Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bo Burnham

I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a 'sociopath.'

Demetri Martin

A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is.

Mary Gibbs

We're focusing on life-safety issue. But at the same time this could be an annoying problem. We get complaints about blocking the road and about the debris on sites.

C. S. Lewis

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

Kylie Minogue

I get sensationalism, I get gossip, I understand that. If I'm at the dentist, I'll flip through those magazines as well. But it's especially annoying when it's something that is too much.

H. Hunt

Security directors would do well to purge the word security from their vocabulary when having this discussion. To anyone outside of the security profession, security is an annoying layer of cost and inconvenience. The benefits of security should be the point of your presentation. If we can identify what benefits a company can enjoy with appropriate security measures, then we can have a useful discussion of ROI.

Mark Childress

Most of these situations are handled at patrol level and include phone harassment or letters and notes that are mostly just annoying in nature, ... But when it elevates to following in public or violating a restraining order it can become a felony.

Melissa Ordway

I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a really annoying friend to have when I was little.

Kevin Frandsen

He was helping me out the other day with some feeds. We were working on stuff together. He was real open, real helpful. I try to limit my questions to him because I don't want to be that annoying kid out there. When I feel it's right, I'll ask him and he'll answer.

Brian Brandtner

He was really hitting some tough shots early. He's such a great jump shooter. He really elevates off the floor. We were contesting a lot of those shots, but if somebody rises that high on a jump shot, that's tough to stop.

E. B. White

He is guy who elevates people around him,

Don Lucia

He has proven that at tournament time, he elevates his game.

Mike Martino

He elevates his emotions. I'd like to tone that down a bit, but it works for him. Some athletes, you've got to find what motivates them, you've got to fire them up. With him it's not a problem.

Ken Ehrlich

It elevates what the Emmy means to the people who have won it.

John Frazier

Having him in the program elevates the program.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Paul Hancock

It's flatly wrong. It elevates the machines over voters.

Al Leiter

I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.

Alan Parker

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around...

Frank Lesh

We want to see whether or not the following months follow on up out of here after September gets out of the way. We could be looking at the highs right now.

Blaine Taylor

We've all had fun following George Mason. But we've got a lot of other good teams in our league.

Mark Barrowcliffe

A dog doesn't care if you're tired or it's raining. It wants to go out - and if it doesn't go out, it's going to be mournfully following you around the house for the whole evening.

Nick Woodman

Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.

Daniel Handler

Blinded following the Blindfolded

The Vikings

When we were 1-2 after the Providence game, our players that following week re-dedicated themselves, ... You don't get better on Friday, you get better on Monday through Thursday, and that's what these guys have done.

Beth Moore

If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.

Kathleen Roberts

We'll be following what was done in '31.

Davis III

When I looked up and saw his face, I knew he thought he hadn't said it was good, ... It was my fault. That's the way it goes. He handled it real well.

Doug Johnson

She's handled (not starting) very well. And it's paying off this year.

Alan Thompson

When Thorpe pulled out and he (Monk) went into those two (races), he was thrust into the limelight and I think he has handled that very well.

Adam Schultz

We want to make sure things are handled appropriately and fairly.

Jerry Clements

She handled small matters. Somebody needed a divorce, somebody needed an adoption.

Frank Penela

Most of the things that people go into an office for can be handled online. You can renew registration, get a title, renew your registration, all without standing in line.

Freda Black

Frankly, in my opinion, it would be impossible to find unbiased jurors in the whole United States of America. I would have handled it differently.

Bill Bavasi

From our point of view, the issue isn't just a player did this. It's their reaction, and what they did leading up to it and how they handled it afterward.

Eric Chavez

I think the way his stuff was and how he handled the hitters, that was the most impressive performance I've seen here. He wasn't worried about the lineup, the (left field) wall or anything like that.

Stuart Brown

I do not think that there is rampant sexual harassment on the campus.

Mo Ibrahim

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.

Anita Hill

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

Elena Silva

Students wisely see and understand that sexual harassment includes a range of behaviors that are not necessarily illegal or criminal.

Uma Bharti

We will not tolerate any harassment of the other community.

Phil Mendelson

I just think that's harassment of a citizen.

Laura Haase

In the day that we are in now with the sensitivity and harassment stuff, we had to have a starting point.

