Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernie Accorsi

If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated.

Ernie Accorsi

We are not going to pick a linebacker just to pick a linebacker. That is just not going to happen. We are going to pick a player that is decidedly higher rated. We have options.

Chang-Rae Lee

Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writing in pajama-like clothing, which eases and relaxes me and allows me to connect with the decidedly improper.

Geoff Ogilvy

With three or four holes to play, it looked decidedly unfavorable for us. But Justin made a massive par on 17, and then on 18 we got it down.

Graham Joyce

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

Albert Murray

Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.

Caroline Leavitt

By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.

Letitia Baldrige

It is decidedly rude to make mistakes in e-mail, because the recipient will then have difficulty reading and understanding the message.

Mark Zandi

It depends on your time frame. For the next few months, it's decidedly a negative event. But in a year or so, the effects will likely have faded.

Dee Dee Myers

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

Edsger Dijkstra

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

Zab Judah

I did not hit Floyd Mayweather low on purpose. I'm not a dirty fighter.

Elena Satine

I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.

Dionne Warwick

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

David Nicholls

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

Aaron Hill

Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

Matthew Caws

I was sad when I knew I was going to have to make this record a little more obscure and a little harder to get. Just because, otherwise, I would have been airing my dirty laundry, which I don't see any point in.

Mike Knuble

If we're guilty of anything, it's not getting all our pucks on goal. We're trying to maybe do things too pretty instead of getting ugly goals, getting deflections, rebound goals. Not tic-tac-toe goals around the net. That's not where we're going to be successful. We've got to try and score more dirty goals.

Robert Waters

I guess I'll just have to stop more frequently to get fuel little by little.

David A. Bednar

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

Clint Eastwood

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

Charles Francis Richter

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'

Bill Owens

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

Richard Adams

We can show that booking online frequently generates a 15 percent saving on ticket prices, and savings in travel management fees of approximately 50 percent.

Ben Carson

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

We don't know how frequently this kind of mutation can appear,

Brian Moehler

We're going to make mistakes. That's just the way it is. Hopefully you learn from those mistakes and don't make them as frequently as the year goes on.

Robert Klein

One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That's why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They prowled the stage, they used voices, they were really talents.

David Dwyer

Make sure you haven't told Uncle George he can invest at any given time at any given amount.

John Hancock

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

Peter Capaldi

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really on the cards.

Steve Shannon

From George Jones to Michael Jackson, he just knew it all.

Kris Holden-Ried

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'

R. T. Rybak

I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

Jim Edgar

I find it ironic, when he ran for the senate, one of the first things he did was run to George Ryan to get his advice.

Gai Waterhouse

She won't be nominated for the George Main,

Warren Haynes

Making that record was one of the greatest musical moments in my life,

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Mary Wittenberg

Monday is the start of two races. One of the races will be over in 2? hours. The other race to be the world's greatest marathoner won't be over for 18 months.

Justin Gatlin

Maurice is one of the greatest competitors in the world. However this is a new era, the young guys are coming.

Gerald Curtis

One of his greatest opportunities now is to push agricultural reform,

Sally Schneider

One of my greatest joys is when someone like your wife takes one idea or one piece of a recipe and does it her way. That's what I'm encouraging.

George Granville

Of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, and love in vain.

Mike Perez

One through six, they really hate to lose. They all are very competitive. They may not be the greatest practice players, but in matches, I know they are going to get it done.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions

Phil Garner

make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Willie Revillame

Mr. Lim has always been there for me. No matter where I go, he's always there to support me.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Lindsay Meggs

One of the things we talked about is it didn't matter about how we won, we just needed to win.

Meryl Thomas

One of the things I've always tried to do as president of the (Penn Hills) PTA is to get everyone moving in the same direction, no matter what the project was.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Sushma Swaraj

Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.

Andrew Barrett

Next week is going to be more normal, when we get back to the real matter at hand, which is earnings.

A. S. Byatt

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

Alan Moore

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

David Shields

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

David Shields

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Carter Burwell

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Ajay Naidu

I hear music as narrative.

Brian Eno

My shows are not narratives.

Terry Fox

Ms. Garcia is stretching the truth for her own personal gain,

Dick Van Dyke

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

Patrick McMahon

give everything they have right down to personal sacrifice.

Deepak Chopra

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

Aaron Copland

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Justin Timberlake

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

Jessica Valenti

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

Dale Romans

I wouldn't have taken it personally even if he was. I've got more important things to worry about than what he does with his horse.

Howard Stern

I have a personal rule that I'm not going to curse.

Diablo Cody

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?

Christopher Plummer

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Muhammad Iqbal

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The freedom of poetic license.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Howard Nemerov

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Jacques Derrida

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Jerzy Kosinski

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Gaston Bachelard

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

Brian Hill

If anything, this shows we're not throwing in the towel on the season.

Pete Carroll

If anything, it shows that we can finish.

Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Casey Wilson

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Bruce Cockburn

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'

Terry Wogan

Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.

Constance Wu

Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Gin Wigmore

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.

Nigel Barker

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

Hedi Slimane

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.