Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Graham

We want to reclaim what we think is ours. Winning the (CHC) title is one of the things that we want to accomplish this year. ... We just want to continue to play our game and let everyone else try to catch up.

Madeline Albright

What the Serb people really want to do is to be able to hold up their heads again and be a part of the new Europe. And this (Milosevic's arrest) is a step that needs to be taken to accomplish that.

Thomas A. Edison

There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.

John B. Hood

There is a limit to what we can do. If people can show us other things we might do that would be equally or more effective, we'd love to hear about that, but changes in attitudes do take time to accomplish in a society. We will commit to doing everything we can, within the resources we have.

Aaron Cook

When I face a left-handed lineup, it narrows down what I have to accomplish in that game. It simplifies my game plan.

Stefan Sagmeister

I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally closed. And as you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time.

Erin Traudt

Ultimately, customers want their business problems solved and the on-demand model provides another option to help accomplish that important and necessary feat.

David Sedaris

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Dave Barry

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

Mark Twain

We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.

Newt Gingrich

What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control,

Katarina Witt

When you're young, you travel with your parents. When you get older you bring your husband with you. But when you get my age you bring your physical therapist.

John Hutton

We want people of all ages from every section of the community to be involved.

Peggy Sell

We want everyone to feel that their library card is special, regardless of their age. We want them to know that, as soon as you get a library card, it becomes part of your life.

Charlie Skelton

We want everyone of every age to see everything.

Herman Edwards

We were approached by his agent at the Senior Bowl. We visited - a very short visit. We haven't heard from his agent at this point in time. I haven't heard from Terrell.

Charles Taze Russell

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Carlos Ghosn

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

Alan King

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

Charles de Gaulle

Old age is a shipwreck.

Zell Miller

when I counted the candles on my birthday cake and cringed.

Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Brandon Boyd

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Diane von Furstenberg

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

David Sedaris

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

Dave Barry

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Juan Gonzalez

We have (second-place) Southwest this coming Wednesday, then Sweetwater and Eastlake. All three will be tough, tough games, so hopefully we can finish on top and go for the No. 2 seed.

DeMarcus Nelson

We have to get better. There are a lot of things we can do to get better. This feeling that this team is feeling tonight. This hurt and this pain has to motivate us this coming week to get better and to prepare and get refreshed for the ACC tournament. We really have to come out in the ACC tournament and really have an edge and a fire in each and every one of us.

Dave Schmotzer

We have to get better at that daily grind that all ballplayers have to go through. Right now, we have too many inexperienced players being put into pressure situations and not coming through. But it's just two games, so it's not time to panic yet.

Lovie Smith

We have a stretch run that we're coming up on and we need all of our guns, really, for that. And Cedric is a big part of what we're trying to do running the football. Other guys will have to pick up the slack until he gets back.

Marci Skeen

We have a solid team coming back. I was really impressed with our freshmen. They turned in some big scores at the OCC and at the district meet. Being a freshman at the district meet didn't seem to phase.

David Starkey

We have musicians coming from Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans to play in the band.

Jeremy Gunn

We have so many people coming back, and with the new additions, we're in a good position. We have lots of people vying for time, and there's definitely competition for places, which is nice. It's a nice problem to have.

Scott Ford

Whenever you exert that much energy coming back, it's so hard getting over the hump. Defensively, we picked it up a little more in the second half.

Kathy Gibson

When everybody left the locker room, there was a lot of talk that we're going to come back next year already. Every player that walked out said we're coming back here next year.

Chamlong Srimuang

We have moved only one step forward, how could we retreat? To solve this crisis, the prime minister must resign.

Doug Armstrong

When he first went down, it didn't look good. So a crisis averted, I guess.

Washington Post

The Pointer Sisters have always faced a crisis in their identity. They have dabbled in so many musical streams that, while everybody likes them, nobody knows exactly what to do with them.

Jamie Ross

We're in a severe housing crisis, and there's no reason for it. We've got the resources, we just need to appropriate them.

Jackie Robinson

We're in a real crisis situation where many times people are being turned away at the door.

Bruce Nissen

We're heading into a crisis. It's got to be a critical question for public policy.

Bob Smith

This readiness crisis didn't come out of nowhere. You and your predecessors presided over it.

Elizabeth Janeway

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

R. Robinson

We're getting to a crisis point. Facilities will start falling apart.

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.

Scott Howell

At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.

Ashwin Sanghi

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?

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.

Gabrielle Zevin

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

Elizabeth Wilson

I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

Eric Carr

We'd go through the whole story again, ... but when we got to that part, he kept saying, 'I don't remember.'

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.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

C. S. Lewis

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Richard DeKaser

What the shock might be next time is unpredictable.

Aasif Mandvi

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

John Gibbons

We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently.

Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Charles Dudley Warner

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Carol Leifer

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.

Carlos Delgado

You probably don't call home and say, 'Hi, mom. I am facing Pete Schourek tonight.' Names and stats don't do it. You have to do it out on the field.

Carlos Beltran

My mom and dad gave me everything they could have given me.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

Aasif Mandvi

When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

Aasif Mandvi

The Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I completely know how to do that; I can solve that problem,and then I'd be like, 'Mom?

Charlotte Bronte

Who has words at the right moment?

Charles Stanley

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

Charles Spurgeon

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

C. S. Lewis

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Charles Spurgeon

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Diane Setterfield

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.

Cesare Pavese

You dont remember days, you remember moments

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Christian Church

We are here to remember just how special they were to us,

Jason Calacanis

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

Aaron Tveit

It's interesting, a lot of my friends and family thought that was the moment I kind of showed everyone my humor; the silly side of me that friends and family know, so that could be what people were responding to. I have a big sense of humor, and people who know me know that silly side of me, so moving forward, I think it gives me the freedom and confidence to do more of that.

Charlotte Bronte

At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be,--inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.

Charlotte Bronte

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Charles Dickens

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

Booth Tarkington

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

Dianna Agron

Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing silly things. You don't even realize it. And then there's other times where they're two feet away from your face and it's invasive and it feels threatening, so you don't want to be smiling. You just want to get out of that situation.

David Krumholtz

Halfway through Numbers, I got really jaded, and I had these unrealistic expectations about what Numbers could be. I thought it should be Emmy-nominated. I was in my mid-20s, so I was kind of shortsighted and silly.

Dave Barry

Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right? Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?' Don't be silly. You have a tank, right?

Dave Barry

The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over.

Brian Eno

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

I take sounds and change them into words.

Brian Eno

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Dick Armey

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Dexter Gordon

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Elizabeth Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Kathryn Prescott

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Jandy Nelson

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

Carre Otis

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

Carol Roth

Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.'

Carol Leifer

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

Carol Shields

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Carol Shields

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

Carol Moseley Braun

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.