Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Manning

We want to take every possible step to crack down on fraudulent attempts to get a driver's license in New Mexico.

Paul Mason

The point comes where there starts to be a disconnect between the attempts to rapidly jack up those prices for faster MIPS and IBM's desire to push the cost of MIPS down,

Donald Borut

We believe that provisions in the proposed legislation regarding reformulated gasoline are back-door attempts at invalidating state laws banning the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a known carcinogen.

Maurice Cheeks

We want him to get offensive opportunities - no question. I think that he can get more opportunities in running the floor, getting early post up which he did. Tonight was a little unusual where he had more than a number of attempts at dunking the basketball going to the rim so I think that's a little bit unusual.

Natasha Trethewey

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Richard Boucher

We've always opposed unilateral attempts to try to decide these issues. And that position hasn't changed.

Gernot Erler

Yes, attempts of this sort are being made.

Jim Hoffa

We're sending a united message to Waste Management that it's time to do the right thing by the people who keep New York's neighborhoods clean and disease-free. One hundred and twenty hardworking men and women with families were forced on strike by this company's attempts to gut our pay, benefits and particularly our health care. Sanitation work is a dangerous job with a high injury rate. Yet Waste Management is drastically raising the price of our health care while cutting coverage -- at a time when they're making record profits.

Til Schweiger

We haven't done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the '90s, but they failed.

William Shakespeare

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Elias Canetti

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

Paul Carvel

Sign language is useful to the deaf but vital to the Italians.

Joseph Tacopina

She's pretty much totally deaf now. She can't hear me. We have to write things back and forth. Anything I have to communicate with her now has to be written.

Bob Lee

She's dedicated. She cross-trains all summer long. Her grades are excellent. I think that comes from having to deal with deaf parents.

Jewish Proverb

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.

O. Henry

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Janie Bess

No one told him he had limitations. We just told him he was deaf and blind.

Ed Morgan

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

Sarah Roemer

I had friends who were actors. I had some close friends who are actors before I had fallen into it. And but I never approached anybody about doing it. But once I had been approached, I said, 'Sure and I'll give it a go.'

Clint Hurdle

The problem you have there, and it's from my learning experience, is when you have one and you're not really sure of him, you keep using him -- and he keeps not getting the job done. You think, 'This is the right move.' Unfortunately, I've fallen into that trap.

Alex Salmond

The prime minister has just fallen off the high wire.

Colleen Laukka

Love is pure like the fresh fallen snow unencumbered by yesterday's debris.

Lin Laing

So many of these people have fallen through the cracks.

Phil Flynn

The question is where do we go from here? We've fallen so quickly in recent sessions, will there still be momentum to go down to the low $50s?

Ian Robertson

What we've got is a guy who has shown leadership in another industry who's come to our area, fallen in love with the area, and been prepared to invest in it.

Kanye West

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Channing Tatum

I think the superstar thing is completely arbitrary. It's all about who had a movie that did well one weekend. Then, if you have a movie that doesn't do well the next weekend, then, all of the sudden, you've fallen from whatever. So it doesn't really mean anything for me.

C. L. R. James

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Bryan Clay

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Abner Louima

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us,

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience.

Phil Anderton

We are going to take the appropriate time to reach our long-term aspirations.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Najib Razak

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

Evelyn Glennie

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Evander Holyfield

Of course, it is me being able to reach my goal,