Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Braisted

Refugees attempting to build the blockhouse on the remains of the fort never mounted ... cannons although they may have had at least one with them.

John Loose

Recognizing the many uncertainties about the broader economy, we are carefully walking the line between realism and optimism, ... Although it appears that our revenue stream will improve as the year plays out, the pace and timing of recovery is uncertain.

Tania Graves

Really what it is is focusing on businesses that are core to our strategic plan. These lines of businesses, although profitable ... would thrive better with a company that is more focused in those areas.

Preston Sturges

Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.

Charlie Glavin

Our October downgrade was based on concerns that are manifesting themselves now, although current conditions are actually worse than we feared,

D. James

Our objective is to make it easy for our customers and members to understand their benefit and get their prescriptions filled. Although some new enrollees may not have received their plan enrollment cards, we want to reassure them that Wal-Mart and SAM'S CLUB pharmacists are ready to help them right away by using the information on their plan enrollment forms.

Richard Hatch

Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.

Henry Blodget

Our preliminary conclusion is that, although Microsoft is not out of the woods, it will be slightly more free to compete on its own terms than we expected it would.

Bob Morton

Our pitch is top-class and the lads enjoy playing on it. I'm sure we are a better team at home although I'm not making any excuses for last Saturday's unexpected defeat at Tow Law Town which was only our third in 29 games.

Fabien Pelous

Physically, the All Blacks were stronger and faster. They gave us a lesson. We did what we could but we know now that the road to the 2007 World is going to be very long.

Gore Vidal

Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.

Jeff Horner

I think some of those goals are impossible to get. It's kind of a weird system, but most of the time when we have more blacks than reds, we're in the win column.

Justin Marshall

I am delighted to see Jonah back on the field again. I had the privilege of captaining him for the All Blacks and he is one of the most dangerous wings the game has ever seen. It is a testament to the kind of man Jonah is that he is back on the rugby field. He is driven by a desire to succeed and we will have to make sure we are ready for him.

Lenora Fulani

Frank MacKay and the state leadership of the Independence Party have now shown their true colors. They're intent upon turning the Independence Party into an all-white party, where blacks and other minorities are not just unwelcome, they are maligned and abused.

Tana Umaga

He was instrumental in building the All Blacks tradition. We're pleased for the chance to pay our respects

Susan Howell

He has to expand the electorate, and that's a big hurdle. Blacks displaced by Katrina, these people are going to be horribly difficult to reach.

Andy Irvine

He (McKie) is not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the All Blacks or pull out a winger that will put Rokocoko to shame. That's not his role. There is no quick fix,

Martin Henderson

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.

George H. W. Bush

Recovery is going to take years. We need to help these Gulf Coast communities and, of course, the great city of New Orleans get back on their feet. The job is too big, too overwhelming for any one group.

John Grant

Reasonable people in the city of Oceanside would say, 'Great, get rid of that old trailer park,' ... don't like it, (but) they're going to have to move.

Paul Eisenstein

Our readers really stepped up with some insane street names. We learned a lot about the byways of this country, not to mention the collective sense of humor of city planners everywhere.

Felicia Londre

Patricia's move to Kansas City sent shockwaves through the scholarly world. People wondered why she was 'throwing away' her career. They didn't understand it.

Victor Batarseh

Our message is that tourists are still welcome. This is a peaceful city and there is no reason they should not come.

DeJuan Blair

People have been overlooking the City League like crazy for years. It's good that we got here. Hopefully we can win it.

Sunny Mindel

People know him as the man who was the leader of an urban renaissance of the city that was deemed to be ungovernable. His legacy is sustained by the accomplishments as leader of New York City for eight years.

Glenn Thomas

People need to authorize that the city is not out any money. The money we refund is in lieu of money spent on infrastructure.

Kelly McCann

People in this city are starting to realize that HIV is everyone's disease.

Chad Morgenthaler

Some of them are hard to find now. The specific colors are the main thing.

O. Henry

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep.

Duane Davis

I didn't like (the helmets), ... My primary reason being the school colors are green and gold.

Marty Turco

I actually like the red. I don't mind the colors at all.

Jeff Fiorentino

I was thankful. I picked out one suit, and he said, 'How many colors do you have?' I was embarrassed to pick more, but I got three nice-looking suits.

Ronald Harwood

When he talks about his past, it is as if he is talking about someone else. He never emotionalizes it. He never colors it. It's just: That's what happened. In 'Oliver Twist,' it's much more concealed, but I think it is entirely autobiographical, because of what happens to a little boy, and how he does come through.

Ronald Harwood

When he talks about his past, it is as if he is talking about someone else, ... He never emotionalizes it. He never colors it. It's just: That's what happened. In 'Oliver Twist,' it's much more concealed, but I think it is entirely autobiographical, because of what happens to a little boy, and how he does come through.

David Spooner

There are many different colors solid and mottled and dotted from white to tan to purple to red.

David Spooner

There are many different colors -- solid and mottled and dotted from white to tan to purple to red.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Braising eggs in a flavoursome, aromatic sauce is all the rage. It is warming and comforting, ideal for the morning when you are not normally up for a great culinary challenge.

Robin Leach

Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children's educational programs to inspire and mentor young people through culinary arts, school food and nutrition.

Dana Goodyear

I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

Ed Oxenbould

I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

Marcus Samuelsson

While some people may think being a chef only entails making enticing dishes and pushing the culinary boundaries, being a part of the food industry involves much more.

Bruce Jay Friedman

The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

Ben Bradlee

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Rene Redzepi

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

Luca Parmitano

Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.

Gordon Brown

Past economic transformations depended as much on brawn as well as on brains.

Patti Smith

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.

Bonnie Tyler

It ain't wise to need someone -- As much as I depended on you.

Robert Wise

His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, ... He knew exactly what worked for him on screen and knew what he could get away with.

Richard Fuller

If the success or failure of this Planet, and of Human Beings, depended on how I am and what I do; How would I be? What would I do?

Paul Dwyer

He taught us that family and friends are gifts to be treasured. He also taught us that we should work as if everything depended on us, and pray as if everything depended on God.

Myron Corbett

We depended on Diana a lot in terms of settling the team down in the fourth quarter. After the first quarter her leadership on the floor was big.

Gloria Emerson

I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.

John Coffee

The partnership knew the firm was no longer viable so there was no reason not to roll the dice. If their survival depended on this jury they probably would have settled.

Michael Molligan

Our normal watering restrictions were put in place during the severe water shortage of the early 1990s. But over time we have discovered that to water more than twice a week is wasteful and does no more good for the vegetation. So what once were water-shortage restrictions are now regular and in-place year round.

Brian Baker

Some of our test families didn't think they had a problem and just used the reporting feature, but they discovered they had a real problem.

Jasmine Tookes

I was actually discovered while at a showroom appointment and was immediately sent over to an agency in L.A. I was about 15 years old at that time.

Stanley Hauerwas

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Jerry Only

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

Donald Byrd

I discovered that you can actually do it in about seven minutes.

John Burdett

I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.

Cynthia Lennon

I discovered that John's temper could be frightening,

George Bernard Shaw

Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities.

Stephen Covey

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Elmar Basse

Sleep habits are very individual and therefore shouldn't be overestimated.

Andrew Magee

Then I remembered I was back on tour, and it was time to screw up. The old habits just don't seem to go away after the surgery. I was hoping all the old negativity might go away, but it's still there.

Tom Taulli

It'll take time for old habits to break. But the more interactions with investors, the better. It's always better to get more investors interested in your company.

Kathleen Noone

I surf out of Harmony on a big wave. It's all Tabitha's fault.

Rig Veda

Harmony prevails if people of similar nature meet.

Ashley Monroe

I feel like it's the most unnatural thing for two humans, especially of the opposite sex, to live in harmony under one roof. You realize how different men and women are.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody

Nick Hornby

I'm all for peace and harmony between the sexes.

Bernie Worrell

If a person would study-not extensively, just hands-on, real instruments, and study a little harmony and theory, you could take it even further.

Bashar al-Assad

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Albert Einstein

From discord, find Harmony.

Albert Einstein

Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Jacob Reitan

Our message is: Learn from history and end religious-based repression.

Will Rogers

Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

Jack Turner

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Xinhua Agency

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Brad Lidge

I think they're professionals and they're going up there and looking for something and trying to hit it. I don't think they're thinking too much about the history of us, but if they are and it can work to my advantage, that's great.

Mark Fischer

Pat always took the jobs nobody else wanted. What makes this place work is the people who give their time to others and that was Pat. She wasn't an ordinary soccer mom.

Tom DeLay

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Tim Roth

Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA.

Pat Conacher

Players have to realize they're playing for their jobs right now.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

Bebe Neuwirth

I made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that's what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, "Hey asshole, I told you so."

Becca Fitzpatrick

I take my job seriously, which means I'm going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I got a new job.” Patch locked eyes with me, and I warmed in a lot of places. In fact, I was dangerously close to feverish.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’re a guardian angel now.”.... I’m your guardian angel,” he said. “I get my very own guardian angel? What, exactly, is your job description?” “Guard your body.” His smile tipped higher. “I take my job seriously, which means I’m going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

Phil Savage

Reggie has a lot of talent. In my opinion, with Reggie Bush, more could be less and less could be more.

Sathya Baba

Peace is shore less ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world.

Katsuhiko Machida

Survival today means innovating and doing things that no one else does. This is a lesson not only for Sharp but for all of Japan.

Drew Frank

That'd be nice. Maybe I should. As I teach, I don't keep lesson plans from one year to the next and I don't keep anything from one season to the next.

Stephen M. Walt

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Andy Newman

Remember every storm is different. The better prepared you are, the less of an inconvenience it's going to be.

