Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irish Sayings

When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.

Juan Somavia

The real challenge is to make sure that these provisions will be applied and enforced worldwide, just like the international provisions designed to secure safety at sea.

Andy Zircher

When I was an undergraduate, I don't think I applied (for graduation) in time.

Lev Vygotsky

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

Karen Finerman

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

Tim O'Reilly

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love.

John Hall

We applied in response to a request put out by FEMA for two-man teams to help on the Gulf Coast. At this point we don't know where we will be assigned, but we know it's going to be in the Gulf Coast region somewhere,

H. Hunt

We applied for food stamps and we've gotten it. We have no money.

Chris Horner

We applied for a patent ... for some specific reproductive processes in swine. Any pigs that would be produced using this reproductive technique would be covered by these patents.

Richard Hatch

We were always working overtime, throwing things together. Every first year is always hectic enough, because you have producers and network executives fighting it out over what they think you should do. With all the belief that science fiction was just not meant for TV, they didn't understand what they had until it was too late-and by then they had a hit show, the highest rated sci-fi show of all time on network television!

Hans Davidsson

The expressiveness of this organ is beyond belief, ... There's a vocal quality to the sound that you don't hear in modern instruments.

Martin Indyk

There is a lot of blame to go around. But on the American side, the conceptual failure that contributed to disaster was the president's belief that democracy and elections solve everything.

Abdullah Gul

There is a link with an organization in Afghanistan in terms of belief and understanding.

Neil Higgs

There is clearly the potential for a lack of belief in the value of the local government election process: if people do not believe in it, turnout will be low.

Victoria Cobb

There is certainly a belief that the state can never get enough revenue. This is a source of revenue no matter how unfair or how difficult it is on families.

Byron Katie

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

Empedocles

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

Eric Kripke

Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections.

Ricky Gervais

I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

Elizabeth Hurley

I love glamorous women. Hugh adores glamour, as well. Im completely behind women dressing up and looking as good as they can.

Blake Lively

Dressing up is all about reflecting how I feel.

William Shakespeare

So all my best is dressing old words new.

Nellie McKay

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

Boy George

The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.

Dave Hakstol

No. 1, we knew we didn't come out of the dressing room Friday night the way we needed to. We didn't match Mankato's intensity Friday. I thought we did that tonight.

Cam Newton

I am a southern guy who likes dressing up and looking sharp but who lives a busy life of working and traveling, and I need reliable, stylish pieces in my wardrobe that will service multiple occasions.

Bud Sueppel

Four or five of us guys got to go into the dressing room with (coach) Hayden (Fry) and hand them out to the ballplayers. That's my top memory.

C. S. Lewis

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Eid Kabalu

We have no confirmation (of their presence in Mindanao). As far as the MILF is concerned, there have been no sightings. We have no personal knowledge that they are here,

Steve Howard

Whenever they focus on risk, the Houston region will fare well.

Greg Gilchrist

When you're winning, you don't have to make excuses, or when you're losing, you shouldn't come up with any, either. As far as I'm concerned, we just got outrun today.

William H. Macy

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

Bob Grantham

We want our property tax rates lowered significantly and substantially and meaningfully. So far we have not seen anything in that direction.

David Jones

We want it (the fire) far enough out and in an open spot.

Mats Sundin

We were back on our heels far too much.

Tony Woody

We were a step late all night long. We did not do a good job of matching their intensity. They played hard. They played like a team that wanted to go a little farther (in the playoffs).

Ivan Radenovic

We were trailing most of the time, but we had them. We were good enough to win, and it showed in the way we played. We gave them a terrific game.

Wayne Johnson

When I'm thinking about the Nationals, I'm not even thinking about the $140,000. If I win the Nationals and they gave me a $140,000 check, that's when it would hit me.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Kevin Kinel

We set ourselves up really nice. All of our swims were monstrous. These guys didn't let anything get to them. We gave ourselves some good opportunities.

Thomas Steinbeck

You didn't grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.

Catherine Deneuve

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Elaine Sciolino

In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.

Kim Cattrall

I never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

John Irving

I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.

William Faulkner

Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

David Ricardo

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Isla Fisher

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Mark Jensen

We've registered several hundred players in just a month and a half. We're quite pleased with the results of the soft launch.

Shirley Franklin

Nobody's ever been in this situation, at least not in a hundred years. So I think he's performed incredibly,

Kimberly Nelson

One hundred percent will still be reported under the change. All we lose is some of the details.

Terry Porter

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

Pam Gregory

She is typically a long program skater. I think she got over a big hurdle mentally in the short program, and she's going to be very ready.

Bob Ingalls

Getting 20 percent penetration we think is achievable, and that would be the first hurdle we are looking to achieve.

Charlie Ward

Of course, there's one more hurdle to jump,

Jack Michael

We had a nice day. It was pretty much a team effort. We were disqualified in the shuttle hurdles relay but scored pretty much in every other event.

Mitt Romney

The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.

Joe Girardi

Those are little hurdles you have to get over. Sometimes you have to learn to pitch with a lead, even if it's a slight lead.

Fatih Terim

We managed to pass the first hurdle by reaching the playoffs.

Scott Nicklas

He may have pulled his (right) quad. We'll have to wait and see. (But) he pulled out of the hurdles and triple jump because he hurt it in the long jump.

Alan Moore

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Chloe Grace Moretz

I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!

Mark Cuban

I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.

Chrissey Cruz

When we were little we used to say we are going to kick some butt.

Amber Brkich

What they won't know is that I can be mean, and I can be conniving, the kind of person that's going to kick you off.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Dave Ramsey

Let some one else take the butt kicking on devaluation.

Kathleen Clark

Let the voters know. If they don't like it, they can kick him out.

James Corden

Louis Tomlinson, who is a member of One Direction, his mum was a chaperone on 'Fat Friends.' So Louis used to come to the set with his mum, and since I was the only sort of young person around, we would kick a football around, things like that.

Kianna Smith

We've seen so many types of presses. I think I could sleep and still go through them. I knew that wouldn't be a problem.

Joe Cocker

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

The Weeknd

'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

Abby Wambach

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

Theresa Russell

My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.

Kirk Hinrich

We know we had Madison Square Gordon, so we knew we were in the driver's seat.

Tori Kelly

I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them.

Khloe Kardashian

I knew I didn't look like my sisters and I didn't have those shapes, but I didn't think that was wrong.

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

Kathleen Blanco

There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight,

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

Jochen Behle

We are sorry that it had come to this. It's a relief for Evi now.

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Sandra Cisneros

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

David H. Murdock

When I open my mouth, the room rings.

Caio Fonseca

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Bryan Ferry

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

Jane Austen

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Jimmy Dean

We are going to shut it off at 33 or 34 teams. We still have room for individuals and for some teams.

Eckhart Tolle

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Edward Said

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented.

Brad Gilbert

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Erin Sullivan

We want to score early. And score often.

Kevin Pietersen

We set our target to score about 400 in the first innings. We're about 240 short after the first day.

Brett Hull

You have to know how to score.

Lee Kuan Yew

I would not score very highly on religious value.

Bill Watterson

The score is still Q to 12!

Ned Yost

We had battled back for him and got him in a situation where the score was tied,

Christopher Young

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

Alain Vigneault

Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.

Josh Beckett

Right now it's going to come down to whoever scores more runs, because the starters aren't going to be out there as long,

Charlotte Bronte

God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?

Charlotte Bronte

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory Wait God's will.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

Charles Dickens

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Charles Stanley

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

Charles Stanley

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

David Anders

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

Darren Shan

Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?

David Sedaris

Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."