Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Jon Huntsman

We're interested in making sure we protect middle- and low-income Utah while stimulating economic development, ... we need to make it acceptable to legislators.

Manmohan Singh

We remain hopeful that solutions acceptable to all sides will be found.

Kofi Annan

work this out and come up with an acceptable resolution.

Joel Klein

We requested the opportunity to analyze those suggestions, and there may be a few that are acceptable to us.

Matt Hall

With the real estate property and valuations continually increasing in that area we just can't continue to operate that kind of retail store. We weren't able to secure another lease that was acceptable to us and acceptable to the owners.

Richard Rogers

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

Kevin Mitnick

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

Jeff Cogen

We're not doing anything different, but it's being done in a different atmosphere, an environment in which people are acceptable to our message.

Tom Hansen

We want them to test the waters. We want to see if other areas are attractive to us.

S. Hughes

We want the kids to learn about working on yachts, crewing them, marine electronics, boat building and design, interior design and engine repair. Since we have many brokers in the area, we will even have people teach them how to sell yachts. There are so many areas they can pursue.

Dick Thompson

The outbreaks in those areas are being contained, ... There's still disease, but the disease is largely contained in hospitals.

Marco Rubio

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.

Larry Burns

The postal service operates everywhere in the U.S., giving us maximum flexibility to expand the relationship in areas or regions where a hydrogen infrastructure gets kicked off.

Mark Dantonio

We are pretty banged up in some areas on our team, but our attitude was outstanding this spring, and we look forward to the 2006 season.

Jim Murphy

'West To A Land Of Plenty' shows a family heading west, first on board a train, and then going into areas as yet untamed by rail by way of an ox-drawn wagon.

Jeff Fleming

We are looking for what is best for Kingsport and most of our plans for annexation are for areas east to Kingsport.

Bill Belichick

There are certainly areas that you can improve in and develop more consistency (in).

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

John Anderson

The poverty that you see at such an in-your-face level, and so much of it, gets really tiring. You get up and drive to work in the morning, and every day four little girls come up to you and beg for money.

David McEntire

The potential for damage by this storm is significant, and the risk of flooding and tornadoes exists after the hurricane has begun to dissipate. ... Texas has learned from Louisiana's example. No one wants to repeat those mistakes.

Richard Wiles

The persistent, toxic chemicals we identified in this study are important, heavily used industrial substances, some of which are produced in quantities up to 500 million pounds a year. At the very least, Americans have a right to know if companies are releasing these pollutants into their communities. In fact, we should have begun tracking these pollutants years ago. Instead of curbing reports on the most worrisome pollutants to please industry, the Bush Administration should be expanding the tracking system to inform and protect the public.

Kimberly Williams

The people who do survive - when they get that last treatment - they begin seeing the light.

Jo Leadbeater

Until a one billion-dollar fund exists, the chaotic passing of the begging bowl will go on and people who survived disaster will continue to die while they wait for aid.

Denis Pombriant

Unlimited Edition is a very important development. Companies have had a very fragmented view of business processes; there hasn't been anything that allows them to get a 360 degree view of the customer. Now those using Unlimited Edition can standardize on the same kind of environment for all occasions. They can have integrated processes from one end of the enterprise to the other so that the problem of information silos can begin to abate.

Christine Martino

We are pretty confident that the usability and visual enhancements to the Linux desktop will fuel more growth in this market. We think this should give customers more choice and confidence to begin integrating open solutions.

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results. Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Katie Mast

Let's get those bikini bodies in shape - except you, Wayne.

Georgia Salpa

When I'm in a bikini or at a photo shoot, I'm real confident. But, if I'm in a group of people I don't know, I'm really quiet.

Cindy Crawford

I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.'

Ben Rekhi

It gets a lot of ears perked. But it's in no way a bikini car wash movie.

Randy Brock

When we obtained receipts directly from the vendor indicated the purchases were for wrinkle cream, cotton bikini underwear, and brassieres.

Richard Hastings

The assortments weren't there when cold weather snapped back, and shoppers were curious about something other than a bikini to match their mittens.

Megan Follows

That whole thing: the paparazzi, a gazillion magazines. You can't lie on a beach. God forbid your bikini rides up too far or you've eaten too many doughnuts and they catch you wiping your mouth. That must be exhausting, that lack of privacy.

Faith Hill

Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.

Samantha Mumba

On Britney Spears: It's a bit sad to wear a bikini to sell records.

Italo Calvino

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Elizabeth Thornton

Most of us know when we are about to react emotionally. We can feel it. Often there is a brief warning before the amygdala hijack. For some of us, it is butterflies in the stomach; for some, it is an increased heart rate, and for others, it is a feeling of agitation.

