Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Wallace

We have seen a continuation of the hotel recovery in almost all areas of the world helped both by higher occupancies and higher rates,

John Quinn

We have to get out of this rut of letting teams hang around and get back in the game. It's almost like we're playing from behind when we have the lead. We just have to finish out games better.

Dirk Nowitzki

We have to find our sense of urgency a little bit earlier. We gave up almost 70 in the first half. It looked like we just went through the motions.

Gary Milhollin

What the tapes show is that between the first gulf war and the second gulf war, Saddam Hussein had not lost his appetite for, or interest in, weapons of mass destruction. To the contrary, he was almost obsessed by them.

Mark Dindal

When everybody feels pretty good about themselves, and you have Champagne coming out of the water fountain, it's almost like we've got to burn the place down.

Duane Wallace

When your power bill is almost half of what your rent is it creates a real problem.

John M. Smith

We were at the cruise ship greeting all of our visitors as they departed, and almost everyone of them had just wonderful things to say about the city, about the volunteers, and I mean it was just...it was incredible.

Melissa Elmer

We were almost tasting it. Girls that went through it took it pretty hard. It wasn't easy to come out on the losing end of that match.

Russ Suemnicht

We were almost reluctant to go that way. But we knew we needed to follow the trend. New country was beginning to cross over into rock, which was creating a new style of music, and it caught on very heavily.

Dennis Johnston

We want to put in an office building, parking lots and barbecue pavilion. It's a birder's paradise. We've already spotted some rare birds.

Richard Shoemaker

We have said consistently that the only basis of finding satisfactory resolution to these matters is through the use of the collective bargaining process with Delphi, GM and the UAW at the bargaining table.

John Roberts

We have to find out what is going on and have a firm commitment from the Commonwealth to save the barracks precinct.

Steve Ballmer

We have never really used the stock market itself as a barometer of our success,

William Benson

We have neighbors complaining about the noise and it?s just not worth it. We?re not out to shut people down, but we?re not going to tolerate problems. I guess you could say that the city is less willing to overlook bars than it was in the past.

Richard Walton

What the state government said, unless it falls into some other category, if someone breaks into a neighbor's barn and steals a $4,000 ATV, he's going to go to county jail unless he has a prior felony or is on probation when it happened, ... If someone, however, breaks into 18 churches, this may be considered a pattern, this is not just, 'oops, I made a mistake.'

James Jones

When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still early morning fresh.

Ron Woods

We were barred from so many hotels, the entire Holiday Inn chain, that we had to check in as Fleetwood Mac lots of times.

Steve Renfroe

We were back to normal production six weeks after the hurricane. During that six weeks we distributed a million barrels of on-hand gas and imported another two million barrels for local and regional use.

Stephany Smith

Whenever you miss three lay-ups, and fifteen free-throws you're not going to win the game.

Rick Perlstein

Over fifteen years of studying the American Right professionally - especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and media since the 1950s - I have yet to find a truly novel development, a real innovation, in far-right 'thought.'

Jerry Mathers

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

Brian Kenny

I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.

Dita Von Teese

Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it.

Frank Thomas

Fifteen years now. I think of all the great teams we've had, and if we'd had this pitching, you never know how many rings we'd have won. But I'm just happy to be around and be a part of this.

Billy Donovan

Fifteen years ago, there would have been no way a team like George Mason could go to a Final Four. It just goes to show ... how many good players are out there.

Linda Sanford

Fifteen years ago, New York had 1.1 million more jobs than Texas. Today, Texas has 1 million more jobs than New York. That's the lost ground we must recover.

Paul Kavanagh

Fifteen percent upside from here, taking the rolling P/E ratio into the mid-teens -- that would not be stretching it at all. I do not think it is really going to peter out here.

Tao Okamoto

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Pam Gregory

She got to see some of the Japanese skaters doing quad jumps and triple Axels, and it got her motivated.

Makoto Watanabe

She has shown that at 36, it is not too late for a Japanese woman to get married and have a family,

Liu Jinping

Since then there's been no boycotts of Japanese products at all.

Shu Qi

I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.

Tong Zeng

But most of the compensation suits have been rejected by the Japanese courts.

Coco Lee

Why is the Japanese market second in the world, even though their population is much less than ours in China? Because they don't have piracy.

Dick Cheney

We wholeheartedly support the position the prime minister has taken with respect to the question of the Japanese hostages,

Toshihiro Wada

We are going overweight in Japanese stocks, which have a strong momentum and solid fundamentals.

Ricky Gervais

I can't find someone funny whom I don't like. Hitler told great jokes. I didn't find it funny at all.

David Cross

I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous.

Cesar Romero

A joke a day keeps the gloom away!

Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

Matt McKenna

She jokes around with you and listens to your ideas.

Brad Williams

Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them.

Issa Rae

I personally don't feel any pressure to make jokes about multiple baby-fathers and stereotypical black jokes, because one, that's just not my life, and two, I wouldn't even sound right talking about those things.

Ben Falcone

I'm not much of a joke writer.

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

John Scalzi

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

Bill Stoneman

One of the strongest parts to our organization is depth. It allows us to do a lot of things.

Bill Cosby

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

Larry Rice

The parts are worth more than the whole.

Steve Daignault

We need to get the other parts on.

Jim Tracy

We need to get him back to where he is completely functional, rather than seeing parts of him here and there.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Maury Yeston

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Mark Twain

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Charlie Ergen

The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer,

Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Dave Gahan

Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.

Charles Spurgeon

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Jack Thompson

The other side wants to make me the issue,

Madeleine Albright

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

Cobie Smulders

I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day.

Denise Van Outen

In LA, I live on sushi or salad.

Graham Norton

A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.

Martin Yan

In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.

Kate Beckinsale

I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love,

Scott Wolf

Although, I didnt really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.

Tobias Menzies

Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Jana Kramer

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

Ariel Sharon

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

Clyde Edgerton

Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.