Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

Neel Mukherjee

To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul.

Jeremy Roenick

So look for him to come up with something. I know in Minnesota, Jacques is trying to do the same thing. It's interesting to see what's going to work. We're going to have to work in a lot of systems to try to counteract no red line. It's probably going to drive me out of my mind, but they're going to have to find something to counter long-ice passes and guys cheating through centre ice.

Rhys Ifans

I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.

Paula Zahn

Sir, you're not telling me that you just learned that the folks at the convention centre didn't have food and water until today, are you? You had no idea that they were completely cut off?

Claude Julien

What we like about Radek is that he can be a solid No. 3 centre for us and if we run into injury problems, then he is the kind of guy who can move up to the No. 1 or No. 2 position with no problem,

Phil Carlson

Friday night in Sauk Centre was a rough night. We started off playing tough but did not convert on key free throws once we were in the bonus. This led to some momentum for Sauk, and they capitalized.

Brian Ashton

Joe Maddock did a good job in the centre last week and he deserves to stay in the side.

Hines Ward

We started off fast. And for the most part, we made plays when we needed to make them, but we didn't convert third downs and were in too many third-and-long situations.

Charles Sims

We have no plans to convert to an income trust.

Bob Stoops

When we did protect him, we didn't convert our opportunities.

Dave Stephens

We got to the line 29 times, which is a real positive. But we only converted 17.

Bryant McGill

Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.

Mark Boyd

Many of these ships still have 20 or 30 years of life left in them and can accommodate several hundred passengers in great comfort. We will take a retired cruise ship and convert every two to three cabins into luxury suites and sell them to investors.

Mike Drass

We made a lot of mistakes and have to learn from those mistakes. They converted four fourth-down conversions. We have to play better in those crucial situations if we are going to keep playing for the next 10 games and hopefully further.

John Morley

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Samantha Shannon

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

Charles Sumner

Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.

Charles de Gaulle

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Charles de Gaulle

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Dell Leonard

We've won some big games at the line this year, and we've lost some at the line. We know how important free throws are.

Charles Dickens

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

Al Lewis

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

Don Cheadle

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.

Diego Rivera

I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.

Demi Lovato

Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that.

Bo Jackson

You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off.

Bill Murray

The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.

Charles Dickens

If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations.

Charles Spurgeon

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

Charles Spurgeon

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Alan Greenspan

Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank needs to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. The decision makers then need to reach judgment about the probabilities, costs and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.

Alan Greenspan

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions .... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

Alain Robert

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

Al Kaline

I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

Chris Colfer

I just downloaded the new Alvin and the Chipmunks album! They're the only guys that make music in my key!

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Doug Bleadorn

West led us and we rode the third period to victory.

Harmony Korine

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

Steve Martarano

There doesn't seem to be anything that really led to the attack.

Selman Waksman

The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.

Elliott Abrams

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

Laura McElroy

led to the commotion, but they have nothing to do with the charges.

Kenny Mayne

I don't regret it at all. It's led to other things.

Mike Conley

He comes to play in big games, and today was two big games. I think he stepped up and led us to victory.

Alan Greenspan

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Earl Weaver

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

Debbie Casto

We've got a very aggressive, trapping style of defense. And we get a lot of turnovers out of it. We've been able to get momentum with turnovers and score in transition.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ben Gordon

When we go down there, we've got to keep the snowball rolling. We have momentum right now. We have confidence. So we need to keep that up.

Dave Tippett

We feel the momentum is on our side now.

Rob Johnson

We needed a break, we did, ... The offense, the morale was low. But things went our way and we took the momentum and ran with it.

Charles de Lint

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

Charles Dickens

For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Charles Dickens

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

Charles Dickens

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

Charles Dickens

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

Charles Dickens

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

Charles Dickens

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

Charles Spurgeon

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

Neil Fallon

We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.

Chord Overstreet

Ive been playing music since I was born.

Mark Mooney

(Walker) has just been playing real well. She runs real hard, she is just up and down the court.

Jenic Tumaneng

We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it.

Lucas Black

When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it.

Nigel Kennedy

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

Wayne Grant

When you start playing these better region teams, you have to play well.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Agnes Repplier

Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

Chauncey Billups

If it ain't rough, it ain't right

Wendy Foreman

I wrote an outline. I wrote a rough draft. And then I rewrote and rewrote and rewrote. And that's the way you were supposed to write plays.

Jack Wilson

We've been through some very rough times. But we survived. Now we're on the rebound.

Jarvis Herring

We talk about it a lot. It has been a rough road. But if we end up with at least a 10-win season, it will have been worth it.

CC Sabathia

When times get rough, keep your head up.

Dave Thompson

Winter is always a rough time for people.

Brett Mackey

That was kind of a rough way to start the first inning.

John M. Smith

He said he had rough sex and he strangled her,

Russian Proverb

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away

Ashley Lewie

When Ari throws a pitch, I know where it is going to go.

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Carroll Ballard

It throws me in the toilet. I'm going to have a lot of trouble getting another picture.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Dave Odom

I know (Kinsey) would have been here. It's one of those things: He wasn't here on time, so he doesn't start. That throws Renaldo back in there.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

Al Horford

We know what we have. If we can all come back and put it together, we can be a tough team.

Dave Franco

I'm a tough critic on myself.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Arnold Palmer

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

Demi Lovato

Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.

Scott Cross

We've got a tough draw, but what the heck. They're all tough at this point.

Tim Donovan

Whether you have to go to Groveland or Timbuktu, ... there should always be an official. It's tough to find volunteers.

Avery Johnson

We're making progress, but it was just a tough loss.