Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.

Nicki Harrington

We want to protect the asset we have here and most importantly, it is rebuilding the (heating and air conditioning) systems. The aesthetics are important, but have to be done conservatively.

Jamie Shea

We have no indication at all that our aircraft were involved in that incident.

Walt Dabney

We have no air force, we have no anti-aircraft guns and we have no authority.

Janice Nolen

We have mounting scientific proof that cleaning up the source of air pollution results in cleaner air and less illness and death. A study recently released showed that when particle air pollution declines in a city, the death rates also drop in that city.

John Wright

When four of ten CEOs (40 per cent) believe that there could be a major economic downturn in the next two years, might be the proverbial canary in the mine. The strength of the Canadian dollar and its impact on manufacturing and exports plus the ascendancy of China and India as major global economic players may be putting a degree of caution into the air in what has been to date a robust outlook. Time will tell.

Catherine Jones

When flying into Cardiff to visit her home in Swansea, she has often complained that she cannot easily get from the airport on to the motorway. She has, in fact, been using the

Richard Boucher

We want our airplane back, and we're going to make that point, and we would expect to get a response.

Aaron Spelling

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

Vitaly Mutko

We want to return our team to the glory days of the Soviet Union.

Debbie Martinez

We have seen a lot of heavy traffic in the last week or two. The warmer days in early November were slower than usual, but it has picked up and doubled up since the weather has cooled off.

Todd Kapala

We have seen a good three or four days of trading so (investors) are taking profits at this point.

Chris Saunders

We have no excuses. They just didn't play good today. I don't think playing two days in a row makes any difference.

Ricky Craven

The fact is that some days are not your days and some days you get lucky. Over the long haul, that probably evens out.

Tim Tebow

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

Thomas Massie

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

George Nichols

We are going to look back at 2000 as the glory days that crashed.

Elon Musk

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Ray Allen

We have to focus on the next (few) games before the deadline. Our production is ultimately going to decide what decision we need to or don't need to make.

M.V. Govindan

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

Darren Pang

The reality is that Wayne doesn't like to start something and not finish. My guess is that he's the kind of guy who will think about things long and hard, and then he'll decide to return.

Charles Stross

The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.

Ann Powell

When I decided to sell it, it was just to get the money to do all the things that I've done,

Rusty Wallace

When I decided to retire, I decided I couldn't stand it if I went out a loser,

Kelly Preston

When I decided to resume acting, I had become Mrs. Travolta in many people's eyes so I had to prove myself all over again.

Estella Warren

When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.

Alfredo Palacio

The people of Ecuador today have decided to save the republic, a republic of hope, in whose streets and green fields should flower dignity, hope, equality and happiness.

Joanne Boyle

We have to go with the flow here. We might have to practice early one day this week, kind of prepare them. But the little things like that, you just have to go with.

Peter Jensen

We have to find out if it's exposure to smoking during pregnancy, or early experiences, exposure to lead, these are all potential factors that we have some inkling of, but we don't know how they interact with genetic predispositions,

Peter Gibson

We have no idea of what it might have been at this early stage.

Carlos Guillen

We have pretty good players, All-Stars. We need to stay together. This game is not easy. A lot of teams have been through this, good teams -- the Yankees early in the season. But they find a way to get better, to turn everything the other way. With that kind of team, the big thing is concentration.

Andy Parsons

We have philosophical differences. We think the new products are targeted at early adaptors, focused on performance and not price. This is an elite model.

Steve Sloan

We've started some of the clearing. That's the first big item, and then we'll move toward line construction early this summer.

David Clarke

We've seen over the last 12 months or so people going into deployments. The technology has gone from early adopter to early majority.

Dana Altman

We've won some games we shouldn't. We probably lost some games we should've won. We just need to focus on getting better. If a few weeks down the line we're still in the hunt, we can talk about it later. But it's too early for our team to be talking about anything like that.

Masuhisa Kobayashi

The CPI was higher than expected and is supportive for the BOJ. The markets have already discounted an early end to the quantitative easing policy.

Carlos Ghosn

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

Jonathan Davis

When Family Values first started it felt like music was fresh and exciting. We want to recreate that same feeling for our fans, and offer them a full day of fun and some great music.

Joyce Kesse

We want her back. Our family is aching.

