Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Thompson

Scrimshaw on cow horns is only common in Australia, and in the Wild West. It usually involved ex-seamen who had learnt their skills carving whale bones, then ended up on the land.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Prince William

There's no pressure; like Kate said, it is about carving your own future. No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes; what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny, and Kate will do a very good job of that.

Charles Buxton

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

Daryl Kimball

What you see here is the U.S. carving out of this document any reference to the responsibility to the nuclear weapon states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals. And that is going to make it all the more difficult to strengthen an already beleaguered nuclear nonproliferation system because other states are less likely to foreclose their nuclear options if the United States and others continue to pursue theirs.

Russell Tovey

I get told a lot that I'm kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone's OK with it.

Tracy Mullin

Halloween fills an important retail void between back-to-school and the holiday season, ... Many retailers are carving out quite a niche for themselves in the Halloween market.

Ossie Davis

I wish we had been more organized and determined with respect to carving out the time that we needed to write,

Steve North

Rather than carving out niches for various businesses, those lots ought to be there for the public.

Eric Anderson

We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.

Anthony Davis

We have to go out, and whatever happens on one play, whether good or bad, we have to go to the next play. We gained valuable experience since the game we played them. We've executed better, so I just can't wait to see us putting it out there.

Chris Carpenter

We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out.

Zhang Ning

We have no specific expectations about how far we will go now. We just want the players to keep learning from the experience of taking part in these international matches.

Sal Fasano

Whenever you don't have fastball command, it's pretty tough to get everything else to work. If anything, it's a good learning experience to know that the fastball is the most important pitch you throw.

Annette Brown

We want people to experience as much as they can instead of talking at them, lecturing at them, or reading information to them.

Gayle Devin

We were trying to be everything to everyone. My experience tells me that sometimes that doesn't work. You can't really differentiate yourself in the marketplace.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Tara VanDerveer

We have played more games on the road ... we've had that experience already. We're ready to play, and we know we have to play well.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

Carlos Mesa

I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

Carlos Gonzalez

I feel good hitting in the three-hole. I guess that's where everybody wants to be. You want the responsibility of hitting in the middle of the lineup.

Jaswant Singh

We have never said we are absolved of our responsibility,

Agnes Repplier

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

Aaron Sorkin

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Alan Trammell

We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility.

Charles W. Pickering

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Charles Dudley Warner

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

Rekalin Sims

We know how terrifying he can be. He can kill us himself.

Twyla Tharp

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

Richard Flanagan

Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.

Sandra Tsing Loh

In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced.

James M. Cain

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

K. A. Applegate

Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentle.