Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Weatherly

The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

Jeff Arntson

We struggled. The nerves were there no matter how hard we tried to calm the girls down. We were tight and had a lot of turnovers that created a lot of opportunities for them. Then as the gap widened, we got tighter and tighter. Bozeman is a great team and their pressure is relentless n that's why they are state champs.

Nicki Minaj

Who doesn't love Enya? Whenever I'm in a trying time, she is the calm in the middle of the storm. If I put her on, I'll be in this crazy peaceful state. I love her style. And her harmonies are freaking genius.

Niki de St. Phalle

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Darien Mickens

When he got to the door on the far end, he walked in the door and hit the wall and fell on the ground. I thought he was just going into shock, and I was trying to calm him down.

Brian Roper

We were too rushed in the first half and in the third we calmed down. We executed better.

Bernard Pivot

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

Tim Guter

When it came to crunch time, he was there for us. He was a very calming influence for us. We knew if one of our defenders got beat, Shep was back there.

Barbara Tuchman

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

Pat Taylor

We actually collected about 40.5 million with about 7 million dollars pledged

James Calvin

We don't have any doubt that, in one way or another, the taxes on sales to non-Indians are going to be collected by New York. The question is: How soon?

Stjepan Hauser

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

Don Brownlee

We found mineral grains that are considered very high-temperature minerals -- they normally form under extremely high temperature conditions. And yet they were collected in a comet, the Siberia of the solar system.

Mukul Krishna

Unless the French government comes up with something more concrete, saying that the $8.50 will be collected and distributed in such a way so that all the stakeholders welcome this new distribution medium, this won't go through.

Michael Devine

We know how much was collected and how much is unclaimed.

Sarah Wilson

She played a great game. She made a ton of saves and collected all the rebounds.

Carol Miller

So far this year we have taken in 108.5 tons of recyclable versus the estimated 65.6 tons collected last year.

W. G. Sebald

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

Goran Persson

We stand for improved unemployment benefit, they stand for worse. So people can choose.

Natalie Taylor

We're getting to know one another. We've really improved from last week to this week. We worked as a team and communicated a lot more.

Terry Hoeppner

We're a work in progress right now, but we've improved from week to week,

Joseph Nye

She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look over your back.

Simon van der Meer

Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Lehmann, Kahn and Hildebrand have all improved this season,

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

Jay Freese

She's improved a lot from last year and is in a new role. Autumn's inside this year instead of being out on the wing.

Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Avicenna

Width of life is more important than length of life.

Diane Ackerman

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

Demetri Martin

Right before I'm about to talk at length about something I like I say, Get me started.

Source Unknown

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

Judy Hayles

She's a predator and she wants her prey. And that prey is my grandson. She'll go to any length to get him.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

Lady Gregory

It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

Kate Atkinson

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

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.

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.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

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.

Avicenna

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

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Hasso Plattner

Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.

Isabel Allende

one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.

Richard Barber

But it stays within bounds, and that's an unusual system,

John Motson

Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton.

Pete Jeffries

whatever was said in the room, stays in the room.

Joe Frazier

He's good. I think he's still a young man. If he stays here and works with us on the basics, we'll make him better than good.

Alice Lowe

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Charles Spurgeon

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Alanis Morissette

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Alan Rickman

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

Alan Green

As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

Chris Colfer

You'd think after thousands of years on this planet the human race would have released some kind of handbook for teenagers, telling them how to get through teenagehood and get help for their issues. Yet here we are, struggling through it in our own ways.

Chloe Sevigny

When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical!

David Krumholtz

Obviously [Can't Hardly Wait] wasn't in American Pie, which was a movie about some teenage boys.

Dave Barry

The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green.

Dave Barry

Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava flows destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.