Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Walpole

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

George Diller

Liftoff of space shuttle Discovery, beginning America's new journey to the moon, Mars and beyond,

Sandy Smith

Make it a priority and if you have little kids, start right at the beginning so they know there is no other way of doing it.

Connie Allen

Luckily, Chelsea hit those free throws at the end. If we would have made them at the beginning, it wouldn't have been that close, but we made them when it counted.

Tony Cox

Mailers are sensing that customers are ordering later and later, and responding by putting more catalogs in the mail at the beginning of December.

John Rooney

Let's have a good season, that's it. That's all I've said from the very beginning. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Petronius

Let us together closely lie and kiss, There is no labor, no shame in this: This hath pleased, doth please, and long will please, never, Can this decay, but is beginning ever

Randy Raper

Lenoir-Rhyne was on him from the beginning. They saw a lot in him. We played him out of position. But he's a man on wheels; he's the one we needed to do the job, and he got it done. He'll do a great job.

Madame Stael

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Richard Rogers

I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

Patrick Schillinger

We're not dependent on just one line or grade of paper. We have a very diverse paper industry in the Fox Valley from fine paper to paper board to tissue. When there are fluctuating markets in one segment, usually the others offset any downturns.

Butch Waller

We're not changing anything. I learned that years ago. The key always for us is can we stop their inside people and get some boards and kick it out? By the looks of it, they'll transition, and so will we.

Bruce Cheney

Like everybody else, I enjoy my privacy and I don't want it invaded. At the same time, I enjoy breathing fairly regularly, and I don't want, for the sake of having to take my shoes off when I'm boarding a plane, to die because I got fussy about my shoes,

Sylvia Fowles

(LSU) coach (Pokey Chatman) challenged me in the locker room at halftime to get as many boards as possible. I just picked up my energy in the second half.

Mark Wilde

Let Willamette's board deal with the consequences. This is a great time for Weyerhaeuser to be out looking for deals.

Ken Auletta

Let's concede that most journalistic enterprises need to make a profit, and to do that, they must be like supermarkets, offering a range of choices to their customers - international news, weather, sports, business, gossip, movie reviews and results of planning board meetings. But too often, journalistic supermarkets have become specialty stores,

Lynn Ribolini

Leslie worked hard on the boards and defensive end. But we have grown to expect that out of her.

James Touchton

Many of the Board members have been out of school for 30, or even 40 years.

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

Albert Schweitzer

The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life

George Perkins

We're not cutting back to save the world, ... I'm going to need to figure out how to get along.

SJ Morrison

We're not cutting any services; what we're doing is redistributing services.

Robert H. Connelly

Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs

Mark Twain

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.

Mark Twain

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.

Jalal Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Isla Fisher

I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes, but I tend to watch just foreign films. I don't know why that is. I'm not particularly deep or anything, I just like foreign movies.

Aaron Huey

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

Wayne Norris

Lenders are taking a deeper look into things ... maybe than they were eight months ago.

Emma Goldman

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Gary Smith

Last year we had a really exciting playoff experience so you would think that we would again. But we got unlucky in the middle of the season and we dug ourselves in too deep of a hole.

Zhai Kun

Lee's visit can be regarded as a tour for deeper political ties.

Edward Kennedy

Sen. Ashcroft has a deeply disturbing record on issue after issue of vital importance to millions of Americans.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Robert Brady

Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.

Steve Wammer

Leah hurt her back before the game and went two innings. We then went to Sam but we dug ourselves a little hole.

David Daniels

My feeling is, the kids didn't get a fair shake (Friday). It wasn't fair for the kids who didn't do anything wrong, other than come out of the dugout to congratulate their teammates.

Ed Costley

Obviously, we dug ourselves a hole in the first quarter and never quite got out of it. But I was proud of our girls for never giving up and for making the adjustments that got us back into the game.

Vince Sinisi

One of the greatest guys I've ever played with. He really opened up to us and was one of the guys. He treated us all like professionals. He talked strategy a little bit, pitchers that he had faced and knew, or pitchers I faced. He'd just sit there in the dugout and talk baseball.

