Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Italo Calvino

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Maiara Walsh

My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.

Linda Wallace

Like any vibrant economy, the house prices have gone up. But more than that, we're facing a bit of a housing crunch.

Chris Vance

Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?

I. Stone

Life is too short to be really bitter about anything for so long. Sometimes, you have to turn the page. After all, he found a great career in Houston, and he made the Hall of Fame. He should get on with his life.

Jennifer Saunders

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

William Walker

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Stephen Ames

Life is a bit easier not worrying about the future of where the family is going to be or what is happening in the future.

Kevin Kodama

Luckily, the north side got a bit of a break last night.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know of any case that involves computer hacking where there were multiple defendants charged where there wasn't an informant on the case.

Nikki Sanderson

Luckily my friend took charge of the situation,

Bob Woodward

Libby was not charged with being the first to talk to a reporter, and that is not part of the indictment,

Donna Newman

Let us see him. Why be held incommunicado? If they want to, charge him with a crime.

Dave Whelan

Let's see someone in charge with feeling for the game and let's make sure England are coached by an Englishman.

Samuel Butler

Learning is like a great house that requires a great charge to keep it in repair

Sulejman Tihic

Milosevic will be remembered as a negative historical individual and a dictator, and the first statesman charged with genocide.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Fitzgerald hasn't made any decision on the charges and I can't speculate what the outcome will be. Mr. Rove has cooperated completely with the investigation.

James Greenwood

Ms. Watkins is not a whistleblower in the conventional sense. She was and is a loyal company employee who sought valiantly and, sadly, in vain to get the people in charge to face the facts and make the hard choices needed to save the company.

Isabella Rossellini

When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.

Rick Perlstein

I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better recognize the vastness of the social universe - for there are so, so many worlds that are not your own.

Rusty DePass

Let private enterprise do as much of it as possible and keep as much property on the tax rolls as possible.

Bible Bible

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Brian Chalk

Lethal injection is the most humane way to do it. 99.999 percent of the people that go through this are out before the second drug enters their vein. They don't feel anything.

Walt Disney

leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy.

Christopher Clarke

Mr Huntley is fit to enter a plea and to stand trial.

Russell Feingold

Mr. Chairman, if those items could be entered in the record?

Cardinal Zen

My impression is that they've entered into real talks.

Maryann Courson

We're not being real strict on putting the signs 5 feet from the property line and we're taking pictures of the violations to show the candidates.

January Jones

'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

John Gotti

Let's just say the government is telling the truth and I'm the boss, ... Let's just say the government is telling the truth and this guy is the boss. ... I would have to tell this guy that I made my son. ... This is the government feeding this -- -- punk .

Patti Smith

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

Michael Simmons

Low-income students can come out of here feeling diminished.

Al Groh

Losing stays with you a lot more than winning stays with you. Yes, there are positive feelings that come with winning. But you prefer not to live with that losing feeling that stays with you for a long time.

Nancy Peterson

Losing a pound isn't necessarily a reward. Being healthy and feeling good about yourself is the reward.

Michael Strahan

Last year we were a team, but I think maybe we were a little unsure, ... We had a new quarterback, a new coach, we had a lot of different things we needed to have answered. This year, I just don't have that feeling. Even though Eli is young, I don't have the same feeling as a team that we're unsure about ourselves.

Tony Batista

Let's find out. I'm back. It feels good.

Robert Kazinsky

Nothing is as hard as working on a British soap in this industry.

Dave Balza

Like I said, it's hard. It's hard to be positive when you're losing.

Viktor Kozlov

Like I said before, it's like a lottery. It's hard to score in the shootout.

Tim Kearney

Luckily he didn't have to work as hard or often in as other games. When we need him to step up, he does.

Pamela Smith

Lucinda was my only child, and she was God-given, and I know somewhere, somewhere I will come to terms that it was her time. But it was how it happened, and why it happened, that I have a hard time with. I miss her so much.

Kayla Rengel

Make sure we keep our focus, make sure we practice hard all week, and sleep well when we do have our off days.

Ozzie Guillen

Losing Tony is something that is hard on the Latin community.

Nicole Ohlde

Losing a player like her was hard because she does so much on and off the court.

Jerry Stackhouse

Last year, we had a letdown. We didn't want to work as hard as we did this season, then give it away. Now hopefully we can do what we did on the road last year.

Juergen Schrempp

Mitsubishi Motors is the ideal partner to increase DaimlerChrysler's presence in all parts of Asia. Outside of Japan, (Mitsubishi) has the largest market share in Asia.

Ted Hughes

Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all.

Tom Stoppard

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

Tom Stoppard

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.

Timothy Noah

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

John Rash

NBC and advertisers would ideally like to have maximum momentum moving into the Olympics in order to promote them.

Thomas Carlyle

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be

Donny Robinson

I don't have the ideal body type for BMX, but just with anything, you have your pros and your cons. And being small kind of allows me to maneuver through the other bigger riders and make passes they couldn't necessarily make.

Jan Egeland

I'd like to say that the United States has been ideal in the way they have responded.

Donald Trump

Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in,

Michael Schaffer

Maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.

George H. W. Bush

Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working,

Larry Brown

Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know,

Chris Shelton

Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins.

Evan Needham

Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.

Donald Lowe

Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one test does everything for everybody.

Sam Singer

Maybe we should trade in our supervisor for somebody up in Seattle.

Brian Urlacher

Maybe we shouldn't get a bye week anymore.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Make her laugh, make her laugh, make her laugh. After all, the strongest relationships are the ones in which you can laugh with your partner through anything.

Marc Cherry

Let's just say she has a very interesting relationship with her son.

Eleanor Porter

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Elbert Hubbard

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

Eileen Caddy

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Bill Clinton

I did not have sexual relationship with that woman!

Elizabeth Bowen

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

Deepak Chopra

Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.

Dan Auerbach

I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

Andrea Gibson

Someday we will dare to trade good for true

Fred Armisen

Someday maybe I'll go back and see what the Deep South is like.

Jewel

But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see

Christine Taylor

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

Tom Cruise

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Sherry Turkle

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

Patricia Briggs

Someday, I'm going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner - but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Jimmy Buffett

Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say - Someday, I will.

Rich Alday

So far, we've had a lot of success pitching, offensively, defensively, and as a team. Hopefully, we'll make that continue.

Susan Hayward

We had a very successful fair. We were thrilled.

Tucker Max

There is no number or level of success that would make me think, 'Wow, I didn't think that was possible.'

Dick Wolf

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

Dick Van Dyke

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Dennis Ritchie

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group

Dennis Green

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Deana Carter

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.