Vicky Rideout

While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.

Octavio Paz

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Twyla Tharp

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

Dan Landon

Send in your letters. We need to make the governor's program a statewide program that will include rural areas.

Jonathan Cherry

She went through all appropriate levels of security to include metal detectors and security protocols.

Lloyd Johnston

It is possible that some students know what drugs are and are not included in the tests, and migrate toward using those not included.

Raza Rabbani

I don't think that Pakistan's opposition parties are included in the US president's schedule.

Julian Elliott

If you are going to include numbers and music the term is getting meaningless.

Charlie Higley

I agree, that since this has come up, it would have been appropriate to include more disclosure.

Bryan Callen

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

Austin Mahone

When I awake dramatically I start off my day by reciting aloud a fan letter.

Bob Hope

You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry.

Curt Johnston

Unfortunately, it seems like there are always winners and losers with this kind of decision. They'll probably write letters to the editor, tell us how stupid we are, and tell us we don't listen to the public.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Elbert Hubbard

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Greg Strobel

Letters is antsy, but he's ready. He's been off quite a while and can't wait to mix it up with someone. He's a little nervous, too. It's been six weeks since a 'live' bout, so that's quite a mid-season break.

David Nicholls

This isn't a letter, it's a gift.

Marge Whaley

I don't think seven letters is a big concern.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

James Allen

We want to see what's out there and is it worthwhile to take anything to the next level of funding.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

Garry South

We know how much we're going to have to spend. This is a (spending) level we think we can sustain.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

David Allen

Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.

Andrew Ramirez

We were treated very well, and we're doing good, ... We're healthy. As you can see, we're very happy. Mostly happy.

Quvenzhane Wallis

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

Jane Rissler

Overall, we're disappointed because what they're proposing is mostly window dressing,

David Sanborn

Mostly because I don't really feel that I have a methodology.

Stephan Pastis

mostly as an outlet just to do something during class.

Rebecca Stead

Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.

J. Lewis

Mostly water bottles. I thought they were going to start shooting before we got out of there.

Linda Hargrove

Mostly it was a situation where she was not going to get enough minutes,

Cameron Crowe

Mostly it was about the success of the shoe: Does the shoe come back? I had to look at it without that scene,

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Sunny Murray

When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone.

William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

Eddie Van Halen

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

Donald Rumsfeld

So I remain inexpert on precisely what he said, and I'm told he used notes and not text,

AJ Punjabi

We're offering a reminder service. If you sign up for our e-mail subscription list, the notes are going to automatically be in your e-mail box.

Charles Taze Russell

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

Charles de Gaulle

The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Charles Caleb Colton

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Alan Watts

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Alan Watts

Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

Alan Watts

The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

Jon Carlisle

What we tell our maintenance crews who patrol the roads is that if it's reasonable and is not a distraction, they should let it stand.

Ann Jennings

We sent in, let's just say, a lot of patrol officers,

Michael Barrett

He's not able to return as a patrol officer, because he still has weakness. He wouldn't be able to run after and apprehend a suspect.

Chris Black

If someone is interested in working with me, I would much rather them email me and we sit down or get on the phone, than them look at a client list and decide if I'm worth it or not. It should be based on work, and based on how we get along. As opposed to like, "Oh, he's worked with this, this, and this. Let's go. That's fine."

Chris Bohjalian

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

David Sedaris

I always used to reach for the cigarette when the phone rang, and I figured nobody would ever call me in Tokyo. The time difference is so profound it's, like, already September in Tokyo, and I figured nobody would be able to work it out.

David Mitchell

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

David Crystal

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

Dave Barry

You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?

Dave Barry

I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

David Murphy

The future of mobile is the future of online. It is how people access online content now.

Byron Katie

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Bill Goldberg

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Bob Schieffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've never had a very great public life.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Frank Verrastro

Most of these supply situations are fraught with some kind of peril.

Levance Fields

We've been in situations like the one we had (Sunday). Down the stretch, they made more plays.

Kevin Criswell

I thrive off of these types of situations and I can't wait to get out there.

John Tortorella

We've been through a lot tougher situations than this in our past. We will get it done.

John McNally

It hasn't been unsafe, but there are situations where it could be.

David Patterson

I think the teams struggled when we were in those situations too.

Carl Jung

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

Ann Plato

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.