Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurtwood Smith

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.

Ray Tanner

Let's make no mistake; he was a good hitter to begin with. But good hitters need to be strong, too. The added strength has made a lot of difference for his this year.

Tracy Brown

Lots of my clients saw it and became excited. It added credibility and created a good opportunity for me to talk to them and pitch new business. With an article about mutual funds, it's easy to move to talking about the client's portfolio.

Drew Olson

Last year's line was in the first year with Coach Cable. I think the added year has made a difference in the timing thing that's expected to be there.

Toshihiko Matsuno

Share prices fell in knee-jerk reaction to a retreat on Wall Street overnight. Investors also took a breather after the benchmark Nikkei index added more than 200 points yesterday.

John Hansen

Scott is a very important addition to our group, giving us added abilities in litigation and added experience in land use and real estate. We have tremendous opportunities for growth in the land use area in California. Scott's practice is statewide and really quite extraordinary.

Karel De

Mladic is popular and there is support for him there, but we have to put added pressure on Serbia to hand him over or at least say where he is.

Heath Gibson

Missing four players really put a bind on us and with the added 10 feet because of the court at Huntingdon College our girls got winded and we didn't have substitutes for them.

Karl Rove

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

Isla Fisher

I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.

Isabella Rossellini

There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling, and there isn't really any job for me. It's being marginalized - that's the sad part.

Isabella Rossellini

The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27, 28. If they use anyone older, then it becomes automatically a 'personality' story.

Isabella Rossellini

I don't look at 'Vogue' to ask what I'm going to wear. Because it's something on a body too young. I have to look at the social pages to see women my age. To see how Amanda Burden is dressed and say, 'Hmmm. Maybe I should try that.'

Robert Palmer

My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.

Robert Osborne

My age and my phone number are both unlisted.

Ronald Kessler

Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe.

Ronald Kessler

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.

Ronald Kessler

Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered.

Chris Hadfield

One place that I looked at a lot from space and which looks alluring is New Zealand, especially the North Island. It's a big broad valley with a river flowing through it, and you can see the wine-making dryness of the land.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I like the collarbone, a very clean collarbone. I think there's something also very delicate and balletic about that part of a woman's body, and I'm not really a cleavage person, but I do like a back or a shoulder; I think there's something very alluring about backless dresses.

Tabatha Coffey

The hottest look for a night out is a deep side part. If that part is not at least three inches in length, then start over. The wider the part, the more open your eyes appear. It is an alluring and seductive look that will keep your date's attention the entire night.

Andrew Buchan

When I was a kid, I always had a big thing for Dannii Minogue. Initially I liked Kylie, but I quickly moved on to Dannii. There was always something more alluring about her. I think I actually wrote to her asking if we could meet.

Gary Wolf

Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.

Kevin Clark

There are teenage girls with very alluring pictures out there. They are producing pictures that should not be sent to anyone. They're trying to be sexier and older than they are, but they can't get those pictures back once sent.

William Congreve

Rise to meet him in a pretty disorder - yes- O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.

Jonathan Powell

Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that our leaders are just like us. Just because one candidate can't remember his whole speech and the other likes to put his feet up on the job doesn't mean they can't govern.

Mark Twain

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.

Max von Essen

My environment is important to me. I'd rather give up other things in my life - I might not take vacations or spend a lot of money on clothes - so that I can live in a home I feel really good about.

Derrick McKenzie

Music in England is like clothes. It's a fashion thing. But we're still doing the same kind of music we were doing at the beginning. We've just matured.

Bob Mankoff

Now we have to devote the rest of our lives to cross country to validate the clothes.

Anthony Cannon

New Orleans was my home, ... Everything we own is gone now. I used to go home to Georgia and wouldn't have any clothes because everything was (in New Orleans). Now it's going to be the same way.

Hailee Steinfeld

When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

Tina Fey

I like to delude myself that I'm in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can't do it.

Elisha Cuthbert

I feel like I'm one of the Simpson's' (referring to her having to wear the same clothes for an entire season of 24)

Ben Jonson

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

Marco Brambilla

Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.

Fred Delk

We're not connecting the dots. That's unfortunate, and I don't think there is any money left to do it.

