Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

Carol Moseley Braun

I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

Carlos Mesa

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Carlos Mencia

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

Carlos Mencia

I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

Carl Andre

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

C. S. Lewis

Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

C. S. Lewis

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Chamlong Srimuang

We have said for a long time that if the premier made this announcement we would stop. We are not stubborn, we have the interest of the country in mind.

Lexi Thompson

I like upbeat songs, and I listen to a lot of Linkin Park and Green Day. I also like hip hop and R&B artists such as Drake and Rihanna.

Jennifer James

More than anything, this will be a time to celebrate. The Drake neighborhood is really hitting its stride these days.

Conor Maynard

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!

H. Hunt

We have had five players the whole season, so getting Drake back was huge. The fact that she was able to come back and win her first match was way more than we expected.

Brian Brown

I think it's great exposure for the Drake Relays throughout the state. Particularly for those (people) who can't get to Des Moines.

Steve Alford

I think he was mad at me for the four minutes he sat. But he practices this hard. You should have seen Monday's practice; he was on the floor right away. A lot of other guys would have been hesitant with the injury that he had. But he was ready to play the Drake game. That's just who Jeff is.

John Sletten

I've said it before that the Drake Relays are not the end of the world. It's a fun weekend for the kids, but we don't put that much emphasis on it. The kids get to go down and rub shoulders with the big time and run at the Drake facility. They're looking forward to it.

Tom Davies

I share with my team that there are many people who feel this is as good a team as Drake has had in the last 20 years. I don't know for sure, but it's a thought. I don't think the players understand how far they've come.

Bob Tucker

We have motor escorts in other places - maybe two (officers) to take us to a main event - but not for practices, players' dinners, and other events like we have here.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Geoff Coulson

We've seen worse, but I'm sure there are people in parts of Toronto who were not happy to see any rain after the events of Aug. 19.

Darren Dopp

We've seen this in other industries we've investigated. There's a moment where everyone is frozen with self-examination, and then things improve. These reforms will eventually expand opportunities for artists.

Roland Swenson

We've seen big events go down very fast.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Trinny Woodall

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

Karen Mitchell

We use more than 1,000 volunteers just on this event. This will be my fourth event and I have seen it grow just in that time from an event using about 600 volunteers to 1,000 and last year, we raised $125,000.

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Kevin Bookout

This would be our marquee win, a road win at Texas. I think that could push us up one seed or two.

Kevin Federline

I've been to Marquee in New York. And this is the upscale of the Marquee in New York.

A.J. Smith

If you're up top, you get a marquee player through about 10 or 11. If you're in the middle of the pack, you'll miss out on that unless you go up.

Bob Combs

We spend a lot of time talking to our tournaments about the need to upgrade what they do. Yet we're the marquee event, and if we're going to urge others to keep raising the standard, we have to show them what it is.

Rocco Landesman

The marquee is going to survive August, ... And it is going to survive me.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

E. L. Konigsburg

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

Steve Whittington

On paper we were not better than they were. But you don't win meets on paper.

Amanda Palmer

I feel pretty good. Three meets in a week is alot.

James Matthews

If they see they can't go to meets and can't compete, they're not going to come out for track.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

Sabrina Carpenter

My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'

Tom Rathbun

What we want is to find a more permanent arrangement, a long-term reauthorization (of the fund) that meets the needs of a state with our mining history.

Don Perkins

I think the most important thing he teaches all of us, ... is that anything is possible when preparation meets opportunity.

Jason Cirone

When it was 1-1, I thought something special was going on here . . . for about a minute.

Ed Belbin

We know, at this time of the year, special teams is everything.

Don Adams

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

David McCullough

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

George Williams

This was a special season. We accomplished a lot... . It's special even though we didn't win the state title.

Janet Jackson

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Ava Gardner

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.