Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Woods

Make sure that in the event that you do chose to drive-off without paying for gas, you are in violation of Florida law and the state takes that very seriously.

Freddy Shepherd

Scott has been our main target for a while and we are delighted that he has chosen to join us,

Anthony Cordesman

Serving soldiers develop a tremendous sense of obligation to their comrades, and are trained to see the mission through. They know the military and the risk, and they have already chosen to serve their country.

R. Robinson

Maury County has chosen to maintain its unit schools and smaller schools. As a result, it's impossible and not really practical to have the same identical courses at all schools.

John Calipari

My first thought was for him to go overseas, make $5 or $6 million over his career, then come home and do whatever he wants. But he chose the unconventional way, the NBDL, which is hard. But he did it.

Pedro Almodovar

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

John Muir

Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.

Nicholas Burns

One would have hoped that he (Ahmadinejad) might have chosen a speech with more humility, a speech with a greater inclination to compromise. He was quite defiant ... That did not leave a lot of room for compromise, for diplomacy.

Elbert Hubbard

One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.

Wolfgang Bernhard

The problems aren't dissimilar to what I worked on at Chrysler, ... We have to work on our cost-competitiveness, we need to improve our quality, and we need to come up with new and exciting vehicles.

Chuck Hagel

locked into a bogged-down problem, not dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam.

Bill Rees

Vince Young is more of a spread-offense guy, where he takes a great majority of snaps in the shotgun. He is not dissimilar to a number of other quarterbacks who have had great success in that offense and didn't immediately make the transition to taking the snap and dropping back. You saw that last year with Smith.

Mark Haddon

I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being a writer is not dissimilar to being long-term unemployed. And everyone knows that is not good for you.

Richard Long

The numbers weren't too dissimilar to what the market expected.

Tyler Chambliss

(Miller and Bard) are the two higher-ranked pitching prospects in the nation, but I feel like me and Henry and this whole pitching staff can match up just as well if not better. I think we'll match up fine.

Lorde

Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago... they're like rock stars. If there was a 'TMZ' 500 years ago, it would be about, like, Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette and all those people.

Tina Brown

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'

David Tennant

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

Cynthia Ozick

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.

William Shakespeare

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

Toby Shook

Henry Wade did inspire a lot of young lawyers.

William Shakespeare

Lack nothing: be merry. - from Henry IV

George Piggins

Henry is the face. I support him 100 per cent. I hope people listen to what he's saying rather than playing the man.

Zhang Shiping

Mandarin has to be used as the main language, especially at school.

Don Wright

Main Street is really the thing I remember as a child.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Willie Nelson

Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good.

Brian Durocher

Maine is a team that has some talented and strong kids. They play a real solid game.

Miuccia Prada

Lengths are mainly around the knee, but, in the evening, it is really short. So it's mixed up in that way.

Merton Miller

My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.

Carly Rae Jepsen

My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.

Dav Whatmore

Obviously we would try to tie the series tomorrow (Wednesday) and tomorrow's win would be our main objective.

Dina Campeau

There is a problem even getting from Gilroy to Morgan Hill. What people really want is more options because right now we have nothing.

Brandon Roy

There are no Americans or Morgan States in the Pac-10.

David Berry

What it is that makes Morgan Morgan would disappear,

Guy Moszkowski

Warburg has been taken by surprise by the strength of Morgan Stanley, Merrill and Goldman in M&A underwriting in Europe.

David Hendler

Merrill saw the most pickup in traditional retail. Morgan Stanley still seems like the problem child.

Steve Gordon

That's what we were saying all year, we wanted a shot at Morgan to see what they had.

Yoda

Luke: What's in there? Yoda: Only what you take with you.

Robin Wright

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

Dennis Quaid

Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything.

Simon Power

Movies rated 'R' are supposed to be banned, yet there are hundreds of them on the list.

Bob Greenly

Movies have always been sold in a subscription environment, starting all the way back with premium television. Music tends to be in the background, where movies are different: You stop and watch them.

Allison Anders

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

Gia Coppola

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

Frank Spotnitz

Movies and television shows are two completely different species,

Dan Jones

Movies and kids, they are just part of your life. I don't even want to say it's hard, because it really isn't.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Pearl Cleage

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Dean Koontz

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Howard Bloom

Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.

Helen Vendler

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Djuna Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

James Lovegrove

The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

David Gerrold

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

Evan Esar

The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.

Flannery O'Connor

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

Evelyn Underhill

You don't have to be peculiar to find God,

Karl Dorrell

Make one or two more plays than they do.

Terry Teachout

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

Bret Bielema

Obviously, you've seen him make plays out there. He's going to make some for them (opponents), unfortunately. We're trying to get those out of his system.

Jeff Banks

We had backups ready to go. We charted his plays to see how many times he touched the ball, worried about overusing him.

Alex Barashkoff

I don't think he was rattled. Big plays come with more experience. We're a young team and we need to get better.

Augie Garrido

If we play our best, and the other team plays its best, and they win, then congratulations to them.

Plaxico Burress

I make those plays every day in practice. I just didn't make it.

Jason Richardson

I'm a jumper, he's a passer. So there's going to be some spectacular plays going on.

Michele Jackson

She understands that if she plays well, this team plays well. Defensively, she buckled down and the rest of them followed.

Jim Kerr

She's a leader, and she doesn't have to say much to be one. She's been selected as our teammate of the year for several years, and that's something that's voted on by the players.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Nate Robinson

The whole time from when I was selected for it, I've been watching film of Spud Webb.

Dan Wakefield

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Baltasar Gracian

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Chris Faidley

I know how to say 'faster' and 'defend' in Bosnian, Spanish and Creole.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Oscar Wilde

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Charles de Lint

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?

David Harvey

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

Erich Fromm

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

H. P. Lovecraft

The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.

Paul Cezanne

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

Paul Cezanne

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

Oscar Wilde

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

Michael Crichton

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

Oswald Chambers

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Henry Rollins

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.

Suzanne Collins

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Timothy Simons

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.