Louis Benevides

Plano West is just an up-and-coming team. They've come a long way in less than a season.

Darrell Nichols

I think there's less tolerance for repeat problems. I think they are now going to be a little more strict with what's going on.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Doug Tobin

Price and Evans lived in the same place. They were described as friends. At this point, we don't know why he shot his roommate.

Celine Buckens

I wish I lived in the '60s because I'm a big fan of the Beatles.

Al Pacino

I'd like to be remembered as the only man who lived to be 250 years old!

Mikael Tellqvist

I don't feel too much pressure like that (taking over as No.1). I've lived with it since I was 7 and I can live with it now.

Kadiatou Diallo

I don't know what went wrong that night. I just know that he (Amadou) was in the right place because he lived here, ... He was going in the place where he lived.

Orhan Pamuk

I am a Turk. I've lived in Turkey for 43 years, and for that reason my political observations are about Turkey, because that's what I know.

Ben Bernanke

He lived with us for 24 years, ... He studied with us.

Steve Nash

It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

Stella McCartney

For years, the six of us lived in a two-bedroom house.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Steve Hutchinson

He's been thrown into the fire. It was the lowest of the lows. In my rookie year, he was getting booed off the field. Of anybody, I'm proudest of Matt.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

David Lagercrantz

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Dave Dasgupta

Traditionally the first and second quarters have the lowest losses.

Vijay Singh

Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.

Big Sean

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

Blake Michael

I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

D. H. Lawrence

Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.

David Caruso

Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.

Antonin Scalia

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

Alain Robert

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

Al Pacino

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..

Esperanza Spalding

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Deepak Chopra

Remember that you will create peace only when you are peaceful.

Bruce Cockburn

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Hesham Qandil

We need to reflect the true identity of Muslims, how peaceful they are and really be able to talk to the Western media about the true look and heart of the Muslims.

John C. Reilly

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

Albert Einstein

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

Dan Millman

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

Dan Millman

Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment.

Dan Millman

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Adrian Beltre

He can make the lineup on any team. Especially on our team. If he is able to come back and play with us in Puerto Rico, our team is going to be a lot better.

Gina Rodriguez

I'm not messing with skiing. You can't get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.

Gina Rodriguez

I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.

David Witt

We've got (firefighters) here from Florida, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, pretty much all over the United States.

Bobby Hamilton

I don't think you can do it with 10 races to go in trucks because we only run 25 races,

Joseph Bruno

She's going to have one of the most competitive races in the state,

Vedran Pavlek

She's taking a little break. It's just too many races for her right now, at the end of the season.

Jeff Bonde

She's at the top of her game. She has trained excellent, and she does well when her races are spaced.

Dale Jr

We are going to win six or seven races and be in the top three in the Chase. If we don't win the championship, it won't be by much.

Jenson Button

We want to be winning races and so just being on the podium is disappointing.

Keith Williams

I thought the races would be a little closer,

Morgan Dobbs

This will be one of the most competitive races in America.

Richard Childress

We were going to keep the 3, he just wanted to see it winning races and winning championships.

Robert Davies

He does not see it as a racial thing,

Will Durst

I didn't know that was a racial epithet. I thought it was a geographical designation.

Ben Williams

I never had a racial term thrown to me the whole time I was at Ole Miss. We were progressing.

Forrest Pearson

The whole racial thing has been downplayed, but that is what it was. It seems that everyone wants to sweep the thing under the rug.

Warren Moon

I don't want to make this a racial thing, because it shouldn't be. But it is significant because it was the first time.

Allard Baird

Out of respect to him, I'd rather have him do that.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Simon Leung

I think the timing is going to be more towards the end of this year rather than earlier.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Jon Karkow

I think he was thinking more about the end of the runway approaching rather than the birds.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Craig Berman

He really wants to get back to the work he's been doing for 15 years in search rather than running a company.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Azzedine Alaia

'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.

John Buskirk

That was a tremendous punt return. Robert's punt return really kind of put us over the top. That put us in a real, real strong position.

Susanna Moore

I have to admit that I was very happy to finish 'In the Cut,' and happy not to return to it.

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

Carlos Menem

Here we are. What Evita (Peron) said is being fulfilled: I will return and be millions,

Antoni Gaudi

Originality is a return to the origin.

Charles Spurgeon

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

David Nicholls

She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy

Martin Singer

She's acknowledged she has them, she just won't return them,

Gregory Reid

She intends to return to New York and straighten out the situation.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Slater

Burlington will be a big challenge, to see where we're at. It (Friday's game) will be something that will tell us what kind of a team we have and if we've made improvements since Christmas.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Susie Orbach

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

Rachel Perry

I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.

Dennece Knight

Most of our visitors will be here to have fun.

Harry Friedman

We know our visitors like to see us in different cities,

Charles C. Mann

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Jack Kelly

Visitors may want (the vendors), but it's not all about the visitors.

Jeremy Paxman

Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there?

Jeff Kinney

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.