Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Schenker

Regardless of how large the draws are expected to be, especially in gasoline, seeing the actual numbers will be a shock.

John Ortberg

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

David Tanner

Particles of the allergen -- in this particular case, peanuts -- are small enough to actually float in the air, ... If they land on someone who is allergic, land in their eyes or in their nose, they can cause them an actual allergic reaction.

Whitney Ransome

Part of it has to do with the actual journey of finding your own identity, apart from your mother's, while you're still connected to her.

Tobin Gorey

Ordinarily comfortable inventories would mean lower prices -- probably closer to fifty-five dollars. But the Iran situation, and several smaller actual interruptions to crude supply, are keeping prices higher.

Thomas E. Mann

Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

Mark Bowden

Staring at all the green bundles, ... Joey felt suddenly overwhelmed by the challenge of hanging onto it. The idea of finding that much money was proving to be more thrilling than the actual experience, much as the highs he got by shooting speed had long ago stopped living up to his expectations. The hard truth about life, which most people learned but that Joey had not, was that things had to be earned to be fully enjoyed. Success, accomplishment, the admiration of the world -- these were all things that could not be faked, or purchased with a needle or a windfall.

John Zimmerman

Some of the numbers in the first half are about us rehearsing and getting ready to go on tour. The opening of the second half is a parody on things, and the finale is supposed to be the beginning of an actual show.

Albert Lin

Some of the basics of the technology may be similar, but the way it's been implemented is different. And these differences impact the actual user experience. FLO was designed especially to deliver mobile TV, while DVB-H is a standard based on older broadcast TV technology.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

John Majdoch

Pimps and hookers are always popular Halloween costumes for adults.

Lee Warren

He (Holbrook) said he has one of the first Mark Twain costumes he wore on stage and was saving it until The Smithsonian called. We said we could find a place for it until they do.

Siri Hustvedt

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.

Meghan Ory

When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.

Dirk Benedict

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

Mike McCue

Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.

Ginnifer Goodwin

The costumes are insane on 'Once Upon a Time.' It did influence my taking the job, the fact that not only would I be horseback riding and sword fighting and traipsing through the woods but I would be doing all those things in insane, medieval garb.

Burt Ward

Well yeah, and I must tell you the difference between... we wore costumes. And those costumes were form fitting. They don't wear costumes.

Anne Edwards

We think the 'livestock show' will make it fun for our exhibitors and the public. Costumes will be allowed, but are not required,

Mark Stuart

Sure, we'd love to make more money; we'd even love to play a few less dates in a year and spend more time writing songs and working on a new record. But the truth of the matter is that we need to play a lot of dates in a year for financial reasons, and it works out that we love to do it, so we have no complaints.

Peter Stein

Results from the studies conducted to date are very promising,

Jim Gallagher

We never really moved the date up. We were non-specific before.

Amir Peretz

I will let him decide the date within the period of the end of February and the end of March. Any date he decides is okay with me.

Osama Laden

The accumulated evidence to date indicates that we are not yet winning the war on terror,

Nikki Rocco

(Theater owners) want it, and they want it in as many play dates as they can get it.

John Mozeliak

I think that (situation) has become encouraging. I don't know the exact date that we're going to try to really test it 100 percent, but I think it's sooner than later. If I were going to define that, I'd say probably this week.

James D. Watson

It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and myths.

Vitali Klitschko

I will undergo another medical examination on Monday and Tuesday, that will give further evidence of how severe the injury of my knee is. By then, it will also be clear, how much treatment will be required and how long it would take me to be fully restored again. Depending on this, we will find out a new date for my fight, and I will start to renew my preparation as soon as possible.

Brian Nash

Robert Morris is one of the most talented teams in this league. They are so strong one through five and are so explosive. They have so many players who can score. They are a pretty explosive team. (Coach) Mark (Schmidt) is so good at designing plays to get the right player the right shot at the right time.

Julie Harris

John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.

Evan Williams

It is designing for thousands of people. It's always a joy when visitors enjoy a property and want to return.

Michael Graves

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

Sal Scuderi

He had two things in his life -- his work and his family. He was always designing things, even when we went on vacation when we were kids. He was a true design engineer.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions.

