Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Marc Faber

The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.

Danny Peitz

We're not born to be wild, but we want him to take us on a magic carpet ride.

Bubba Sparxxx

Man, I'll tell you as far as creatively speaking man, there is stuff that is unique and different about every person that is born into this world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his comprehension.

Matthew Arnold

Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.

Jose Lagos

Let's not forget who these immigrants are. They work hard, they pay taxes, and many have U.S. born children. It gives them the peace of mind that they can continue to work legally.

Homer Simpson

Let's just say that on this day, a million years ago, a dude was born who most of us think was magic. But others don't, and that's cool. But we're probably right. Amen." - Homer Simpson

Andrew Kreisberg

So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Robert Walpole

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

Robert Walpole

I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.

Robert Walpole

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Kurt Student

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

Derek Harold Richard Barton

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

Jason Statham

So I used to put money in my pocket while working on the street corners, selling perfume and jewelry, and other goods that were supposedly expensive.

Jonathan Coe

So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in history or in British culture or whatever.

Bernard Cornwell

Mind you, even in places where I'm much better known, I walk in anonymity, mainly because folks know authors' names, but not their faces.

Daisy Donovan

Me and my married friends catch ourselves going, 'Oh, thank God we haven't been left on the shelf for ever,' because that is now the ultimate fear.

Nick Hardwick

Neither we nor Jean Charles's family want this complaint to distract us from the main task of finding out how and why Jean Charles died,

Erica Howard

I was fortunate to come from a family that never had those problems. My parents were able to fully support me, and so did Charles Martin. I can't just be here and see what's going on, and not do anything.

Flea

I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

Ronnie Johnson

I got out of town Sunday when the mayor told us to. We tried to get hotel rooms in Lafayette, Lake Charles and even went to Houston. There was nothing. So we've been here for two nights.

Charles de Gaulle

China is a big country with a lot of chinese people living there Former French President Charles De Gaulle

Kim Williams

On any given day one of those three are going to be second. I was real pleased the way Charles Myers ran right with them today. Tim Smith was there too. I hate losing those seniors, but next year we'll have Tim Smith and freshman Steven Reynolds.

Michael Howard

If this government has got an ounce of honor left, Charles Clarke has got to go. There is no excuse for this devastating failure to protect the public.

Michael Howard

If this government has an ounce of honor left, Charles Clarke has to go.

Gwendoline Christie

I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage.

Robert Teeter

The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.

Herb Perone

Life insurance was created to be an instant estate in the event of the premature death of the breadwinner.

Bill Bixby

Luck has created much of what I have today, but at the same time, I haven't sat still.

Jeff Greene

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.

Guru Nanak

Let him exert himself to the utmost in order to increase his property in a righteous manner, and let him zealously give food to all created beings.

Edgar Soto

Losing Veal and Gilbert and not replacing them has created a void, but the pitching rotation is stronger (overall).

John Casesa

Last year was a terrifically strong month, so it was a difficult comparison. Secondly, a lot of the pent up demand, created by the recession, has been satisfied at this point in the economy's expansion.

Mr Sharon

Sharon created a precedent that could lead to a division of Jerusalem,

Patrick Collins

Scott Fawell was Frankenstein for George Ryan. George Ryan created him, George Ryan let him function.

Ricky Ray

Man, did we run the football really well. It all starts up front. They were doing a great job of controlling the line of scrimmage and Troy was doing a good job of making his reads and getting a lot of yardage.

Ricky Ray

Man, did we run the football really well, ... It all starts up front. They were doing a great job of controlling the line of scrimmage and Troy was doing a good job of making his reads and getting a lot of yardage.

Richard Seymour

Make no mistake about it. That wasn't the reason that we lost that football game.

David Wright

Last year we started off pretty horrible and this year we're off to a good start. If this was a football season we'd be sitting pretty right now, but in baseball, we have a long way to go.

Jeff King

Lee said he wants to play in the Football League and I understand that.

John Giles

Selling him to Leeds, not seeing his potential as a midfield player, was my greatest mistake in football.

Youri Djorkaeff

Mo guaranteed me some new players, and a kind of football, more offensive. He didn't guarantee me victory, but to try, it was very important to me.

Chris Connolly

Mt. Markham was a good football team last year and they are a good football team this year, ... I know they lost their big back from last year but this was a good test. Next up is Richfield and they are another good team. They played us tough last year at their place.

Joe King

Me and the team want to win the state championship. We want to go undefeated this year and show the state what Southside football is all about.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Jeff Ulbrich

Last year, we introduced the 3-4, but at the same time, we retained all our 4-3 calls, we practiced them. It was kind of always like, I don't know if it was inevitable, but it kind of seemed like that at times, that we were going to go back.

Agnes Obel

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

Erich Leinsdorf

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Kathryn Lasky

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

John Szabo

What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?

Mike Collins

We just introduced it, and we sold three right away, ... This will become a very big model for us.

Rusty Hardin

We think the video shows a lecture on what their policy is. We would've introduced it if they hadn't.

Mario Batali

I just was introduced to the writings of Lucius Beebe, and I'm going to read him.

Cameron Mackintosh

I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.

Brian Price

Look, we would have loved to have won the ballgame, no question about it,

Robert Krulwich

When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.

W. Hull

I did it because I loved the game.

Susan Castro

I can tell you that she was a very popular teacher, loved by parents and students and staff members.

Mason Cook

If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that.

Jeff Fenech

I would have loved to have been there with Danny, because we planned it for so long, but I'm not, and that's life,

Doc Rivers

I loved it. He was saving his money.

Jill Clayburgh

I loved it, but I really have to come to rehearsal. I had to spend time with the material. I don't know how people do it; it's very complex.

Randy Jackson

I loved every minute of it! Dude, you were the bomb!

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

Kent Mueller

Miller is really a nice quarterback. He really throws a nice ball. And he has some receivers who really went out and made some nice plays.

Brian Oxman

Bradley Miller is a very special patient of yours, isn't he, Dr. Katz?

Jeff Krull

We were trying to get other Herman Miller dealers to bid.

Mark Clarke

It was only $3.99 for 18-packs of Miller Lite so I'll save some money that way,

Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Billy Wilder

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

Elizabeth Hurley

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

Arthur Helps

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

John Wilkinson

If we all work together, we'll have a sustaining mixture for all of us to have.

Adam Savage

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

Stephen Jay Gould

No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament.

Davy Jones

My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.

Annie Besant

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Tyler Oakley

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.

Lilly Singh

I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

Todrick Hall

The number one question I'm asked as a YouTuber every day is, 'How can I get my videos out there; how can I make my videos go viral?'

Shakira

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

Chad Hurley

I basically watch videos online all day long.

Jill Sobule

I was very inspired by the videos of the crowds at the Palin rallies.

Ed Oxenbould

My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just silly situational videos just for our own amusement.

Owen Benjamin

I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.

Ray William Johnson

During my long study sessions in the library, I found myself watching YouTube videos during study breaks.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Virat Kohli

'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.

Bill Hader

'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.

Maisie Williams

When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought, 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun thing to do, just because it's a kind of whole new universe.

Ted Sarandos

Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.

Cristela Alonzo

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

Ron Gardenhire

Have you watched us bunt? Does it look like we have it down now?

Hiroyuki Sanada

I was very comfortable on the set of 'Lost'. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the 'Lost' episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.