Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

Anger is practical awkwardness.

Alanis Morissette

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Alan Bleasdale

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Alan Alda

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

C. Wright Mills

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

Buddy Hackett

Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

Carl Hiaasen

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Elliot Mintz

The possibility that many people would be reading her journal is really disquieting. She's feeling a combination of anger, certainly confusion, and just tremendous sadness.

Tom Izzo

The only reason I'd say no to that is because it's the type of player he is. We have other guys that can fill in in certain spots, but it's the athlete, it's the versatile 6-6, 6-7 athlete that can guard inside guys and guards, and that's where it creates some problems for us. It's not really replacing apples to apples. Anybody else that we replace him with is a completely different kind of athlete.

Roderick Wilmont

The positive today is that we just know we can play with anybody at any time. Going into next week, we'll start it all over again. Everybody will be back to 0-0.

Ron Wolf

The person I heard say it the best was Bum Phillips when they asked him about Earl Campbell. He said, 'I don't know if he's the best, but it won't take long to call the roll.' I think Reggie White is a charter member of that club right there. He was as dominating and as good a player as probably anybody who ever played the game.

Sean Rushton

The people who would know have not been talking to anybody but each other. The message broadcast by the White House up to this point has just been to focus on an orderly process for Roberts.

Jeff Haile

We've already played Lexington Catholic. We're not going to see anybody better than the teams we've already played.

James Denton

We've all been around love enough to know how lucky we are. I've never seen anybody have a cross word on the set, and I'm there a lot. All the women just got brand-new trailers, so they're happy.

Ricky Skaggs

We started the label basically to do roots-type music, whether it be Ricky Skaggs or, say, the Whites, or anybody that I feel has a heart for roots music and no real market or label that will give them an opportunity to do something like that.

Josh Miller

We started practicing the drop kick and I thought, with anybody else, you've got to be crazy. But everything he touches seems to turn up roses.

Sylvester Croom

We are a football team, and we will play as a football team this year. I'm not going to make any predictions, but we go into the season this year feeling like we can play with anybody on our schedule and have a chance to win.

Mike Eaves

When you talk about big players you talk about Brian Elliott.

Matt Kujovsky

We wanted to throw more but the line just wasn't giving Brian protection so I didn't feel confident with it.

Dwight Howard

This win was real big. Coach ( Brian Hill ) said that we have three teams coming up with Miami (April 9), Dallas and San Antonio (April 13) and we wanted to get all three teams.

Bruce Allen

We hope to have Chris and Brian next season. We would not have won the division without either one of them.

Jim Bowden

We were counting on 200 innings from Brian this year.

George Martin

Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.

Jim Bowden

When the organization signs core players like Brian Schneider, I think it's very important to retain them and not lose them through free agency. To be able to come into Washington and to be able to have the revenue to do some of the things we were not able to do when they were the Montreal Expos is very positive for the franchise.

Dan Brinkley

We are not going to face a guard as good as Brian Morris. He had 34 points the first game, we wanted to pressure all over.

Mark Cooper

Tommy still wants to come to Tamworth and hopefully he can persuade Brian to let him go.

Michael Weatherly

The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

Jeff Arntson

We struggled. The nerves were there no matter how hard we tried to calm the girls down. We were tight and had a lot of turnovers that created a lot of opportunities for them. Then as the gap widened, we got tighter and tighter. Bozeman is a great team and their pressure is relentless n that's why they are state champs.

Nicki Minaj

Who doesn't love Enya? Whenever I'm in a trying time, she is the calm in the middle of the storm. If I put her on, I'll be in this crazy peaceful state. I love her style. And her harmonies are freaking genius.

Niki de St. Phalle

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Darien Mickens

When he got to the door on the far end, he walked in the door and hit the wall and fell on the ground. I thought he was just going into shock, and I was trying to calm him down.

Brian Roper

We were too rushed in the first half and in the third we calmed down. We executed better.

Bernard Pivot

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

Tim Guter

When it came to crunch time, he was there for us. He was a very calming influence for us. We knew if one of our defenders got beat, Shep was back there.

Barbara Tuchman

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

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,

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Patrick Marleau

We want to play them in their end and always have the puck and start making plays in their zone. When we're successful, we get results like this.

Wayne Chrebet

When it comes down to it, everyone is just trying to get their plays and get to the season healthy. I don't think it'll be anything too crazy.

Chauncey Billups

We're going to run some decoys for him. We're not going to run plays for him.

David Gower

Vaughan now plays more on the crease than he did,

Karl Dorrell

Make one or two more plays than they do.

Sarah Snook

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

Edward Hall

Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

Jeff Banks

We had backups ready to go. We charted his plays to see how many times he touched the ball, worried about overusing him.

Arthur Clough

Shady in Latin, said Lindsay, but topping in Plays and Aldrich.

Bryan Ferry

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Ai Weiwei

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Bob Newhart

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

Ed Begley, Jr.

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

Dee Dee Ramone

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

Diego Della Valle

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

Agnetha Faltskog

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Charlie Munger

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Kristin Cast

No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.

Dave Shaw

She just wants to get on with her life.

Stephen Rodrick

Jeff Bridges wants you to take it easy, man.

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.

J. Taylor

She wants them back ... that's her life.

Jack Hughes

She wants the ball. She wants no one else there but her.

Mike Toussaint

She wants it bad, she wants to succeed.

Doug Phillips

She's a stickler. She's a perfectionist. She wants to do it right.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.