Chris Rogers

The planning phase is done. It's time to start designing it,

Katie King

She doesn't have the shop any longer, but she is still doing interior designing and will help us here.

Darell Hammond

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.

Rick Cornett

Regardless of who we were going to play against, we were going to play strong and were determined to play well down there.

Robert Mckain

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mark Wilde

Steve Rogel is a very determined individual. He's got a big checkbook and he's not going away.

Mike Klemm

Spirits are up. There's a good feeling out there. We all know this was forced upon us and everyone is determined to see it through.

Jay Marston

Our players have been making things happen. Today it was Kaila Burns. She was determined to keep the inning alive.

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will in large part be determined by how we do right here in the heartland of America,

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will be determined largely by how well we do here,

Mary Wittenberg

Our women showed how gutsy, determined and talented they are,

Larry Sabato

I think they have to do something prior to November 2006, to show they understand they have overspent and are determined to do something about it.

Howard Dean

Some of the generals have said we can withdraw some of the troops. ... We have others saying, we're not going to leave. These people do not know what they are doing,

Chris Masoner

Some people are happy at these schools and some aren't. We think these things are about general feel, and as much as you try to wrap it up in a statistical guide, you can't.

Ken Knutson

Our pitching is generally a year older with some really good arms. We have the players.

Gene Smith

Our student-athletes graduate at a higher rate than the rest of general student population.

Brian Foster

Our start to the season has been generally encouraging,

Michael Jarvis

Our general idea is to provide security and pretty much help over take over for the PD. We are going in under the martial law status. That will be one of our priorities.

Damon Hill

Pipelines in general used to be located primarily in rural areas, but as populations and communities grow and develop, more people are nearby.

Tom Sherman

Really, people are here because of a general interest in the weather - or because they like that stuff. But it's all about what they can do to help their neighbors.

FC Dallas

I think there is a kind of general deference that is accorded the prosecutors,

Michael Chapman

Some kind of historical use for the tribe would be ideal, but we don't have the resources, ... We'd probably want the property with the main building, but that'll be very competitive.

Diana Gabaldon

Some people are just mad about the historical aspects; they feel as though they're living in a different time or they're learning something,

Romesh Gunesekera

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

Luis Restrepo

It is a very important thing that the historical structure of the BCB has been demobilized.

Bertrand Russell

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Laurent Fabius

I think really this time it's a historical moment,

Lynn Coady

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Kelly McBride

Journalists' notes are incredibly useful for historical perspectives.

William Styron

It did not occur to me that there would be many difficulties to impede my ambition. . . .

Michelle Paver

I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Sandy Howard

We need to make sure that this doesn't occur at other sites around the state.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

Harrison Ford

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

Dorothy Hamill

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Spencer Grammer

When I went to college, it didn't even occur to me that I should be in a sorority at all. I went to school in New York City, where you don't need to be in a sorority to go to a party!

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Brooke Shields

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Lauren Graham

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

Peter Capaldi

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

Henry David Thoreau

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

Mitch Albom

Scenery without solace is meaningless.

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Or have they settled an affair? Then surely We are the settlers.

Laura Evans

I went through three different titles before I settled with this one,

Tom Tierney

Give him time to settle in, and he'll do the right thing for the Diocese of Cleveland.

Michael Scheuer

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Mario Williams

For us to come here, win like we did and shut them out ... it settles it down a little bit.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Martin Jol

I always like to play with a settled team. If you see my teams I always play with the same if they are fit,

Gary Forrest

He had a shaky start, then he really settled down and pitched well.

Milwaukee Brewers

He never got settled in. He couldn't find a groove. He never got going,

Harvey Jackson

Our spirits are high. We're in it for the long haul.

Bede Griffiths

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

Bede Griffiths

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

Bede Griffiths

The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

Bede Griffiths

This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.

Bede Griffiths

In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality, There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not 'known' at this point and thus transmuted. To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life. It was God's purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth'.

B. R. Ambedkar

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.

B. R. Ambedkar

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.

Billy Corgan

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.