Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Sessions

Walker is not entitled to file a notice of appeal for good cause because he has failed to show good cause, ... None of the documents filed on March 30, 2005 indicate any showing of good cause.

John Allen

Ultimately mutual funds are consumer products, and they have to appeal to people to get bought.

Tom Kennedy

The other possibility is that there have been several appeals to the public for information. Police, within just a few days of making this public appeal, got more than 1,300 telephone calls from the public.

Michael Callahan

We appeal to the U.S. government to do all it can to help us provide beneficial services to Chinese citizens lawfully and in a way consistent with our shared values.

Brian Paddick

We are making an urgent appeal for any photos or videos -- including from mobile phones -- taken Thursday morning close to where the bombs exploded.

Steve Fortuna

We believe that the Cube is too pricey at $1,799 to appeal to consumers in volume, while few professional users are going to opt for the Cube based on its award-winning design.

Christopher Moore

There are some elements that are tonal and some are not. But nothing so far out you can't grasp it. It's appealing music.

Nathan Myhrvold

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.

Charlie Daniels

As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Charles Studd

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

Charles Stanley

(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

Charles Spurgeon

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

Alan Moore

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever." The Joker

Al Jarreau

I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.

Chloe Grace Moretz

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

Sal Basilone

We are looking to identify that driver and piece together exactly what happened.

Frank Williams

What he had as a driver is a quality he shares with many of his compatriots, ... He was canny.

Derek Leathers

We're doing everything we can to give them the newest trucks on the road. We think our fleet is one of the newest out there, and that's something drivers appreciate.

Tom Johnston

We've spent so many hours trying to get drunk drivers off the road in so many ways. It makes you really mad to see that, after all that, people still do it.

David Richards

We set out 10 years ago to improve safety for competitors and spectators. We've not seen a driver killed for 20 years almost,

Aaron Anderson

We needed a solution that would get all the right information to the drivers as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible.

Jojo Moyes

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

Steven Wieting

Many of the understandable sources of recovery have been expended in the first half of 2002, leaving growth drivers into 2003 a mystery.

Joyce Novacek

We knew they were going to come back. They're a great team. We needed to establish ourselves in the third quarter.

Tim Donovan

We started out slow, tentative in the first game, but put it together after that. It was a big match for us to establish a top-level position in the league.

Helen Sharman

I operated a periscopic TV camera so the commander, Anatoly Artsebarsky, could establish where we were heading. It is real teamwork on Soyuz.

Adrian Peterson

We're going to have to establish some form of a passing game, ... We just can't run it on everybody.

Scott Pitchford

With new features released today, job seekers can now use these same tools to establish reputation and trust with prospective employers.

Phyllis Zilm

We had a week's worth of practices two weeks ago, and it was just enough to get the ladder set and establish the varsity team, and that's about it. We've been playing some lobby tennis inside the high school and running in the gym.

Boris Yeltsin

Many provisions of the law infringe on constitutional rights and freedoms of individuals and citizens, establish inequality between different confessions and violate Russia's international obligations.

Kelly Mathews

She's the type of player who not only scores and rebounds, but does a lot of things that don't get in the books. She's really stepped up when we needed her to and she helped establish our inside game.

Kenji Johjima

I can't imagine starting on opening day. My first job is to be a part of the team. To do that, I have to learn to communicate with the pitchers. I have to establish myself. I have to prove myself.

Mark Durante

We knew what Kinney would need to do to win today, and he followed the plan perfectly. He scrambled well and had great movement.

Thierry Henry

I've followed the NBA religiously since I was a kid, and now because of my boy Tony Parker, I'm a huge Spurs fan.

Stu Jackson

We're looking at the severity of the conduct, whether a player wound up and followed through. It was a hard foul, but I did not feel it was flagrant -- and I've reviewed hundreds of these.

Richard Carmona

A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.

Josephine Baker

I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

Dwyane Wade

I was just doing what we always do and followed it up.

Chuck D.

Last season we kind of planned where guys were going to go. Guys followed through by lifting and using proper weight-cutting techniques. All of them have been good seniors this year. It's really been a true team effort.

Christopher Brown

I think the judge followed the law. I know it hurt Mr. Parker, but the judge did what was fair.

Sheryl Neff

We're just knocking on the door, but can't quite push through. We're struggling a little bit.

Tony Hawk

There are endorsements I regret taking when I was younger and didn't know any better. But I didn't have options then. People weren't knocking on my door.

Brian Cashman

We didn't want to wait until they were knocking on the door, getting close. We wanted to get them here, let them get a taste of it, soak in as much from the people around them as they can.

Shawan Robinson

I was just getting open looks and taking my time and knocking them down.

Magic Johnson

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, and you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says no, then you have to knock on the next door,

D. James

It is not how you start a game, it's how you finish. We didn't win. They were knocking down shots and we weren't. They were making plays and we weren't. That's what it's all about.

Jermain Taylor

Whoever comes to Little Rock, I'm knocking him out!

Pat Bowlen

Nobody complained anymore. Now, everyone's knocking those uniforms off.

Al Horford

If they (sag) off Lee, it's over. I'm passing it out to him, and he's knocking it down.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Arundhati Roy

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Deborah Marshall

We have no plans to move at this time.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

Louie Perez

We ran with them in the first half. We picked up fouls and we couldn't press.

Robin Hobb

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Sgt. Helmer

If you are going to be truant, don't want to do it down here because you are going to get picked up.

Billy Tubbs

There are several teams that could step up and win it all. Northwestern was picked to win it, and they (the Demons) have been pretty impressive, but some other teams have been impressive, too.

Will Shortz

Well, you could have picked Salem, your capital, but Scio works.

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jan Egeland

The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Donald Fagen

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles E. Wilson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Charles Dudley Warner

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Ricky Rudd

I wish it could have been a little better, better than Tony ran, ... But it didn't work out that way.

Ethan Suplee

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Ian Mckellen

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

Peter Steele

If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.

Audra McDonald

I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.

Bette Midler

I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.

Jamie Foxx

I told Tony I would look after her.

I. Stone

A lot of this has to do with the Tony Awards.

Jez Butterworth

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.

Charles de Gaulle

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Charles de Lint

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.