Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Gaulle

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles Dickens

Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

David Mitchell

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

Peter Hamilton

The poultry market has been incrementally down for a year. There is a lot more chicken than chicken customers.

Billy Jones

The people who worked on the farm, who did not know the child, placed him in the chicken coop and were looking after him and then called the police.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

Michael Keaton

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

Marion Nestle

What this does is to turn food into medicine, ... Omega-3's occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?

Ken Howe

When we do our cuts, I still do it the old fashion chicken ways. I put up a list of the guys who are going to continue to practice.

Mary LeBlanc

When we got married, we had nothing. We had no water, no utilities. There were no screens on the house. There were cracks in the floor big enough you could see the chickens walking under the house.

Scott Faber

What he said was incredibly encouraging, but I'm not counting any chickens yet.

Dear Abbey

Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores it's called partnership.

Pat Ruettiger

He grew up being very independent. He had his chores like any kid did at that time. There was never any, 'I don't want to do it.' You had to do it to sustain yourself.

Ami Bera

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

Daniel Barenboim

For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.

Omar Jacobs

Every time I come home she has got chores for me to do. Take out the garbage, pull weeds, trim the screens. I thought it was a break.

Cindy Chu

Women can hire a domestic helper to help them with their daily chores or child-rearing but some women do not feel comfortable hiring an outsider to do such work. So they turn to their relatives, particularly their mother or their sister, to help them.

Emily Oster

If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at grocery shopping and you are great at the laundry, you're set. But this isn't always - or even usually - the case.

Sharon Thomas

They're giving up doing their work and their chores at their homes to come over here and work for us.

Barbara Schneider

People don't like having to do tasks by themselves -- especially housework. Rather than doing chores separately, it can be a much more positive experience when families do them at the same time.

Kevin Bacon

We're famous for going to the hotel rooms and actually cleaning them up.

Marc Violette

The people of New York have waited long enough to reclaim the historic Hudson. The time has long past for General Electric to put its significant resources into cleaning up their toxic mess.

Mary McMahon

When the hot water hits the leaves they expand, so the larger the infuser the better. Ease of cleaning is also important.

Eileen collins

Looks like I might have some cleaning up to do when I get home.

Tom Aldrich

Many of these remaining process locations likely will require demolition in order to meet the expected cleaning criteria.

Gregory Allen

She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she was no longer able to do.

Barbara Hambly

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

Ali Noorani

Today is an opportunity for Massachusetts residents to think about what the Commonwealth would look like without immigrants. Take a moment and think about who is serving you when you get your coffee, who is cleaning your office. Think about their hopes and dreams.

David Woods

What would have to be replaced if she died? ... Would there have to be day care? Would there have to be cleaning services? Would somebody have to do the shopping?

Kyle Clearman

I was just feeling it, and my teammates kept feeding me. We've had different guys (scoring) every night. That's how it's been all year.

Eleanor Clift

I was living out a parallel situation in my own life, ... feeding frenzy.

Terrence Gabriel

I think the Qualcomm report may be dampening sentiment and Compaq's report is somewhat mixed. It does seem that disappointment over the Qualcomm report is feeding into the tech stocks.

Greg Johnson

I think the opportunity for flies to pick this up may be feeding on saliva, but we're not 100 percent sure.

Phil Stevens

I think the feeding frenzy in Perth is over. It's a lot tougher than it was three years ago.

Gary Schultz

He was kind of irritated about the sound system. They had a microphone in the piano, and it was feeding back.

Mike Dwight

I think what had been described as the feeding frenzy is over. And things might slow down to merely good-to-excellent.

Susan Molinari

When I first got here, every time you'd say breast feeding on the House floor there would be a snicker. This has been happening since creation. Can we finally get a grip on it?

Gerald Wallace

This was one of those games that we needed to win to try to get over the hump. I got it going, and my teammates kept feeding me the ball, and I was able to put it in the basket. I got great positioning in the paint all game and I was able to finish at the rim.

Dan Peitz

When you've got a come-from-behind horse, that's more horses you've got to come through.

Talulah Riley

I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.