Michael Wilson

We had brief discussions with the SG and his entourage.

Tom Shales

Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such major and treasured talents as Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, the Smothers Brothers and Richard Pryor, who had a very brief comedy-variety hour on NBC that was censored literally to death.

Erin O'Connor

A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief of a photographer or communicate the vision of a designer - while making whatever she does look utterly effortless and whatever she wears utterly seamless.

Mandy Patinkin

It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.

David Whyte

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

Marlon Wayans

I've never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I'm not a good roommate. I'm better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery.

Tom Rath

Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we're treating other people in our brief interactions with them.

Matiwos Zeray

We want to test ourselves. It's a tough race, because we have to cover more than 100 kilometers every day.

Mike Parker

We want to take the rate up to cover the rate of the contract,

Kelly Freeland

We've actually, on occasion, had a few things over evening times, like HIV screenings or flu shot clinics, but they really weren't that well-attended. We've tossed it around, but at this moment we felt like we didn't have the staff to cover those, especially if we kept the existing hours that we have.

Blake Mitchell

We started off decent on offense with that first drive but we went down hill from there, ... They had a great defense. They covered our receivers well and defended the run well. They shut us down.

Linda Bell

We spent hours trying to determine what the top 25 stories are and what the impact of these was, ... We're really going back to the vault and putting new tops on stories we have covered for so many years.

Preston Manning

Where I think we're headed is a system of universal care, where everybody is covered ... with two tracks for delivery, and two tracks for payment. It's not a question of private versus public, but what mix of the two is appropriate.

Liu Bolin

When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.

Scott Henderson

Watching the coverage yesterday, all of the places the reporters were looked real familiar,

Ray Kelly

We're going to slowly reduce our coverage to what it was pre-Oct. 6,

Dennis Hopper

Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.

Dennis Lehane

Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.

Charles Baudelaire

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Marty McNeill

With the Iran situation hanging out there, people are not going to sell their positions, and that supports the market.

Keke Palmer

I'm totally normal. I love watching movies and hanging out with my friends at my house. I still go to the mall; I love to text and go on my computer. I'm totally normal - sounds kind of boring, right?

Eric Bristow

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

John Cumisky

Old stuff is in the bins, new stuff is hanging up.

Emily Gill

Were hanging in there. Weve got to keep on doing what were doing and Denise (McCloskey) is doing a phenomenal job.

Mattias Norstrom

When things are not going right, we have to still come to the rink and love it. That's not a time to be hanging our heads.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Take less time to read the scorecard and more time to read the hole.

Stanley Elkin

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

Webb Simpson

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

Tiger Woods

No. 7 is one of the narrowest holes on the course, if not the narrowest.

Ken Johnson

I was impressed with our depth. We didn't miss a beat. There's no big holes in (the lineup). That's the key for us.

Brett Bergman

I was so nervous. It seemed like the quickest nine holes I've ever played, it went so fast.

George Clooney

What you learn after you're 40 is it's just about plugging up holes in the boat,

Verron Haynes

He was kind of off a little bit. His story had some holes and some leaks.

Ernie Els

I wish we could have played 18 holes in these conditions.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Donald Trump

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Louis Post

The proper way to welcome him would be to slap handcuffs on him.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

Betty Wright

I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.

Andrea White

She said, 'Should I try to do the splits?' and I said 'Yeah!' and she ripped her pants!

Samantha Fox

Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.

Pete Domenici

My constituents, and actually most Americans, think that somebody rigs these prices. That in the process, somebody's getting ripped off, and they think it's them.

Mark Dindal

Just ripped the Band-Aid off. He's kind of like that.

Alice Temperley

I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.

Terry Bradshaw

I ripped that. Is it the same spot?

Lloyd Smith

I just feel like I'm getting ripped off by Rockingham County.

Cesc Fabregas

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

Maria Schmidt

We're overwhelmed by the bidding. This is already way over what any of us thought the shirts would bring.

Travis Johnson

He took like twelve shirts from my closet.

Peter Kovacs

We showed up with just the shirts on our backs, and they took us in. That's how we got back into operation.

Neil Young

You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.

Nate Parker

You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it.

Lisa McMann

So, ah, I'm not sure if you know this, but you're not wearing a shirt." "Distracting, isn't it?

Ray Parlour

John Terry wears his shirt on his sleeve

Sarah Rees Brennan

Oh my gosh,Nick. You're not wearing a shirt! This must be one of those exciting days ending in Y.

Adam McKay

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

Christian Cooke

I never want to be seen in my boxer shorts ever again.

Rafael Nadal

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.