Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Oster

Lovingly crafted and super-creative cupcakes are not exactly on tap in my household after a full day at work, and I do not blame my mother for a second that they were not on tap in hers, either.

Chandra Bhushan

Lax and completely ineffective regulations are really to blame for this state of affairs.

Charlie Melancon

Sen. Vitter worked in this House for six years and knows its leadership, ... He has placed the blame squarely at their feet, and I think they owe the entire Gulf Coast an explanation.

Mark Duffy

Mistakes cost you, and we had a few that really hurt us today. It wasn't just on that goal that got waived off, but we had five blue shirts standing around watching two (Tech goals) on rebounds when our goalie didn't know where the puck was. We have no one to blame there but ourselves.

John Gomery

Mr. Martin, whose role as finance minister did not involve him in the supervision of spending by the PMO or (Public Works) is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct.

John Gomery

Mr. Martin...is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct,

John Gomery

Mr. Martin ... is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct,

Ian Shepherdson

Mr. Greenspan is at least partly to blame for the turnaround in the fiscal position here -- his musings on the problems of ever-increasing surpluses were a clear green light to Congress to cut taxes.

Lee Peterson

Mayor Nagin has blamed everyone else except himself,

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Albert Schweitzer

Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.

Charles Olson

of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Susan Winter

I feel so bad, ... I didn't shoot from a truck; I didn't knowingly do anything that was illegal. This is embarrassing.

Mariela Carrion

I can't sleep at night no more knowing that we could have lost him. There's just no words for it.

Ryan Shafer

I don't regret the shot. I regret not knowing that I needed to move. It's frustrating.

Elizabeth Bowen

Plot is the knowing of destination.

Elizabeth Bowen

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

Donald Trump

Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in,

Michael Schaffer

Maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.

George H. W. Bush

Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working,

Larry Brown

Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know,

Chris Shelton

Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins.

Evan Needham

Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.

Donald Lowe

Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one test does everything for everybody.

Sam Singer

Maybe we should trade in our supervisor for somebody up in Seattle.

Brian Urlacher

Maybe we shouldn't get a bye week anymore.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Armando Iannucci

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Tony Mowbray

I am surprised by how quickly he has come back,

Andrew Maynard

But the research into the risks isn't being done as efficiently or quickly as it should.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

Jason Taylor

The play worked, ... Randy was wide open.

Randy Weber

I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.

Joe Torre

Randy was great, we just didn't give him anything to work with.

Norv Turner

Randy made some big plays. He competed awfully well.

Terry Kukesh

She stepped it up and got them going.

Ken Sprague

We were intimidated before we stepped on the court.

Robert Garcia

I think you really have stepped it up a notch, and it's been noticed.

Darren Testa

He was a big surprise. He really stepped up for us.

Ozzie Guillen

He did it all today. He showed up big. He stepped up and did a tremendous job.

Michael Coburn

He's a young guy, but he stepped up. That's what we needed.

Ernie Rosseau

He has really stepped up for us down the stretch.

Randy Johnson

I got a little tight. So, I just stepped out and let someone else pitch. Everything is fine.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

David Bone

No one was more surprised than we were,

Jeffrey Rea

I was real surprised to see him out there.

Michael Moskow

I was surprised they wanted to talk about education.

Janet Reno

I was surprised that there were so many

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Tom Poti

I was surprised I had that much time.

Randy Gipson

I was surprised and flattered. I had not thought about something like this happening.

George Whalin

I would be very surprised if Kmart doesn't completely go away in the two to three years, or become something completely different,

Ai Miyazato

I'm a little surprised it was this easy.

Mary Stazzone

She threw up all the meat, but we couldn't find the stick.

Adam Haluska

You don't really have much time to think about it. I didn't really look at the basket. Just kind of threw it up there in desperation.

Devan Downey

We didn't come to play, we got what we deserved. We threw it all over the gym. It wasn't one person. I wasn't there mentally.

Jeremiah Trotter

The ref said I threw a punch, but I didn't throw a punch,

Mary Murphy

We threw so much at her when she walked in the door. I think she's pretty prepped for the undertaking.

Rick Jackson

We threw it away and they went down and got a two-point lead.

Jeff Burton

I threw it away after the first week.

Mark Prior

I threw a lot in the first inning,

Yvette Girouard

I thought Dani was magnificent tonight. I thought she threw as well as she's thrown in a while.

Coolio

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

Donald Tusk

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Twyla Tharp

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

Deng Xiaoping

Seek truth from facts.

Democritus

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Edgar Allan Poe

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Doug Harvey

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

Charles Olson

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

Dizzy Dean

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

Al Barlick

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

Al Barlick

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Chris Christie

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

Calamity Jane

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Bill Janklow

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Edwin Louis Cole

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.