Famous Quotes & Sayings

David R. Brower

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

Buddy Guy

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

Doug Armstrong

We are pleased to sign Philippe Boucher to a new contract that will keep him with the Dallas Stars for the next three seasons. Philippe has been a consistent performer for our hockey club and we are looking forward to his next three years with our organization.

Mark Knopfler

We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.

Terry Ryan

When you take clubs like Minnesota, Oakland, many of these small-market teams, you're going to have some changeover,

Dierks Bentley

I'm a member of the George Jones fan club, and I'm a member of U2's fan club.

Dennis Bergkamp

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

Dennis Bergkamp

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

Ed Westwick

To be respected as an actor it doesn't help to be seen out in the clubs.

Charles Dickens

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

David Rudisha

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Sergey Lavrov

We are awaiting final confirmation from the American side,

Gayla Benefield

We're not going to rush into anything that has final on it.

Thomas Hanke

We have no indication at the moment that anything went wrong during the production of the agent. Only an examination of the production process and the substance itself which was injected will provide final certainty.

Lamar Butler

Whenever we talk about the Final Four, you have to mention us making it to the Final Four. This is history.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Pat Riley

We were a minute and a half away from the Finals -- big deal, ... It's about winning a championship.

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Al Oerter

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Ries

Good things happen when you narrow your focus

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Chris Christie

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Chris Albrecht

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

Chin-Ning Chu

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

David Rusenko

To gain paying customers you'll need to focus on attracting the right followers, and not just on attracting the most. Communicate often with useful information to increase your value, and focus on pitching your product in a genuine way. Make sure you have a professional web presence, and with any luck, you should start noticing your efforts pay off.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

David Feider

We're in a wait-and-see mode hoping that the river is opened to ocean-going traffic.

Stephanie Stoutenborough

We wanted to win the state last year, but we're hoping to do it this year.

Nathan Parsons

Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.

Dale Martin

We've always wanted to go. We're hoping to get away from it all. Now that the kids are gone, it'll be a little easier.

Kelly Green

We're sore, rusty, out of shape and out of sync. We're hoping they'll get that out of their system (today).

Tony Russa

We're going to talk, and we're going to make sure that nothing slips through the cracks. Scott is really important, and we're hoping that what he's done is not too much too soon. That's why it's important we talk.

Jack Allen

What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town develop.

Dave Bristow

We're going to have to wait for more tests. We were hoping this would tell us something.

Jim Talent

Uniquely with methamphetamine, the drug isn't just used and sold in our neighborhoods and communities, it's made in our neighborhoods and communities. We're hoping this will throttle local labs because they will not be able to get the pseudoephedrine they need ... but that does not mean it's going to throttle methamphetamine altogether.

Al Sharpton

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

David Brooks

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Rudy Cruz

We're making up for winter now. March is December.

Avan Jogia

Before I forget ...Beware the Ides of March.

Efren Barajas

Let's push for 20,000 people marching that day.

Jim Steiner

We still have some very serious negotiating to do between now and March 3.

Chris Vos

Now we are getting ready for the March 6 strike.

Tony Bryant

I don't know anything about it. I'm just working out to get ready for the season. ... When I get back to New Orleans on March 20, I'll find out what's going on.

Barbara Boxer

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

Phil Palmer

The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors.

Bonnie MacPherson

It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

John Boyega

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Studd

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Dian Fossey

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

B. Carroll Reece

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

Ben Rattray

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Ben Affleck

I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.

Anton Chekhov

The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

Melissa Gregory

We still have the ticket he never used.

Hugo Burge

Those are important in making ticket decisions. The better you do them, the more tickets you will sell.

Anne Rice

Time can tick when there is no clock.

Donald Barthelme

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

Douglas Coupland

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

David Levithan

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.