Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vernon L. Smith

In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.

Miles O'Brien

Yeah. Allison Barber, Deputy Assistant Secretary, said, heres the part that I like. 'Okay, so lets work on that answer a little bit, Captain Kennedy. Why dont you work on, 'were working with the Iraqi soldiers, and to my right is Master Sergeant.' And then a little later, 'she says, you know, a few smiles wouldnt hurt back here on the TV. A few smiles.' So-

Norm Sedig

Plenty of credit should go to Allison and Crystal for getting a high seed in their first year of tennis. Right now, they are good athletes playing tennis and rapidly improving their skills.

Marty Rowe

Morgan hasn't played that much this season, but she gave us a lift tonight. With Allison (Rader) in foul trouble and not playing well, we really needed this type of effort from Morgan.

Terry Bowden

I think the great, positive attitude and the hard work are the things that made Rodney Allison a great coach for as long as I've known him.

Mike Helton

We were down with four minutes left and Allison got us going. She scored four of six points in a crucial stretch for us. Bridgette Eastman hit a shot that tied it and Stout gave us the lead.

Rose McIver

Allison Janney, I'm such a big fan of. Especially the way she conducts herself on a personal level, it's so beautiful. She's this fun, gracious person.

Dennis Mackey

We had a strong defensive effort and a big scoring nights from Allison and Jean to pull out a hard fought victory.

Mike Levenseller

To show you what kind of class he had, he called my house and told Allison and the kids before he told me (that he was going to USC).

Steve Malchow

We want them to sit down and talk to coach McDermott before we get to the point of anyone asking for a release. If push comes to shove - we're not ogres here.

Mac Gifford

We want to show that we can play with anyone in the east and in the country. We're taking it one step at a time so that we can build the program.

Deborah Galloway

We want to see it done as badly as anyone else.

Pat Barry

We want to see if he had contact with anyone else.

Lucas Till

If you talk to anyone who's done a stair fall, there's not one stair fall, no matter how many pads you have on or how protected you are, where you don't hurt something really bad.

Lorraine Toussaint

I don't think anyone would disagree with this: You are self-directed in daytime, and that's it. So come with it, and bring it on the first take.

Michael Steele

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

Madhur Bhandarkar

Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

Sean Duffy

The other team is trying to set up a straw man with Tim, but I doubt anyone here is going to be running around talking about Dr. Dobson, and his name ID is higher. I'm hoping we can talk about the issues and not have this dueling.

Hootie Johnson

We have never been worried about scores. Our greatest concern has always been that the course be kept current with the times. Change has been a constant at Augusta National, starting in the earliest years of the tournament. Bobby Jones made innumerable modifications to the layout, and that philosophy continues to this day.

Neal Cotts

With no outs you're just trying to minimize damage on the first and third. Once I got the first strikeout then I was going for a ground ball, just trying to get out of the inning, and I ended up having a strikeout and Bobby came in and did the rest.

John Schuerholz

There are two components. It's a process that keeps our organization filled with talented players because we have excellent people involved in scouting and the minor league system. The second part is Bobby Cox and his coaching staff, who take this talent wherever it comes from and blends it as effectively as any staff in the major leagues can do.

Val McLean

Luke has really developed as a strong pitcher since coming here. Bobby Mack is a right-hander who is a solid pitcher and we'll use him out of the bullpen.

Tommy Bond

The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.

Tommy Bond

Bobby and I have been to various reunions of Our Gang. We've been to like three or four reunions over the past 15 years or so. We were at one in Palm Springs, California.

Phil Anderton

Sir Bobby Robson is a quality manager with a superb track record and we are very impressed with his abilities.

Jawn Murray

This reality show not only brought him back to the forefront of pop culture, but it positioned him to start doing shows and wowing audiences. Bobby has become a star again.

David Letterman

This win today has so many interesting, worthy facets, ... Bobby touched on Buddy coming in, getting a good ride. Was there a stronger car in the field today? Was there a stronger driver in the field today? My God, Buddy just would not stop, and it was eating everybody alive. There's something about it, it was I think preordained certainly. You could feel it. You could feel it from the start of the race.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Al Pacino

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

Al Jarreau

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

Linda Gray

We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

Sal Basilone

We are looking to identify that driver and piece together exactly what happened.

Frank Williams

What he had as a driver is a quality he shares with many of his compatriots, ... He was canny.

Derek Leathers

We're doing everything we can to give them the newest trucks on the road. We think our fleet is one of the newest out there, and that's something drivers appreciate.

Christian Horner

The pit stops were fast and it was a strong, disciplined performance. The drivers did a superb job and I'm pleased with the result.

Ernie Irvan

Man, I remember those nasty turns, and how hard it was to judge them. That's what made it so difficult, and the reason the drivers are always so competitive. I always said if you could win at Stockton, you could win anywhere.

Aaron Anderson

We needed a solution that would get all the right information to the drivers as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible.

Bill Richardson

She said, 'We need truck drivers and National Guard,' ... I'll get moving on it.

Beth Gibbons

We're hearing stories. Our drivers are telling us they're seeing a lot of new faces.

Dan Hendricks

The only edge I know is I've been around turns twice and he hasn't.

Lily Koppel

We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

John Fitzgerald

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

DeMarcus Nelson

We have to get better. We have to establish that edge and fire in each and every one of us. People put out there that we're invincible and each loss out there kind of hits us over our head.

Charlie Munger

It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it.

Cedrick Wilson

We're just on the edge of exploding. We're leaving a lot of plays out there on the football field, a lot of them, and, if we make those plays, you'll be talking about how we're overachieving right now. We're just one play away from opening this thing up, and I hope that it happens.

Ralph Johnson

(Manhattan) is on the edge of very explosive growth.

Stefan Hell

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Roger Simon

So far the hunters have taken 3,000 to 4,000 seals. That's not ridiculously slow, but it's not fast either. It's the lower edge of the norm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Dickens

There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

Charles Dickens

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Caleb Colton

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.

Charles Caleb Colton

The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

Charles Caleb Colton

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

Charles Dickens

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

Edith Stein

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

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Campbell Scott

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

Gina Bellman

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

Georges Simenon

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Garson Kanin

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

Julie Andrews

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

C. J. Mahaney

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Ali Smith

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

James Yonts

When will he be captured? ... I can't give you a date, but I can tell you this: Everyone remembers 9/11.

Idries Shah

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

Czeslaw Milosz

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

E. O. Wilson

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

David Byrne

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit....

Walter Price

He remembers I took him to Carmichael two years ago. I don't remember.