Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Kurt Burkhart

There are some climbs but not much for these riders. A lot of those guys will probably be going up in their big chain rings a lot of these climbs.

Dennis Johnson

We also worked on the church property taming a forest of uprooted trees. Huge trees -- 20 feet tall -- had been snapped off and just the trunks were sitting there. We went in with a Bobcat and chain saws to clear up the church's wooded property.

Benjamin Franklin

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

James Calvin

We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

Al Yankovic

Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.

Ken Bacon

The extent to which disparaging speech or expression with respect to sexual orientation occurs or is tolerated by individuals in the chain of command will be assessed.

Reinhard Buetikofer

There is a long chain of diametrically opposed positions, not least on social issues.

Tim Flock

Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear.

Charlie Daniels

It's quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back... You're in a war zone, you're dodging IED's and bullets one day and a couple days later you're back in society again with a bunch of people that have no idea of what you've been through.

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

John Cross

There are dozens of ways one can go about managing his or her career,

Jen Bluestein

Freddy Ferrer is proud to have the support of literally dozens of Latino leaders.

John Cannon

He fired dozens of rounds. It's a miracle no one was shot.

Steven Hall

Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.

David Marin

Listed literally dozens of things (the administration) did wrong. He acknowledged more institutional failings at the White House and elsewhere than we expected.

Paul Wick

You'll see a lot of stocks take it on the chin. It's happening to dozens of Internet companies.

Phil Williams

We are talking dozens and dozens of sex offenders - mainly from just four states that report the employers names.

John Montgomery

Numerous people were interviewed and dozens of leads were investigated,

Ehud Barak

maybe there will be a need for a few dozens of foreign observers.

Tyrell Thompson

We know Woodlands is going to be hungry. We have to come out and play harder or this will be it for us.

Don Samuel

When you tell a lie, it's always harder to remember what you said.

Holly Lisle

Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.

Maggie Shayne

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

Rob Davis

What this is all about is getting a taste of success. It doesn't matter who you beat, once you know what it takes to win, you'll work harder and that opens up other opportunities.

Freddy Sanchez

What he needed to do was to work harder than the normal person just to get back to where he needed to be. This is probably the strongest I've ever seen him.

Steven Wright

We have run the hydro system harder than it was supposed to be run this year.

Michael Hirschorn

The pond is getting pretty well fished, and booking (someone fresh) is getting harder and harder, ... somebody who is just depressing.

Tina Fey

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

Pat Miller

When they went to man (defense) we have a lot of plays where we are able to isolate Rachel to get her some looks. To her credit, she was able to knock down shots.

Jeff Fontaine

I think it is an isolated situation. It's just a piece that wore out. I don't think it's symptomatic of a larger problem.

Dan Castellaneta

Marge, old people don't need companionship, they need to be isolated and studied to see what useful nutrients can be obtained from them...

Debbie Anthony

But it was beautiful, isolated and near enough to anything you could want.

Donald Rumsfeld

I would characterize it as an isolated problem.

Greg Sparling

We wanted to kill the clock. We wanted to get Lance isolated so he could make the shot.

Pierce Brown

If you look at 'Golden Son,' it was just a focused, isolated battle for Mars.

Richard Kelly

It seems to not be an isolated incident.

Peter Sorensen

After 16 years, we're there. We've isolated it, and we can synthesize it.

Dan McCanta

We know by season what some of our problems could be.

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.

Manju Warrier

Women should come forward to protect other woman, as only a woman can understand the problems of another one.

M. Thompson

She understands the problems we have up here. I know she doesn't have the solutions, but she's willing to look for them. I'm a supporter - 100 percent. One thousand percent.

Alyce Wiedner

We've never had an argument. We've never had any problems.

Simon Crisford

She had a lot of little problems in the winter and then more in the spring,

Aguri Suzuki

Since we launched the team in a short period, assorted problems are rising and there are many things that should be solved.

Jeff Berman

I feel sorry for George. He's a troubled person. He seemed to have some psychological problems.

Johnny Smith

For years, we have had problems with the water down here. But nothing has ever been done about it.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Beverly Sills

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Demetri Martin

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Elaine Post

Until you know where the source is, how do you know you're treating the right one?

Hayan Saad

What? He is the source of our troubles.

Ayn Rand

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

Arthur Baer

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Calvin Trillin

There's always a source for humor.

Mitch Kapor

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

Bradford Smith

Ultimately, it comes down to supply and demand.

Tom Fitzpatrick

It always comes down to supply and demand,

Mitch Dorger

You can do the math. Supply and demand.

Aaron Williams

Our water supply is very important to us.

Ben Bernanke

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

Derrick Johnson

If they are any discrepancies, we want to make sure that if there are individuals in need that we supply as much support as possible,

Mike Johnston

Obviously, more supply is going to hurt, because the occupancies are still not to 1999-2000 levels.

Craig Bruce

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Azim Premji

Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.

Charles Dickens

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.