Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

Alan Moore

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Alan Jay Lerner

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

Al Pacino

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

Kathleen Bergen

We want to see the airport remain open to commercial service. We view this deadline (Tuesday) ... as a deadline after which we will re-evaluate where the airport stands.

Chris Carter

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

Chris Brown

Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.

Michael Goodling

We want to take a little bit of this frustration and turn it into some positive momentum.

Michael Steele

My style is a little bit different than most conventional Republican Party chairmen. My style is more grass roots-oriented. I'm much more of a street guy. I love hanging out in boardrooms, but I prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities.

Jim Calhoun

The only difference between Providence and maybe somebody a little bit higher in the standings is the young kids. Providence is talented but they're young. Young teams make mistakes.

Paul Woods

The potential is there and with a bit of luck we could finish in the top four. There are two or three programs that are traditionally strong and the final one or two spots are usually up for grabs.

Mark Zandi

The potential for even higher energy prices is a risk to the economic outlook. The economy has digested the higher prices gracefully so far. But it can get a bit of indigestion if prices move higher.

Pat Sullivan

The people who were here tonight now have an idea of the talent you see at the NAIA National Tournament. This team is every bit as talented as what you see at the nationals. In fact, if this had been 20 years ago when the NAIA had 600 teams, this team could have won it.

Winifred Creamer

The people who built the first of these structures had no model to go by, no precedent to use in building a monument. It's a bit like deciding to build a functioning spaceship in your back yard, and succeeding.

Mike Hathaway

We've always been a little bit wide open anyway, but with Chris out, it kind of forced us to throw more.

Robbie Guertin

We've all got lots of different influences. We never sit down to write a song and say, 'This is going to be a Brian Eno type of song,' or 'This is a Bob Dylan song.' It's totally little bits of lots of different stuff that come together and hopefully it's something coming out of us that we're creating.

Paul Alioto

You'd have to research it, but I'm guessing that was a season-high for them. They made the shots. We did not.

Mark Waugh

I was like most people, just guessing when he'd finish.

Freddy Sanchez

He doesn't throw anything twice in the same spot. It's like a guessing game, and we were guessing wrong today.

Barry Ritholtz

History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.

Charley Casserly

We all know this is a guessing game. It's humans evaluating humans, and you know what? We're not infallible, and they're not infallible either. If there's one thing you can say about those of us who do this for a living, it's that we know we don't know.

Stephen Jay Gould

Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.

Jerry Rhome

Today's workout took a lot of guessing out of the game.

Jim Tressel

You sit down and say, 'OK, what is it that our team needs right now?' It's not like we're guessing on people who haven't been around for a long time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Alex Rodriguez

When you think about the Space Needle, you also think about Junior rounding third.

Porter Goss

Singling out these individuals would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks,

Chad Logan

We really have a lot of experience. Our juniors saw considerable time last year and look to start as seniors.

Clint Eastwood

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

Alan Johnston

Tim's team played with a lot of intensity. We should have had that kind of intensity. I have 13 juniors who don't know how to see forward, yet.

Tom Brokaw

Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.

Adora Svitak

The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

Karalyn Dehn

My junior year was the first year in like 10 or 12 years that we had a record over .500. Then my senior year was the best, but now they're back down.

Ed Jackson

I have a junior varsity team playing varsity basketball.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Greg Stuart

We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Bill Porter

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm not keen on making predictions.

Niels Bohr

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Jackie Mason

Predictions are preposterous.

George Soros

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

Frank Herbert

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

Murray Gell-Mann

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

Niels Bohr

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.

Charles Caleb

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more

Joy Harjo

When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Kenneth Branagh

A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

Adnan Badran

She (later) went on to Salt because one of her relatives

Paul Sagawa

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

Dave Bristow

She's by herself, she has no relatives in Manatee.

David Brewer

When they are available, they are relatively inexpensive.

Charles Browne

We are going after some relatively strong growth.

Clark Kerr

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Jodi Whitaker

His status is as it was in (Wednesday's) briefing.

Kent Kanoy

That's what he is, he's the status quo.

Garry Kasparov

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well. ... They don't think there's any type of concussion or anything like that, but where his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well, but what his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure right now.

Vladimir Yevseyev

In view of the time shortage, the status of the negotiations could also be raised.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

David Sedaris

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

David Sedaris

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

David Ginola

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Bryant Gumbel

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

Bobby Cannavale

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.