Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mitchell

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

David Smith

We're running around like chickens with our heads cut off.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

Mary LeBlanc

When we got married, we had nothing. We had no water, no utilities. There were no screens on the house. There were cracks in the floor big enough you could see the chickens walking under the house.

Scott Faber

What he said was incredibly encouraging, but I'm not counting any chickens yet.

Michael Doyle

Most poultry contain harmful bacteria. Recent statistics show that about 60 percent of chickens -- broilers -- are contaminated with campylobacter, and 10 percent with salmonella. And turkeys tend to be higher.

Emily Sullivan

I eat them at home, so I was really glad when they started having them here. I feel better that the chickens aren't in cages. It's better for them, and I think they taste better.

Abdulsalam Nasidi

I have been in the field and they say 'What are you telling us? We eat dead chickens and we have been doing that for centuries'.

Malcolm X

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

Buck Showalter

When you say 'ever' in our game, that gets your attention. That's remarkable. When everybody is counting on you and watching you to produce and you still do it, that's impressive.

Shannon Sharpe

Short of them telling me there's something seriously wrong, I plan to be out there on Sunday, because I know that my teammates are counting on me to be out there,

Dave Hiatt

She's a great little set shooter with three-point range. She played a little last year, and we're counting on her for some leadership.

Angelina Chilaka

She's a four-year player that we're really counting on to have another solid season.

Jim Myers

Let's face it, we did a great job getting back here. But we lost six seniors and now we're counting on two or three freshmen and a couple of sophomores to step up. And they did a great job for us this year.

Viktor Yushchenko

Let each deputy here display his courage. I am counting on you.

Holly Brown

We're not counting ourselves out. We're right there.

John Lowery

We're not counting on them as saviors or anything else like that,

Phil Garner

We're not counting him out, but this is a day-to-day situation,

Rob Blake

We have to get points in every game. We'll take this point and we're not satisfied, but we'll definitely take it after being down with 7 minutes left.

Jerome Bettis

Whenever you go into a situation where it could be your last play, there's a sense of desperation. I definitely feel it, and I try to encourage my teammates and lead by example. It doesn't matter how we do it, all that matters is we get it done.

Wade Redden

Whenever something needs to be done, it seems like he's the guy who's out there, leading the way. He's definitely a candidate.

Julian Gardner

We were belted in the set pieces by a NSW team that was definitely up for the game.

Lisa Nash

We've seen some very heavy trading today, which could be related to the news. Once the news broke, there definitely was an increase in trading.

John Margarita

The extra week helped us since we're a young team, but the guys are definitely ready to start playing for real. We'll see what Ophelia brings, but they've got the turf down there and we're expecting to play regardless.

Olli Jokinen

We've still got Krajicek and Bouwmeester as well. You definitely need four guys on the power play, maybe even three units during the year.

Janet Baird

We've still got a long way to go, but making it back to state is definitely in the back of their minds. Hopefully, we'll improve enough to make a run at it.

John Campbell

There is a lot of good quality music being made and from this tour and the touring we've been doing over the 10 years there has definitely been a big pickup in people showing up, especially in girls 18-24.

Brian Schweitzer

When he goes out to meet people, he doesn't come off real,

Charles de Lint

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Jessica Biel

When I'm working and I eat healthily all week, then I give myself one day - usually Sunday - when I eat just what I want. You have to; otherwise, your mind goes a little nutso.

Uzo Aduba

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.

Jimmy Swaggart

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

Bill Brewer

We want that little patch that goes on our (letter) jackets.

John Fredriksen

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

Janice Dickinson

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

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.

Carl Bernstein

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

David Shuster

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

David Sedaris

My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.

David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Elaine Sciolino

Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

Chogyam Trungpa

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

Brit Hume

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

Jane Fonda

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Pat Camden

We did everything we possibly could to protect her.

Kristin Davis

Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all this is that we're women in a show so we can't possibly get along. It's not like they write about The Sopranos like that.

Greg Norman

Would there possibly be another woman? Absolutely. Time will tell who that will be.

Michael Brown

We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event.

Bernard Boudreaux

LSU did everything it possibly could to accommodate the state of Louisiana, the Saints and the NFL.

Eugene Nelson

My God. Better than I could possibly explain.

Marina and the Diamonds

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

Arno Penzias

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Deborah Moggach

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Carol Kane

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

Carol Vorderman

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

Carol Vorderman

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

Carlos Queiroz

Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him.

Carlos Mesa

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

Carlos Delgado

I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.

Carlos Beltran

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

Carl Crawford

Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Bram Stoker

Take me away from all this Death.

David Brooks

My SUV, assuming Hummer comes out with a model for those who find the current ones too cramped, will look something like the Louisiana Superdome on wheels. It'll guzzle so much gas as I walk out to my driveway there will be squads of Saudi princes gaping and applauding. It'll come, when I buy it, with little Hondas and Mazdas already embedded in the front grillwork.

Jamie Hyneman

We've found that the biggest thing as far as the danger is simply pressure.When we work with explosives, we've got bomb technicians there, bomb-squad guys who go into unknown situations all the time, and they've dealt with it safely.

Busta Rhymes

I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or A Tribe Called Quest. I miss albums like those.

Bryan Robson

Jonathan's been in the squad before when Steve McLaren had him,

Frank Rijkaard

He isn't in the squad because I wanted to give him a rest.

Alessandro Del Piero

I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.

Dane Cook

I love singing along to the radio while I'm riding in the back of a squad car.

Ashley Cole

There's nothing we can do about it and we've just got to do what we can with the squad we've got.