Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Steven Brill

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Brenda Valdes

Life is ... you work, you support yourself, take care of yourself, but you also have to take care of your community.

Jason Varitek

Like I always say, we handle things in here. In no way, shape or form are we going to play a media game with our teammates. I think that people look to pick on things on Manny because he's Manny Ramirez. We'll take care of things and we take care of things in here.

Lou Lamoriello

Let's be careful how far we go with that.

Manolo Blahnik

The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.

Bernard Laporte

Luckily England lost. Otherwise they would have come to Paris with the Grand Slam in mind and been even harder to beat.

David Roach

Madison is the quintessential New England town. And it's because of our secluded wooded areas. Preserving this would ensure higher property values.

Gordon Strachan

Scotland have a system which is getting better, but it's players who win and lose games. Look at England. They have a system, but if the opposition players jump higher, tackle harder and shoot better, your system is in trouble.

Douglas Alexander

Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.

John Doolittle

My heart goes out to all of England this morning. Americans remember the horrors of 9-11, and our prayers are with our friends in London.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960.

Mike Allen

New England in particular seems to have slowed relative to the rest of the nation.

Deion Branch

I can't speak about their team, but I know we have hidden stars, ... Everybody knows on our team when they talk about the Patriots, it's not just one guy. They just say 'New England Patriots.'

Michael Simmons

Low-income students can come out of here feeling diminished.

Al Groh

Losing stays with you a lot more than winning stays with you. Yes, there are positive feelings that come with winning. But you prefer not to live with that losing feeling that stays with you for a long time.

Nancy Peterson

Losing a pound isn't necessarily a reward. Being healthy and feeling good about yourself is the reward.

Michael Strahan

Last year we were a team, but I think maybe we were a little unsure, ... We had a new quarterback, a new coach, we had a lot of different things we needed to have answered. This year, I just don't have that feeling. Even though Eli is young, I don't have the same feeling as a team that we're unsure about ourselves.

Justin Williams

Momentum swings were huge in this game. Once we tied it 2-2, we were feeling pretty good and started to keep the momentum a little bit. But we just gave up too many chances.

Kim Clijsters

My injury's not gone. The pain is gone because of the tablets I'm taking. So that's a good sign that I can be out there and play without feeling the pain. But I know that once I get home there's going to be some work to do.

Deena Burnett

My feeling was that it was going to be Tom, and Tom's feeling was that it was going to be him. He just felt that whatever God's plan was for him, it had something to do with the White House and was going to impact a lot of people.

Rick Santorum

My feeling on the nominee is I don't know much about her,

Joseph Cohen

My feeling is there are some good opportunities left in the Nasdaq, ... But investors have to be careful.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Bill Self

Last year, there were the seniors and then there was the rest of the team. This year, because we're so young and everybody's kind of an unproven commodity, everybody's about the same. I do think this is a closer-knit group maybe than we had last year.

Ron Robson

Softball is something I strive to do. Where else could you go out and meet this group of guys without playing ball?

Shaun Alexander

Mike is just so key for us as a team, as a group of young men trying to grow up.

Stanley Ho

Mocha Slots was the primary contributor to our group results with turnover of HK$63 million; with 700 machines we have 25% of the Macau market,

Joe Tiller

My initial take on this group is that it's my second-best staff. It may prove to be the best.

Todd Wilkinson

My first task is how we can win the Group A bracket.

Reg Alcock

one of a group that jumps around looking for a hot spot so they can slander people without substantial evidence. It's disgraceful.

Tom Jones

No one individual or group wants to be in-politically correct, so they leave it alone.

John Schneider

One thing we put on our maps was population in the next ten years. Half of us said there would be a 10-15 percent increase, to about 28,500. The rest of the group said it would be more in the 30,000 to 35,000 range.

Jamie Shea

Milosevic is in the corner, and that's where he's going to be kept by NATO until he throws in the towel.

