Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Kessler

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.

Audrey Hepburn

Let me tell you something, Mister. If I had her money, I'd be richer than she is.' - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Kevin Garnett

makes us, at times, unstoppable because the break is going so fast.

Mary Pearl

Lethal viruses tend to flare up and disappear. The fact that the outbreak is over does not mean we can pretend it's not a problem, or that it's not coming back. But by identifying the link between SARS and the human population, we can take steps to break that link.

John Cleveland

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

Brent Gentry

Last year we had 55 teams, and we're on pace to break 60 teams this year. We have fathers bringing in their sons and daughters to fish. Some of the teams are coming from as far away as Indiana and Missouri.

Mark Shapiro

Last year was a breakout year for him in terms of command. Hopefully he can help us during the year at some point.

Bobby Jones

Lets collide and get it over with. We've had our list of streaks to break and been checking them off. This is our improvised list. Everybody knows what it takes. We're playing the team expected to win the national championship. Either you bring it or you don't.

Cherie Blair

Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children.

Mallory Ortberg

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

Rod Wright

We're not coming out here to just hang with those guys and hopefully we can win the game in the fourth quarter. We want to dominate. That's not been said about USC.

Chipper Jones

We're not coming out here to go home after the first round. That would be a supreme disappointment.

Kurt Melton

We're not coming out at halftime with the intensity we need.

Herman Cain

We're not coming into Virginia to be a one-note Johnny.

E. B. White

We're not coming here with any false illusions.

Leinaala Lopes

We're not coming back until it is safe and secure.

Doug Holmes

Mandatory dues. Not only that, they were coming in there telling me you need to do this, you need to do that.

Susan Cohen

Life is lived in a circle. The dates keep coming back to you. People say, 'Move on.' But that implies a straight road taking you somewhere else. Nothing can take you out of the seasons of the years and the dates that recall your life. And since we were a happy family together, we had many happy days and those days are now sad days.

Alexandra Paul

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Robert Osborne

When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD.

Kurt Browning

Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

Lee Bennett

Maguire answered. That was big. We just didn't make a couple of plays down the stretch. That's the way it goes.

Rick Taylor

Lynn had three crucial hits that led to runs and made a couple of defensive plays that ended Pleasant Hill rallies.

Lanny Wadkins

Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I had Fred Couples and Loren Roberts on my team at Oak Hill, as straight as Loren drives it and as good an iron player as Fred is, my thinking was, if Loren hit off the even tees, he would putt first six times on the front and eight times on the back. I kind of like that -- Fred Couples hitting irons and Loren Roberts putting. That's a helluva combination.

Charley Juris

Last year we had two or three stars ? a couple kids who dominated. This year we have an entire team of 'no stars.' It's really been a major team effort here.

Jon Tremayne

Many of these (outages) are one or two customers, and others are a couple hundred customers.

Frank Robinson

Second pitch. Line drive off the center-field fence. Missed hitting a home run by a couple of feet. Double.

Gregg Bahen

Lucky for us, games are played on the field. It was a physical game and our kids are going to be sore tomorrow, but, without a doubt, they'll be happy tomorrow.

Jena Torres

Let's just say we've had a lot of five-inning games this year.

Matt Hasselbeck

Last year, the first two games we didn't play well offensively. For whatever reason we just hadn't clicked. It will come around. I still feel good about what we have done and where we are at.

Chris Latham

Last year we were losing games out of stupidity, out of our own stupid mistakes; this time we just ran out of legs.

Alex Gardiner

Many of them will be back in 2010. They'll have seen their first Games and they'll be able to perform at a different level.

Mark Mulder

Seven games into the season. Sure, it's not what you expect, but it's seven games into the season. I'm sure nobody's worried. I love our bullpen. I love the way those guys throw and I love the way they go about it. I think they're going to be just fine.

Vince McMahon

send a message to its competitors and get the paranoid mind games advantage.

Jeff Nelson

mind games ... when you retire, you're glad to get rid of that, I'm sure. It can weigh on you.

Kyle Orton

Muhsin played well and made some plays, ... I thought the other receivers played well and (running back Thomas) Jones played really well. Muhsin is a veteran guy who has been there and played in big games before.

Frank Sciolla

Many people were gearing up for a run toward next year. There's no guarantees of next year. We have to do it this year.

