Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

Art Pulaski

Wealthy companies set new records in political contributions to buy this veto. Schwarzenegger bends whichever the way the corporate winds blow. Just a few weeks ago, the Restaurant Association, a major opponent of the bill, hosted a fund-raiser for Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Gary Price

I think you need a legal chiropractor to make your way through some of the bends and twists of the case.

Rose Taylor

I wear a bowling glove 24 hours a day. When my wrist bends it hurts, so I don't want it to bend.

Ridley Scott

We're suffering from saturation, overkill. The market place is flooded by demand, and there are too many films, so everything gets watered down. Demand is the boss and everything bends to that will. Bigger and not necessarily better shows seem to be the order of the day. I can't watch most of them.

Alex Berenson

Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.

Kathleen Brown

Usually, the limiting factor for roses is water. If the rose is not getting enough water, it will let you know. Bent neck is the common sign that water uptake is not adequate, and the upper stem bends over because it is the weakest part.

Allan Cunningham

A wet sheet and a flowing sea, / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast.

Chinese Proverbs

A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Steven Brill

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Brenda Valdes

Life is ... you work, you support yourself, take care of yourself, but you also have to take care of your community.

Jason Varitek

Like I always say, we handle things in here. In no way, shape or form are we going to play a media game with our teammates. I think that people look to pick on things on Manny because he's Manny Ramirez. We'll take care of things and we take care of things in here.

Lou Lamoriello

Let's be careful how far we go with that.

Orison Swett Marden

The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

Elaine Pagels

After Ann Godoff, who was editor-in-chief at Random House, left and went to Viking, I got to know Viking and the people there, and liked them very much. I also found a wonderful editor there, Wendy Wolf. It's a very congenial press.

William Higgins

It's not always the most congenial guy who makes the most noise.

Ken Johnson

He's a real congenial gentlemen, and he's out there trying to spread the Word. It's not every day you see someone doing that.

Alan Brien

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

David McLean

I can tell you that we're not planning any price drops on Xbox 360 this year at all. The product doesn't need it.

John Updike

I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

Chuck D.

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

George Foreman

Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

Idris Elba

I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

Peter Jackson

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

Ramy Attalla

We can be a stand-alone solution or a safety-net for when Medicare drops coverage, either way it's a soft landing.

Saddam Hussein

I am trying to extinguish the fire with few drops of water.

Michael Strahan

He's confident. He can see it right now every time he takes a snap and drops back.

Source Unknown

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Atharva Veda

My life is prosperous, fruitful and approved; I know that the Guru, the Supreme Lord God, is near me.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

O. Singh

One who serves the Lord obtains the fruits of his rewards, all of his hunger is satisfied. Nanak is a sacrifice to those, who night and day, meditate within their hearts on the Name of the Lord.

Dr. Seuss

Now... thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground, there's not enough Truffula Fruit to go 'round.

Susan Moores

(Some) are high in sugar and low in benefits. Give kids a piece of fruit instead.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.

Rabindranath Tagore

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with out fruits with joy.

William C. Bryant

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Albert Schweitzer

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

William Shakespeare

Murder's out of tune, and sweet revenge grows harsh

Diane Keaton

We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.

William Cox

From what I've seen, it works pretty well. It maintains hair and probably grows some hair back.

William Butler Yeats

Oh, who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old?

Chris Christie

Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

Scott Stapp

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Bear Grylls

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

Derrick Johnson

Loosen up people. Take the suit and tie off and loosen up.

Sean Burroughs

If I was loose I would have had a better release point and I would have painted the corners.

Tony Foti

She couldn't even work through it. She'd try to loosen up and stretch it out, but couldn't. And no question, her numbers would be even better.

Bud Ogden

We did what we had to do to win. We got rebounds when we had to and got to loose balls. Players stepped up.

Nathan Peavy

We were just loose today. We went out to play and to have fun.

Alex Solis

He was so relaxed; he made the track look fast. The track was loose but he still went 1:12 1/5, just breezing. He was real happy.

Casey Durham

But that team is very capable. It will be loud at their place (Reed Gym), regardless of how many people are there. If anything, I think they're playing looser than before (Oliver's announcement).

Tony Stewart

I got a little loose over there in (turn) three. It's just one lap. We've got 400 of them tomorrow.

