Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Cholodenko

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

Mark Harmon

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

Nnedi Okorafor

I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.

Peter Franck

We were attracted to it because we thought it was irreverent and poignant, and because of the obsolete technology.

Lina Wertmuller

I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti-historical character. I am attracted to happy people. Happy people with very grave problems.

Dannel Malloy

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

Jean Marais

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Wu Bangguo

Work safety incidents, which always involve sacrifice of human lives, attracted wide public attention.

Wu Bangguo

Work safety incidents, which always involve losses of human lives, attracted wide public attention. Therefore, in 2005, the NPC Standing Committee examined the work safety law implementation from various aspects.

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Janet Jenkins

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Scott Hoyt

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

Rahul Dravid

There are some cracks on it but otherwise it looks a good track.

Ron Walters

where the population was predominantly white, where FEMA got cracking in a hurry.

C. S. Lewis

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

Justin Glover

When everybody thinks about a sinkhole, people think of a home crashing into a hole. That's not what we're finding. We're finding it's cracks in driveways, cracks in the walls, settling on the roof and those are being paid as sinkhole claims.

Reese Witherspoon

When he had a scene, we would stand like a set away and watch, and we were just cracking up. He would just sit funny. And stand funny. He was just so funny in everything he did.

Natsuo Kirino

A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

Paul Roos

We respect them as an opposition and they are going to have a real crack and so we need to as well.

Alex Gonzalez

When the sheriff came, that's when you really started noticing more of a difference. Ever since they started cracking down on everything, things got better.

David Sims

like crack cocaine to the state of West Virginia right now.

Alan Paton

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

Helen Sharman

Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you'd look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular.

Bible Bible

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Michael Leunig

On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.

John Fazio

Since the dawn of time actually since the early '80s the impacts to energy production for fish and wildlife constraints have always been calculated.

David Nicholls

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

Sathya Baba

Let the day dawn for you and others with thought of the Almighty, the Compassionate, and the Omnipresent self-knowing God. What greater service can you do to yourself and others? This will give you health and happiness.

Sarah Polley

So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.

Ben Carson

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Jeff Mittie

The positive was our team play was further ahead. I thought our guards played the way they should have. They played like I expected since they're the veterans.

Paul James

We're in a win-win situation. If we lose, we've still done more than we expected in our first year.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.

Kelly Trahon

Wayland has a strong program so I expected this to be a good game.

Kim Yuna

When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

Greg Albrecht

We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen yet.

Russell Robinson

We're a young team and not too many people expected much out of us. We tried to go out there and play hard every day and it paid off.

Ron Haskins

Three years after a recession we're still having trouble getting into a recovery. I would have expected poverty to go down.

Jeremy Mincey

We know what's expected of us, and we know what we need to do. We don't want to end up like two years ago.

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Charles Dickens

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

Charles Dickens

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

Alan Watts

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Al Lopez

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Chloe Sevigny

If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Al Jarreau

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

Matt Rosoff

There are some folks who have been there for a long time and who will resent the way things are being run as a bureaucracy. And maybe they were there for the big stock run-up and they're seeing the stock not move now.

Brian Bosma

There are some folks up in northern Indiana who are waiting for public opinion on this matter to be reinforced.

Shelly Grice

There are some folks sitting on the sidelines.

Charlie Adam

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

Ronald McDonald

We're managing to get by. We're lucky enough. We've got transportation. We can go get something. A lot of these folks can't. They're just stuck in.

Brian Niceswanger

We're getting a lot of calls. Our folks are staying late and will be here (today) for those who want to verify the information they received.

David Stockert

There are lots of those folks in Austin.

Melissa McHenry

We're sending all the folks we can spare.

Noreena Hertz

I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.

Arthur C. Clarke

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

William Massey

If a storm makes landfall within a 200-mile radius, it's probably a good forecast, ... Eight, 10 years ago, that was a 300-mile radius. So they are improving the forecasts drastically.

Peter Luxton

Weather forecasts going warmer, colder, warmer will gyrate oil prices around.

