Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Shaw

We want to thank Larry Torres of T&D Machine Products in Carson City. They're the leading supplier of rocker arms for nearly everyone in racing.

Ronald Reagan

The poet called Miss Liberty's torch 'the lamp beside the golden door.' Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you really know why we're here tonight. The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise, every opportunity, is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America. Her heart is full; her torch is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people. She will carry on in the '80s unafraid, unashamed, and unsurpassed. In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

Kareem Evans

We are at Armstrong Middle School, and we are actually trying to get into Bowman Middle School.

H. Hart

When you've used your arms all your life to paint and to express yourself, and now he's struggling to even open his fingers, it's heartbreaking. I think he's come to grips with it, but it's really hard for us to understand that.

William Shakespeare

Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.

Liam Fox

If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.

Michael Gove

My sister and I know our lives could have been different - radically, unthinkably, irretrievably different - if we had not been adopted. We might have found ourselves in homes without love, stability or kindness. We might have found ourselves in care for much longer, without the secure attachment that being cradled in a mother's arms brings.

Bernie Mac

I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.

Edward Gibbon

It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Dickens

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Charles Spurgeon

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Alanis Morissette

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Fred Engh

We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.

Steve McDonald

We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Lucas Till

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

Louis Stokes

There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation.

Lisa Cholodenko

I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas.

Michael Moriarty

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Bob Ainsworth

I am extremely honoured to be the Defence Secretary, and I would not do the job if I did not think that I could make a useful contribution in the role.

Bob Ainsworth

I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.

Bob Ainsworth

Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.

Norman Schwarzkopf

The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.

Franz Beckenbauer

The defence has to get used to playing with the goalkeeper. Jurgen is shying away from making a decision.

Franz Beckenbauer

The defence has to get used to playing with the goalkeeper.

Agatha Christie

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

Kim Beazley

I was defence minister for a few years,

Sellapan Ramanathan

Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.

Alan Watts

The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

Alan Bennett

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

David Sanborn

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Buddy Holly

That'll be the day when I die.

Brunello Cucinelli

Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good

Jack Kerouac

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

Grace Speare

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

Nayvadius Cash

I need to let people know who I am and instead of just trying to make great records, just be honest and make it more personal and make it more passionate, to make records with emotion and not be afraid to express that.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.

Gary Payton

We're going to have to play freely and open.

Thorne Smith

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

Bill Scannell

Never before in the history of our nation has government permission been required to travel freely in our country. It's un-American. It's unconstitutional. It's just plain wrong.

John Milton

Freely we serve / Because we freely love, as in our will / To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.

Jean Giraudoux

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Bruno Cullen

Most of the players we're talking to now, we're talking to freely with the knowledge that Shane could stay or go.

Jane Walsh

Just because you work in one of the hottest restaurants in town does not give you the right to freely dispense the attitude.

Louis Navellier

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.

Louis Sachar

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

Jeff Justice

The outcome itself shows it was an unreasonable risk.

Stephen Graham Jones

Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real.

Matt Rosoff

What's left under MSN -- MSNBC? Microsoft just divested itself of that, too.

Pete Smith

The plan itself is still being drafted. We're working with HUD on rules and regulations.

Robert Redford

There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago.

Enya

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

Jim Crace

When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

John Russell

We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.

Kevin Tynan

Whether longer term that actually makes a difference, I have questions about that.

Eric Schmitt

We're going to see a longer PC lifespan,

Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

Susan McDermott

Since she's no longer competing, we won't be using that ad. It doesn't make sense.

Ron Gardenhire

Sit him out any longer and you're going to have to send him out on a rehab. We need to get him in the lineup and let him play.

Irving Layton

Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.

Lee Peterson

Since he is innocent, we don't want him sitting there any longer than he has to.

Gary Warner

She is no longer a missing person. She is a suspect.

David Daniels

The Great Chief also honours modesy.

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Louis Navellier

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

Tom Daschle

We're in a very unpredictable mode at this point,

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Kim Polese

We have no preset notion of how the model will look.

Alan King

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Bobby Flay

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

Balthazar Getty

I had a very modest upbringing.

Eric Lewis

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Turley

More compensation won't make any of us serve any harder, so in terms of the taxpayer getting more for their dollar, it just won't make a difference.

Gwynne Shotwell

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

George Stroumboulopoulos

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Lea Barrett

There is a need to place some students on the Mullins campus... and my recommendation is for Dr. Dow-Harris to serve as principal.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Allison Tolman

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.