Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Lehrer

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

Nancy Perry

I can't even think of a good- enough, pathetic analogy for shooting a bison resting on the ground.

Isaac Newton

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love. Friendship,like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Robert Robinson

There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.

Akio Toyoda

Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.

Matthew Rhys

I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

Rupert Sheldrake

Well, natural selection was an idea that Darwin developed by analogy with conscious human selection. That's where he got the idea from.

Hunter S. Thompson

Gonzo journalism is a style of ''reporting'' based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism -- and the best journalists have always known this. True gonzo reporting needs the talents of a master journalist, the eye of an artist/photographer and the heavy balls of an actor. Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it -- or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.

Dan Rucker

We want to put something together where we can focus on a lot of beach music. We're gonna take it slow, ease back into it and really be tight.

Bob Warren

We have seen an increase in travelers during the spring holiday over the last two years, and we know consumers are increasingly looking to book vacation rentals as their accommodations. We are very confident that this trend will continue, so the city of Panama Beach is investing in its infrastructure as investors unfold their plans for vacation lodging. In fact, the number of condo properties is projected to increase from 83 to 130 between 2006 and 2007 and the number of condominium units is forecast to increase from 8,712 to 27,929 -- a 320 percent increase.

Wayne Martin

We have new neighborhoods and new amenities on the way. A series of new neighborhoods with a wide variety of residential offerings is in the final stages of planning and our extraordinary new waterfront beach clubhouse will soon be breaking ground.

Agnes Martin

There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.

Aasif Mandvi

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

Aaron Sorkin

Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

Steve Riley

We've seen several proposals to try and build in the central and South Forest Beach area. We thought the strand blocks and the covenants already offered protections. ... This most recent one brought it to a head.

Stefanie Scott

When I'm not working, I love going to the beach. I am from Florida, so I definitely love the beach life. I love horse-back riding. Just to go out to a barn, it's fun. It's kind of like a get-away from the city. And also, I love animals.

Ricky Gervais

To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.

Jim Daugherty

We want to raise money to buy a thermal imaging camera.

Roger Price

We have seen a spike in interest in E85. Not enough time has elapsed for people to start running out to buy flexible-fuel vehicles, though.

Roger Price

We have seen a spike in interest in E85, ... Not enough time has elapsed for people to start running out to buy flexible-fuel vehicles, though.

Donatella Girombelli

We have to give modern women the possibility to choose, because now the moment of choice is like an investment. Women want to buy something not for one week, for one moment. She would like to have something that she can have for a long time.

Don Cassidy

Whenever you buy any kind of sector, you have to have the stomach for higher volatility.

Carlos Slim

When everybody else is better off, they can buy more, they strengthen demand, strengthen the market, strengthen the country.

Tom Schroder

We want our guests to buy tickets online. That way, we know they're coming, and it helps our guests plan their day.

Janie Rude

We wanted treatment for our mother, and there's so much expense involved when you get cancer, from the medicines to having to buy wigs when they lose their hair.

Mark Evans

We have a window where we want to buy land on the south side of Kellogg. We want to have a contract within the new few months.

Gary Smith

We're still talking to condo developers, but our purpose is to create very traditional-style duplex condominiums. They will be very single-family in appearance.

Craig Obey

Imagine taking the island named after the greatest conservation president of all time and turning it into condo developments? I don't know what even to say about that.

Peter Wheeler

My daughter and son-in-law sold their condo (because of a troublesome downstairs neighbor). They are in a rental waiting for the market to go down, and I think they are right in doing so.

Susan Little

We already paid for this condo for two weeks, and we had to get there.

Todd Black

When a unique condo design comes on the market, it does sell really quickly. It's quite true that they're getting better. We're seeing better detail and they're more appealing.

Obie Trice

I got a, you know, I stay in a little suburb, nice little like uh condo a little crib, know what Im saying? Got a couple dollars now.

Mary Alice

If the roof of your condo gets damaged, for example, and water leaks into the unit, the master policy would cover the roof repair but not individual unit repairs to things like the ceiling, walls, carpets or furniture,

Al Gore

I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations.

Michael Carliner

I think we're about to face a glut. There's been a tremendous surge of condo construction and also condo conversions over the past couple of years.

Tom Holland

I completely and utterly rely on my mum. Without my mum, I would not be anywhere at all. I'd literally just be a couch potato.

Tim Finchem

I'm a fan of the power nap. About twice a week, I'll stretch out on a little couch in my office for 20 minutes. I don't need a wake-up call; I pop right up, feeling refreshed.

Jennifer Grant

I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that's so silly of me! We only saw one of his films together, it was with a group of people, and when he kissed Deborah Kerr, I jumped off the couch and I ran up and I slapped the screen. I was so upset that my father was kissing this woman I didn't even know!

Leslie Mann

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.

Larry Woolsey

Maybe we can get some couch potatoes in the outdoors.

Brett Taylor

Wayne Robertson is probably a couple of weeks away while Rohan Couch joined in a few drills and should be right to go next week.

Brandon Heath

I was sitting on my couch watching and thinking, if only I had taken my education that much more seriously I'd be out there also.

Magnus Scheving

Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.

John Gemberling

I did spend much of my 20s sitting on a couch playing video games and ordering disgusting food.

Edith Wharton

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

Spencer Tracy

Learn your lines and don't trip over the furniture

Billy Casper

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

Arne Jacobsen

Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment

Jeremy Gorman

Pottery Barn's had a big influence on the furniture industry. We have a lot of similar items that you can take home now and in a lot of cases, better quality.

Howard Davidowitz

Furniture doesn't typically spell romance. A sporting goods store is another off-beat destination. I mean, what would you get? A paddle, a tennis racquet?

Tom Collins

No one should let their guard down. Rivers are at dangerously high levels. It's not the time to go out and put the lawn furniture back up.

Mary Kuehn

We'll even be able to have furniture here, which we never had before.

Nicole Holofcener

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

C. S. Lewis

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Richard DeKaser

What the shock might be next time is unpredictable.

Aasif Mandvi

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

John Gibbons

We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently.

Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Charles Dudley Warner

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Brian Brennan

Today's numbers threw some (inflation) fears. We could see some nervousness on the mortgage side.

John Porter

It's tough. My mortgage there is $2,000, and my rent here is $2,350, so we're not doing much but working and paying the mortgage.

Julia Gillard

I'm angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry.

Martin Lewis

It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.

Jim Butcher

I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.

Chris Gabrieli

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

Peter Akinola

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

Carol Rebello

I made all my payments on time, but I never got a mortgage bill.

Dexter Holland

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

Bruce Miller

We have no idea how long this process will take.

John Anderson

The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine.

Scott Graham

The process is for what you want to see, not what you don't want to see.

Tie Domi

The process has to be conducted a little more properly.

George Fernandes

The process has begun. This will take about one-and-a-half months. We are trying to do it faster.

Ajay Prasad

The process will go on unless we are told otherwise.

Matthew Paull

The process of restructuring and seeking qualification would be long and arduous,

Ethan Diamond

The process of going through the inbox is much, much faster.

Tom Mitchell

The process is working the way it is supposed to work,

Abby Wambach

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

Rick Adelman

We're just trying to make sure somebody's on him all the time.

Brooke Adams

With this one I just want to make sure it was OK.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

John Small

She didn't do the crime, but she sure can do the thyme!

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Andrew Young

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

J. Taylor

There and back is $10 worth of gasoline.

Angelo Sorce

We're really working to make this a show worthy of the audience's time.

Bob Carr

We are ecstatic. It was worth the trip.

Source Unknown

When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.