Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lev Grossman

It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.

Patric Verrone

Make no mistake, that formula (which significantly discounts the revenue streams upon which the residual is based) is clearly not applicable in this case.

John Agno

Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.

Michael Kors

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

Tasnim Aslam

We do expect that any concessions and exception granted to India in the context of NSG (nuclear suppliers group) or any other multilateral arrangement will be applicable to Pakistan also.

Charles Haynes

O'Connor could be the key vote here. She would support keeping RFRA applicable to the federal government, which is one of the issues in that case.

Ralph Mendoza

New package types must be developed that combine effective unit-dose packaging, child resistance, and senior friendliness into one ingenious design. The new solutions must be tested and qualified and applicable to various configurations and large-scale industrial packaging.

Samuel Alito

I have been committed to carrying out my duties ... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

Gary Weiss

Debt collectors should be required to disclose the applicable statute of limitations in the body of their collection letters, in bold type. While it's not illegal to dun a consumer for an old debt, it is illegal to sue for one.

Alain Robert

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

Marilyn Goode

We want them to build next to the existing hospital. People who are are able to walk can walk to it and it's already got all the roads and the infrastructure that would have to be built at the new location.

Bob Castellini

We want to try to build the franchise around Adam, Homer, Edwin and a couple of other guys.

Ken Livingstone

We want to try and build very strong links between London and Beijing.

David Sedaris

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

Lucas Till

Do you remember those AM radio kits you get as a kid, and you build your own AM radio? Well, I never actually built one. But I did get them as a gift, for, like, 3 Christmases in a row, and I hated them.

Mark Parrish

The only difference between tonight's game and last night's game is that 40 guys were a little more tired tonight, and the building was different, ... All I know is that if we play 82 games like this, I'm going to die.

Michael Miles

The Postal Service really isn't in a building mode anymore, and that's throughout the whole country.

Sen. Sakamoto

The per-pupil (funding) covers everything a school needs ? electricity, water, all the expenses a regular school has ? except it doesn't cover capital improvement or building a new school.

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Sanjay Kumar

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

Joanne Harris

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Margaret Cavendish

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Jonathan Brown

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

Alan Sugar

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

Dinah Sheridan

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Edmund White

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

Gerald Schatten

What's invaluable about Bernie is that he has gotten a number of us eggheads together and has translated what is scientific gobbledygook into English so that our neighbors and friends can understand it,

Joe Cocker

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

Matt Benefiel

We struggled with their size and their length. They forced us to make perimeter shots.

Ryan Diggs

We stopped them from getting offensive boards. We did that, forced some turnovers and played our game.

Joel Sullivan

We started out sluggish, but they responded well and picked up the pressure and forced some turnovers.

Hanya Yanagihara

Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

Matt King

We knew they did not handle pressure well, so we wanted to get after them defensively. It gave us a lot of transition and forced turnovers (Pleasant had 24 for the game) which gave us numbers at the other end.

Dan Sack

We know who their shooters are and we know their tendencies. We were able to get pressure on them and take their shots away. We forced them to take tougher shots, and that forced their shooting to be off.

Jeremy Stretch

Ultimately, the ECB will lower rates. I don't think they wanted to be forced into doing it.

Jeremy Stretch

Ultimately, the ECB will lower rates, ... I don't think they wanted to be forced into doing it.

Kevin Good

When the spread is wide, packers are forced into the market and producers have leverage. When the spread narrows, packers have the leverage.

Martin Anderson

We're confirming that houses have been lost; we can't give you the numbers.

Keeley Hawes

I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.

Susan Lyne

She has lived in many homes. She has made houses and a lifestyle her life's work.

Lynn Forres

We have appropriated about $90 billion. And I don't see that the homeowners are getting it to be able to prepare to put their houses back.

Jacky Teplitzky

There is a standstill situation. We all thought September was going to be a strong month, but that did not happen. The phones did not ring. Turnout at the open houses was low, lower than we had expected.

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

Lee Brice

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

Luke Evans

I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.

Elsa Peretti

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

Mayor Barse

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Ken Banks

We'd like to do more of these instead of ships. If people go back to these over time, they'll see them develop.

Ross Levin

We're spooning money into the market now instead of dumping it in.

Martin Brodeur

We're going to shadow a line instead of one player.

Matt Pfau

When we get open, we shoot right away, instead of taking a look at where the goalie is at and placing the ball. (Scoring) is going to come as the season goes.

Melissa Dennett

We would settle and think that it was OK instead of going, going, going.

Kelly Clark

Unfortunately, it went 9 yards instead of 10.

Norma McCorvey

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot." ()

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

John Russell

We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.

Kevin Tynan

Whether longer term that actually makes a difference, I have questions about that.

Eric Schmitt

We're going to see a longer PC lifespan,

Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

Susan McDermott

Since she's no longer competing, we won't be using that ad. It doesn't make sense.

Ron Gardenhire

Sit him out any longer and you're going to have to send him out on a rehab. We need to get him in the lineup and let him play.

Irving Layton

Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.

Lee Peterson

Since he is innocent, we don't want him sitting there any longer than he has to.

Gary Warner

She is no longer a missing person. She is a suspect.

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Beth Moore

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

Robert Henderson

We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.

George H. W. Bush

make it possible -- more possible -- to do our job.

Twiggy

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

Sean McCormack

She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()

Charles Bukowski

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

Felix Hernandez

I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.

Brittany Bowe

There are not many things I find more disgusting than recycled airplane air.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Felix Rohatyn

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

Sammy Cahn

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

Dick Cheney

We are not going to simply stand by.

Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Sathya Baba

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.

Jacob Whitesides

I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show.

John Ortberg

I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Edward Everett Hale

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?