John Hughs

Maybe when we get back after Thanksgiving we will get our first pull back or some sort of consolidation before we gear up for a year end rally,

Tom Massey

NonStop is big iron and more geared to larger operators. Linux and Unix platforms scale down much better, and operators often prefer them because they are not knowledgeable about NonStop.

Brooke Correia

New memberships in the month of January are at their highest number. The whole industry gears up for it.

Marco Polo

Getting all of our gear was pretty cool. We got 20 shirts and just a ton of stuff.

John Travolta

I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

Jim Tracy

Oliver knows how to gear himself up for situations. But, while he was gearing up, he was maintaining his focus.

Mike Machowsky

She always had talent, but mentally ... she would get geared up and wound up.

Norman Cook

I didn't really get into second gear until I was 30. My first wife was a nurse and she was very anti. I never really started caning it until 1990, when I was 29. I had to make up for being a late starter. It wasn't self-destruction - I was having fun. There was never any reason to stop doing it, because it was fun. It makes it much harder to give up. It wasn't even starting to hurt.

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.

Raja Bell

We're not doing anything different. Guys understand that if it's going to be a week or a month, we're going to have to pick it up without him.

Pat Carroll

Let's rock the Capitol. Don't let these guys sneak back into town.

Mike Santiago

Leon is the starting quarterback for the Nicholls State game. Just like all the guys know, it is one day at a time. We have a lot of competition. You got to hold that spot.

S. Walker

Losing to those guys is always the worst. It's terrible.

Jose Guillen

Lots of times, you really need guys for motivation, guys trying to help your teammates. Lots of times, you see a lot of guys, they don't really care.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jim Grobe

Last year was just one of those years when we didn't have a lot of old guys - and I'm talking about seniors in that mix. And some of the young guys, quite frankly, I don't think were tough enough to play.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Dusty Baker

Scott Eyre is a fun-loving guy, but the rest of the guys, especially the new guys we've got, they are all business.

Edmund Phelps

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

Dave Morris

My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.

Robert Mintz

Obviously they are taking a look at the evidence. They must be heavy into deliberations.

Samuel Coleridge

When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.

Shameik Moore

I have a lot of friends who are in love the '90s. Girls, boys. '90s music? That's Tupac. That's Biggie. That's TLC. That's Aaliyah. I still listen to Aaliyah. I still listen to Tupac and Biggie. There's people who are really heavy on that culture.

Chris Evans

I have a pretty fast metabolism, so I don't really have to worry about getting pudgy. What I try to do when I'm working out is taking in a lot of heavy protein - clean chicken, clean meats.

Bill Clinton

I have apologized to the American people for what I did wrong, and most Americans think I paid a pretty heavy price.

Roger Clemens

We played with heavy hearts, ... I don't know if I could've done what Paul O'Neill did.

Adrian Smith

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

Aaron Paul

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

Arthur Erickson

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

Barbara Kingsolver

Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

H. Hart

What we have here in Idaho is so precious. I don't think we have the same interests at all.

Douglas Coupland

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

Andy Stern

Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies.

Art Larson

Our target market for this project is Idaho and the Pacific Northwest.

Barbara Harris

Statewide, Idaho is 44th in income. Women are 50th. Idaho women are sitting on the bottom.

Barbara Harris

Statewide, Idaho is 44th in income, ... Women are 50th. Idaho women are sitting on the bottom.

Dave Ramsey

Let some one else take the butt kicking on devaluation.

Kathleen Clark

Let the voters know. If they don't like it, they can kick him out.

James Corden

Louis Tomlinson, who is a member of One Direction, his mum was a chaperone on 'Fat Friends.' So Louis used to come to the set with his mum, and since I was the only sort of young person around, we would kick a football around, things like that.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Greg Owens

One of those things where it just kicks you in the teeth.

Tom Wopat

No, I kick Jim's (expletive). ... He's a terrific actor and wonderful singer, but I think that the musical stuff was maybe better served by me.

Kristy Curry

Obviously, I needed to kick and scream and yell tonight. If that's what it takes, that's how I'll be. I want to be all I can be for them.

Pat Croce

I feel like I got kicked in the stomach.

Neil Dougherty

When things are going well he's patting someone on the butt. And when they aren't going well, he is kicking them there.

Greg Owens

One of those things where it just kicks you in the teeth.

Reid Scott

If I'm not barefoot, you'll probably find me with a pair of New Balance on. And I'm not one of those hipster-jump-on-the-band-wagon-ironically-cool NB fans. I've been rocking those kicks since they were true nerd shoes. Since the '80s, yo! Word.

