Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaiah Thomas

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

Isaiah Thomas

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

Isaiah Thomas

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

Italo Calvino

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

Rick Perlstein

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.

Rick Perlstein

Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.

Robert Strauss

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Robert Strauss

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Robert Sheckley

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Rick Perlstein

There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.

Rick Perlstein

The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'

Richard P. Feynman

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Robert Wilson

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

Ron Wood

I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.

Bruce Pearl

We're not communicating. We're capable of defending better. I call it having a sense of urgency. You need it this part of the season.

Tammy Smith

We're not calling this a sequel. We're calling it the next installment.

Sgt. Maynard

We're not calling this a drowning. The investigation will continue and we're awaiting autopsy results to determine how the child died.

Ramon Sanchez

We're not calling the people out as long as we see that Elian's case remains in the courts and the government is not moving to suddenly take Elian back to Cuba.

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Richard P. Feynman

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Robert Klein

I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.

Richard Rolle

Make sure you're not being put into a class of comparables that you shouldn't be,

Thomas Fuller

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Try whether

Robert Lloyd

Librarians, counselors, teachers, training, students, support, systems all those are excluded from the classroom expenses.

Tom Edwards

Lots of kids liked him, all different kids in his class.

Reggie Witherspoon

Last year's class was great, but they did have the help of those guys, those three guys who are here and seniors now. And what made it really challenging for these three is . . . we had to play a lot of freshman and a lot of new guys. And last year we rarely played a freshman in a game like this. We didn't have to go that deep.

Andrew Gibson

Last year we met as an after-school club, but this year we are meeting as a class during lunch period.

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.

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Alan Trammel

Like a lot of guys, Pudge has tried to do too much. Yes, he's a free swinger -- to a limit. This year he has expanded his zone.

Jim Woodring

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

Dutch Proverb

Life is a gift, but you do not get it for free

Anthony Smith

Make free throws. I told the girls, 'Let's make some free throws and don't foul.' That's how I felt. Let's make those free throws, and B.T. and Miranda made two of them. Not just one of them, but two of them, and that was great.

Shelly Smith

Lunch is provided, poles are provided; everything is free at this event.

Charles Gargano

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship

Ross Baker

So long as he is a free man, still a member of the House and participating in the conference, his influence is going to remain considerable.

Isabella Rossellini

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

Kris Benson

Making one mistake instead of two helped me,

Jon Hogenson

Making it to the second day shows our kids we can do this. Playing in that competitive level helped us.

Ken Tutt

Losing last year I think really helped us win this year. And it makes it that much more special.

Christopher Monger

Sharon Stone said on many occasions that, before Roy, she was stuck in B-movies - Roy helped her make the transformation,

Gary Waters

McNamara would have helped them, but I don't know how much. They played like a team.

Jennifer Caldwell

Odyssey of the Mind is student-driven, and they aren't helped by parents or teachers. If the student wants to make a costume, they have to sew it themselves.

Roxane Gay

No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.

Jono Cornelius

My curveball was actually a strike about 80 percent of the time. The umpire had a high zone and I think that helped me a little.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Roger Morris

I would have to say that Richard Nixon is probably the most gifted and skilled political practitioner, in his pre-presidential years, of all of the American presidents in the 20th century.

Philip Zimbardo

Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.

Louie Gohmert

We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.

Edward Brooke

President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.

Roger Morris

Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.

Andrew McPherson

I said, 'Oh great, this is the Nixon tapes'.

Bob Crowder

When Nixon visited China, I thought there is an opportunity there.

Fred Gray

If there had been no E.D. Nixon to get into the ruts and gullies and try to do something when it was very unpopular, things would not have been accomplished.

Brian Wice

I've never seen the transformation of a witness from grandfather to Richard Nixon in a day.

Tracy Brown

ODORS ARE ALWAYS OF QUESTIONABLE PARENTAGE AND NEVER OF NOBLE BIRTH.

Ben Jonson

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Nisha Singhania

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

A. P. Herbert

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Desiderius Erasmus

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Gina Bellman

My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out.

Campbell Scott

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

Georges Simenon

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

Mason Cooley

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Robert Dudley

Let me be very clear: We have not made any such decision, and nothing yet has been ruled out,

Andrew Walpole

Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.

Thomas Heywood

Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.

Dwight Mitchell

We haven't ruled out anything at this stage.

Tom Daschle

I haven't ruled anything out or anything in at this point.

Brian McDonald

From what I understand, they'll probably uphold it.

Ted Cruz

We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.

F. Schumacher

I think it is huge. I'm excited. I think the verdict is strong. The courts, I believe, will uphold it even at the appellate level.

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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