Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

The point is made we're still fighting this battle. It's not as dynamic a battle as people being hosed down ... but it's still happening.

Jamie Langenbrunner

We're in a tight race right now and points are huge. We're in a battle to get in the playoffs and we've got 14 games left. We need to get some points. You can't get in playing like this. We're not winning.

David Hume

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

Andrew Demetriou

We always hear talk of clubs trying to sign new members but one of the biggest battles they have is to retain all of their members from the previous year.

Edgar Degas

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

Benjamin E. Mays

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.

Pat Merrill

We wanted to win the battles all over the floor and that's what we did.

Joey Eischen

We were better than the Marlins last year. We were supposed to battle them to the end, but we had no wind left in our sails because of our schedule. Twenty-two extra road games beats you down.

David Miliband

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Louis Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Louis Leakey

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

Louis Leakey

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Louis Leakey

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Michael York

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

Reg Keys

The people who will be his judge is not God, it will be the families of the bereaved British soldiers and it will be the families of the bereaved innocent Iraqis who have all been slaughtered in this totally unnecessary conflict.

Davina McCall

The people who go into that house are a cross section of British culture. They're not freaks.

Mike Parker

We are pleased to be able to enter into a contract that will secure the maximum return on the British taxpayers' investment and cement the continued leadership of Westinghouse in the nuclear energy field through the stewardship of the Toshiba Corporation.

Steve Wingfield

We want to take it to a community and give everyone a chance to come on board.

Chet Atkins

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Cale Yarborough

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

Luke Perry

It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.

Louis Sachar

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Mike Shanahan

The one thing we have in our division is everybody tries to get better. We've got ownership throughout the division where teams are looking to improve. . . . If you're not improving in our division, chances are you're not going to win.

Chad Hurley

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

Lee Scott

The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Lisa Cholodenko

I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.

Michael Shannon

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Daniel Payne

The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

Susan Clark

The point is professional enrichment, education, professional development. We are constantly learning.

Mark Reardon

We are looking to be in a mode of constant improvement, and it isn't going to be one person; it's going to be a cultural change.

Joey Santiago

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

Lexi Thompson

I have always looked up to my brothers. They are a huge influence on me. We constantly text and Facebook each other to give each other support. And we all hang out at home when we are in town together.

Mark Kennedy

Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

Michael Shannon

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Susan Clark

The point is professional enrichment, education, professional development. We are constantly learning.

Joey Santiago

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

Lexi Thompson

I have always looked up to my brothers. They are a huge influence on me. We constantly text and Facebook each other to give each other support. And we all hang out at home when we are in town together.

Mark Kennedy

Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

M.I.A.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

David Blair

Whether my house was open or not, the noise was just as bad. ... It was like someone constantly pounding on the house.

Reid Scott

Whether it's soundtracking a moment in my life or just motivating me to hit the gym, I constantly have music playing. Even if it's just in my head.

Jill Soloway

Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.

Peggy Jones

We're extremely honored to have Sonia Sanchez at this year's festival. For decades now, she has been an original, serious voice who movingly describes the African-American experience.

Robert Reich

The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.

Mahmoud Abbas

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

E. P. Thompson

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

Sen. Langhorst

What Idaho should be recognized for is a really huge question; that's the kind of thing that develops over decades or generations. I'm not sure that's a decision we want to start making today.

Bernie Sanders

In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.

Cathleen Schine

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.

Michael Rubin

To have a result like this after two decades is extraordinary.

Al Jarreau

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

Matt Rosoff

There are some folks who have been there for a long time and who will resent the way things are being run as a bureaucracy. And maybe they were there for the big stock run-up and they're seeing the stock not move now.

Brian Bosma

There are some folks up in northern Indiana who are waiting for public opinion on this matter to be reinforced.

Shelly Grice

There are some folks sitting on the sidelines.

Charlie Adam

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

Ronald McDonald

We're managing to get by. We're lucky enough. We've got transportation. We can go get something. A lot of these folks can't. They're just stuck in.

Brian Niceswanger

We're getting a lot of calls. Our folks are staying late and will be here (today) for those who want to verify the information they received.

David Stockert

There are lots of those folks in Austin.

Melissa McHenry

We're sending all the folks we can spare.

Chris Byrne

What we're really trying to do is to be an integral part of the Pennsylvania jazz scene.

Nita Ambani

Sachin has been an integral part of Mumbai Indians and a source of inspiration for the team ever since the inception.

Bill Callahan

My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.

Benjamin Feingold

We're essentially treating 'Seinfeld' the same as we do big theatricals because it's become an integral part of American culture. Everyone knows 'Seinfeld.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

If I want to kiss, I shall kiss. If I am told that a lovemaking scene is integral to the script, I will consider it.

Khloe Kardashian

Messaging is such an integral part of our lives, and Begroupd will help solve problems everyone can relate to.

Susanna Phillips

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

Steve Evans

Paul has been an integral part of my management team and has played a key part in our recent success,

Margaret Spellings

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.

Alan Watts

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

Chogyam Trungpa

As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

Chinua Achebe

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

Catherine Bell

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff

Will Blalock

We're not going to settle for jump shots because they say they are going to stop it. They still have to stop it. We're going to run our offense.

Bill Russell

A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.

Charles M. Schulz

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

Bill Walton

If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?

Demetri Martin

Jumping jacks are easier to do than crawling jacks.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Ron Perry

When you give them the ownership and the responsibility, it makes them more independent.

Becky Zaheri

We have got to take ownership in our city. We can't wait for somebody else to do it.

Delmon Young

That was smoothed over when they took the prior ownership out.

Sandra Anderson

didn't take very much ownership in that area.

Cary Fukunaga

You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone's potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.

Jerry Lewis

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

Jeffrey Skilling

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Marshall Strickland

There are so many reasons for us to win.

Drew Brees

There are a lot of reasons to be motivated.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Larry Mikesell

We're getting better. We just can't seem to get over the hump.

Ken Bruen

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

Todd Blackadder

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

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Aaron Tveit

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

Spanish Proverb

When the steed is stolen, you shut the stable door.

Chris Crutcher

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Michael Irvin

Shut up. Goodbye. Get off the phone, man.

Chris Hadfield

When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.

Errol Morris

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

Marty Schottenheimer

We still could have shut them out and won by four.

Jason Marquis

You look out there, ... and there aren't too many true aces out there that are going to shut you down.

Ani Difranco

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Alain Resnais

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.