Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Washington

. . . steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket. . . .

Malcolm Midgley

Some of the workers were still busy in the factory, but none of them got hurt.

John Swenson

Our crews had a very busy weekend. A little relief would be nice.

Robert H. Connelly

Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases hereafter, some of them in hell

Robbie Bach

Renowned development studios around the world are busy putting the finishing touches on their Xbox 360 games ,

Allan Katz

Most retailers are busy putting out fires all day. They have to spend their time working in their business, rather than on their business.

Jeff Reed

We need their business. For that three, four months they're down, it's real busy and it's a lot of fun. (Winter Texans) are vital. They're vital to the economy.

Adam Brown

It is a very busy numbers week and today is one of the quieter days -- unless the (new homes) number today is a big surprise.

Tom Schrader

Last week was very busy and I think today there is less impetus to move. There's no earnings news, no economic news until later in the week, and so there's nothing really to move us.

James Fenimore Cooper

Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

Supplies of heating oil are very low compared to other supplies of energy commodities.

Terry Ebbert

Some of the catastrophic deaths some people have predicted may not have occurred. The numbers, so far, are relatively minor as compared with the dire predictions of 10,000.

Jackie Parsley

Our fans were great!. They were more vocal and into the game compared to Morris. That was great to see, and the girls fed off that (support).

Ken Williams

Overall, I'd say there's a 20 percent increase in sales this week compared to the rest of December.

Steve McClain

Our world's a little different because we can get so many tapes on people compared to high-school and junior-college. Every one of the teams, you might have about 14-15 tapes you've got to watch and know everything about them.

Castor Pang

Rental income is quite stable when compared with the income of property developers.

John Vane

Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with the release.

James Courtney

I think this summer was a little off compared with previous years,

John Sauerhage

Our freshmen are doing a good job. Now we're counting on our upperclassmen to step up.

Lindsay Davenport

I was actually a little nervous. I've been counting down the days because I wanted to play.

Jim Rosborough

It got our attention. We had some good motivation; everybody was counting us out.

Hoshyar Zebari

I think this project of democracy-building in Iraq has alarmed many authoritarian autocratic regimes in the region, ... Many of them are counting on our failure, and they have not been helpful.

Jean Anouilh

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.

Jean Anouilh

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.

Omar Jacobs

I was used to counting to one Mississippi and then going, but they made us wait on three sets, so I jumped on two. I'm happy I did well throwing, but I didn't get the time I wanted in the run. But the throwing was the most important.

Brad Faxon

I was hopeful to be here. I was counting on my fingers what four months was, and my doctor told me that would be really pushing it.

Mark Snyder

I have four good-looking young men up here that we are counting on big things from. As well as the rest of our senior class, those guys have done a great job so far.

Matt Tong

Our goal is to have a universal appeal, because we all listen to so many different types of music. Our crowds over here are getting more and more diverse.

Gary Smith

Just about everywhere sees good crowds on opening day, but I suspect that it doesn't get as many people as a Twin Lakes or a North Park.

Bill Buford

The crowd is not us. It never is.

Brandon Bowman

That was a good crowd. We're used to crowds like that in the Big East. But it was a good crowd, and they definitely made their feelings known.

Terri Smith

I think it will help us tremendously with ticket sales. Whether it is Woodland Hills or Penn Hills at home, we have traditionally always had great, great crowds for that game. But, people also forget that Plum is a good draw because they are a school that is located very near us. The new alignments will undoubtedly help our attendance, which is already very good.

S. Hughes

He is the kind of player that excites crowds and gets people off their seats and cheering, and we hope everyone will come and see him.

Jared Voss

This was a good opener, and the way our schedule is, we should have good crowds all year.

James Blake

Just to keep me calm, ... I might have been a little too hyper if I was going out there in front of those crowds this week ...

Jim Calhoun

He's going to take on at least nine opponent crowds who are going to brutalize him. He's got to be man enough to stand up to that. He put himself in that situation.

Danielle Brown

I was mad. They already made one run that shouldn't have happened. But we put our heads together and picked up the defense. That's where everything starts.

P. J. Harvey

I think so. They seem to have their heads wither they need to be.

Bob Carnes

I was working as a bookkeeper during the day and making jigs in my kitchen at night. I would mold the heads on the stove one night and tie 'em up the next night.

Marcus Williams

I think it would be the same way if we were No. 4 or No. 20. I think Connecticut is Connecticut. They're going to want to take our heads off.

Charles Stross

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

Harold Prince

I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'

Paul Franklin

Keep your heads up, boys. This is your job. Don't let these (suicide bombers) intimidate you. We're here for the right reasons.

Brett Hawke

I don't think we'll shave our heads but we'll be pretty mean on the day, that's for sure.

Nina Alimpic

If it's not going right, we just stayed quiet. We wormed our way into their heads and sort of messed with their minds.

Paul Taylor

Price matters in this market. This is an increasingly price-sensitive consumer.

Bryce Fisher

Our offense is good. It's only a matter of time.

Al Groh

Our mentality is that no matter who we're playing, you'd better ready to prove yourself every week. Teams that don't have that mentality usually end up with an unpleasant result.

Nathaniel Bronner

Success is often not a matter of talent, but a matter of tenacity.

Hunter Collins

(State) is where most upsets happen. It doesn't matter who you're wrestling. It's not like other tournaments. At state, you've got to be ready to go at the first whistle of every match.

The Eagles

Our stance on the matter has not changed.

Joe Sacco

Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.

Chipper Jones

Roger isn't ever going to let up, no matter who he's playing.

Tiger Woods

Rocco is very loose. No matter whether he's shooting 80 or 60, he's still the same.

Joan Claybrook

Overall, this measure is insufficient because it focuses on disclosing corruption, rather than deterring it.

Source Unknown

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

Jacques Chirac

It is a measure of protection and precaution,

Armondo Cima

I think we are getting more used to each other. From that point of view we are making measured progress in that area.

Ed Loyd

I think overall there has been a very measured reaction to the announcement.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

Robert Morgan

Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.

C. S. Lewis

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

C. S. Lewis

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

Andre Agassi

I tell you what I do take pleasure in is accomplishing things that I question myself,

Ken Stevenson

I'm so used to having them there. It's a pleasure.

Jan Eliasson

I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

Ronde Barber

He turned it on. It was a pleasure watching him.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Elizabeth Bowen

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

Brian Young

Some of the (people) actually saw a three-foot shark swimming down I-10,

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Anand Gopal

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.

Shawn Chacon

Just getting ahead. I watched Smally do it all day yesterday, and I saw how that turned out for him.

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

E. B. White

That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans,

John Nicks

That was the first time I ever saw her distraught.

John Whiting

That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, ... That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans.

Christyne Nicholas

I think people, for the first time, saw New Yorkers unfiltered.

David Morgan

Our recommendation is that there should be no trade at all until these quotas are published. We need clarification on the size of the stock and the quotas being proposed.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I already know my size. I don't need reminding.

Kathy Lanter

I think they have the size to match-up with us.

Jacqueline King

That's a whole other universe of people, and unfortunately we don't know the size of that group.

Clark Kepler

I thought it would resonate, but I'm surprised at the size of it.

Tracy Adams

I could still use some more size on this team but we'll work with what we have.

Henry Blodget

If any mega-merger of this size can work, this one can.

Charles R. Swindoll

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.

Woody Hayes

Success - it 's what you do with what you've got.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile goals.

Reo Hatfield

Our success has been obvious, at least from the word on the streets, and I feel like we have opportunities that are still arising.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

Barry Mann

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

B. R. Ambedkar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bill Shoemaker

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.