Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Banville

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Brandon Burks

We've shot below 300 the last few rounds. It's just a matter of finding the right guys.

Rep. Bentz

We have had a great deal of Katrina issues. It was a big learning curve for us and people in the utility industry. The most important thing we need to do is ensure people have reliable electric, phone, gas and water services and keep the rates at or below national averages.

Rob Gould

The fact is that since the passage of the Maryland electric industry restructuring law in 1999, BGE residential customers have benefited from a substantially lower rate structure ... well below the market rates paid in other parts of the country. BGE has no choice but to procure power at prevailing market rates. Every dollar deferred is a dollar that might not be invested in infrastructure for the utility.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I have a feeling that there is a gap in the food retail market - a niche below some of the current budget operators such as Aldi and Lidl.

Barry Hyman

The productivity numbers today (Thursday) and tomorrow's (Friday's) report do nothing to support a bullish market. I would be concerned if we saw the unemployment drop below 4 percent because that would show the economy is not slowing down.

Tempestt Bledsoe

'Cosby' opened up so many people's vision to something that they had never seen before or really contemplated before and exposed them to things that were going on that were completely below their radar.

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

J. Hoover

We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time.

Damon Lindelof

Whenever we do a story or we show the monster or we find the hatch, that all has to be consistent with what we know the ending to be. We have a goal that we are working towards.

Dan Hammerschmidt

We were a real explosive offensive team at times last year, but we weren't as consistent as we need to be. I'm hoping our leadership and experience will make us more consistent, everybody buckling down and being tougher.

Chad Fox

We have a young defense, ... Part of that growing up is playing consistent every down. At times, the defense plays stellar, lights out. Other times, it slips here or there and doesn't look so good. We'll get it.

Russ Knocke

The process for sharing this type of specific threat information with state and locals was consistent with protocols for how we share the information and for how that information is vetted by the intelligence community.

Herman Edwards

The problem with that is you've got to win. You can't expect teams to keep losing. There's some teams in the division that are good teams and we can be a good team, too, but we're not playing consistent enough to be a good team.

Terry Francona

As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.

Ted Cruz

If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

Chuck Wilson

We're just trying to be consistent with the little things that we do and continue to try and do them well. Last week I was happy with the fact that we didn't jump offsides and make stupid mistakes.

Maajid Nawaz

I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.

Carre Otis

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

Carlos Castaneda

It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

C. S. Lewis

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

Marjorie Anders

When you're walking from the Broadhurst, those eight minutes make a huge difference. They could be the difference between a hectic end to a night on the town and a leisurely one.

Ritch Price

When you're trying to rebuild a program and gain respect, wins like that give you credibility right out of the gate. It makes a huge difference recruiting-wise. It's not the same old Kansas.

Bill Tribou

We wanted to win and so did they. The difference in the game was the one kid and his speed.

Horace Greeley

We wanted to win and so did they, ... The difference in the game was the one kid and his speed.

Abba Eban

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

Aasif Mandvi

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Polly Lawrence

We were as flat as flat could be. They just didn't give up.

Charlotte Bronte

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Abby Wambach

I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.

Kourtney Kardashian

I think I forget every time - you give birth, and you want your stomach to be flat again. It does take a lot of work, but I usually start slowly by going on walks with the baby.

Alan Bradley

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Lon Carter

West is a heck of a club. They've got very good flat track speed.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Noreena Hertz

Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Michael Brown

We're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.

Warren Shouldice

Personally, it's devastating. The scores were a lot lower than I expected. It was mine for the taking up there. If I had stuck my second jump, I could be up there on the podium.

Carlos Castaneda

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Joe Tereshinski

When your number is called, you've got to be ready. I think I'm ready.

Brian Evans

We've still got to find out the status of the vehicle, the number of individuals who were in each vehicle and whether they are all juveniles.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Rachel Lawson

We have played a number of ranked teams, and they are going to be a tough game, but we are not intimidated.

Jeffrey Carpenter

We've seen this worm spread quickly to a significant number of machines.

Carol Vorderman

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

Carlos Mencia

When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

Carlos Ghosn

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

C. S. Lewis

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

C. S. Lewis

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

Agnes Repplier

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Aaron Stanford

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Alan K. Simpson

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.

Charlotte Bronte

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

Carl Bernstein

In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.

C. S. Lewis

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

Agnes Repplier

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Aasif Mandvi

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

Alan Kay

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

Charlotte Bronte

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

Ricky Gervais

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better

Brian Cox

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.