Martha Stewart

Lesson number one, rule number one: You have to connect with your customer, ... If you're writing a children's book, you have to connect with the reader. Do you connect? Are you able to make an immediate connection with that publication that is going to be lasting, memorable, effective, teach a lesson or a moral? If you don't connect, you are not going to be successful.

Linda Chandler

Learn fast, fail fast, correct fast, and connect fast

Sandra Jordan

Many of them had a connection through church, family or knew someone here, ... Others just started driving, and they ended up in Murray.

Tim Russert

Mr. Kilgore you day you support widening I-66 inside the beltway and another crossing over the Potomac River. Tell us why you think those projects are so important, how you're going to pay for them, and how you're going to connect 66 with the bridges.

Kim Smith

Mothers have an emotional connection that is a little more nurturing than that.

Julian Castro

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

Danny Yatom

No one eye in the world saw the whole picture. Most of it is not camouflaged, but it is not possible to connect A to B to C to D to E to F to G.

Guido van Rossum

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.

Gail Carriger

Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.

Bas Rutten

I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.

Benjamin Franklin

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Darby Stanchfield

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.

Richard Krajicek

Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.

Richard Krajicek

But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally.

Lewis Carroll

I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) / That English is what you speak!

KC Boutiette

I was waving to all my Dutch fans, because that's all that's out there.

Alexander Kalugin

Of course, it is also necessary to embark on the road toward recognition of Israel's right to exist.

Gordon Woods

We embarked upon this expedition back in 1998, after Dolly, the sheep, was cloned.

Greg Frazier

As mid-sized North American or European OEMs embark on the strategic global migration journey, or explore their options, they have a whole different experience than do the large OEMs.

Michael Chapman

It's ambitious, but we would never have embarked upon something of this magnitude if the numbers didn't support it.

Hu Shixiang

They will embark on a space mission no later than 2010, working as flight commanders or on-board engineers.

Jerry Wainwright

If he is indeed finished, we need to embark upon a different playing style, obviously. Right now we're trying to hold the fort with what we have.

Kofi Annan

Let us remember that every person who is infected, whatever the reason, is a fellow human being with human rights and human needs,

William Blake

Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep.

Robert Browning

Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth

Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, there's an old saying that ""nothing spreads so quickly as a rumor,"" so I thought it was time to speak with you directly, to tell you first hand about our dealings with Iran.

Brian Fritz

One reason we have (etiquette) rules is because some people don't follow them. It's not a huge problem, but it has to be addressed every once in a while out of respect for fellow members and the club.

Don Reed

One thing we all work together on and that is helping our fellow man when needed,

Justin Martin

Monday morning we woke up and it was listing toward the north about 10 or 15 degrees. I figured, before it fell on the two adjacent barns, we better get it down.

Tony Torrez

My helmet, I was being cool. It wasn't strapped on. It fell off.

Daniel Snyder

My father took me to my first game in 1971, and I fell in love with the Redskins and the NFL right then. I was hooked. And we didn't even win that game.

Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Robin Chase

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Robert Palmer

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Osborne

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Malcolm McDowell

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malin Akerman

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Marianne Williamson

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

Carl Jung

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

Bill Nye

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

Diana Vreeland

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Demetri Martin

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

Bill Hybels

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Ayn Rand

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

C. S. Lewis

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious,

Quentin Blake

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Alex Hernandez

I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast.

David Carradine

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Mary Leakey

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

John Kruk

When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Elbert Higginbotham

We thought we'd take the scenic route. Every time we took a corner, it seemed like we took a wrong corner.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.

Lacey Chabert

I like to get together with my sisters and my nephews, and I try not to travel on weekends so that I can spend time with friends and family.

William Shakespeare

Let me be cruel, not unnatural;I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

All music has to speak in some form or other.

Edgar Allan Poe

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Tiger Woods

I can't speak for him, but I did not play well at all.

Eliot Spitzer

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

David Bowie

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

David Nicholls

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

Richard Leakey

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.

George E. Brown, Jr.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Alex Beuzelin

They are still vastly under-performing the U.S. economy,

Moby

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Source Unknown

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Joe Wurzelbacher

In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

Mary Evans

If we have the Word let us/ say it/ If we have the Word let us/ be it/ If we have the Word let us/ DO.

Ryan Church

Shocked. Only word I can say. That's it: shocked.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Mike Johnson

We've done an hour-and 15-minute workouts and not said a word to each other.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!