Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Cross

We have seen a tremendous amount of cargo coming into the port. It's sort of a miniature major port all of a sudden down there.

Mark Mitchell

We have a small amount of evidence at the scene, but we don't think it was intentional, ... The driver probably doesn't even know he struck anything.

Jim Whitaker

We have asked the workers to pay for a portion of their health care. The amount is negotiable.

Alberto Lopez

We have no firsthand knowledge because of the amount of devastation at the Mississippi properties. We are obviously very concerned about our 8,000 employees.

Brad Doyle

Whenever you get to the desert, an inch is a significant amount of rain and that is not normal.

Nancy Smith

Whenever you get that dramatic of an increase, it bears watching. It's always hard to measure the amount of fraud in the market. A lot of investors don't complain.

Chris Carpenter

When you're trying to learn and establish yourself and be consistent in the major leagues, it's hard to do that with the amount of pressure everybody from the outside is putting on you. But obviously all three of us were able to continue to be successful, move on and do the things everybody expected us to be able to do.

Jim Hendry

When Felix comes here, you want him to play a decent amount of time in the outfield. You can't just pull a name out of the hat and say, 'Let's put this guy at first and Felix in the outfield.

Jason Wong

We have pushed out the timing of the monetary policy easing to June and reduced the cumulative amount through 2006 to 75 basis points.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.

Camille Guaty

I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.

Alan Alda

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

Alan Alda

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Joe Rodeghero

We're right where we want to be in the Catholic League race. We have a big date coming up with St. Rita at the end of the year and we need to keep winning until then.

Bill Maher

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Bernard of Clairvaux

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

Peter Hill

We have no hesitation at all in writing about those things. The readers are massively concerned. We get so many letters. We get massive, massive response to these issues, an enormous response.

Octavia E. Butler

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post has enormous respect for the Asian-American community.

Liza Minnelli

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

Gary Strickler

We're graduating Gabe, and that's an enormous number of points to lose off a team, and we don't have his equivalent in junior high or in the freshman or sophomore classes.

Nick Harkaway

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.

Norman Ornstein

Let's face it. When you're the governor of New York and even mentioned as a presidential candidate, you're going to be under an enormous microscope.

Michael Morse

made an enormous mistake in my life: I took steroids while in the minor leagues.

Larry Birns

Rice has an enormous task to repair the present disarray in which we find U.S.-Latin American relations.

Terry Zwigoff

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it.

Uzo Aduba

My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Eric Nylund

'Ghosts of Onyx' is the end of one chapter in the 'Halo' saga - and hopefully the start of an entirely new one!

John Ruskin

The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu

Kristin Gore

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

Mark Geragos

We might as well open it up entirely and pollute the entire state.

Linus Torvalds

I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area.

Robert Shaler

Possibly, too, many were entirely cremated and will never be identified.

Daniel Benjamin

The protests were entirely to be expected. The Pakistanis know the U.S., if it gets high-quality intelligence, is going to act.

Scott Stricklin

We're not going to respond to allegations that are not accompanied by factual information.

Joshua Micah Marshall

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

Lucy Caldwell

Getting the factual information out there is important and that is what we are doing.

Oscar Hijuelos

When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.

Robert Ekstrand

Yes, there are pictures that demonstrate the impossibility of her factual allegations. During her dance, however long it lasted, she had some fingernails that were painted and on some fingers, and then there were other fingers that had no fingernails on them at all. It appeared, just looking at it, if you do, that she has not finished something that she started in terms of putting on her fingernails.

Eric Funk

I would like to have some factual information.

Fred Thompson

When there are factual disputes, it's better to have live witnesses.

Bob Francis

We'll tell you factual stuff as soon as we figure it out.

Paul Budde

To use Macquarie's own words, I'd like to see factual information from Macquarie why these issues are lies, incorrect or misleading.

Lamont Bryant

We are going to sit down and re-evaluate his recruiting. Will he visit a fifth school? We aren't sure. But the Indiana situation is very unsettling. We don't want any distractions. We don't want any surprises.

Kristin Gore

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

Steve Peterson

We're still searching for our fifth and sixth man, but we're getting closer.

Ken Macha

When we were trying to pick a fifth starter back in camp, it was between Saarloos and Etherton, and we weren't quite sure which way we were leaning. So we went to Kendall, and he was adamant about Saarloos. That's what clinched it.

Mike Miller

When it comes down to it, you can't ever not want to win. So our job right now is to win as many games as possible, and if we're in that fifth spot, that's great, and we if we're in that sixth spot that's great, too.

Bobby Cox

Maybe we can slip him in as the fifth starter.

Clint Hurdle

Leaving a game in the fifth inning I wouldn't think would make any pitcher happy, ... Sometimes different things will motivate people different ways.

Jim Grobe

We're just kicking ourselves that we don't have a fifth year for him. We couldn't do it. We had to get him on the field.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Charles Stanley

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Bret Michaels

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

Dave Davies

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

David Sze

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

Bryan Singer

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

Lynsey Addario

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

Eckhart Tolle

The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.

Matt Damon

We have a similar perspective, ... We're total hams.

Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Bruce Douglas

We are required to do it. We have to do it.

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Beck

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

Asia Argento

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

Winston Churchill

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required

Leo Kipfstuhl

It required us to put on more workers.