Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maggie Deetz

We've already set aside money for recruiting. We've been talking to principals for several years about going to job fairs and connecting with the colleges. Not all teachers will be brand new; we want to lure experienced ones from the other districts. For that, we have, for the last few years, focused on getting our teachers' salary schedule competitive.

Chris Fisher

We started setting aside two hours every Saturday last fall. A few adults come, but it?s mostly kids, some as young as six, but more around 12 to 13.

Ray Nagin

There are dead bodies floating in some of the water, ... The rescuers would basically push them aside as they were trying to save individuals.

Luke Nosek

Halcyon people have put aside and left their homes, their million dollar salaries, full professorships at major universities, and fully seed-funded startup companies to be part of this effort.

Valerie Cunningham

We have savings that we've put aside for this, but it's not going to last forever, so we need to get back to work.

Butch Kinerney

To our knowledge, this is the first time a state has set aside housing or space for housing for future disasters.

Nath Morris

We know we've got some money set aside for rigor for academics.

Bernie Williams

Very exciting. But I think this team has been very good on putting personal goals aside for the benefit of the team, and I think this should be no different. I think my goal right now is just to play as good as I can so we can win the series. This is a nice note, but still, we're looking at the big picture here.

Rod Blagojevich

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

Bill Maher

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

Jamie Hyneman

One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it.

Archimedes

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

Gore Vidal

Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.

Phil Anselmo

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.

Rand Paul

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

Naveen Andrews

No one knows where the axe will fall next.

Jared Diamond

Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted.

Dave Sim

God grinds the axes he intends to use.

Alan Watts

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

Alan Parker

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

Alan Moore

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

Chinua Achebe

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

Dave Barry

That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.

Dave Barry

If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

Carter G. Woodson

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

C. L. R. James

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

Charles Caleb Colton

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

Charles Spurgeon

In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission.

Charles Spurgeon

Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side.

Alan Ball

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is no place to hide but in the blood of the Lamb.

Chief Seattle

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

Darren Shan

I sucked blood from one of my best friends

David Satcher

Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak

Cesare Pavese

I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.

Charles Spurgeon

To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us.

Dave Foley

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.

Cary Fukunaga

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.

Lorraine Toussaint

I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.

Lisa Cholodenko

Great actors help. Every project is different. Sometimes it's completely open, and I've been able to cast who I've wanted. And then sometimes people want a certain kind of actor.

Lisa Cholodenko

Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.

Romola Garai

The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

Marc Cherry

There are certain storylines I shouldn't have done, there are certain actors I shouldn't have cast - guest stars, I mean.

Terri Bushman

We still won't have had the whole cast practice together up until three weeks before production.

Arthur Conan Doyle

By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?" Because I looked for it.

Kevin Hart

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.

Jackie Chan

When I look back to when I was young, when parents said no they meant no, no matter how much you cried and how many times tears would run out, it would be useless. We knew that losing our temper and crying would not get us what we wanted so we wouldn't dare to lose our temper or cry easily.

Woody Harrelson

When I let up from the weed, and the drinking too, I cried every day. And I liked that. I like crying. And now I not only wanna cry and show my crying to other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!

Laura Diaz

She cried five times that day. We started counting.

Kim Kappler

She hated being in a cage. She cried and cried, so she went home with a volunteer.

Tonya David

She has the strength of a trooper. She has never complained once. She has never cried about being in a wheelchair, not once, not once.

Lindsey Kildow

She was incredible, she spent the whole night with me until 10 o'clock. She cried with me. She said she knew I can do it, that I have to be positive and get back out there as soon as I can. She knew as soon as I got back out there, I'd have a medal. Just not today, I guess.

Michael Boyle

She sat there and shook and cried and kept saying, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you,'

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Annika Sorenstam

We stood at the tee and I told Suzann, 'We can turn this around and be 1-up. Suzann said, 'No, we could be 2-up.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right.

Sam Dumont

We stood around a lot and watched and waited for someone else to do the scoring.

Hermann Maier

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

Aminatta Forna

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

M. Wolfe

He was unique. He stood out from the crowd.

Do Won Chang

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

Tammy White

We all stood at the window and cried,

Greg Simmons

I was the one commissioner that stood up on that matter.

Ken Sawyer

They stood under it as if it were a shelter.

Bob Dylan

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

Alison Goldfrapp

Always have sunglasses with you. They're great for when you can't be bothered to put make-up on.

Jessica Sanchez

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

Rory McCann

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.

Calista Flockhart

I just can't eat without my sunglasses,

J. Taylor

I'd sung as a kid, but then I quit,

Jack Nicholson

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

Tory Burch

I never go out during the day without sunglasses.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

Miles Austin

She's about 40 pounds. She just sits there until I get annoyed.