Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Brown

Sure, of course. My boys know I'm famous. They see me on the TV but they'd rather watch 'The Simpsons.' But I'm definitely a cool father. I take them to the zoo and the beach and the countryside and to buy them sneakers. I play soccer with them. I just taught them how to play chess.

Scott Paxson

Sure, I wish I was with my family. But I'm not going to complain about being on a beach when it's 80 degrees.

William Daley

Someone said he should smile more in the practice session. On the walk on the beach with a number of (advisers) they had specific ideas on issues they thought their counterparts in communities would respond to.

Willie Snead

Our football program is honored to represent Palm Beach County and the state of Florida. We look forward to bringing 'Raider Nation' football to South Carolina.

Rick Wright

Our vision is that the service providers at the beach will become ambassadors for downtown businesses. There will be no effort to contract with service providers that directly compete with downtown businesses.

Larry Fishman

People who stopped at the gates of the Casino before now can traverse through, and when they get to the Asbury side, see a vibrant, lively, beach community.

Behati Prinsloo

The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I'm away working.

Becca Fitzpatrick

We need a ride. We're stranded." "We still have two legs, leftie and rightie. Mine are in the mood for exercise. They feel like a nice long walk--ARE YOU CRAZY?" she shrieked. I was standing with the tip of the beach umbrella aimed at the driver's-side window. "What?" I said. "We have to get in.

Barry Pepper

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

Gerald Cox

Real quick, what had been a close game turned into a huge blowout. When you have a kid that can shoot it like Brent can, you're going to let him keep shooting it.

Dave Taylor

Our reports on him as far back as juniors were always positive and favorable. He's definitely someone we've kept a close eye on over the years.

Alex Johnson

Our poll tells us that we should take a close look at the potential impact of some popular technology on hearing health.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

Rob Sumner

Part of it is that we don't score a lot, so we had better be good in one-goal games. We're confident and comfortable playing in close games.

Jason Stevenson

Our lightweights did a good job tonight. They all went out with fire in their eyes. The matches were all close and Tait was fighting hard down to the very end.

Brian Hukel

Our legs seemed to leave us. Our effort, our legs -- I'm not sure -- but we failed to close out on some guys. They've got a lot of guys that can knock it down. If you don't close out, they're going to make shots and he made some big ones.

Judy Pardonnet

Our legal staff looked into it very closely and carefully, and the train platforms are definitely covered.

Judy Pardonnet

Our lawyers took a really close look at this. It was ruled LaSalle Street is covered, and smoking is prohibited.

Pat Clark

Our numbers grew approximately 20 kids this year.

Rod Smith

Somehow, in Arkansas, I grew up a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

David Gibb

Our secondary grew up a little in the second half. There were some positive things going on.

Billy Corgan

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Bill Bryson

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

Daniela Ruah

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality.

Greg Davis

I think they grew up, and they took a huge step toward maturity.

Troy Clarke

(The Asia/Pacific) market grew at about 6.5% year over year, and our sales grew about 20%.

James Nesbitt

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

Paul McManus

Jersey as a whole spends hundreds of thousands of pounds on antibiotics a year,

Richard Virenque

Last year, I had the yellow jersey on Bastille Day, now I have won this stage, it's great,

Karl Rove

From a lot of places in New Jersey you could see the towers,

Clay Richards

I wouldn't be surprised if as many as 25 percent of New Jersey voters said they are supporting Kean because of his father's record, or because they like his father.

Marty Turco

It always baffles me why they do these things. I've never made a save with my jersey before, but as long as we don't look too silly, it doesn't really matter to us.

Jon Corzine

I have a very optimistic view of where New Jersey can go, ... My opponent has presented a more negative view than is necessary.

De'Shawn Singleton

I was scared at one point. There was one point where I was thinking about not even playing any more because if I go to Jersey City, I'm going to have to get a job.

Bradley Campbell

New Jersey stands ready to proceed with a seven-state agreement. This is going to go forward.

John Tortorella

New Jersey must be a very disciplined team considering all the time we spent in their end zone.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Andy Grove

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

Tim Winship

I think it's pretty much inarguable that the value of frequent-flyer miles is on the decline.

Kevin Green

It is not going to be like Texas, where we would move you hundreds of miles away from where you reside.

