Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

J. Hoover

We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time.

Terry Kennedy

We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.

Asif Kapadia

We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

Chris Meyer

When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.

John Banville

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Nell Newman

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.

J. M. Roberts

We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.

Joyce Foreman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Adam Ereli

There are claims of responsibility. They're really, quite frankly, hard to verify. I wouldn't be able to tell you that we know who's responsible at this point.

Antonio Tabucchi

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Bill Nye

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

Justin Glover

We have to focus on paying the claims and looking at the sources we have to do that.

Membathisi Mdladlana

We want issues related to compensation and pension claims to be addressed urgently since we do not want to see families of these workers starving.

Bill Maher

You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.

Gareth Peirce

We express incredulity that the senior police officer would have made extravagant claims from the outset without first informing themselves of the true facts.

Patrick Fearon

We're getting close to the weekly level of new claims that was typical of the months leading up to the late-summer hurricanes and the spike in energy prices.

Lanny Breuer

The plaintiff's claims are without merit, as shown by the fact that the entrepreneur-defendants are supported by the expert reports of three former FCC Commissioners, including a former FCC chairman.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more we treasure the words of the prophets and apply them the better we will recognize when we are drifting off course-even if only by a matter of a few degrees.

Donald Selkin

We're drifting, and we're probably going to keep drifting for the next few weeks. But that's OK, there are positive developments out there. Oil prices seem to be under control, and I'm more encouraged about the second-quarter earnings than I have been in a while.

Richard Champion

We've entered a lull again, with tech issues drifting lower on the back of the slowdown in mobile sales,

Brian Finnerty

There aren't really any standout negative catalysts today. The market's just kind of drifting lower today on pretty light volume. We're also probably still a little oversold from the recent run.

Donella Meadows

No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

Eleanor Catton

I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.

Bill Simmons

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.

Chris Linder

We were drifting kind of frozen in the ice for a week. There are some parts of the world where you really can't do everything you want. We're really not in charge.

Harbhajan Singh

It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

Steve Pikiell

We're a team that needs a lot of things to go right for us to win. We're improving. Unfortunately, our record doesn't indicate that.

Donald Schneider

I think the new discoveries are going to indicate that Pluto should not really be called a planet.

Pat Gillick

He's getting better. I thought this spring that he didn't indicate to me that he was that type of (one-dimensional) hitter. He indicated to me that he was a lot better.

Andy Davis

Eyewitnesses indicate that the shooting could be drug related.

Tracey Schmitt

There is nothing to indicate that those contributions reflect anything but support for the re-election campaign.

Sgt. Reynolds

There is nothing to indicate that this was a stressful situation.

Sylvester Croom

We've come a long way, ... Our record doesn't indicate it, and it's probably not satisfying to a lot of people, but it's going to take a while.

Melanie Rawn

Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.

John Howard

I won't indicate at this stage that I'm sympathetic to this or that possible change.

Andi Mallarangeng

When the session resumes on January 25th, we only have three days...that is too short a time to resolve all the issues.

Danielle Brown

She had chemotherapy before Christmas, but in January she started to have shortness of breath. It had spread to her lungs.

Vijay Dandapani

There are two periods when New York is soft: January and July.

David Boies

Was that your view on January 6, 1999?

Cheryl Brom

We start getting them about spring when it warms up. It's rare for us to get them in January and February, but the winter's been warm, and we're getting them a little earlier.

John Ruiz

New Year's resolutions are quite prevalent in January but usually non-existent after the Super Bowl.

Frank Evans

Obviously, we're pleased because it means I'm open January 1st.

Steve Stirling

Certainly, if you look at it, the month of January is critical.

I. Stone

If only all that January rain had been snow.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

David Deutsch

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Caitlin Moran

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

Aisha Tyler

I've always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.

Bo Burnham

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Billy Higgins

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Caitlin Moran

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Aidan Quinn

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

George Meyer

We are a 24-hour department. If you see something amiss, report it immediately. Timing is very important,

Anthony Chan

Nothing in this report tells things are running out of control.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Ronald Biggs

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

Dr. Shannon

I am thrilled to report we have had terrific success overnight.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Gabrielle Giffords

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Scott Skiles

We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.