Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Rashid

The personal and informational connections made possible through computing and communications technology are becoming ever more critical to economic, educational and social progress,

Bill Ward

We are losing students because they are becoming discouraged. It's hard to keep their interest when they don't have the facilities to practice.

Tom Kendall

We are seeing a lot of non-traditional investors in commodities, such as mutual funds and pension funds, becoming interested in commodities such as platinum because they want to diversify their portfolios.

Wenonah Hauter

We strongly support efforts to make shellfish safe for consumers, but irradiation clearly is not the answer. The FDA is just throwing one problem on top of another - and this is becoming an illogical pattern.

Ryan MacMurchy

We started building back slowly and becoming that team we were before Christmas again, the No. 1 team in the nation. This weekend, especially, there was no doubt in our dressing room. We had no doubt. We knew it was ours for the taking, it was our tournament to lose.

Ernie Els

Where it used to be kind of the most fun of all the majors, it's becoming the hardest one now. Over four days of competition, it's going to narrow the field dramatically. You will be doing good to break par on the back nine.

Liya Kebede

There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

Luis von Ahn

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

Li Bingbing

I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.

David Horsey

I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.

Jonathan Shapiro

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

Gene Luen Yang

If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.

Terri Johnson

Our very first grant was a seventh-grader who wanted to go to cartooning school. Another girl went to sing with the Sussex County Chorus in Europe.

Jonathan Shapiro

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day.

Jeff Kinney

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

Charles Dickens

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Charles Dickens

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Charles Caleb Colton

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

David Mitchell

Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,

Deepak Chopra

EVERYTHING that happens in the universe starts with an INTENTION

Viviane Reding

We have no intention to regulate the internet,

Meir Sheetrit

We have no intention of starving the Palestinian people.

Nick Saban

We have no intention of moving or trading Jason Taylor .

Marty Dickens

We have no intention of leaving this building.

Moshe Sharett

I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.

Brett Favre

My intention... isn't to create controversy.

Deepak Chopra

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Don Samuel

We wanted very much to keep him alive. Jim wanted to learn very much about the appellate process and (have) another day in court.

Tracy Morgan

I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He's my dude.

Angel Jr.

Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better. When he won the Jim Dandy, he was doing good. He's doing better now.

Allan Houston

Let's pray for Jim Dolan. Let's pray for our organization.

Jim Sullivan

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Leslie Hope

When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.

Paul Weller

Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.

William Sadler

I enjoyed 'Roswell' a lot, and I had a lot of fun playing Jim Valenti. I had never done a show that lasted as long as that - that one lasted three years.

Jim Calhoun

To go in with Jim is very fitting. I couldn't get somebody that I've been so parallel with over the past 20 years as Jim Boeheim.

Charles Stewart Parnell

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Chinua Achebe

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require? Will the doctors, who are leaving in droves, coming to America, going to everywhere in the world - Saudi Arabia - how many of them will be there? The universities have almost completely lost their faculties and are hardly ever in session, shut down for one reason or another.

Dave Chappelle

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

Edmond de Goncourt

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

Edith Wharton

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

Eddie Long

I'm not leaving you if you don't leave me

Deborah King

That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?

Cedric Richmond

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

Carol P. Christ

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Chris Colfer

I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.

Bo Burnham

I've found, across the board, that comedians have been very respectful and kind to me. And that seems to stem from the fact that they are just respectful and kind people in general. Comedians get a bad rap for being dark and anti-social I think.

Bernie Mac

America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown.

Dee Dee Ramone

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

Dee Dee Ramone

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

Dee Dee Ramone

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

Dee Dee Ramone

Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.

Dee Dee Ramone

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

Earl Sweatshirt

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.