Famous Quotes & Sayings

G. H. Hardy

The people who come to us are desperate. It's as if they're in a burning building. Their lives are at stake.... We didn't feel that we could morally back out and put these people back in the fire and let them die.

Luchino Visconti

Don't underestimate Laura Antonelli. She's burning to do well. And then she has an extraordinary face, even without make-up. It's not with her that I'd discuss literature. I speak only of the film 'L'Innocente,' and what she does she does well.

Bill Bailey

I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...

Paul Stewart

When we first moved in here we had significant symptoms which continued til today. We had burning eyes, burning nose, scratchy throats, nasal headaches, that type of thing.

Sir Scott

Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow

J. K. Rowling

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

Kim Gordon

I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a rock musician. I feel like I've taken that as far as I can take it, for me.

Kirk Cameron

What I would say is Jesus came to save lost sinners like you and me, and if Jesus Christ has a burning desire to seek and save the lost, then you should, too, if Christ is living within you. If you don't have a concern for the lost, then I am concerned about your salvation because the Holy Spirit wants the lost to come to Christ.

Chris Crutcher

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

Brian Schneider

We've actually talked about that a little bit. That's part of the reason I wanted to start catching him. Any time you catch somebody and you're more familiar with him, it helps, especially with as big as these games are going to be.

Kaylyn Bayly

We have some catching up to do. But we'll be okay.

Kay Robertson

Robertsons love Sundays! The most important thing we do is gather together with our church family for worship, teaching, and fellowship. After church, we like to have a nice lunch of roast, vegetables, and definitely rolls or biscuits. And I love catching a nap when I can.

Dave Salo

What he's doing is the right thing to figure out what he's really strong at. He knows the rest of the world is catching up to him. Eventually, he's going to have to come down to two or three events.

Bronco Mendenhall

What's interesting is they're running the quarterback, running him effectively and running him often. Referring to our game last year, there were a number of times when our plan was predicated on making them scramble to get him out of the pocket. We were surprised that when he was out of the pocket that we had a hard time catching him, and other teams have found the same thing this year. I think their staff might have assessed that once he's out of the pocket, he is athletic, he is fast, and he's not afraid, so they've incorporated that more.

Mike Scioscia

We're going to have to face him (eventually), we don't look at it as catching a break. There is no denying he's a special pitcher, but the last couple nights (Joel) Pineiro and (Ryan) Franklin have pitched as well as anyone.

Tim Bates

We're getting good play at the catching spot and the outfield has done really well. But we need to work on our play in the infield.

Chris Wagner

We're a young team. We've had a lot of trouble catching and throwing the ball. When our defense played well, we didn't throw strikes.

Justin Osmer

We know how to work in the developer world, so we in no way see ourselves as catching up.

Kieran Culkin

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.

Jon Gibs

I thought hard cider was a little unusual. It suggests a younger ? much younger ? audience.

Lasse Hallstrom

The cider house rules are the metaphor for those rules that you feel you have to oppose because you feel they don't make sense to you.

Sir Campbell

The prime minister has a lot of explaining to do.

Source Unknown

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Mark Boudreaux

We take these issues very seriously. We realized that we needed to do a better job of explaining how the industry works.

Jared Bernstein

Explaining the unique characteristics of this unbalanced recovery is more like 'Murder on the Orient Express' than finding a smoking gun in somebody's hands. There are a lot of suspects.

Lord Byron

Explaining metaphysics to the nation - / I wish he would explain his explanation.

Bruce Young

You can learn a whole lot in a short period of time from a guide, as long as he's explaining what he wants you to do.

Sue Thilo

We need to do a better job of explaining it.

Piet Hein

People are self-centeredto a nauseous degree.They will keep on about themselveswhile I'm explaining me.

Madeline Albright

I think that Senator Kerry has been working on explaining that. It hasn't come through, ... He is making that message very loud and clear.

J. Taylor

We've won one game. We won four last year. We've got a ways to go before we match last year. We haven't proved anything.

David S. Goyer

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

Don Flanagan

UNLV plays four guards. So using four guards was something we were looking at doing anyway.

George Burley

We are proud to have four players who played a major part in Wednesday's success.

B. F. Skinner

We are practicing with Hartland and they will get us prepared. They've been there the last four years and we should learn from them. They are a great program.

