Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Sinclair

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

Peter Cardillo

I think the market will continue to trade in a tight range in no-man's land. It's not like we're collapsing but it's just going nowhere.

Sam Bahour

Going cash-only is going to create an environment where less transactions can be done, and lower volumes of goods can be moved. It's one more notch in the collapsing of the economy.

Bob Geldof

The deal could never have happened in the recent crazy market. But in a collapsing market, whole new opportunities present themselves for lean and nimble operators like us.

Jack Straw

We are not proposing economic sanctions at the moment. Mugabe has already imposed the most terrible economic sanctions on his own people by collapsing the Zimbabwean economy.

Kathy Lanter

We want to go to Jill in that situation, but they just did a good job of collapsing on her.

Lee Stempniak

We did a good job with the forwards collapsing down low. But we're not going to win many games scoring one goal.

Larry Shyatt

We knew he wasn't going to get open looks, but once they started collapsing on the big guys, that really opened it up for him on the outside. And he made them pay.

Tim Pease

We have got to get him touches at the basket. Everything we do has to start in his hands. Even when he's not scoring with a drop-step or a hook, people are collapsing on him and that's going to free up Brandon and Gabe for some jump-shot opportunities.

Tom Waits

Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.

Patrick O'Brian

In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

Connie Kelliher

This illustrates why workers are insulted by their take-away contract. Our members generated that profit he's being rewarded for.

Sparky Anderson

They're loyal Royal all the way. But, they're not tough fans, a player does not have to worry about being insulted there.

Chuck James

I've been insulted before, but never like this.

Nick Rhodes

Intelligence can't be insulted.

Johannes Brahms

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

Pierre Corneille

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bo Burnham

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Benjamin Franklin

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Belle Boyd

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Simon McBurney

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Martha Reeves

I will always dance in the street.

Mark Twain

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.