Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Ratner

We're not changing anything. We've assigned the world's best referee, Joe Cortez, for the rematch. We'll take the same safety precautions we always take.

Marc Ratner

We're not changing anything, ... We've assigned the world's best referee, Joe Cortez, for the rematch. We'll take the same safety precautions we always take.

Jim Harris

Mr. Swope never would overrule a man to whom he'd assigned a job.

Sidney Spencer

One person might be assigned to her but our whole team has to guard to her. It's going to be guarding by committee.

Sathya Baba

Occupations and resultant attitudes have been assigned to the various stages of human life.

Kim Kendrick

No one should be denied housing because they require a guide dog, an assigned parking space or some other reasonable accommodation because of a disability.

Christiane Amanpour

More times than I care to remember I have sympathized with too many of them assigned like myself, to some of the world's royal bad places.

Matthew Pearl

My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.

Lindsey Tippins

From the very beginning, this redistricting has been about racial balance. Should children be assigned to schools based on skin color? That decision was made early on in this process.

Twis Lizasuain

(Moeller) spent the evening late last night and into the early morning hours with our detectives and has been cooperating with us so far.

Jimmie Lee

One of our detectives was investigating the possibility that he was violating the restraining order. After talking to him and other witnesses, he was arrested.

Ed McBain

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

Ruth Rendell

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

A. S. Byatt

Literary critics make natural detectives.

Decio Hopffer

We know now he was shot once and our gang unit detectives were called to this incident.

Charley Pride

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Carolyn Wells

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

Lee Grant

I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.

Roger Penrose

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

Roger Penrose

So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.

Roger Penrose

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Aldous Huxley

Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

Jonathan Coe

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.

Iain Dowie

Let's see which English striker can score 21 Premiership goals this season,

Alice Meynell

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Piers Anthony

Much of what is published is actually science fantasy, seeming possible but actually impossible, such as faster than light space travel.

English Proverb

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Chris Healy

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Ellen Tolley

Looks like last-minute shoppers lived up to their high expectations.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Charles Greene

less respect for high standard and more interest in high enrollment.

Vince Cable

Many voters still...associate us with high taxes and big spending.

Robert Richardson

She was hooked up to an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine to keep her alive, and so they said that transplant was the only option.

Ashley Wagner

I love to win, honestly... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

Scott Rudin

I was 10 years old, taking the train by myself to see Saturday matinees, something you'd never let a kid do now. I got very hooked on it.

Jeff Pacheco

Time could be wasted when (the individuals operating the AED) are getting machine hooked up, when the individual doesn't need an AED.

Erik Hassle

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

Brian Regan

Hooked on Phonics worked for me

Frank Sr

We have his PlayStation hooked up. We are trying to keep him as comfortable as possible.

Steve Miller

We hooked up with the military. They're the only people that know what they're doing. We rescued about 25 people that day.

Randy King

He remains sedated and hooked up to life support at Harrisburg Hospital, and we, Harrisburg police, much to our chagrin, have to provide around-the-clock security until Indianapolis police can take him back there.

Giri Cherukuri

Many of the large-cap tech stocks, including Intel, are undervalued. Any move strengthening their position in the market, makes their stocks more attractive.

Christopher Hill

Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it, ... But we're trying to work with it, to do something with it.

Christopher Hill

Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it,

Dana Perino

Security measures were thoroughly reviewed, including intelligence matters.

Jim Hendry

None of us, including Dr. Kremchek, are anticipating anything significant, but it is a shoulder.

Igor Ivanov

must be searched for through dialogue, including with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Yossi Alpher

We've never encountered this situation before. Everyone, including the U.S., is playing this by ear.

Tom Lochner

She took over. She took the team on her back and made some tough shots, including that three. I thought she was the difference.

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Andrea Seigel

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Matthew Sweet

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

Sarah Palin

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

Vitor Meira

I was telling (team co-owner) John Barnes that patience pays here. That's what we did the whole race. We were racing smart instead of aggressive. It paid off for us.

Rocco Buttiglione

If instead one talks about the United States, there's a turning point. You know where you can find it? In a film called Pretty Woman.

Terry Egan

So instead of PowerPoint you have presentation software and instead of Microsoft Word you have word processing software.

Elaine Elliott

She's pretty much had her way. You're always talking about containing, not stopping a player like that. It would be a victory to keep (Langhorne) from getting 20 instead of 30.

Bill Clinton

If they had been in office instead of me, we would have had peace in the Middle East.

Marvin Demoff

If they want to sign someone else instead of Larry and release him, he'll end up playing somewhere else. Players have only so many options.

Karalyn Dehn

My junior year was the first year in like 10 or 12 years that we had a record over .500. Then my senior year was the best, but now they're back down.

Ed Jackson

I have a junior varsity team playing varsity basketball.

Porter Goss

Singling out these individuals would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks,

Alan Johnston

Tim's team played with a lot of intensity. We should have had that kind of intensity. I have 13 juniors who don't know how to see forward, yet.

Tom Brokaw

Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.

Clint Eastwood

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

Phil Klay

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.

Alex Rodriguez

When you think about the Space Needle, you also think about Junior rounding third.

Chad Logan

We really have a lot of experience. Our juniors saw considerable time last year and look to start as seniors.

Robert Hass

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.

Robert Hass

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

Tao Lin

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

Charles Olson

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Edgar Allan Poe

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Johnny Pesky

If I was a poet laureate, I couldn't find the words.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Daryl Sabara

I don't know why there hasn't been a 'Spy Kids' cartoon. You have to bring that up to Robert Rodriguez and see what he has to say. That would be an interesting thing to do with this series.

Chin Han

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Megan Fox

I want to be as pretty as Robert Pattinson.

Katherine Harris

You know, I think it's so important that Roberts is confirmed. And so we've insisted, we've promoted, we've cajoled, advocated for his confirmation.

Harland Braun

We want the LAPD to investigate Robert Blake. The more they investigate, the more they'll find out he didn't do it.

Russell Tovey

I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!

Kerry Collins

Robert Gallery, ... makes us a better team, that's for sure.

Anupam Kher

There are many brilliant actors, including our own Dilip Kumar, but Robert de Niro is something else.

David Edwards

I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.

Tony Ierulli

Seven interceptions has got to be a school record.

Chuck Eddy

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

Jonathan Bennett

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

David Walliams

When I was at school I was watching The Young Ones,

Ludwig von Mises

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Chris Cuomo

I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"

Chris Crutcher

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

Charles Spurgeon

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

Charles Morgan

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

Albert Schweitzer

The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.

Chris Crutcher

So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There’s only one thing that’s universal.” “What’s that?” “The truth.

Charles Spurgeon

No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.

Charles Phillips

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

Diane Ravitch

The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

Diane Ravitch

Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.

Diane Ravitch

What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.

Diane Ravitch

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

Diane Ravitch

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

Eddie Van Halen

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Elizabeth Bowen

one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.

Dizzy Gillespie

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

Letitia Baldrige

She's not going to have any trouble at all,

Linda Killian

She's never been in trouble with the law, not ever.

William Shakespeare

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

Tom Davis

We were having trouble getting out on the shooters. They just drilled us.

Charles Spurgeon

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

David Tang

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.