Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kerry Greenwood

A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.

Natasha Trethewey

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Carl Sibilski

McDonald's crossed the $20 billion mark for the first time in global sales and also did it while translating 12.7 percent of that into net income, which is very admirable for a restaurant company.

Steve Smith

Seattle is a very admirable team. They're very experienced. Everything that team did today was superb.

Nick Burgess

Nick England did an admirable job. The kid that he wrestled had pinned by him before at the Thomas Worthington tournament (Feb. 4) and Nick lost by decision in the sectional.

Attorney Morano

I believe the State Police did an admirable job making contact with judicial officials, with my office and the people on the front lines being exposed. I think they also did a great job investigating immediately. Every time you have an incident you can learn from it, but I'd leave it to them.

Unknown

to the Bride and Groom There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Irving Wallace

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Sean O'Faolain

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Karl Mayer

We have seen 60 or more animals in Moss Landing Harbor near the boat launch. If fishermen are speeding out of the north harbor in the dark at 5 a.m., the likelihood of boat strikes is fairly high.

Nick Brown

We have to get the time between the identification of the individual disease outbreaks and the slaughter of infected animals down as far as we can get it and to try and get it within twenty four hours.

Susan Basford

We have no intention of sending these animals to a sanctuary. I don't know why we would. I think a sanctuary is appropriate for old, sick, needy elephants.

Mark Ryan

We've seen them take nuts off of bolts. We've seen them open doors and walk out doors. We've seen them climb six-foot chain-link fences. These animals are probably ... one of the most challenging to work with in an environment like this,

Jim Campbell

We've seen good results in animals, but that could fail in humans. We're very hopeful here.

Teri Schweiss

The extent of the problem is the sheer numbers of animals that go through the animal shelter and the number of feral cats around town.

Diane Sauve

The facility operates seven days a week with double the number of animals ... the shelter that was built to house.

Zsuzsanna Jakab

There is a little more risk for those who have directly worked with the infected animals, so our goal must be to further minimize that risk.

Charles Patterson

When it was obvious that nobody was interested in a book about the 'Nazi' way we treat animals,

Matt Murton

We want to put last year behind us. This is this year, 2006.

Matt Murton

We want to put last year behind us. Any time you can start off successfully, it helps you relax a little. You might not press as much.

Art Hogan

We have to get used to the fact that the emergency level of the fed funds rate is behind us, ... The sooner we become cognizant of the fact that the global economy won't be crushed and corporate earnings won't roll over, the sooner the market will fight its way to trend higher.

James Nesbitt

We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of hopelessness, but there is hope, and it rests in the hands of our scientists.

Mark Fields

We have to get a stronger message behind that.

Clint Hurdle

When he gets in a groove there's some pop behind it. He brings some noise.

Kazuo Kitagawa

We want police to clarify the facts behind the scandal so it will not happen again.

Michael Clarke

We wanted to win. This game is behind us now. We have to just keep working hard so that we can stay in front.

Dayton Miller

We've still got some work to do. Everybody's ultimate goal is to win the national championship. Putting what is done behind us and striving for that ultimate goal is what we've got to do.

Theodor Mommsen

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.

Al Tompkins

What's new is that entire newsrooms that once were one thing are totally different. The conversion of the traditional newsroom to the VJ newsroom is different.

P. Herbert

Obviously, it is a series we want to win. If we have a higher conversion rate than we had on Sunday, that should not be a problem.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The government supports the resumption of work at the uranium conversion facilities and we will continue,

Ryan Jensen

The defense stepped up. The two-point conversion and the interception, those are things that make memories. Those are the plays you live for.

Jerry Klein

While some dating sites use targeted discounting strategies to improve their conversion rates, we take a different approach, focusing on privacy technologies.

Zack Snyder

We didn't shoot in 3-D. They've talked about doing a conversion and there's been a lot of talk about us doing 'Sucker Punch' in 3-D, but I'm still waiting to see.

Robert Keane

What you're seeing now is conversion of older models to new prototypes. These are the next generation of Super Stop & Shops. The renovations will give a whole new look to the store.

John Lazarchic

Historically, we know that if we just pick top-selling items and e-mail them to people, conversion isn't that great. It's very hard to target in the pet space. You have to know a lot about that consumer.

Stephen Colletti

I'm the type of guy if there's a haunted hotel in town, I'm staying there and will stay up all night waiting to get the crap scared out of me.

Tim Parmeter

The only downside was that we started the second half with the same crap we've been doing. We had turnovers on our first four possessions, and all a sudden, our lead goes from 18 to 11.

Bea Arthur

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.

Brian K. Vaughan

I just make crap up more than anything else.

Tyra Banks

I don't think cellulite is great - that's not a flaw that I want in a photo by any means! I retouch that crap out. But I tell women that I'm retouching it out.