Don Brown

The market is terrific, ... The long range forecasts are still very positive. The Indian is a powerful name, probably the most powerful name in the motorcycle world, other than Harley-Davidson. The question is, after you sell the first 1,000 or 500, will there be an ongoing market?

Alex Scott

At the start of the year, forecasts generally were for a more subdued year than we'd seen in 2004 so 16 percent is a pretty good year.

Joseph Unsworth

They needed to diversify because ... all the long-term forecasts for DRAM are not bright.

Phil Flynn

Even though the forecasts are turning colder, traders are already thinking about spring. The market is saying we think the winter is pretty much over given the supplies that we have.

Richard Behnke

So what we're working on with these models is individual forecasts of particular storms. That would be what we're really pressed to look at now.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

Michael Leunig

All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on a bad, gloomy planet, to be colourful and creative seems so promising.

John McLean

We don't have any power so we?re using headlights, but actually it has a nice gloomy feel to it.

Source Unknown

There is no better way to spend a gloomy day, then to sleep it all away

Kazunori Jinnai

As long as Prime Minister Mori insists on staying, a gloomy mood will linger.

Karl Philipp Moritz

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

Clare Short

I am very gloomy about the Middle East.

Betty Wright

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

John Gibbons

We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.

Andre Woodson

We're going to give it to the hot hand.

John Hamilton

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

Bam Margera

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

Delta Burke

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Gina Lombardi

With the light-rail going in right next to us and all the development around, it makes our land a hot spot. You can't really stand in the way of it.

Curt Shaw

We knew what was on the line. The pressure was off after the loss to Hot Springs (Thursday).

Shashi Tharoor

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Sandra Goldstein

What have they done there to justify that?

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

Harold Vogel

The question is, will there be enough new advertisers to justify the cost.

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

Curt Schilling

I'd love to sit here and justify why I should throw more (on Friday). But I can't do that.

Frank Tashlin

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Blake Shelton

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

Yoshiharu Izumi

This seems to justify the Westinghouse acquisition from a strategic perspective.

Eric Van Lustbader

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

Frostee Rucker

I'm always toast when I'm lined up versus 5.

William Williams

If they give you lined paper, write the other way.

Nancy Elliott

There are hundreds of picket signs lined up and ready to go.

Harry Sprouse

We've just got to make sure we're lined up right.

Paula Carney

We have sponsors already lined up for next year and now I have everything in place to have it all run smoothly.

LaVonda Wagner

We have some visits lined up, and maybe we'll sign two or three more.

Mack Brown

Michael's been doing that for three years, getting everyone lined up right and making adjustments on his own, ... That's why we haven't been able to move him to corner.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

Jerry Clements

We respond to lots of things; that's why it's interesting. You're not doing the same thing every day.

Christine Walsh

Usually, it's complicated enough just doing a role. But when it's your senior project, there's lots, lots more involved.

Michael Lindell

There are lots of ways for levees to fail. Overtopping is just one of them,

Tom Underwood

There are lots of underlying problems in the whole system.

Jim Silver

There are lots of things that need to be done to revive Barbie.

Steven Vanderburg

There are lots of scattered showers over the ocean.

Kate Winslet

With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.

Parry Aftab

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down.

Russell Crowe

Lots of people noticed me, they just didn't give me up.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Kim Hill

All of the sales trends are reshuffling the industry.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bo Burnham

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Greg Jackson

We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us.

S. Walker

We wrote more tickets this week than I've ever seen on a Super Bowl.

Marc Morial

To outsiders, you are seen as a shining light. You are seen as a beacon.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Brian Katz

Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.

Keyshawn Johnson

Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs.

Roy Evans

Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace.

Scott Stoker

We've seen worse. We've come through a lot together.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Bill Joy

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

Bill Joy

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

Arthur Rimbaud

I could never throw Love out of the window.

Bela Lugosi

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

Archie Shepp

All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

Elin Hilderbrand

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

Ally Carter

The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.

James Long

When the window shattered, you can't see through it.