Tyler Perry

My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'

Mickey Rourke

I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

Martha Grimes

I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.

Orlando Cabrera

The pitching is what kept us in games, but if you're not hitting, you're not going to win,

Colin Farrell

On shooting American Outlaws: I kept saying 'Bang bang' and they kept having to cut.

Eddie Ho

I was running and taking pictures. I just kept pressing the button.

Greg Genske

I wouldn't say that. I'd say he's kept an open mind.

Neil Roberts

If we had kept it up at that pace it would have been 88-2,

Michael Boyd

I don't know who's going to live or who's going to die. But we do know this: it's going to be a very nasty competitive mess.

Deborah Grey

Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

Elizabeth Kostova

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

Ayelet Waldman

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Eliot Seide

The people who were put out of work were pawns in a very nasty and unnecessary political game.

Tony Graffanino

He's got the makings of being a nasty closer.

Michael Barnett

Hmm. This could actually be a nasty storm.

Adam Hochschild

It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.

Aldous Huxley

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Mike Sanford

Leon is playing better and better every week.

Shaun McGinn

So he started playing every day and, since then, he's been doing very well.

Jim Tressel

Maurice is going to be playing tailback on our scout team.

Willie Thornton

Obviously. we're playing better. We're still not where we want to be. We're still a work in progress.

Kimo Oelhoffen

My apologies to him. It's unfortunate it happened, but that's the risk we all take playing this game.

Joel Edgerton

Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

George Robertson

When the nation's very survival is at stake, there is no room for playing politics,

Rashard Lewis

I feel like we weren't playing hard. We were just kind of going through the motions.

Steve Rothchild

I feel like we're playing better right now. We just have to take things one at a time right now.

Bobby Bowden

I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.

Roz Chast

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

Ramonce Taylor

I apologized to the team on the sideline because I was making it about me, and this is a team.

Michael Leahy

It was more than a sideline thing or a novelty. It was a relationship.

Jack Siedlecki

Our sideline erupted with that one. It was like the weight of the world went off our shoulders.

Alan Greenspan

I know this institution will go on doing extraordinary things, and I will look on from the sidelines and cheer.

David Katz

If you're in training for the NFL, then having Gatorade at the sidelines is reasonable,

Jeff Ulbrich

I really think we're going to do something special here. I don't want to be on the sideline watching it when it happens.

Ernie Els

Being on the sidelines is really not my idea of fun, but that's the way it is,

Tommy Shaw

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.

Mark Jones

My granddad always said, 'Until you have a signed deal, you don't have a deal.'

Kevin Earley

Now there are no street signs and no landmarks. It was really tough trying to navigate.

Eugene Levy

No, you don't understand. We want you to sign it now.

David Trimble

Now winter is here and there is still no sign of spring.

Dennis Weaver

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Kitty Kelley

I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).

Marin Alsop

I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.

Abdul Kalam

SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Kordell Stewart

My contributions to the team won't be worth much, not being the guy,

Shawn Williams

My hat's off to them. That team there should've been in the top 10 during the season.

Craig Patrick

Obviously, the nucleus of our team is a lot younger.

George Nessman

We had breakdowns in our zone defense. We're not a team that can play from behind.

M. Wolfe

When I got there, this was the worst team in professional football,

Chris Crutcher

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.

Mike Davis

I didn't want us to take any 3s tonight because of their size.

Joe Brancato

To be a part of this tonight is a thrill.

Mark Campbell

We haven't had any complaints. Tonight will be the first true test.

Buddy Hackett

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Antonio Villaraigosa

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.,

Dee Dee Ramone

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight...

Demi Lovato

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

Daniel Handler

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

Alexander Theroux

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

David Quammen

The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open.

Derek Jarman

Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.

Edgar Degas

What a horrible thing yellow is.

Aimee Bender

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

Eddie Huang

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

David Henry Hwang

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

Craig Kilborn

Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape?

Brian Regan

The big yellow one is the sun!