect for fellow members and the club.

Don Reed

One thing we all work together on and that is helping our fellow man when needed,

Justin Martin

Monday morning we woke up and it was listing toward the north about 10 or 15 degrees. I figured, before it fell on the two adjacent barns, we better get it down.

Tony Torrez

My helmet, I was being cool. It wasn't strapped on. It fell off.

Daniel Snyder

My father took me to my first game in 1971, and I fell in love with the Redskins and the NFL right then. I was hooked. And we didn't even win that game.

Mark Billingham

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

Christian McKay

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

Cary Fukunaga

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

Tom Bissell

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

Allan Gurganus

When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Annie Baker

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

Julia Glass

I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.

Bob Woods

The story could be set in some fictional place, but it wasn't. They made it personal. They plopped it down in a specific place. People in a small town take a lot of pride in who they are, and that's not who they are. This isn't New York. And then set it in 1963, right? In 1963, they'd make fun of a man if he wore shorts.

Sam Keen

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Mark Geragos

Scott looks forward to finding out who did this,

Cynthia Morgan

Seventy-two percent said they'd use their ex-supervisor as a reference in finding a new job,

Steven Katz

One important finding is that most patients reported that their surgeons recommended the less invasive treatment. Second, patients had substantial involvement in the decision-making process. More patient involvement, though, yielded more mastectomy, not less.

Jim Wooldridge

Obviously, we don't have any momentum going. We're finding ways to lose instead of finding ways to win.

Scott Drew

Obviously with a young team, the more time the better and we don't have a lot of time. It gives us a stepping stone in finding out what we need to improve.

Bruce Dressel

Now that we have a good view of everything of the Loop 101 south, we're finding all kinds of little issues people never called us about.

Mike Frisk

(Neely) has a knack of finding her teammates and also knows when to take it to the hole. She's unselfish and just a tough competitor.

Capt. Solano

Obviously the guns are out there but it's a matter of finding them and getting the right people on the team.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Italo Calvino

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Steve Osburn

Mr. Rader does not see himself as a monster, ... He sees himself as a human being with a monster inside of him.

Lloyd Carr

Max put himself right in the middle of our running back situation.

Granth Sahib

My Lord and Master Himself has saved me completely; I am comforted by meditating on the Lord.

David Overstreet

I can tell him that if he messes up on a play, he can't hold it; he can't think about it. Being a DB, you have to have a short memory because the next play you may come in and get an interception or something. He can't hold that stuff to himself because if he does, it's going to have a snowball effect.

Tony Kelly

getting himself in some trouble! He was gangster!

Lance Reynolds

If a guy's a stud, then he's a stud when he comes home, provided he has enough time to get himself back in shape.

Martha Miles

I was so proud when I saw that. I thought, 'That's how it should be.' That kid the rest of his life will kick himself because he didn't make it.

Philip Ruddock

What it demonstrates to me is that we have been targeted in the past, we remain of interest to terrorist organizations. This may or may not be a real threat, it may well be a hoax but that matter has to be seriously examined.

Ray Kelly

try to ascertain its validity, its seriousness, make sure it wasn't a hoax by one person.

Michael Brenner

To keep up this hoax for two years - I mean, that's probably a 30-hour-a-week job just to do that. It's so elaborate. I mean, it's just crazy.

Michele Bachmann

The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It's all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

Michele Bachmann

All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

John Coleman

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

Mallory Ortberg

Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

P. J. O'Rourke

Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Mark Burnett

I feel like I invented these catchphrases: 'The tribe has spoken.'

Walter Murch

There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

William Kircher

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

Clint Eastwood

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

Tony Hawk

When you've got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available.

Bruce Katz

Long Island is where we invented the modern suburb, and whether Long Island will remake itself for the 21st century, that's the challenge.

Jeremy Corbyn

Some colleagues have said they would not be very keen on working with me, but I am sure these things were said in the heat of the moment.

Virat Kohli

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

Cherie Lunghi

I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

John Buchanan

We were keen to maintain the way we were batting,

Tom Stoppard

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about.

Peter Capaldi

What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views but because people are keen on conflict, so they'll make that the story.

Gerry Eckenrode

This program is all about winning right now. The kids have a keen sense of refusing to lose.

Nathaniel Mason

He has a keen sense of understanding of what we're trying to do in the automotive industry.

Jonathan Powell

Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.

Michael Long

Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.

Angel Guzman

Let's see what happens. Everything is on standby. It's about showing them we are ready -- no matter if it's now, later this season or next year.

Mats Sundin

Milestones you look back on later in your career,

Tad Hutcheson

Maybe we can make it work later on.

James Corden

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

Duane Campbell

Maybe later on in life I will run for the track championship, ... But right now, I just want to race.

Tom Stoppard

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Bob Moore

We won't have anything until later today. I don't think it's career-ending.

Dascha Polanco

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

Michael Keaton

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

Simone Signoret

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

Alan Alda

No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.

Megan Fox

Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.'

Mike Murphy

We played OK -- I thought we were a little sluggish and methodical on offense in the first half. I thought we got out-hustled in the first half.

Beth Henley

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

Charles Beichman

We don't know anything about planets around very young stars because the radial velocity method doesn't work with them,

Charles de Gaulle

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Diana Wynne Jones

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Dorothy Hamill

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Matthew Alexy

It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.

Dr. Fauci

It is unclear whether the mutation occurred in the person or whether it occurred in the chicken.

Al Johnson

There were 39 fatalities in 2005, which was a slight reduction from the 41 fatalities that occurred in 2004 and a 40 percent reduction from 1998's 65 fatalities.

Jess Glynne

I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it's hilarious. I look like a different person.

Becky G

Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.

Norman Reedus

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

Megan Smith

For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.

Craig Fraser

Those photos would make you turn white to look at them,

Mary-Kate Olsen

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

Mark Edwards

That's a little weird to me. Why would you be taking photos if nothing happened? Were they being taken to set up a defense?

Rebekah Brooks

The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Harsha Bhogle

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

David Novak

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

James Rubin

By any rational calculation, Milosevic comes out of this much, much weaker.

Steve Forbes

I like his rational for why I'm not in the White House. I'll take it. It's better than some I've gotten.

Brigitte Boisselier

I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

Van Jones

Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,

Laura Harper

When they were about to say it, I was chanting, ?C. Lang,' with the rest of the team.

Jim Tutwiler

I would be surprised if it stays on the site rest of the day.

Bill Stoneman

I wish he were here with the rest of the guys.

Becky Sarro

She's made some vibes that it isn't something that she wants to do for the rest of her life, so we'll see.

Rex Ryan

If we can do that the rest of the season, that would be super.

Dennis Dacus

If they had (Johnson) it would be them and the rest of us.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Steve Relford

I'd just like for him to suffer for the rest of his life,

David Pogue

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

Bear Grylls

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Jane Austen

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Barbara Kingsolver

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Lord Shaftesbury

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Donald Judd

If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.

Daniel Craig

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

Dylan Moran

I've lived in the UK for longer than I lived in Ireland. I'm not worried about myself, but it's ridiculous for youngsters.

Anais Nin

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

Edie Campbell

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'