Kyle Busch

Literally, I swear we could run 600 miles on this tire, I don't think we're going to need pit stops, the tires are going to be that durable.

James Logan

I'd just say make sure you go 10 miles per hour, then 40.

Allan McNish

I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

Chris Rock

I (could) see these plots a mile away. And I was 7.

Dirk Benedict

I have my routine. I'm running 3 or 4 miles a day.

Paul Makin

He's already won all the mile races he needs.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It didn't escape me that he couldn't seem to stop finding reasons to touch me. Nor did I miss that I didn't want him to stop.

B. B. King

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

Bill Shankly

Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.

Cecil Beaton

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ...

Cecelia Ahern

are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love ?

Cecelia Ahern

what you don't know, you don't miss

Arsene Wenger

It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?

Kami Hebert

I want to win state. I'm mostly satisfied with what I've done individually, but all I'm missing is a state title.

Taylor Twellman

I was just trying to make sure the goalie didn't punch me in the head. I wanted to make up for missing in the first half.

Lori Glass

Out of 10 bouquets, we sell about nine red.

Rod Barnes

I won't have to pick up the paper and read that it's nine in a row.

Eddie Johnson

I was told if you make a run, nine times out of 10 you will get the ball. It's true.

Jack McKeon

I can teach, ... I have nine grandkids.

Chris Perry

I don't think I've had that much success. If I had nine catches for like 180 yards and two touchdowns, yeah. But you can always improve, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Larry Scott

I don't think nine is the right number for women's tennis.

Kim Ens

For us to see nine cases, that is unusual for us.

Michael Owen

He even offered to give up his number nine shirt but I have declined. Number 10 will do for me.

Jeff Bowden

He does that several times during the game. And nine times out of 10, he's right.

John Lasseter

Stay at the end of the credits. I pulled out the stops on the credits.

Bob Hofman

Man, that was like pulling teeth out there tonight.

David Aebischer

That's the way it is. You just have to play well and don't give him a reason to pull you.

Jimmy Williams

I was out there fumbling the ball, and you just can't do that. We pulled it out (Saturday), but that just can't happen.

Walter Dorman

I think it's the first time this season that we were rattled. It's unfortunate that we couldn't pull it out.

Juan Dixon

I was wrong, I was frustrated. I apologize. I just wanted to try to pull through and get us the win.

Susan Rosenberg

I was thinking, straight zipper. But when it was installed, and you could see the undulations and the pull ...

Melissa Fumero

I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'

Anthony Robbins

It doesn't pull away any wax that it says it's supposed to.

Jill Markowitz

I was a little intimidated at first. But once we started playing, I realized I could play with them, so I just tried to do my best.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Stephen Hill

Later, we realized if we don't get some supplies, we're going to starve,

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Hugh Godsey

I think they realized if they didn't do that they we were going to the house.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Luciano Spalletti

Francesco also realized it, and immediately said 'I'm broken.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Christine Pelosi

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

Billy Graham

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Mike Wallace

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

Sue Allen

We have a lot of retired women. We all keep pretty busy.

Jim Pattison

What I like most about an aquarium is that all ages, from toddlers to pre-schoolers to retired grandparents, can really enjoy the wonders of the sea.

Jennifer Capriati

There's no timetable right now. I can't say one way or the other, but I'm not retired by all means.

Jeff Garlin

I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.

Shane Warne

I must have said it 14 000 times. I have retired and I have no aspirations to return.

Sacheen Littlefeather

I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

Greg Gabriel

Our tight end has got to be able to block. This is Chicago. We've got to run the ball, especially when the weather is bad. If he can't block, he's not a fit.

Jim Williams

Roger's been running for a year and a half. And there hasn't been an unkind word said.

M. Wolfe

Replays and reruns are running out of steam,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

Bede Griffiths

I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The Patch I knew didn't run from anyone.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

Bill Shorten

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

Bill Crawford

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

C. S. Lewis

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

Carl Rogers

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Tsuneo Watanabe

Imagine, a 32-year-old youngster teaching an 80-year-old something. Do I want him to come to the Giants? Yes, I want him. I want him to be our manager.

Charles Kettering

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time...

Charles Darwin

...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.

Charles Babbage

Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it.

Blaise Pascal

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!