Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Stillwell

We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can.

Chad Cassel

We have to have another good week of practice and continue to get better. It's a tough place to play and the winner of that series is going to end up with the No.2-seed in the conference tournament so it's big for both teams.

Paul Spiegel

We have no problem with this project because both Helge Schneider and Dani Levy are capable of approaching this work with the necessary sensitivity.

Henry Hyde

We have no precedent to follow on the involvement of the independent counsel in our proceedings. However, it seems both useful and instructive that we should hear from him since he is the person most familiar with the complicated matters the House has directed us to review.

Brian Lucas

We have no plan to phase out all sales of VCR machines at this time, ... However, many customers are opting to purchase our dual machines (which retail for about $150) that play both DVD and VHS formats.

David Dulkys

We have more time to study and play basketball. You can't do both at the same time.

Anthony Crabtree

We have so many players going both ways we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team.

Paul Pierce

Whenever you get two all-stars on the court at the same time, you always have that sense of pride. We both have the utmost respect for one another and I think our competitive juices come out. What can I say? It was just a great night for both of us.

Marc Guggenheim

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

Hoshyar Zebari

We have presented our visions and our priorities to you. Now it's your turn to look at those elements and those priorities to see where you can help,

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dianne Wiest

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

Jan Garbarek

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Christopher Bailey

There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away.

Anton Corbijn

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

Charlotte Bronte

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

Lucy Lawless

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Tim Jones

This really hits hard. Our reason for existence is to find people.

Jane Hirshfield

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Kurt Braunohler

So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.

J. Paul Getty

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

Ayn Rand

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Kat Morgan

If one were to strip a person of the layers of outward masks and illusions and place them only in their own skin they would be overwhelmed with fear of the unknown. Know thyself and feed upon it's very existence, everything that needs to be known is within.

Carl Andre

SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

Lee Kreindler

What the people on the ground saw was that line of fire proceeding back toward the fuselage. That's what they thought was a missile.

Amy Hall

When you say the name Ostertag, ... people are just spittin' fire.

Alan King

The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft."

Charles Dudley Warner

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

Charles de Lint

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

Charles Caleb Colton

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Charles Caleb Colton

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

Charles Caleb Colton

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

Dave Johnston

We want to recognize the importance of our employees.

Thomas John Barnardo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Deb Caletti

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

Marc Johnson

Portals still play an important role. But there is truth to the idea that their importance may have been overblown.

Patricia Johnson

Nobody of importance has spoken to me yet. It's not Virginia. She was nice and respectful. Her staff was rude, disrespectfulall we wanted was some information to keep us calm.

Arthur Machen

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Catherine McAuley

A good beginning is of great importance.

H. Hunt

If we can take anything away from this, it's that we recognize the importance of flood-control projects that we don't necessarily think about every day.

Robert Connor

We're stressing the importance of the public taking CPR classes,

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

William James

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Taya Kyle

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

Mike Smith

We wanted to throw a little more tonight, but old man weather wouldn't let us do that.

Ryan Rourke

The Pancake Man went well. We served over 150 people.

Sharon Stone

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

Samuel Smiles

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Selman Waksman

From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.

Sarah Snook

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I'd like to do that.

Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Agnes Varda

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

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.

Ricky Gervais

I like my baths really deep and hot. But washing everything only takes a few minutes. So I thought it would be a waste to just flush all that water away. So there was nothing else to do but take pictures of myself trying to look as horrendous as possible. Oh my, what have I started?

Brian Eno

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle.With a label on it.

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.