Kyle Smith

We usually just have two forwards up top. But later in the second half I moved up a third one, and with about 1:45 left I moved in a fourth one.

Jim McCann

We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really is a lot of fun.

Bonnie Henrickson

We struggled to find another offensive weapon. Their third and fourth options made shots, and we're not that deep.

Caryn Jeffreys

We are a fluid, but large group. We do a lot of plays and four shows a years.

William Shakespeare

I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.

Jennette McCurdy

My favorite is Steamfresh broccoli with just a hint of garlic salt.

Jordi Molla

After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health.

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Lauren Herring

When I was little, I used to feel a lot of pressure. Before matches, I'd want to throw up. But now, I've adapted. I do get homesick sometimes, but I have to remember why I am there and what I have to do to go pro.

Michael Chertoff

making provisions for people in nursing homes or hospitals to get them out so they are out of harm's way and don't need to be rescued.

Tempestt Bledsoe

I love helping people put their homes in order.

Jack Campbell

There are the ones who have a lot of land and want to be annexed because they want the sewer to make the land more valuable and the lots smaller. Then there are the people with homes with working septic tanks that don't see why they should pay to hook into a sewer system they don't intend to use.

Robert Reich

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.

Ryan Thompson

Yards have always sold homes and they always will.

Allard Beutel

We are looking at that what can we do for people who had homes nearby, who want to work but don't have a home to go back to at night.

Gabriel Mann

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Brian Dawkins

We stopped the run, we stopped the pass, we kept people out of the end zone, ... but yet we still get looked down upon.

Bobby Bowden

When you've got a young inexperienced quarterback, the first thing you think of is 'Son don't lose the game,' ... He didn't lose the game. He kept us from losing.

Hugh Fountain

We actually got after it better. We played harder. It's a tribute to the kids. They've kept plugging away. It was important for them to see some results come out of the work.

Paul Friel

We were told we would be kept up on the time. If we don't have a scoreboard, we shouldn't play at that field.

Christine Baranski

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

H. Hunt

We knew what we had to do and we just kept going after them. I think we really wore them down and later on we were picking up big yards on runs.

Carmelo Anthony

We knew they were going to make a run, we weren't going to be able to keep a (big) lead on them. They made a run, they made a big run in the third, but we kept our composure.

E. O. Wilson

We knew they were going to make a run. We knew they were going to get hot, but we kept our composure.

Mike Myers

Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.

Natalie Imbruglia

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

Bruce Dickinson

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

Elizabeth Hurley

I feel like a semi-single mum.

Nita Ambani

Sachin is the soul of Mumbai Indians, and I am sure he will guide Bhajji as he takes on the responsibility of captaining Mumbai Indians.

Katherine Boo

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

Carine Roitfeld

My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.

Isla Fisher

On Nicole Kidman: She's a mum in her thirties with slag's hair. Look at all that frizzy s**t! She thinks she's a girl.

Kate Thompson

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

Jennifer Ellison

I want to be a young mum and if I didn't have to work I'd have them tomorrow. I'd like three!

Bob Marley

Your recipe, darling, is so tasty, and you sure can stir your pot.

Bernie Worrell

The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

Colonel Sanders

To me, my recipes are priceless.

Donald Kennedy

It is a recipe only in the sense that 'catch a turtle' is the recipe for turtle soup,

Emeril Lagasse

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?

Heidi Klum

I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.

Jeremy Jackson

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

Dave Favre

They're all recipes from things that worked at fund-raisers.

Christopher Hitchens

Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Pete Wentz

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

Douglas Hofstadter

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Amy Hempel

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

Per Petterson

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

Michelle Green

There are a lot of things you can be doing with your kids. We want them to write sentences by the end of kindergarten.

Mary Oliver

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

Matt Groening

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Edmond Rostand

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

Kim Gandy

We know what's at stake and we won't go back.

William Hedgcock Webster

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

David Hanson

There is just too much at stake for us not to have it.

Satya Nadella

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

Ken Miller

Why is this a big deal? What is at stake is, literally, everything.

Sander Levin

Michigan has a lot at stake in the defense industry, and the defense industry has a lot at stake in Michigan.

Fred Thompson

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

Cal Cochran

It's just another game. The stakes don't change.