Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Damien Mason

Lee crossed the line, but everybody does some wrong, and he has been very supportive of people in the community.

Philipp Lahm

Obviously we will be keeping our fingers crossed for Cologne. It would be great if we can win the title in front of our own fans.

Jerome Bettis

Of course, it crossed my mind. But that thought was short-lived. Fortunately, it's not (my last play).

Martin Gramatica

New England was nice enough to move (the workout), that was very nice. Plenty of teams would have crossed me off the list and moved on to the next guy.

David Gergen

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

Robert Hale

From what I've been able to determine, he crossed the line and Rafael was just simply protecting himself.

Rob Kelly

I wouldn't go that far. Let's just say it's fingers crossed for that one, we face a very big test there.

Matt Benefiel

I would be lying if I said that an undefeated season has not yet crossed my mind. Running the table would be great for our school.

Meredith Grey

I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you've crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and I don't know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself.

Carlos Santana

Life, at least with us, doesn't need to fall like a military drill. The way we do things, we don't need windows and doors and ceilings. Things just happen when they happen.

Frank Tyger

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

Tim Wise

Many times people will come through the door with good intentions but may not be willing to put in the work. They just want to see some results right away.

Stacey Quandt

Security is especially relevant for government vendors. Governments are saying they'd rather use open-source technology because there aren't any unseen open doors into the system. But it's not only that. Linux offers better performance, more stability, and a lower cost. It's a threat to Microsoft, and there's no turning back.

Lao Tzu

One may know the world without going out of doors

William Hall

One thing you notice is that you want to walk in the door in the morning. So it's a nice job.

Joe Solis

My door is open for that. It'd be great to have an eight- or nine-team district. If Lopez and Memorial do go up, I hope we get those schools in here with us.

Jim Allen

Montgomery is only about a 45-minute drive to the front door of our home, ... If I took the job, it meant I could go home every night.

Tim Willis

My guys went out of their way to respect Mr. McArthur's rights. That's the least restrictive thing they could have done and performed their jobs, ... They could have kicked the door down. They didn't do that.

Johnny Damon

My four years in Boston, he never flew out.

Michael Biehn

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.

Robert Brown

One of the first places that they flew me to after the hurricane was San Antonio. I was separated from my wife, and I was looking for her. It just so happened that my stepson and my grandson were in the same place getting their medicine. And they were looking for me and told me that my wife was in Plano, safe.

Alan G. Poindexter

I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.

Krystie Schiele

She's not as friendly as Bob, I'll tell you that much. When we let her go she flew into the light, and we had to get a ladder to get her down.

Anne Miller

She flew to Houston and couldn't find a place to stay, so she got back on a plane and flew to Las Vegas,

Andrew Kluger

We are saddened and surprised by this news. Ron was an exceptional friend and pilot who flew a great many successful missions. We still miss him dearly.

Karen Collins

We were sitting in the room and it sounded like a big truck just flew over the tracks.

James Howe

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.

Edward Hale

Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand.

Craig Smith

Last year was probably the youngest team we had in six or seven years. We're a real veteran team this year and we're looking forward to this season.

James Reed

Last year, to be honest, I wasn't as happy, ... I didn't play that much last year. I was depressed, well, not depressed. It was frustrating. Now I look forward to the games. I look forward to practice. I look forward to - if I mess up, going in there and doing it better.

Joby Scroggs

Last year's game was just a battle. It was a tough, hard fought game and we're looking forward to another one - no doubt.

Michael Stoops

Las Vegas needs to move forward on this quickly ... because the issues are still out there.

James Lilley

Lee Teng-hui is a remarkable man. And as a talented politician he moved the island forward by increasing democracy, and mostly he opened up trade routes with China.

Shane Pearsall

Led by Cindy...(these) Games have been a huge step forward for high-performance sport in our country.

Darrent Williams

Monday is like the worst day of all time. You party all weekend and then reality hits. Gotta go back to work. The only good thing about the whole day is 'Monday Night Football.' If you can't look forward to that, what else is there?

Chris Mullin

Much appreciated. It's a celebration of the past, but I look forward to it. I get to see a lot of people that were instrumental in my development and, to this day, are still a part of my life.

Jim Lushine

Mother nature still has us in its sights. I hope it just wings us rather than hitting us in the gut.

Hal Ziegler

Matt?s been hitting like that for us all year.

Carlos Zambrano

My first three games, I was worried too much about walking and hitting people.

Pete Rose

One thing about a hitting streak is the stamina.

John Jones

Now we're hitting a little bit, but we are not playing well defensively.

Jim Edmonds

Obviously, I'm not hitting the way I want. So, I was trying to make it up for it on defense.

Mike Oliver

I can't put into words what hitting that shot was like. I just knew I needed to hit it.

Brian Deville

I can't give her a hundred percent today because she missed some of her spots, but she kept them from hitting the ball.

Malcolm Gladwell

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

Jim Epperly

Sending a team to the free-throw line 43 times is not something you want to do.

Josh Blaisdell

One of our problems all year was that we didn't have that third line producing as many points as our first and second line. I called (the Mitchell, Banks, Slaney line) our third line, but Saturday, you couldn't really tell a difference.

Steve Ellis

New Line is kind of pushing the envelope.

H. Hart

When the offensive line is playing well, I don't think it really matters.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

Steve Tyndal

If a trip is warranted, we take it. We also visit with several shipping lines around the world that have U.S. offices.

Basil Bunting

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

Elizabeth Edwards

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Edward Heath

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

Dick DeVos

One more step on the road to getting it done for Michigan.

Tom Davies

Now we'll get them on the road and see what we can do.

Dean Saito

Getting gross-polluting vehicles off the road is a cost-effective strategy.

Jim Bolla

Fresno is No. 1 in our conference. Let's go up there and see if we can play well and keep our road streak going.

Steve Davies

I wouldn't want to be out on the rural roads tonight up there.

Tim Short

I wouldn't trade what we've done for anything. I think going on the road has made us a better team.

John Miller

I find it really hard-pressed to support a road tax when right here there's nothing being done.

Tom Tupa

She's doing great, ... She's completely done with all her treatments, and she's on the road to recovery.

John Adams

Since the road has been changed, that's just let everything come off the park.

Alexandra Paul

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

S. Walker

One will be right here and the other will be other side of the ramp, diagonally.

Roger Szendy

New Fairfield is on the other side of the lake, and there would be a lot of time spent just trying to stay organized.

Tessanne Chin

I think on stage there's a side of me that comes out that's very fierce and confident.

Eleanor Porter

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

Ehud Barak

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Eric Herzik

I don't think he's going to want to let this go unanswered. You don't want to see it (the rating) slip any more, or you're on the wrong side of the equation.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Claude Mandil

On the refining side we need regulations to be predictable.

Diane Kruger

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

Dennis Rodman

I go out with white women. This...

Dennis Prager

Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.

Dennis Prager

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.

Dennis Franz

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

Dee Dee Myers

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

Eleanor Clift

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Eldridge Cleaver

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

Kym Whitley

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.