Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Christopher Reynolds

There are other families of particles out there that can form massive compact objects.

Abigail Breslin

I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.

Lleyton Hewitt

I couldn't put in first serves and was double faulting. He puts a lot pressure on anyone's service games. He has a good compact return.

Christie Brinkley

When a shoot was over, I'd get in a cab, pull out a compact and go, 'WHOA! Who's that ?'

David Hewson

Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side.

Katherine Young

Where in years past things were removed from one another, now it'll be together -- it'll be more compact and it wouldn't be as removed from the local residents.

James Jeffrey

It indicates that the path to national reconciliation and the path to a national compact that we're striving so much for has a ways to go. It means we better continue working and work harder on it.

Joanne Ciulla

When they lost their jobs, they lost everything, ... income, benefits, friends, reputation, and sometimes even family. Their years of work didn't deliver what they thought the organization had promised. They'd had an unwritten social compact with their employer that if they did their job well, they could keep it until retirement.

Xabi Alonso

We're doing much better away from home this season and that's why we can get a result at Old Trafford. We're more solid, more compact and more consistent in our results.

Isabella Rossellini

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Carolyn See

Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.

Jim Daugherty

Last year we had a recruit in here, and all we had to show them was the blueprints. Now the courts have made us feel like we have had a home from Day 1.

James Valentine

Senior Burlington management have been saying since March that if the moratorium is (upheld), the deal is in trouble. (The court decision) last Friday was the big event.

Tom Donohue

Missouri is a great example of a state that has taken substantive steps to fix its legal system. In the last year, Missouri has passed one of the most comprehensive legal reform packages in the country, including legislation that keeps people from shopping around the state for the friendliest courts in which to sue.

John Myers

Miss Ciccone (Madonna's given name) struts in this courtroom and thinks she's the star. Her problem is she comes in here and can't stop acting.

Stephen Saltzburg

Miranda was meant to be easy to use. I think what you have is a court interpreting Miranda in an overly technical manner.

Mary Stillinger

Mr. Crawford has had this hanging over his head for two and a half years, and we are glad to have the opportunity to go to court and defend him.

Eugene Lawrence

Me and Quincy go way back. We talk on the court all the time. I was trying to mess with him. I was telling him, 'Settle down. I know you're going to shoot.' He can really shoot the ball.

Richie Adubato

We're not dead yet, ... The fat lady hasn't sung yet. She was spraying her throat there for a while but she didn't sing. We still have a chance.

John Gibbons

We're not dead yet, but we're tired. In the end if we hang in there, it's because of the way they go about their business. If we don't it's because we're not good enough, yet. But it won't be because of lack of effort or lack of preparation or lack of heart.

Bill White

Like a dead skunk in the middle of the road, it stinks to high heaven,

Walter Raleigh

Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.

Julie Morgenstern

Leaving work a half-hour early makes you work as if you're on a deadline all the time.

Helmut Kohl

So many dead ... It's a tragedy, ... Excuse me, but I must return home right away.

Irish Blessings

May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead

Granth Sahib

Meditate on your Dear Lord, and be dead to the world; renounce your love of duality

Gregory Campbell

One man with 100 loyal friends is a lot stronger than one man with 1000 dead enemies, but only the former knows it, and only the latter cares.

Beth Richardson

Luckily, we've had an outpouring of those who have called and said they'd be happy to provide housing. We have a list of 40-50 places, some individual renters, some from local hotels.

Conard Fowkes

Making it big ? there are happy stories about that. And there are sad stories.

Jeff Horner

Last year, we were kind of just happy to be going. We were one of the last teams announced, we weren't even sure if we were going. This year, we knew we were in, and we were one of the first teams announced.

Nancy Hernandez

Many of our members were happy to see the spotlight shown on the issue that day.

Andy Mangin

Milan played well. They're a scrappy bunch. I was happy to get out of there with a win.

Gaston Gaudio

Mikhail was a very strong opponent today, so I am happy I have won the edge,

Angela Moore

Mom kept saying she was so happy I was here,

Nana Sutresna

Mr. Kim responded positively to (our) invitation and said that he will be happy to undertake that visit at the very appropriate time in the future.

Patricia Bryant

Mother never pushed him to change, but she was really happy when he did.

Michael Roberts

I find there's always something to do in Mexico City, at any hour.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico.

Craig Ferguson

A lot of the U.S. used to be part of Mexico, including Arizona. But they're a bit touchy about that right now.

Bruce Beresford

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I am such a vacation girl. I have little places that I go to frequently! If I am not too busy on a weekend, I try to go someplace like Mexico or Manzanillo or something like that.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Have you ever been to Mexico City and haggled with the locals over souvenirs? Well, in Peru, you had to negotiate like that to get the freshest fish at the market.

Ana Castillo

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

Donald Trump

Mexico will not be taking advantage of us. They will not be having open borders.

Eric Brown

Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Rebecca Stead

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.

Isabel Allende

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Jonathan Galassi

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Louis Lane

The so-called No. 2 is actually the first one because he thought the first one, which he wrote second, was a little better, so he had it published first.

Siri Hustvedt

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.

Mark Lewis

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