Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Dick Gephardt

President Bush has not yet lived up to his promise to be a reformer with results, ... During the campaign, he said he would fight for bipartisan bills with strong support from all Americans. But instead of putting people first, too often he has put special interests first.

Jim Cooper

Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.

Catherine King

People have less than 24 hours to make submissions on the Telstra privatisation bills -- bills that are fundamental to telecommunication services in country and outer metropolitan areas.

Mark Twain

Such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down on the doctor's bills like everything.

Gabriel Claudio

Such very limited and precious time can be put to much better use by giving priority to pending bills needed and awaited by our people.

James Harris

Some of these guys run up bills in the tens of millions of dollars doing an investigation. They hire accountants, they hire lawyers. It's very expensive.

Doug Smith

Some people are driving longer on tires they would not normally have on the vehicle, paying those energy bills for last winter.

Samuel Simon

Most residential consumers don't spend a lot of time scrutinizing their bills and they don't want to change. The carriers know this.

Debbie Harris

We never toured (together) in the past and I am looking forward to this. I think it's going to be a very powerful show. It's probably one of the most compatible bills that we've ever been on as far as far as music styles.

Dirk Nowitzki

We never make excuses with injures. We would love to have Josh out there. Same with Devin. (But) we should have won the game with the guys that we had.

Ray Allen

I was just off. I'm not going to make any excuses. I just didn't make shots.

Bob Marquardt

I was kind of nervous, especially when they had all that momentum in the fourth. It was kind of shaky there. Rebounding is something where we did not do a good job. There is no excuse for that.

Shay Doron

I was kind of hoping she would get back in there because I didn't want any excuses later.

Elizabeth Ryan

I think it's outrageous. I think they're making excuses so they can keep raising it.

Scott Proctor

It had nothing to do with it. If you execute, you'll get guys out. I felt fine to go today. There's no excuse for not getting it done.

Bill Snyder

I think that's probably the case. But that's an excuse, and I don't mean it to be.

Joe Horn

I think that lingered. I think every week, different guys had different excuses why we were losing. And it happened over and over again.

Roger White

I think Purdue played really well. There weren't any holes in their lineup. It was indoors, it was fast and it was on their home court. All excuses aside, we just couldn't finish the matches.