Agnes Smedley

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

Charles Dudley Warner

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Virginia Postrel

The whole point of movie glamour was - and is - escape.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.

Martin Brodeur

People like the glamour and the glamour with Scotty is his hits. That's what they remember. They don't want to talk about him taking the puck away from Jaromir Jagr with one hand or anything like that.

Patty Fox

I think we're going to see a return to the Hollywood glamour era. We're going to see more variety than we've seen in the past.

Nate Turner

People have started to jump on the bandwagon. (But) we don't look at the glamour of it. We look at the part of how it helps the program.

Rick Elice

We never knew their story because they were from Jersey, and because they were blue-collar high-school dropouts ? Italian kids with no glamour quotient at all,

Becki Newton

Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.

Amy Schumer

Let's all just follow the lead of Glamour, and join forces and lift each other up.

Colm Toibin

People's interest in glamour and clothes and nylon stockings and all those things were, when I was a little boy, the sort of world that I listened to.

Aaron Spelling

We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.

Charles Dickens

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Jane Austen

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

Jane Austen

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

Jan Hammer

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

Alan Watts

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

Alan Ball

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.

Cheryl Strayed

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

Kate Thompson

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

Jennifer Ellison

I want to be a young mum and if I didn't have to work I'd have them tomorrow. I'd like three!

Jane Asher

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

Elizabeth Hurley

I feel like a semi-single mum.

Natalie Imbruglia

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

Bruce Dickinson

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

Isla Fisher

On Nicole Kidman: She's a mum in her thirties with slag's hair. Look at all that frizzy s**t! She thinks she's a girl.

Lauren Bell

I do not remember my mum at all,

Ella Eyre

My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!

Adnan Badran

She (later) went on to Salt because one of her relatives

Shahazad

My destination is at a place where my late-friends and relatives are waiting for me to arrive.

John Schultz

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

Chen Shui-bian

I got up at 2 a.m. for this trip. I want to see my relatives and I want to see China,

Hankus Netsky

When I was 19 I started pestering my relatives who were willing to teach me.

Dave Bristow

She's by herself, she has no relatives in Manatee.

Salvation Army

The relatives don't know they come here every week,

J. C. Ryle

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

Francois Fenelon

Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.

C. S. Lewis

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Charles Spurgeon

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Diane Setterfield

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.

Cesare Pavese

You dont remember days, you remember moments

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Christian Church

We are here to remember just how special they were to us,

Jason Calacanis

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Tom DeLay

To all these new spending requests, I say, 'Mr. President, show me the money,

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Dave Foley

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

Ed Belfour

I have been dealing with back problems since 1995 when I was with the Blackhawks, and I've only missed part of one season because of it. That was last season in Toronto.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Personally, I love Toronto.

Mike Myers

I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.

Madonna Ciccone

Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom

Jeffery Deaver

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

Mats Sundin

And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Kensington Market is a must visit place in Toronto.

Griffin Dunne

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

Carol Leifer

Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord."

Agnes Repplier

We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

Agnes Repplier

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

Agnes Repplier

The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

Agnes Repplier

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Agnes Repplier

it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

Agnes Repplier

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

Agnes Repplier

abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

Alan Turing

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Carl Crawford

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

Lee Daniels

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants.

Aaron Sorkin

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Andre Walker

We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were.

Brian Schmidt

We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.

Alan Titchmarsh

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

Charlotte Bronte

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlie Haden

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

Ellen Gilchrist

My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

Charles C. Mann

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

Diane Abbott

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

Harry Friedman

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

Brad Thor

Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can't imagine that it is real because it looks like a movie lot.

Dennece Knight

Most of our visitors will be here to have fun.

Angelus Silesius

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

Sara Shepard

My sister and I visited Iceland in 2001, and I incorporated it into 'Pretty Little Liars.'

Jack Kelly

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

Carolina Herrera

When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror.

Charles Stross

I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

Johnny Weir

To be honest, I just want to go somewhere where I can wear a white Speedo.

Nick Woodman

My friends used to tease me 'cause I'd wear a CamelBak while I was working so I wouldn't have to get up if I was thirsty.

Laura Marano

I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

Coco Chanel

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

Scott Peterson

She was wearing her seatbelt but it wouldn't have made any difference, ... She was killed instantly.

Diana DeGarmo

If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something.

Manolo Blahnik

I like women with style to wear my shoes.