A. Hodge

We'll never be a team that kicks away from anybody.

Behati Prinsloo

I try to do Pilates when I can all year around and I also like to swim a lot. I also have a trainer that kicks my butt when it's needed.

Matthew Warchus

We tried to use the technology kind of like a turbo-engine that kicks in from time to time. But the style of the production had to be more organic, human, always referring to the natural world.

Leon Washington

We don't make kicks down here in Miami. I don't know what it is. Somebody put something on us.

Aeschylus

Do not kick against the pricks.

Michaela McManus

I'm sort of like the kid that kicks around in Vans, beat-up Converse, ripped jeans, and t-shirts.

John Benedetto

We don't play him much defensively because he's such a threat on offense. Plus, he returns kicks for us. We use him where he's best, and that's at the receiver position.

John Cornforth

Liam needs competitive matches and this will do him a world of good.

Yurii Pidopryhora

One theoretical model shows that young stars could power an outflow that matches what we see very closely.

Mark Johnson

Whenever you win two Big Ten matches on the road, no matter who it is you're up against, you have to feel pretty good.

Song Zhenhua

If a scent sent to us matches with any sample from our bank, then we have a clue.

Nadia Petrova

She had me running around so much. She was playing so well out there. We always seem to have matches like these.

Mary Christensen

Six matches in one week ... that's a lot. We are so tired. I'm exhausted.

Scott Harris

Those were pivotal matches for us. Zach won in straight sets.

Chuck Michaelson

The pins killed us. When we're in those matches and go to being pinned ... that killed (us).

Bobbi Brown

Nobody is the color of translucent powder. Instead, choose a powder that matches your skin tone.

Grover Norquist

Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.

Eric Betzig

Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there's always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you're motivated enough.

Ed Rendell

Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.

Rob Childress

When A&M and Texas play, it's on. We're not going to have any trouble being motivated for the series.

Abby Wambach

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

Dominika Cibulkova

When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I really wanted to make it.

Byron Katie

I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

Bobby Sherman

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

John Anderson

He is very motivated for his players' welfare.

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, it was a different scenario than we've played under recently.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

Rafael Nadal

For sure I didn't play 100 percent. But he played very good, too.

Roberto Luongo

From my standpoint it's disappointing. I think I could have played a little better.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Danny Wuerffel

If anybody's willing to schedule us, we're willing to play.

Brad Harman

I feel we're about where we should be. This year's non-district schedule is about as tough as we've ever played.

Teemu Selanne

This schedule is unbelievable. I don't know what kind of Superman you have to be to stay healthy.

Allard Beutel

We know there is going to be a schedule impact, ... We don't know what that's going to be yet.

Bryan Ferry

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Ato Boldon

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Mark Few

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

Nathan Fennell

We're going to play a rougher schedule this year than we have for many years.

Gerald Anderson

Now our team is back to where we want it to be. We should have success like we were having at the start of the season when we were all healthy.

Russ Witzig

I can't say enough about Brandon. He wrestled really well today, and all season long.

Keith Willis

on paper, we'll be okay, but we can't play the season on paper.

Dan Grunfeld

If we keep working, anything can happen. We want to be in New York and we're going to try to make that happen. The season is still going. That's the important part.

Cate Blanchett

I look forward to the holiday season every year.

Penny Hardaway

I feel great. I can't wait for the season to start.

W. S. Gilbert

She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.

Steve Spurrier

Six and five, ... We thought 6-5 would be a wonderful season for this team.

Andrew Strauss

If we can get 370-plus I think we are very much in the game. I think there will be a result. If we keep working as we have done all season I think we can win it.

Charles Spurgeon

I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. But I always get back again by this-I know that I trust Christ. I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him. But if He does not, I shall not. Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it. And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it.

Charles Olson

The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.

Dean Young

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

Edgar Allan Poe

...the sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self...

Ozzie Guillen

I did it because we had a bullfight one day, and I didn't want to go to spring training. I got all the excuses.

Ben Jonson

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

Ben Jonson

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Elizabeth Bowen

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

John Batina

We've been doing that for two weeks now.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Bob Holthus

When you put up a million-dollar purse, naturally, you're going to try to win it.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Robert Wilson

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

Malcolm McDowell

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Jorge Cruz

We're not doing anything bad. We just need the work.

Adoniram Judson

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Kathryn Minshew

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Kathryn Bigelow

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.