Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

Barney Frank

We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

Benjamin Walker

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

Charles M. Schulz

Lucy was using my blanket to dry the dishes... We now have very secure dishes!

Tiger Woods

Unless it turns big-time downwind and the fairways dry out, no, you can't get there in two.

Baltasar Gracian

A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.

George Taylor

we experienced a very dry mid-winter last year, and that is something we never anticipated.

James Driscoll

The (placement of) pins are a lot easier on Thursday. And when the greens dry out, as they should this week, it's only going to get harder.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.

David Sedaris

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

Mike Aresco

We are pleased to present the excitement of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships live to our viewers. We look forward to a great event and the opportunity to highlight the outstanding achievements of the track and field student-athletes.

Roger Wilkins

We are looking forward, and already planning for an even greater event for 2006.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

We still need to strengthen ourselves in the sprints. We're pushing hard in those events this week in practice.

Todd Rogers

We're in a great place to win. Everyone is gunning for us. We played really well in the last two events and for the most part, when one of us wasn't hot, the other did well. When we put it together, we really handled the teams.

Roland Swenson

We started out planning the event hoping we'd get 150 people, so we were happy.

Jacques Chirac

Where is the president when such serious events are taking place?

Mike Schnur

We actually didn't swim very well tonight. West Chester won seven individual events out of nine. We were just tired and not as up for it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.

Shannon Burns

We don't have mountains and aquariums and polished wood flooring,

Lindsay Lewis

I was relieved. We're all like 5-4, 5-5, so they're like mountains to us.

Harvey Mackay

We will move mountains to keep the team here.

Doug Reid

We don't own the mountains, the mountains own us.

Mike Ferguson

We did a survey and pilots said they still used the lights. We just use the beacons as a visual navigation aid. When you can see the beacon, you know the weather through the mountains is clear.

Scott Kaden

Our resorts have all had a very strong March, a very wintry March. The mountains are still getting significant snowfall.

Jack Hughes

This park was not set up to preserve the mountains and the glaciers, it was set up to preserve the elk herd. It was originally Mount Olympus National Monument, to preserve the Olympic elk.

Charlie Crisafulli

They're like very steep, peaked mountains -- and only the tops are vegetated,

Cass Canfield

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Austan Goolsbee

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

Brittany Snow

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'

Sophia Amoruso

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

Jan Egeland

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

Coventry Patmore

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.

Donald Miller

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

Debbie Reynolds

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.