Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Jenkins

When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.

Juan Williams

NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

Greg Gilchrist

We won't have to get on an airplane seven or eight times to run. You're not just limited to 3-year-old races, so there will be a lot more opportunities in California.

Dennis Prager

The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant bombs at a nightclub in Bali, or slit stewardesses' throats and ram airplanes filled with innocent Americans into office buildings do not do so for any reason related to poverty. They do so because they hold evil beliefs and have deformed consciences

Denis Hayes

Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It'sreally hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We'll be a half century behind the Japanese, but better late than never.

Dee Dee Myers

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

Edward Abbey

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

Bernard Siegel

I feel like I jumped out of an airplane at 40,000 feet without a parachute,

James Kallstrom

I can't imagine any American pilot crashing an airplane into one of these buildings even with a gun to the head. They wouldn't do that.

Isaiah Thomas

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

Isaiah Thomas

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

Isaiah Thomas

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

Robin Roberts

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.

Robin Roberts

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

Major Taylor

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

Brandi Chastain

Like anything else, you have to pay your dues and create a positive environment for people to want to come out and be a part of it.

Kit Williams

Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was an expert on differentials and made thousands of drawings of gears in his lifetime, largely for military purposes.

Kit Williams

Legend has it that the original South Pointing Chariot was built in China three to four thousand years ago for the Yellow Emperor, Huang Di.

Mallory Ortberg

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

Rod Wright

We're not coming out here to just hang with those guys and hopefully we can win the game in the fourth quarter. We want to dominate. That's not been said about USC.

Chipper Jones

We're not coming out here to go home after the first round. That would be a supreme disappointment.

Kurt Melton

We're not coming out at halftime with the intensity we need.

Herman Cain

We're not coming into Virginia to be a one-note Johnny.

E. B. White

We're not coming here with any false illusions.

Leinaala Lopes

We're not coming back until it is safe and secure.

Doug Holmes

Mandatory dues. Not only that, they were coming in there telling me you need to do this, you need to do that.

Susan Cohen

Life is lived in a circle. The dates keep coming back to you. People say, 'Move on.' But that implies a straight road taking you somewhere else. Nothing can take you out of the seasons of the years and the dates that recall your life. And since we were a happy family together, we had many happy days and those days are now sad days.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.

Alexandra Paul

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

Alexandra Adornetto

(Beth) "I don't care anymore." I turned my face up toward Heaven. "That's not my home anymore. You are.

Italo Calvino

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

Dave Gahan

Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.

Andy Landers

Let's be honest. It will be very much like a home game.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely

Joseph Gallagher

Lumber is up by about 25 percent over two weeks ago and carpeting and all the things that go into a home are up and spiked.

Greg McBride

Make sure you're in your home long enough to recoup those costs.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

David Lagercrantz

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Dave Dasgupta

Traditionally the first and second quarters have the lowest losses.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Vijay Singh

Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

Alexey Miller

A common price isn't the lowest price. It will most obviously be the highest price.

John Davis

No one is hurt, that's the important thing -- remember that.

Charles Phillips

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

Susan Carney

I can't remember when we've had so many three-setters. They just don't give up. They play right to the end.

John Mendel

I can't remember when it wasn't really a rough year.

Phill Laursen

I can't remember really how this started. It just happened.

Jeff Greene

I can't remember in 1980 who I voted for. I wish I could tell you.

Bill Hancock

From what I remember about Des Moines and its hotels, ... (The metro) will do fine.

Dan Rice

I don't remember voting. What's the difference? It passed.

J. Taylor

I don't remember things about that play, to be honest, ... I think I was in a zone or something.

Dick Wolf

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

Debra Messing

I'm naturally lean and I'm constantly walking.

Larry Starkey

We don't know why she was walking or where she was going.

Souza

We don't know who's walking around out there with Barrett's that we need to watch,

Richard Crashaw

Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.

Denise Levertov

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Charles Lamb

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

Craig David

I'm walking away from the Troubles in my Life...