Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Mary Malone

Jenna was abandoned at the gate of the orphanage when she was 11 days old, and she was never in danger because she was found immediately.

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Charles Dickens

. . . I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Clinton Portis

I don't know what the deal was, but we abandoned the run. We abandoned the run -- I don't know what it was. I can't sit here and tell you it was because of the fumbles or it wasn't, but for whatever reason it was, we abandoned the run. I think when we get to go out there and execute our game plan it's hard to beat us. Every time we become one-dimensional we end up losing.

David Dye

There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines and quarries scattered across the American landscape, and some are more visible than others.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Michael Moschen

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

Hale Irwin

(Friday), the putter abandoned me early, and I never got it back. I went to a little different putting style. And I did roll the ball much better. I had more opportunities. I tried to be a little more patient and continue to hit good shots. Eventually, you're going to make a couple even if you don't putt well. That's what I did the last couple of holes.

Tom Kloza

Refinery margins just absolutely catapulted off the charts in 2005.

Bryant Hilton

Recovering used product is absolutely the right thing to do, but it's also a real service we can sell.

Ramsey Clark

Reconciliation is essential. This trial can either divide or heal. And unless it is seen as absolutely fair, and as absolutely fair in fact, it will irreconcilably divide the people of Iraq.

Hebbel

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Kim Hunter

Paul and Marie absolutely adored each other. I wanted something positive to come out of such a horrible date.

Joyce Jackson

Patrick's brother Tom and his wife, Diane, came to visit, and they absolutely loved the place. They told their daughter Karen, who's a hairdresser in Denver. The production company that does 'If Walls Could Talk' is located there, and one of the production assistants on the show came in to have her hair cut. Karen told her about the house, and eventually she found our contact info and asked us to be on the show.

Mary Tillman

Pat had high ideals about the country; that's why he did what he did. The military let him down. The administration let him down. It was a sign of disrespect. The fact that he was the ultimate team player and he watched his own men kill him is absolutely heartbreaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting.

Ujjal Dosanjh

pay a certain amount of money privately and go to his clinic, he'd be able to deal with it. And I think that's absolutely unacceptable.

Doc Rivers

Paul was absolutely sensational tonight. I didn't realize they had 50 and 43. I knew they had a lot. I could sense that. I just didn't know it was that high. Pretty cool.

Mike Blouin

People here take primaries seriously. These are the folks who make the party work.

Gene Taylor

Some of the folks from Louisiana may have gotten greedy in some of their requests,

Dave Foreman

Some of our local folks are not the type to step right up and say help me. They're the type to say never mind, we take care.

Lynn Ford

Our weather folks are telling us we're going to get some rain, but the problem is it will be isolated. What we really need is sustaining rain, one of those long rains you like for your gardens.

Frank Baum

Roads," observed the shaggy man, "don't go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them.

H. Hunt

We need some residential properties that will provide housing for folks who aren't making million-dollar incomes.

John McGary

I think there'll be a little more pressure on the governor's folks and Senate Republicans to move in our direction.

Scott Ishikawa

I think the racetrack has been a great outlet for folks who do want to race in a safe manner, rather than on the freeways.

Paul Swangard

That's what folks thought Kobe could become. It was such a shock to the system what happened in Colorado.

Delmon Young

That was smoothed over when they took the prior ownership out.

Gene Upshaw

I won't come down. The players know that. Only the owners can make a proposal.

Dan Rooney

I would say we're partners with the players now. There's owners that would resist it now, but ... I really think that's the way it should be.

Bob Stevens

The owners were receptive to donating the River Queen to us if we can raise the money. If can't get pledges or make a significant impact, we'll back out.

Michael Hoffman

The owners have not been particularly forthcoming ,

Ed Miliband

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Dan Walters

We recognize that this is something that our owners want.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Neil Baldwin

Our revenues are down about 20 percent from prior years.

E. Hicks

Over 90 percent of phones really do not really have vulnerability.

John Bradley

Over 60 percent of runners are from Utah,

Robert Straus

Right now, tech stocks are about 20 percent undervalued. While I wouldn't be surprised if some profit-taking took place, we still see a lot of upside.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

James Thrash

That's what it was, 75 percent of the offense?

Roger Clemens

I was pitching 100 percent at this time of year regardless.

Giulio Andreotti

I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.

Pavel Felgenhauer

rescue service isn't working, just as it wasn't working back then.

Tom Ditt

We have 1,500 residents waiting to be rescued from rooftops.

Celine Dion

We need to serve our country, and be there right now to rescue the rest of the people. We need the cash, we need the blood, we need the support, right now we need the prayers.

Jeanna Stewart

They rescued my three little kitties. I didn't need a rescue for me, just for them.

AJ Holloway

We are still in the search and rescue mode.

Don Hudson

It's a technical rescue that a lot of other departments do not want to do,

Peter Sirois

It's simple. We are the search and rescue because we know the trails, most of us are trained in first aid.

Fritz Braun

The rescue work is shaping up as very difficult. It is very problematic getting into the hall.

Patrick Smith

I don't see it riding to the rescue of Deby.

C. S. Lewis

I came alive when I started loving you.

Jason Richardson

I was always getting the short end of the stick.

Bret Michaels

I will deliver, rain, snow, anything short of a tornado,

Tom Parker

I don't have a worry he'll be short of words.

Princess Anne

I didn't like netball... I used to get wolf whistles because of my short skirts.

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Justin Young

The only thing that's different is that now I'm the short guy,

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

Thomas Evans

He's done great. He's come a long ways in a short time.