Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Jim Myers

The other team played better than us today. That's basically what it came down to.

Michelle Wie

The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery.

Tom Coughlin

The personality of the quarterback, he has a large plate and he is going to lead by example and by his play. That's basically where our football team is. Our players do rally around Eli and his play and that's the position he has taken and that's the way it should be.

Dan Scott

We've actually got a mail-order pharmacy looking at us. They've basically told us, if we stay at 2 -to-1, they're not coming.

Robert Killebrew

There are some days we play excellent, basically like a steel curtain. But we still have a lot of work to do.

Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Leslie Robinson

We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

Bryan Singer

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

Bob Huggins

The only reason he came back (for his senior year) is because he wanted to spend another year with his teammates and win a national championship. That was the No. 1 goal in his mind. When I walked out on the floor, that was the first thing he said.

Mickey Hatcher

The one thing you have to do is always play the game hard and people will love you. And every day, whether it was practice or on the field, he set the tone for the organization. When every young kid came up, they could see him playing hard and I think it was really an inspiration for that organization. He got them two championships. He was a great leader.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Jim Owens

The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I'm not a big book reader at all. And something like 'Game of Thrones' seems very daunting to me!

Susan Walvius

She's just starting to get back into the loop. And I think sometimes the SEC can be a little daunting for all freshmen when you're looking at kids that you've had their poster up on your wall. When you're facing a Georgia or Tennessee, we need to work her in and let her get a feel for the game.

Laurie Holden

It's a little daunting to know you're going to take off your clothes and 16 million people are going to see it. It's not a normal day at the office.

Jim Hall

We are dealing with water 250 feet deep and recovering and locating small objects ... is a daunting effort.

Nancy Kress

The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.

Phil Jackson

The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.

Tom Brokaw

The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.

Frank Cilluffo

He combines high-tech means with very rudimentary means. That makes following his tracks a very daunting task.

Bill Maris

Organizing healthcare information is a daunting task, but it is not an impossible task. We've had people walk on the moon. This is a lot more doable.

Charles Dickens

Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

Charles Caleb Colton

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

R. Robinson

We want to target kids in grades five through eight. It could fit very nicely into the media studies curriculum.

Richard Hadlee

We want to see that these players are over their injuries and their fitness and skill levels are up to international standard,

Catherine Bell

When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.

Duce Staley

Wherever I can fit in and contribute, I'll be happy.

Mark Helprin

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.

Edward Jenner

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

Denis Waitley

Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Alan Rickman

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

Chris Brown

It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth year since I got into music. 'X' is the 24th letter in the alphabet, and I will turn 24 when this album comes out. 'X' is also a metaphor, as in 'ex-girlfriend': it implies you're progressing and moving on in life, not holding on to the past and your old ways.

Chace Crawford

I'm not not looking for a girlfriend - but I'm not particularly looking for a girlfriend, either. I'm not knocking having a relationship; at the end of the day, you want to share with someone. But I just look at it as, I have the rest of my life to do that. I'm not in any rush.

Caitlin Rose

Love is like a promise. Once you break it.. it doesn't come back unless you really fight for it.

Casey Wilson

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.

Charles Kuralt

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

Aisha Tyler

I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.

Aisha Tyler

I have one girlfriend who is dating right now - she's divorced - and she's on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that's not a real game, but it's my favorite thing to do.

Aisha Tyler

When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery—much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Andy Wachowski

After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers.

Brett Gardner

We have had a lot of requests about our Y2K status, but no one has offered in any way to give us a hand.

Kelli O'Hara

When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Logan Marshall-Green

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Don MacAdam

We'd end up in the office talking hockey. He offered (to coach), and I'm not one to turn down help.

Robert Powell

I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant.

Walter Benjamin

We are pregnant with freedom.

Susan Hazen

This rule provides far-reaching protections for all Americans and bans pesticide testing on pregnant women and children.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I've actually worked out more pregnant than when I wasn't.

Ray Brown

That's nothing. He also thinks he's a pregnant woman.

Megan Smith

I've seen her, and she didn't look pregnant at all.

Robin Wright

I never went to college. I was pregnant at 23.

Oprah Winfrey

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.

Melissa McCarthy

I'm not a great pregnant woman.

Kim Kardashian

Of my own, I like my upper stomach. I just seem to always have abs.When I'm not really pregnant, I have a great two-pack.

Chris Cooper

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

Bill Johnson

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Dick Cavett

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

Edwin Moses

I overcame size with mechanics.

Chan Gailey

Size is definitely relative. If you're bigger, they can see you easier.

Delta Burke

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

Jane Goodall

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Never underestimate the size and scope of my problems.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.

Chogyam Trungpa

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

William Shakespeare

All is well ended, if the suit be won.

Bill Nighy

If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

Alan Shepard

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

Alan King

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

Charlaine Harris

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

Anne Sullivan

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Arthur Golden

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

Arundhati Roy

The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn't make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Lauren German

I'm very klutzy. I've fallen off horses, I've tripped with my high-heeled boots over a stunt guy.

Vic Tayback

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

John Bryan

I don't know many trips you can do for a whole week for $150.

Cliff Hite

I always tell the quarterback, we don't want you to make a big tackle, just get in his way, trip him, do whatever you have to do to get in his way.

Tim Adams

Our findings on this trip will be an important input,

Paddy Ashdown

It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans,

Caron Butler

Yeah, it was ugly, but we won. We'll take it, especially after the trip we just had.

Gary Fuller

To take that $187 million, more than triple our five-year average, is very significant,

Ron Vanover

Every trip is unique; every trip has a story.

Vincent Sarubbi

One of the things that weighed heavily on our mind,

Jim Rash

There are a lot of shows that have been saved because the fans weighed in.

John Schneider

I weighed 245 pounds when I was 16 years old. I had a 44-inch waist. And that was two years before 'Dukes of Hazzard' started.

Montel Williams

I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.

Darren Shan

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!

Bob Kerrey

Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.

Demetri Martin

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.

Daniel Quinn

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

Christopher Moore

All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?

Christopher Moore

Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

Andy Weir

How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.

Kurt Vonnegut

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

Bill Condon

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.