Karen Sussman

We have a potential of 200 horses going to a tribe, and they could get $20,000 to keep them on their land.

Liz Rosenberg

She was riding a new horse, not her regular horse.

David Hofmans

She's one of the toughest, strongest horses I've ever trained. She's very self-willed.

Stewart Elliott

She can lay back and just turn it on when you need her to. She's got that quick turn of foot. She showed that when she won the Acorn. She had to wait, and she got outside of horses late and just kicked it in to get there.

Jerry Nelson

She loved her horses. And one of the things she would always say was about what she liked about her job.

Lenny Harris

Jeffrey said the most important thing is staying healthy, ... We already have got the horses. But when you're not healthy, you can't win. That's just the name of the game.

Greg Gilchrist

I think that the record, the undefeated part, horses win two in a row, three in a row, but now, you want to keep that record together. You know you are probably not going to do it, but you sure want to.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Alexa Vega

I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.

Michael Brown

We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures,

Dave Nutting

We're a young team and I think we learned a valuable lesson. And we'll know what it takes to win in the playoffs next year. I couldn't be prouder of the guys.

Melissa Leo

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

Tracy Morgan

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

Twyla Tharp

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

Marvin Hamlisch

learned about listening to yourself. You know the punch line but it has to seem as if you're going to find it.

Carolina Herrera

When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.

Abdu'l Baha

If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I don't eat carbs after 17h00 and I drink skimmed milk.

Dylan McDermott

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

E. B. White

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

Andy Kindler

Milk should be refrigerated even before opening.

Bob Dylan

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

Danny Garcia

Milk Duds. It doesn't' bother me that it gets stuck in my teeth or anything.

Elizabeth David

You're not really qualified to write about things unless you see them from the start. I mean, milk the cows, see the wheat being ground.

Caryl Chessman

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Charles Spurgeon

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

Dan Hartleb

He is so successful because he's such a competitor. I can't say I'm surprised he's doing this, but it's pleasant to see.

Richard Lies

I was pleasantly surprised after about the first day or two. I could see that it was going to go just fine.

Dave Beeler

I was actually pleasantly surprised with how well we did (in cold, wet conditions).

David Graham

On paper,we should be fifth, sixth or seventh. The reality is, they have the potential to be a pleasant surprise.

Dr. Seuss

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

Torii Hunter

Sometimes I get so pumped up, I get a headache. I get woozy. I get dizzy. I like that feeling, I don't know why.

Kayla Parker

She is someone who pumps you up when you're down. She kind of makes everyone around her play better.

Jason Caron

I was kind of pumped to play today. I wasn't real aggressive, just doing what I've been doing all week.

Jason Caron

I was kind of pumped to play today, ... I wasn't real aggressive, just doing what I've been doing all week.

Gary Pearson

We told them, 'You need to get this pumped out now,' and they were not willing to do that 'now.

Mike DeWine

He was real upbeat and very, very positive. He was trying to pump everyone up.

Mayor Baptiste

We now have pumps in place so we'll be able to respond more quickly.

Billy Corgan

Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.

Billy Corgan

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

Van Horn

I have never tasted anything like it. It was so delicious,

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Alan Watts

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Don Cheadle

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

David Miliband

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Knopfler

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Dave Barry

Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said Alf. “And food?” said Tubby Ted. “Water first,” said Alf. “We can go days without food.” “We can what?” Tubby Ted shouted.

Dave Barry

Turbulence: This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, "Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence." Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water buffalo organs off the windshield.

Dave Barry

I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.

Willie Nelson

It can't get much worse, 100 yards an hour, ... It's frustrating bumper-to-bumper.

Charles Thompson

We just have them play in the yard and the street, but we'd like for them to come play in the park.

Brian Griese

Hopefully, we can get a yard or two out there.

Carl Jung

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

Adam Grant

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

Larry Leopardi

We probably had about 300 cubic yards on Wednesday.

Steven Schier

We are many, many yards away from a score.

Bob Dylan

I got this grave yard woman.

Rob Andrew

It wasn't even borderline, it was about two yards forward.