Jessica Foley

She's got a pretty mean stare on her. She's got big shoulders, she's strong, and she doesn't take any crap on the court. She was not the person I wanted to be guarding in practice my freshman year. I was intimidated by her.

Shawn Scobee

We're just starting to hit the crap out of the ball.

John Heimlich

Fuel prices are the difference between record profitability (for some airlines) and a year of crappy losses.

Reed Baker

I feel pretty crappy right now, but we had a good shot at it. I was getting past my guy and drawing help every time. The shots just weren't falling.

David Sedaris

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

Caroline Kennedy

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

Lester B. Pearson

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

Benjamin Haydon

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.

Charles Spurgeon

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

George McGovern

We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.

Charles Williams

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

Sathya Baba

Modesty and devotion to God are real jewels for woman kind. The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.

Charles Dudley Warner

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Charles de Gaulle

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles Dickens

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

Charles Simmons

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Tom Lehrer

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

Tim Gunn

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.

Roger Morris

Venissa is a perfect destination for day-trippers from Venice proper who are searching for great food and a little adventure; it's a 30-minute jaunt by vaporetto from St. Mark's, quicker by water taxi.

Diane von Furstenberg

Italy will always have the best food.

Dave Barry

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Carol Shields

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

Carlos Beltran

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

Carlos Beltran

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

Carlos Fuentes

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

Kane Moix

We have so many things in our playbook that if a team thinks they have us scouted out, we'll just throw something else at them. We have a lot of ways to keep people on their toes. It can be hard to remember sometimes, but it's obvious it works.

Richard Farmer

When everyone knows everything is going right for a company, sentiment is hard to improve.

Janet Yellen

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

Don Madden

When he'd tell you a joke, you'd have to laugh because he was laughing so hard.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it totally. It has no value. That is nonsense.

Michael Specter

It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.

Bertrand Russell

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Parry Aftab

Most spammers will ignore the state laws, as they have all others.

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Dave Davis

Matt's idea, as it is with all injuries, was to ignore it and it would go away.

Billy Collins

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

and City

Like any member of the family, they managed to ignore the faults.

Bob Brewer

I don't think you can completely ignore that.

Tawni O'Dell

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Ernest Mandel

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

Robert Thompson

When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more.

Kevin Lynch

With Typekit, you sign on, you pay a single subscription fee. We're including that as part of Creative Cloud.

Tyler Cowen

Most restaurants in most cities, including Washington, are at a sort of mid-level. They're somewhat trendy, or they have some sort of gimmick, or they're somewhat expensive. And they make a lot of money off drinks. I tell people don't go to most of them, unless your goal is just to socialize.

Li Yuanchao

Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

Vladimir Litvin

Watching how simultaneously statements are made, including at the top level, it can be understood that this is an organized campaign.

Anil Kumar

Most of the victims were local labourers, including women workers with infants and small children.

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Chris Stevens

My intentions are to be the Republican candidate.

Angelo Bitsis

We're not making any assumptions. What his intentions were, we don't know.

Bo Burnham

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

Dan Brooks

You have to find out everything you possibly can about what their intentions are so you can be prepared.

Tim Halstead

Our intentions are to someday have a property.

Ron Hebert

You always want to win. But we went into the jamboree with the intentions of looking at some different rotations.

Tom Renney

I'm leaning toward Henrik, but we'll see. Those are my intentions at this time.

Dante Hall

I have no intentions on being a coach.

Reg Keys

If this war had been justified by international law I would have grieved and not campaigned,

Blake Lively

I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!

Mark Johnson

We presented the position that we thought was justified in this case.

Henry Tsoi

The ratings upgrade is justified because things in Hong Kong are really improving.

Bentzi Lieberman

I say to my friends in Hebron that they should have done everything to get rid of those youths who are eradicating any possibility of having people listen to their very justified complaints.

Daniel Pauly

Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

Paul Lawrie

It was very nice obviously, ... I am playing a lot better recently so it was kind of justified I think.

Jerry Bridges

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

Jeff Cooper

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

Carl Guardino

The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.

Carl Guardino

The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.

Carl Guardino

High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

Alan Kay

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Charlotte Bronte

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Charlie Cook

The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close "relations" which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn't be more alien to most of us.

Charlie Cook

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

Charlie Cook

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

Jason Biggs

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

Bertrand Russell

We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.

Ahmed Nazif

The world started with some skepticism. I think skepticism was warranted,

George Eliot

... scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill ...

George Santayana

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Great intellects are skeptical.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

Carl Bernstein

In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.

C. S. Lewis

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

Agnes Repplier

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Aasif Mandvi

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

Alan Kay

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

Charlotte Bronte

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

Ricky Gervais

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better

Brian Cox

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.