Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Hogan

Tom was an all-star catcher. He is a good buddy of mine.

Mike Weir

The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.

Neil Peart

In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again.

Corey Taylor

I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.

Larry the Cable Guy

I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.

John Roberts

Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my first lesson. Clothes do not make the man. The Justice sported long sideburns and Buddy Holly glasses long after they were fashionable. And he wore loud ties that I am confident were never fashionable.

Norm MacDonald

When I was young, I'd watch guys on 'The Tonight Show', Buddy Hackett, guys like that, where all they'd be is funny. Later, I remember, on 'Late Night with Letterman', I remember he'd have Jay Leno and Richard Lewis as first guests and the entire point was to entertain and be funny, and I think talk shows have kind of lost that.

Allen Johnson

We're evaluating it with the sports commission. We're certainly going to look at it, especially the boys. We're definitely going to look into it to see if the economics work. The mayor, Buddy Dyer, likes the tournament.

Sarah Addison Allen

At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Sturt

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Peter Harris

We are pleased with initial customer reactions to our merchandise assortment changes and store service improvements. While still early, we are making visible progress with our targeted initiatives.

Dan Roberts

We've already noticed some changes in the water.

Derek McLuckey

We are making adjustments in the first quarter of this year because of changes in our military support business. These changes have forced us to make this necessary decision to ensure our competitiveness.

Juergen Boos

We are looking forward to presenting in Frankfurt the great changes that have taken place in India over the last 20 years.

Bill Belichick

There are changes every year. It's hard to tell how all of those will pan out. But there's a lot of work to do.

Frank Robinson

We started making subtle changes during the course of that (1988) season and got prepared for '89,

John Ashcroft

Where there are responsible changes to be made, we will make them, ... Where there are mistakes to acknowledge, we will not shy away from doing so. Those who step forward to voice their legitimate concerns will be welcomed, and often their ideas reviewed and embraced.

Nicolas Roeg

I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five.

Brian Morrison

We're not going to put asterisks on any of our records. There have been so many rule changes, and so many changes in the style of play, and so many other things to consider over the years that we're not going to go there.

Danny Martin

The other side of resurrection is about changing the world. It's not just about yourselves.

Greg Abbott

We are pleased to have a chef of such stature share our vision. Dale's Kitchen gives our technology wonderful exposure throughout the foodservice and packaging industries. The Fresh Flow(TM) Tap is changing rules.

Don Worstell

We struggled formulating a game plan and I thought about changing to something different. But we haven't played that way all year. We needed to do what we do and if we have to we will make adjustments.

Al Edwards

When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a committee.

Lisa Graff

Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.

Bernadette Perez

What he's doing is completely changing my life.

Jim Dyke

What has become clear is this really isn't about protecting kids. This is about changing television. A politically active, savvy group of Americans has figured out a way to make TV in their own image.

Shaun Donovan

What's really different here is that we are changing the rules. We're saying the developer who wins is the one with the most affordability.

David Cummings

Unless the service stations decide to cut their margins in order to continue selling fuel, over $1.40 will shock a lot of people into changing the way they use their car.

Bobby Bowden

We've always had problems with Wake Forest. It looks like they've figured out their problems and found themselves.

Gene Corrigan

Tom was the one who figured that out. Tom is the one who led us here.

Mardy Collins

We lacked that intensity the last 2 minutes because we figured the game was over. We've got to finish games better than that.

Jamar Nesbit

Lucky enough, I kind of figured if it did flood, I was going to be gone at least a week,

Ted Chiang

When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.

Edward P. Jones

It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.

Scott McKenzie

When I got the call, first thing I did was, I thanked God, ... I figured that if God leads you to it, God will lead you through it.

Scott Browne

(Olivia) would hold onto my pockets and follow me like a caboose. Then she figured out, hey I can do that.

Tammy Crowley

She (Jackson) did a really good job out there today. She hung in there early, until she figured out the wind.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Benjamin Franklin

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Haruki Murakami

In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.

Simon Van Booy

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

Willa Cather

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

Tom Bissell

The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain.

Erik Hanson

On that return, I was getting kind of scared, ... So I'm screaming out his name, 'Ryan, Ryan ...'

Susan McBride

He was the yes-man to Tom Ryan. He had no thoughts of his own; whatever Tom Ryan told them, Kunkel would do it.

Dusty Baker

First I have to see him out of the bullpen. I do know Ryan Dempster is my closer.

Rob Thomas

Ryan Hansen is my favorite person on the planet. He is my discovery. I'm so proud of him.

Ashton Moio

I like Ryan Gosling from the inside. I think he's a beautiful person, and then if you didn't have anything, I'd still be his friend.

Joe Kinch

Ryan doesn't shoot many 3-pointers. He's a drive-and-pull-up guy.

Tommy Adams

Ryan and I play very well together. We know what each other can do, and we know one another very well.

Derek Roy

It seems like every time Ryan makes big saves we respond.