Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Guzy

When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to have some protective barrier around your heart so you can do your job. You tend to have a delayed reaction to things. I feel things more deeply after I put the camera down.

Scott Aukerman

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

Suzanne Fields

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Emily Smith

We know each other, we visit each other and in times of crisis, we pull together. We cannot let the barriers of language or culture or custom come between us. We are united in the call for justice. We know that every good work is rewarded ten-fold.

Atharva Veda

Verily, every creature lives there, the cow, the horse, and man, where this charm is performed, as the (protecting) barrier for life.

Elliot Perlman

In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.

Kim Jee-woon

Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.

Kathleen Sebelius

What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.

Ma Jun

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

John Brady

We want to play well, but certainly not at the expense of playing players that aren't healthy. Our goal is for our team to be healthy for the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Jeff Bowden

We have seen a lot of good linebackers with Miami and some of the teams we play, like N.C. State. He certainly ranks up there with them. I've always kind of had the feeling that when you get in the group with the top-five, it doesn't matter. You are so good at that point, you're good. He can change the game I know that.

Alex Rodriguez

We have to get better. We're a better team. We know what our potential is. Certainly I need to do a lot more offensively. I can only speak for myself. I've got to step up to the plate and do my job.

Rich Bowen

We have to find that out. We'll see. I'm not sure. The way they've been working we'll certainly be more competitive than last year. Whether we can compete with the larger schools and the co-op schools, this season will tell.

John Asher

We have no idea how those tickets got out there, but we certainly have no suspicion of any kind of internal source.

Ed McKelvey

Whenever you have a collapse in a particular output price -- and we certainly saw a lot of that following Asia's decline -- it places a lot of pressure on companies to deal with keeping their revenues up. In that context consolidation isn't a big surprise.

Michael Vaughan

We have played to win throughout the series and will certainly be doing that again,

Matt Murphy

The expectations certainly were on her this year. Everybody knew that she'd be the player to stop on our team. But she went out every night and produced. I knew I could always count on 20 points and at least 10 or 12 rebounds a game from her.

Horst Koehler

The fact that other people are worse off than us is certainly cold comfort for those in Germany who have to count every cent.

Agnes Repplier

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

Atharva Veda

The eyes of us two shine like honey, our foreheads gleam like ointment. Place me within thy heart; may one mind be in common to us both!

O. J. Simpson

The fact is, we've worked so hard to get to the point where we finally see revenues, we would sure like to be able to keep it and put it to common use for our residents.

Theodor Mommsen

The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters.

Tom Odell

Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.

Stefan Hell

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

Ted Cruz

It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Diane von Furstenberg

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

Diane von Furstenberg

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

Alan Chadwick

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Alan Cooper

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Chinua Achebe

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

Ben Nelson

Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,.

Juvenal

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

Catherine the Great

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

Michael Howe

We want to remain the number one frequent flier program,

Katharine Lee Bates

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.

Natasha Trethewey

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

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.

Edward Ball

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

Geoffrey Canada

I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

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.

Bill Owens

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

Bruce Steinbecker

We have to have a short memory and be able to come back ready to play (today). We have to learn from our mistakes, and hopefully we'll get it fixed.

Sam Worthington

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

Roger Ashby

We know we have to improve significantly on the Kettering performance. But hopefully that was a one off. It'll be tough up there but by no means impossible.

Jeremy Clarkson

I think people who watch 'Top Gear' think they're the only ones watching it, which I quite like, because it can hopefully last for a long time.

Chris Johnson

We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season.

Kenneth Branagh

I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it.

Jim Nestor

With those two, with what they create, hopefully they're going to get a lot more scoring opportunities.

Tim Hearn

We're still short because, we've got a lot of refineries out so there's still some upward pressure there, but I think as things get back on stream hopefully we can get back to a better equilibrated pricing environment.

Matt Doherty

We've got be smarter and hopefully we'll be smarter when we get into league play.

Paul Johnston

We want people to know we are on schedule, that June 1 (the start of hurricane season) is obtainable and it is our intention to do that.

Alex Penelas

worse than what we experienced last year with Hurricane Irene in that the water has come in a much shorter period of time.

Mike Trevino

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

Charles Rangel

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

David Joy

We'll see what impact, if anything, the hurricane had on them, and it may be a harbinger.

Robin Kramer

Several major police incidents were not in any 100-day plan. Hurricane Katrina wasn't in any 100-day plan. The DWP power outage was not in any 100-day plan.

Anton Chekhov

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

David Beasley

Unfortunately, it looks like Hurricane Bertha is making a major turn for the worse,

Brad Cotter

With the hurricane and all some people wondered if the show was still on,

Charles Sturt

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

David A. Siegel

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

Dave Foley

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

Dave Barry

You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.

Dave Barry

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

David Quammen

Islands are where species go to die.

Jim Doyle

With this designation, we can maintain these islands as they are, guaranteeing they will not be developed.

Carolyn Murphy

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

Charles Schumer

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Buddy Bell

Woody wasn't throwing at him. But, quite frankly, Doug did what he had to do to keep things from escalating.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Dianne Feinstein

After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now, the victims of Hurricane Katrina need our help. Entire communities have been destroyed. Families have been torn apart. Many are still missing. Tens of thousands remain homeless. As the recovery proceeds, we in the Senate pledge to do everything in our power to help rebuild the shattered lives across the Gulf Coast.

Dianne Feinstein

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

Alan Mulally

We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

China Mieville

While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.

Chester Bennington

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.

David Young

We usually start off a little slow, just because of (spring break), or at least we have in the past. We should still come out strong and recover from that week difference.

Michael Chertoff

We've got tropical storms and hurricanes brewing in the ocean.

Rick Gales

We're able to just make more trips during the day. It's the big storms that get us into overtime.

Joe McCormick

We have to make sure that one or two storms are not going to wipe out the company." ()

Paul Moreno

Winter storms such as this are not unheard of but this one was severe.

Danielle Brown

There was one year in 1933 we actually had 21 storms. That's been the most in the Atlantic. However, it was before we started naming storms

Melinda Shiraki

We usually end up crying. He tells us not to be scared.

Luis Suarez

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

Richard Carmona

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

Joanna Lumley

Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

Joan Rankin

When someone tells me how they feel when they see something I've done and they want to live with it, that's the best,

Mike McConathy

We had 24 turnovers and they turned them into 26 points, so I think that pretty much tells the story of the game." ()

Anna Held

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Barbara Corcoran

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

Marvin Sapp

The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Katharine Cornell

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

Quentin Richardson

Just when I thought we couldn't get any worse or go any lower, we find another way to do it.

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.

Gerhard Richter

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

Chuck Hill

I would have expected, even without FD, to see more preannouncements this quarter. Things are worse out there.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.

Andy Roddick

I got out there and it was just stiff. It got progressively worse the more I moved. I just didn't feel real comfortable for the whole match.

Derrick Brooks

It could be a whole lot worse then where we are.

Richard Madden

I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.