Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. James

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.

Mark Eaton

We've done it plenty of times this year, come back in the third. We had a (four-game) losing streak there and we knew this was a key game for us because teams are creeping up on us.

Paul Di Filippo

You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.

John Carpenter

When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.

Takashi Miyazaki

There are definitely earnings fears creeping in the market,

Bible Bible

But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

Eric Hoffer

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

Michael Malone

Some people are mentioning that crude is creeping back up to US$70 a barrel, but people are focusing much more on interest rates now.

John Gordon

There are serious doubts creeping in about how big this season's crop is going to be.

French Proverb

Life works out - but not as you expect it

Christopher Low

Like everyone else, we expect a quarter-point hike in fed funds today to 4.75 percent -- we also expect the statement to be softened.

Frances Tuke

Life has to go on and people have to use the transport system. People always expect the Americans in particular to shy away after there have been incidents but we have not heard of any mass cancellations.

Rudi Johnson

Let him be. He's focused. We're all expecting big things out of him, and he's expecting big things out of his teammates. Let him focus and soak it in and be ready for Sunday.

Tee Newman

Lower Richland expects to win. We're in the hoping-to-win stage. That makes a difference.

Greg Olsen

Losing, it doesn't happen here. It's not accepted. That's just the way it is. Winning is the standard that's been set by the past teams, and each new team wants to live up to those standards. So expectations here are as high as ever. Every time we take the field, we expect to win.

Bob Castellini

Lou really had a year that he had to stay away from major league baseball. I didn't know that at the time we talked about it. It's just not going to happen this year. And I would expect Lou to go back to managing.

Dave Duncan

Looper is important to our bullpen. Can it be a good bullpen? Yes, if somebody else steps up if he isn't what we expect him to be right away. The key is getting him to do the things he needs to be doing.

Ron Eastman

Last year was the first year in about 19 years they didn't make the playoffs, so you always know they are always going to have a quality team. They usually have a lot of talent. We don't know a whole lot about them, but I fully expect them to come in ready to play and have one or two real good pitchers to throw at us.

Rick Perlstein

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

Jeffrey Mount

Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events.

Jim Sturgess

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Lou Marcoccio

Many organizations have failures sitting in their systems, but they won't show up until they run the transactions.

Eli Khamarov

One failure is worth seven and a half successes

Jay Hood

None of these five incidents was a result of a failure to follow standard operating procedures in place at the time the incident occurred,

Randy Thompson

Obviously, they have the most to gain (and) the most to lose in terms of the market's success or failure.

Greg Biffle

I can't say what happened because we didn't have a failure all year.

Warren Miller

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Raja Bell

We're not doing anything different. Guys understand that if it's going to be a week or a month, we're going to have to pick it up without him.

Matt Birk

Like him or not, say what you want about him, but the guy makes plays. He said he was going to make up for last week, and go out and make some plays. He showed up today.

Clint Hurdle

Luis is having some difficulties getting anything going at the plate. He's not where he needs to be or where he can be offensively, yet. He's 0-for-7 off this guy lifetime. It's a manager's decision.

Dale Lennon

Mac Schneider went down with an injury. The first guy Tyler went against, if I remember right, was an All-American nose guard. Fortunately, we had the lead.

Pudge Rodriguez

(Leyland) is the manager we need. He's a guy I respect very much. We're going to play hard for him.

Frank Robinson

Let's see what has kept this guy where he's been, ... Is he a usable part for next year?

Pat Carroll

Let's rock the Capitol. Don't let these guys sneak back into town.

Mike Santiago

Leon is the starting quarterback for the Nicholls State game. Just like all the guys know, it is one day at a time. We have a lot of competition. You got to hold that spot.

S. Walker

Losing to those guys is always the worst. It's terrible.

Raja Bell

We're not doing anything different. Guys understand that if it's going to be a week or a month, we're going to have to pick it up without him.

Pat Carroll

Let's rock the Capitol. Don't let these guys sneak back into town.

Mike Santiago

Leon is the starting quarterback for the Nicholls State game. Just like all the guys know, it is one day at a time. We have a lot of competition. You got to hold that spot.

S. Walker

Losing to those guys is always the worst. It's terrible.

Jose Guillen

Lots of times, you really need guys for motivation, guys trying to help your teammates. Lots of times, you see a lot of guys, they don't really care.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jim Grobe

Last year was just one of those years when we didn't have a lot of old guys - and I'm talking about seniors in that mix. And some of the young guys, quite frankly, I don't think were tough enough to play.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Dusty Baker

Scott Eyre is a fun-loving guy, but the rest of the guys, especially the new guys we've got, they are all business.

Michael Long

Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.

Angel Guzman

Let's see what happens. Everything is on standby. It's about showing them we are ready -- no matter if it's now, later this season or next year.

Mats Sundin

Milestones you look back on later in your career,

Tad Hutcheson

Maybe we can make it work later on.

James Corden

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

Duane Campbell

Maybe later on in life I will run for the track championship, ... But right now, I just want to race.

Tom Stoppard

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Bob Moore

We won't have anything until later today. I don't think it's career-ending.

Dascha Polanco

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

Edgar Allan Poe

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Jack McKeon

I can teach, ... I have nine grandkids.

Holly Derrick

She slept for nine solid hours. She was emotionally spent.

Gerald Ryan

She has only been out of a place once in nine starts.

Shiv Khera

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

Walter Salles

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

Allan Pope

We play nine people and try to wear down our opponents. That's what we did when I was at Pine Tree.

Trent Reznor

It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.

Webb Simpson

One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.

Kacy Gott

Making that transition from paycheck to no paycheck scares a lot of people.

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Dylan Penn

Modeling is not a passion of mine. I have been having fun with it, but it's just to pay the bills.

Allen Douglas

No one should have to pay more than his or her portion of fault.

Terry Davis

No one can suppress the truth forever, but some people never stop trying. It is the journalists who pay the price.

Carlos Delgado

One time, they didn't pay me. But for the most part, they have treated me well.

Rich Vallinaggi

No one wanted to volunteer, so I did. I thought I'd try it. They were paying for the course.

Charles Moskos

now that we pay soldiers to die for us, that Americans don't want to be reminded of sacrifice?

Sen. Argenziano

Now you can pay for it. Now it doesn't feel sticky. It used to feel sticky.

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Jim Loehr

She's going to come out when she's ready, probably sooner than later, and set the world on fire,

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

Brian Jacques

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Alice McDermott

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.