Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amanda Lindhout

Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.

Paul Feig

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

Barry Gibb

My lower back problems really began in 1989 on the One For All tour, which was agony for me.

Edgar Allan Poe

How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

Edgar Allan Poe

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

Edgar Allan Poe

...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

William Faulkner

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

Harold Feinstein

The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!

Tammy Smith

We're not calling this a sequel. We're calling it the next installment.

Sgt. Maynard

We're not calling this a drowning. The investigation will continue and we're awaiting autopsy results to determine how the child died.

Ramon Sanchez

We're not calling the people out as long as we see that Elian's case remains in the courts and the government is not moving to suddenly take Elian back to Cuba.

Dave Carlson

We're not calling it a ripple effect; we're calling it a reverberating effect.

Hank Aaron

Leo, if I'm not calling you, everything's fine. If I'm calling you all the time, something isn't right.

E. O. Wilson

Last year this time we were on the other side, just hoping and praying that somehow they would stick us in there. It makes the day a lot more fun, knowing they will be calling our name sometime.

Charles Pickering

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told Trent Lott (R-MS), and told my son this voluntarily, We're going to confirm your dad by December. The groups said, No, not so fast; so they were calling the shots, they were calling the tempo,

Cindy Sheehan

One of the things that pushed me over the edge was that people on the Left were calling me names. How many kicks in the teeth do you have to endure.

Todd Kent

No, not at all, the officials did a nice job calling the game. Our girls were really focused and we know fouls our not part of our game. They aren't how we play defense.

Italo Calvino

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

Robert Teeter

The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican.

Rulon Gardner

Make sure the people of Laramie stay healthy, or my sister Marcella will come visit you, ... With my sister, physically maybe (she can be overpowered), but mentally, psychologically she will destroy you. I don't mess with my sisters. You think I'm tough, you should mess with my family.

Marguerite Valois

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

George E. Pataki

September 11 wasn't just aimed at destroying the two towers and killing thousands of people. It was aimed at dividing us and frightening us and taking away our freedom and taking away our confidence,

David Richard

So it is important to set realistic targets for young drivers. I've seen drivers destroyed by high expectations and fear of failure.

Dieter Hundt

Minimum wages would destroy at least a part of these jobs, which are occupied primarily by people with few qualifications and in eastern Germany.

Igor Smirnov

Moldova destroyed this plan with its own hands by imposing an economic blockade.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so very fortunate; dwell upon the jewel of spiritual wisdom. You hold in your hands the sword of the Guru's spiritual wisdom; with this destroyer of death, kill the Messenger of Death.

Jose Cano

Makes me nervous. I want him to get a hit right now. I don't want him to go down. I want him to stay here forever.

Retief Goosen

Luckily, it doesn't really hurt me when I hit the ball. I know it's there, but it's nothing serious.

Larry Gispert

Life could be very, very different if we get hit by a major hurricane.

Bob Murphrey

Leon and James hit some big shots ? they did what they are supposed to do.

Yvette Girouard

Leslie Klein hit her first home run in two years. She looks like she's back and she loves softball.

Curt Schilling

Seven of the 11 hits were on fastballs,

John Major

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.

Jim Lushine

Mother nature still has us in its sights. I hope it just wings us rather than hitting us in the gut.

Dan Gandin

McArdle hit some big shots for us in that first half. He really kept us in the game.

J. C. Watts

I thought he was a superman. I know the kids saw him as an invincible dad. To see this, it tears them apart.

Curtis Sliwa

Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

Lance Loud

I believed I was invincible.

John Piper

The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.

Mariano Rivera

I don't feel invincible because I'm human.

Dave Ramsey

You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.

Ryan Diggs

We were all pumped up at the start of overtime. I thought we had the momentum. I was never nervous.

Torii Hunter

Sometimes I get so pumped up, I get a headache. I get woozy. I get dizzy. I like that feeling, I don't know why.

Gary Pearson

We told them, 'You need to get this pumped out now,' and they were not willing to do that 'now.

Jason Caron

I was kind of pumped to play today. I wasn't real aggressive, just doing what I've been doing all week.

Jason Caron

I was kind of pumped to play today, ... I wasn't real aggressive, just doing what I've been doing all week.

David R. Brower

We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.

Kelly Quinn

We were ready for this game, ... We were pumped up.

Mike Connolly

I was pumped up for the game. I just went out there and tried to do the same thing I've been doing all year.

CeeLo Green

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.

Rabih Alameddine

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

Scott Weiss

I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.

Larry Ellison

Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

Roy Moore

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

Rich Galen

What it reminded me of the other day is 'Baghdad Bob' saying there are no Americans at the airport.

S. Walker

I keep being reminded about how tough the remainder of our schedule is. But we just need to worry about us, not about who we're going to play.

Greg Walker

It wasn't so much what we told him. We just reminded him of some things that he had done in the past.

Rhys Ifans

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

will.i.am

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

Emanuel Steward

We get into the ring and we say, 'Welcome to big time boxing,'

Richard Grimes

Standing in the ring awaiting the first round to start is not the time to think; I wish I'd trained for this. 

David M. Shoup

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

Bon Bean

We're going all the way. It's a done deal. Put 'Gladiators' on the rings and set up the parade.

Crystal Robinson

Man, that championship ring is what we play for,

Steve Stirling

He's a real steady presence, on and off the ice. He has two championship rings and that's impressive.

Alan Faneca

They got the rings and we went home.

Candice Hansen

So we have more than enough to keep the E ring from disappearing.

Tiger Woods

I don't feel like I'm on a roll at all,

Kelly Hawthorne

We are on a roll right now. We just want to keep it going.

Dwight Schultz

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

Diablo Cody

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Brad Rex

We're getting on a roll at the right time.

Kara Walker

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

Tori Amos

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

Rob Kurz

We're on a roll right now. We can't wait to play another game.

Capt. Ball

If someone's challenging you, you let it roll off.

Sue Christiansen

So far, they seem to be working well and doing what they're supposed to.

Mike Birbiglia

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Debbie Johnson

No one seems to know who he is.

Brian Joubert

Now you can win without a quad, and that doesn't seem right.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

Gillian Armstrong

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Elizabeth Warren

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Sam Worthington

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Clarence Thomas

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

Donita Stewart

She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done.