Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Strahan

Thing is, I don't really like free time. People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that.

G. H. Hardy

The people who come to us are desperate. It's as if they're in a burning building. Their lives are at stake.... We didn't feel that we could morally back out and put these people back in the fire and let them die.

Hunter Birckhead

We started the burnout this morning before the sun came up, and that made all the difference.

Sean Penn

There are some cigarette burns in some funny places.

Heinrich Heine

Where they would burn books, they would burn people.

Shane Pendley

When you've been burned your always going to have your hand on the pull cord...the right one makes you forget you have the parachute on.

Luchino Visconti

Don't underestimate Laura Antonelli. She's burning to do well. And then she has an extraordinary face, even without make-up. It's not with her that I'd discuss literature. I speak only of the film 'L'Innocente,' and what she does she does well.

Bill Bryant

We have no moisture, we have no grass, the hay is burnt up. What do you do? I'm numb.

James Shuler

When he gets open looks, he can burn it.

Charles Dickens

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Charles Stross

Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

Charles Stanley

Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

Charles Spurgeon

A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.

Charles Spurgeon

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

Al Sharpton

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

Al McGuire

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'

George Galloway

We want to take the fight to the enemy.

Mitch Miller

We're focusing on responding to small fires once they've been reported to make sure these small fires don't turn into large fires and further tax our resources.

Steve Tracy

We have responded to several fires at this location in the past. This one was a large fire. The structure is going to be deemed unsafe.

Lynn Ford

The outlook is good because Texas fires start quickly and end quickly. Texas is flatter, with not much rugged terrain.

Steve Ogden

One of the issues that the Legislature needs to look at now that we've had serious outbreaks of fires is whether or not in hindsight we should have funded that.

Ed Sennett

I have great kids, one through 15. We knew we weren't going to have to put out any fires all year. They're great people and they're a lot of to be around.

Matt Farley

He talks to me every game. It always fires me up. It's so inspirational to have him talk to you. When he talks to you, you know you have to do what he says.

Ken Bacon

He fires quite a lot of AAA (anti-aircraft artillery) and missiles at us

Richard Wood

If we have any intelligence on people who may be lighting fires we pass that on to police. We leave the day-to-day monitoring to the police.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

Dorothy Allison

Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.

Randy Graham

When we have younger people here, then that's sometimes when the trouble comes. Any time you have a nightclub, you're subject to anything happening at any time.

Mike Stanton

We feel a frustration at times, too. We have a sense that a lot more is happening than we are able to report, and I don't like it.

Clarissa Ward

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

Jason Silva

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

Shia LaBeouf

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

Tracy Morgan

Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down.

Elizabeth Thornton

To increase our objectivity, we must learn to switch off the mini-movies. Objectivity requires us to be mindful, present in the moment, and experiencing what is happening without judgment.

Stella Maeve

When I left New York, not a lot of shows were happening there, but 'Golden Boy' is such a New York show.

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.

Maajid Nawaz

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

Martin Jacques

We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.

Jude Law

What's it all about, Alfie? /Is it just for the moment we live? /What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? /Are we meant to take more than we give or are we meant to be kind?

Dee Romine

She has meant so much to our program. She is the ultimate team player and didn't shy away from taking the big shots.

Pat Summitt

She reached out at a time that meant a lot to me.

Jennifer Rizzotti

She willed us not just to win, but to play like this. Erika has meant everything to this team all weekend and all season long.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

Nicole Scherzinger

I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'

Liam Neeson

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

Thomas Edward Brown

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

John Timoney

There are prescribed ways of doing this. I know this is very frustrating and isn't satisfactory, but that's the way it is,

Irwin Winkler

We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

Jorma Taccone

I went to the doctor recently and she actually prescribed that I go out for ten minutes a day, I'm so depleted on vitamin D.

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Marco Rubio

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

A. Hodge

We would like them to be more constrained, more enlightened. There's nothing to prevent them from doing the right thing.

Dr. Paulos

No brace is perfect. No brace can prevent every injury, but they do help.

Amartya Sen

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Marianne Williamson

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

Bob Dylan

I got this grave yard woman.

Adam Grant

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

Steven Schier

We are many, many yards away from a score.

Larry Leopardi

We probably had about 300 cubic yards on Wednesday.

Willie Nelson

It can't get much worse, 100 yards an hour, ... It's frustrating bumper-to-bumper.

Carl Jung

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

Jimmy Swaggart

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

Rob Andrew

It wasn't even borderline, it was about two yards forward.

Jennifer Garner

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.