Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Thaler

We have to go further and further out on a limb in order to keep today's audience entertained because they're not excited anymore about seeing a fast car chase on San Francisco streets. For a Coca-Cola and box of popcorn, it isn't worth getting somebody killed, and if at the end of the movie it says 'in memoriam to,' then you haven't properly done your job.

Terry Zwigoff

I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things like 'masterpiece,' 'spellbinding' and 'mesmerizing.' I mean, they're doing that with my film, but I don't want to use those blurbs. Critical reviews aren't worth too much anymore because just about every film can get one or two of them.

Sue Monk Kidd

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late.

Thomas Friedman

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

Elizabeth Thornton

To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

Hollie Woodard

We want the program to get better and better and better. We don't want to have any excuses anymore as to why Council Rock isn't what it used to be.

John Edgar Wideman

Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

Neneh Cherry

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.

Pierre Berbizier

We want to play with the same rights of the other team, we cannot play with a handicap.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have said consistently that General Motors cannot shrink itself to prosperity. In fact, shrinking General Motors only exacerbates its problems.

David Murangari

Whenever there is a power cut, the whole shift is distorted and time is lost. Time cannot be reversed.

Joe Nickel

When you say, 'I don't know,' you cannot then draw a conclusion. That's faulty logic.

Danial Shapiro

When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern dance.' I cannot get so worked up. It's important to me, I love doing it, but for God's sake, it's just modern dance.

Tom Segev

We were always told we cannot use them, we cannot publish them because it would help Holocaust deniers. Now suddenly these papers are being released to fight the Holocaust deniers.

James Morris

We have put financial systems in place to help ensure people do not starve if donations are not immediately forthcoming. But these internal loans cannot be repeated if the international community does not step in to replenish funds.

Atal Vajpayee

We have proved that India is neither a proliferation threat nor an exporter of sensitive nuclear or missile technology. This cannot be said to be true of all parties to the NPT,

Brigham Young

We have a work to do just as important in its sphere as the Savior's work was in its sphere. Our fathers cannot be made perfect without us; we cannot be made perfect without them. They have done their work and now sleep. We are now called upon to do ours; which is to be the greatest work man ever performed on the earth.

Winston Dookeran

There is a lot expenditure in the sky but there is no development on the ground. And it is the development on the ground that will influence our lives.

John Alden

We used to see a very large growth in our ground business,

Brian Dawkins

We know we have to hit the ground running. We're starting off with St. Louis, and you can't get harder than that.

Ezra Klein

I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors.

Julia Brown

We've actually improved upon what's on the ground out there today.

Wyclef Jean

There are celebrities who have charities, but you don't see them on the ground. Angelina is on the ground doing things.

Khadga Oli

We strongly oppose this. The imposition of a curfew is unnecessary, illegal and illogical. There is no ground for this.

Myles Rademan

We've used up the water in the basin, pretty much. We've used ground water and mine water for 120 years and we've stripped that.

Bill Murray

I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.

Allen Pritchett

We have to handle the road and crowd.

Brandon Lincoln

We were trying to stay poised; that was our main focus, to handle their runs. They're a talented team, so we knew they were going to have some game-changing runs in them. When they had those, we tried to remain poised and handle them as well as possible.

Katy McKim

We have reservations a year in advance. For those purposes we rent three vans to handle our traffic, 15-passenger - whatever we can get.

Scott Verplank

When I walked onto the green, I was happy to see that it was so close, ... I'm thinking, 'I can handle a shot like that.'

Tom Benson

In life, you're going to have a lot of problems. Everybody's got problems. Some is worse than others. Some is sickness. Some, like me, you've got problems that you don't like that come up. But you've got to handle them.

Ken Bell

We're just trying to get a handle on these private displays.

John Wilkins

The possibility of jail for that long; I don't think he could handle that, ... I'm sure it was drugs, mixed somewhat (with) coming-off effects, withdrawal. That would be tough on me ? to do something, then all of a sudden realize what I had done.

Brandon Sanderson

Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.

Anne McLellan

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Larry Peruzzi

What we're having lately is a lot of volatility in the market. There's a fixation with the Fed.

Matt Clement

What they've been doing lately is incredible, ... nothing I've ever witnessed before.

Jamie Siminski

Nick has been struggling lately and he needed that to get out of a slump.

Todd Walker

But lately it's been good, then you start thinking it's been unfortunate we didn't have him all year.

Brian Craig

We have been playing quite well lately and just simply had one of the worst weeks in a long, long time on the greens.

Doug MacLean

He?s played really well. I told him (Tuesday) that he has played as well lately as he has played in a long time.

Larry King

He's had his ups and down. Now, it's lately been nothing but ups.

Dana Schultz

Our team saying this year is, 'We love us,' and that is what we say after every win. We've been on a roll lately and have played better as a unit.

Mike Bauer

Lately we have had a lot of un-forced turnovers and we can't have those versus Westminster.

Frank Shields

There is no distribution outlet for young bloods to exhibit,

Anthony Clement

With a young quarterback, you have to have the back as an outlet (receiver), ... He can't stay in and block.

Matt Bomer

When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.

Yadira Gomez

We had to get more outlets installed outside the house. We installed enough for all the lights.

Deborah Cox

Relationship enhancement is the most productive outlet possible for anger.

Cindy Genzano

I was one of those kids, who...well let's just say that theater really saved my life. It has always been an outlet for me. I really wanted to be an actor.

Susan Beal

When the Boardwalk was first under planning, they didn't talk about it as an outlet mall. That kind of evolved.

Laura Marling

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

Mignon McLaughlin

Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.

C. S. Lewis

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

Tom Monroe

We have to get some rain if there is going to be any water in October.

Charlotte Bronte

So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood?

Charlie Chaplin

I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.

Charles de Lint

All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.

Charles Dickens

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

Charles Caleb Colton

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Charles Dickens

But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.

Charles Dickens

Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect.