Famous Quotes & Sayings

Humberto Moreira

We want them to get precise, objective information so they can pass it along to their other loved ones.

Dennis Hastert

We know what the writing on the wall is, ... We need to make sure we continue to pay down the debt. That's been one of our objectives all the way along the line. So it's not a retreat at all.

Ben Curtis

We know each other quite well. Our families get along well. When you play with somebody for the first time, you don't know how to react. I've played with Justin quite a few times and you know how he reacts and just go out there and just have fun.

Becky Carroll

Ultimately this bill would mean new roads, new schools and new mass transit along with thousands of new jobs throughout the state.

Luke Bracey

You can make movies and not particularly get along with the people you're working with but, when they say 'Action,' your job is to make it look like you're in love.

Mohsin Hamid

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

Andy Reid

We appreciate all that Corey has done for this organization over the last five years. With the great amount of depth and talent we have along the defensive line, we chose to give Corey and opportunity to sign with another team.

George Fellows

We are proud to expand our support of junior golf by extending our relationship with the Junior World Championships. Our sponsorship of this prestigious event, along with our ongoing support of high school and college programs around the country, further demonstrates our commitment to the players who are the future of this great game.

Richard Waugh

We've all heard horror stories about a proposed concrete barrier about to be dropped in the center lane along Southgate. The center median is necessary, but it won't be the concrete type used in highway construction projects.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.

Charles Caleb Colton

All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.

Alan Hansen

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

Chogyam Trungpa

There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

Diane Setterfield

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

David Morrissey

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

David Nevins

I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points.

Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Leslie Robinson

We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

Alonzo Sledge

We knew they weren't going to go away. They came back from 22 points down at their Regional, so we told our guys not to relax. They did exactly what I thought they would do.

Sasa Cuic

We knew they were going to make a run; we knew it. Their run ended and we look up and they were only up by a few points. And that was all they got. And then we came out and played better.

Brian Curran

We knew they were going to come back. But when they came back, we stopped skating. We had to make a line and we didn't make a line.

Ryan Smith

We knew they were going to be good. But we came in expecting to win.

Maurice Cheeks

We know how these games are. We've been on the other side. We had games we thought we won, and the other team came back. San Antonio had the game won.

Charlie Chaplin

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

Mike Forest

We know we're here to win now, and that's actually great to hear when you're a player who's been around. Everybody in this clubhouse will be disappointed if we're not in the World Series, because we're not rebuilding. We're here to win now, and that's an urgency that feels great.

Chris Williams

Ultimately Health Canada's position on this is compassion clubs are illegal.

David R. Brower

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

Buddy Guy

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

Doug Armstrong

We are pleased to sign Philippe Boucher to a new contract that will keep him with the Dallas Stars for the next three seasons. Philippe has been a consistent performer for our hockey club and we are looking forward to his next three years with our organization.

Mark Knopfler

We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.

Terry Ryan

When you take clubs like Minnesota, Oakland, many of these small-market teams, you're going to have some changeover,

Dierks Bentley

I'm a member of the George Jones fan club, and I'm a member of U2's fan club.

Doug Herzog

We've tried to get some real definitive response out of Dave and have yet to.

Rich Glas

What's special is the great tradition in our program. To be in the same fraternity as Dave Gunther - and surpass him - is simply great.

JoLaine Jones

What's perfect about our relationship is that I've known Dave for two years now, and I've never once been disappointed or felt like he let me down or did something I disapproved of.

Jason Calacanis

For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

Doug Herzog

We have repeatedly tried to get Dave to figure out what he'd like to do with this stuff and it hasn't really gone anywhere.

Curt Schilling

On a personal level, that's not the kind of situation I want to be in, having to relearn someone or have someone learn me at this point in my career. But this is one of those nothing-you-can-do-about-it situations. ... The priority is and the important part is Dave is OK.

Doug Pappas

(Former Tigers pitcher) Dave Mlicki made $6.2 million last year. This year he's making $750,000. Good. The problem isn't that he took a huge cut. The problem is he was never worth $6 million.

Ryan Williams

I think Dave might be able to say something funny about that.

Kevin McClatchy

I think what we need is somebody with Major League managing experience. This is just my opinion and Dave might think differently. And like I've said, it's his choice. But we've gone down the road last time with somebody who didn't have Major League managing experience.

Charles Stross

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

Alan Pardew

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

Alan Pardew

Shut your noise, you old c***!

Alan Page

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

Alan Page

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Alan Hansen

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Alan Hansen

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

Alan Green

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

Alan Green

Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Alexa Von Tobel

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

David Chen

Many of the intermediate materials for nano are toxic, so the question is how you manage that process.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Duncan Sheik

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

Roger Miller

We haven't had as many workers over there. We have a shortage of workers,

John Shanley

There is probably, if anything, a shortage of availability of styles.

Marc Basnight

We've had that shortage for a long time. It's the most important thing before us.

Craig Stevens

A lot of this has to do with speculation that there was going to be a shortage of supply,

Cary Elwes

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

John Eichberger

There's not a shortage of supply. It's a transitional issue.

Michael Davies

There's a freight shortage at the moment. They're going to struggle getting a lot of it over there.

Jeanne Calment

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

Scott Kazmir

I didn't have all my control. I was struggling down in the zone.

Tim Barrett

I think they wore us down. We were struggling getting into our half-court offense.

Errol Alcott

I think he's struggling for this weekend, that's for sure.

James Harrison

We're still struggling to find out how they come up with that number.

Scott Skiles

Well, the team he went to is struggling mightily, I would say.

Tommy Lee Jones

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

John Haddan

We were struggling the first time through the league.

Tay Fisher

We have been struggling away from home. Our home-to-away ratio, wins-wise, it's not real good. But right now it's buckle-down time.

John McCarthy

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.