Deborah Pryce

We are just tying up the loose ends.

Henry Morton Stanley

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

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.

Bill Gates

Software is redefining how people do things, ... We're nowhere near what we can do.

J. Lewis

Near the end of the year, we always run short.

Todd Rundgren

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

Ben Bakker

Get near the stage and make a lot of noise.

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

English 15th Century Proverbs

Near is my kirtle, but nearer is my smock.

Stephen Flynn

If I had to rank in order 10 things I'm worried about as it relates to security in our ports, the ownership of the lease of a terminal here in the U.S. is near nine or 10 on that list.

Jane Stewart

She was working at McDonald's near Fowler and Nebraska and said I should come to work there. I was about 20.

Mahmud Abbas

Much work still needs to be done but nothing can take away from this victory, ... day of joy.

Neal Cohen

Much work needs to be done in this area.

Jon Moore

No! No! ... That's my son. He needs to come with me. Let him come with me.

Ken Hoyt

My 97-year-old grandmother needs to be able to open this.

Suki Waterhouse

My hair is like flat baby hair after I wash it, so it needs something in it to get that 'day after' texture.

Bennie Thompson

needs to go talk to some of the people I'm talking to.

Cedrick Wilson

needs to get in the end zone before the season begins.

George Edwards

needs a narrative, a reason that voters should give him a look.

Chris Crutcher

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Richard Jaffe

may want to pursue the possibilities that a different person did them both, and neither was our client.

Gerald Schatten

Neither (the) results, nor we, support pet cloning.

Scott Brewer

Neither team made many errors. It was well played.

Larry Greene

Neither Savannah nor Brunswick has any kind of safe mooring or anchorage,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Nancy Cartwright

I have neither been there nor done that

Michael McCabe

ICraveTV.com isn't playing by the rules. They have neither sought nor obtained permission to use our signals.

Judi Larkin

One player is in Australia. And another is out with a shoulder injury. Also, being in the northern part of the country, we struggle with our weather.

Steve MacFarlane

Obviously, we would have like their support. Once Northwest is done with us they're going to go after them.

Chad Myers

One way or another there are going to be pounding waves on the northeast coast.

Timothy Noah

The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Eddie Van Halen

I'm just a normal schmo like anyone else.

Dave Ramsey

Broke is normal. Why be normal?

Somawansa Amerasinghe

Only three parties know what is in it - the President, the LTTE and the Norwegian embassy.

John Benjamin Hickey

I was shooting the third season of 'The Big C' and doing 'The Normal Heart' at the same time on Broadway, and I thought, 'I'll never do anything as difficult as this.'

Marion Nestle

If they're replacing it with palm oil, I think it's a wash.

S. Walker

If we can't go, we'll make sure we spoil it for somebody else. Tonight it was Brevard. If it was Palm Beach, we would have done the same thing.

Arnold Palmer

You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.

Brian Dennehy

The people who go to the Palm change. But when I go into a Palm, it is always the same for me.

Laurence Olivier

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Eric Benhamou

Palm executed quite well in a down market.

Darin Erstad

It doesn't matter. It's where I've spent most of my time. My palms will sweat a little less.

Jeff Hawkins

The reason the Palm is so successful is the simplicity of using them. They kind of just work.

Mitch Hedberg

I had my palm read. I wrote something on it first, to see if she would read that too.

Jody Watley

The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.

Kathie Lee Gifford

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

Rudyard Kipling

Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?

Beverly Johnson

I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.

Art Spiegelman

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

David Johnson

We shouldn't be doing that. We should be on our own system. But what can you do? The wells got salt in them.

Dante Alighieri

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

Curt Schilling

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

James Castle

Anyplace worth its salt has a 'parking problem'

Harry Reid

You see some of these big homes; they look OK, ... But they've been soaking in salt water for two weeks. They're gone. They'll tear them down.

Mark Wahlberg

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

Sparky Anderson

The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

Paul Burns

We have the same sun and soil as Amador and much of El Dorado.

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Alexander Pope

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Michael Donovan

Some of the soil has to go; some can be spread around the site.

Billy Graham

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Billy Graham

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

J. I. Packer

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

Martin Heidegger

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.