Bud Childers

If we just could have gotten some shots to fall in the first half. We started off so well, but we just dug ourselves too big of a hole to get out of.

Alex Rodriguez

I don't know why he got ejected. We had 14 people in the dugout yelling at the umpire and I guess he just picked out the manager. There was no warning or anything. I think it helped us.

Mike Hargrove

I couldn't look at that last pitch. I found something on the dugout floor to look at.

Gregory Corso

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.

Rick Santorum

I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.'

Drew Bledsoe

We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now.

Ben Phillips

There are opportunities that are exploding in overseas markets.

Trey Anastasio

I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.

Stephen Hawking

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

David Cash

We're seeing an exploding market. The overall competitive pressures are still there. It's intense and the pricing reflects that.

Thomas Vinterberg

The success of 'The Celebration' was like a hand grenade exploding in my face. It suddenly gave me so many opportunities to explore things I had never done before.

Jim Schmidt

We are seeing stuff that hasn't happened in the last decade. We are seeing cedar trees ... igniting 40 feet in front of our fire trucks - exploding with no moisture in it.

Jon Corzine

(Local governments) still have to pay for those services. Gas prices still go up, teachers' salaries still go up, pensions still go up, ... You can have the growth in the underlying value of property taxes exploding even though there is this so-called 30 percent reduction.

Standing Bear

There's still live ordnance out there, ... They were out there exploding stuff last week.

Bob Burke

Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.

Mark Sandstrom

Obviously, we're probably the fourth seed in this thing.

Steve Jobs

Monsters, Inc. may become our studio's fourth blockbuster, and provide ongoing revenues for years to come as part of our growing film library,

Brad Faxon

My guess would be if a player makes it to the fourth round and it goes to Monday, no one's going to jump ship. That's payday.

Jud Gartman

Now we are emphasizing more things. We are getting there. Going into the fourth quarter (against Scott Central), the game was still close, 20-12.

Clint Hurdle

We had been looking for that big hit, big swing for quite some time. I was looking for that at-bat since the fourth inning.

Ted Carmichael

We had a very good fourth quarter for employment.

Matt Leach

I feel like there's a lot of pressure. It's my fourth one, and what if I lose it? Three years of nothing.

Jerry Porter

I feel like it was time. It seemed like he was holding on. He had gone from the greatest receiver ever to playing a secondary or third role or fourth role or other things that he shouldn't be.

Derrick Byars

Man, I looked up at the clock, was that right? That was kind of weird too, looking up there and seeing they only had 30.

Sandra Lerner

My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Jason Terry

When I looked at the mistakes I made in the playoffs, it was more because I was indecisive. This year, I'll be more deliberate, more assertive.

Dustin Moskovitz

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Jack Baldwin

From our angle, you couldn't tell if it was going to make it to the net or not. It looked like everything was moving in slow motion.

Vijay Singh

On paper it looked very satisfying but I was very disappointed with the way I played the majors.

Ryan Hamby

On the first catch, Troy kind of looked at me and grinned.

Lupita Nyong'o

I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.

Kurt Schrader

In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.

Jean Fontaine

Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves

Erika Messam

Senior Day is emotional, whether you're a senior or not. It's tough to play after that. We got ourselves together and played strong. Everyone contributed today. It was special to me.

Alan Foreman

Now we speak in telegram form, we write little e-mails, and we have everything at our fingertips, so we don't train ourselves to keep anything inside.

Dennis Murphy

If we get there, we give ourselves a chance. We got there, so now we have a chance.

Dick Whittington

If we recycle the trees, we give ourselves a present.

Randy Foye

If we're going to make this program go, it had to start with us. We took it upon ourselves that we've got to do this.

Billy Joel

If we're going to keep ourselves interested, we can't play for the reviewer and we can't just play for the audience. In the end, you have to just play for yourself.

Mike Shula

If we let ourselves start worrying about this and that, that's the quickest way to get yourself beat.

Stephen Moyer

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

Taron Egerton

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

Dick Wolf

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Van Dyke

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Dennis Farina

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Denis Johnson

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Deborah Roberts

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.