Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Curran

Last year, we had 3,000 wells drilled but fewer than 20 complaints. These complaints are for all types of issues, including water, noise and surface impacts.

Jim Roberts

So far, we've not received any complaints from tenants that they are losing parking spots.

Greg Evans

Minimum wage is either a complaint or a reason to work that much harder. It has no medium.

Mark Turgeon

No complaints. We had the first game on our home court. This is probably how it should be.

Tommy Tuberville

No complaints on our part. We'll go down there and play, and it will make no difference on who wins and loses.

Chris Spillane

No complaints, no regrets. The better team won tonight. They are an outstanding hockey team. We have no reason to hang our heads.

Jean Arnault

One of the very, very widespread complaints about reconstruction process today is where is the money going. There is a sense out there that resources are not fairly allocated.

Patricia McGinnis

More and more complaints are not investigated at all, or not on a timely basis.

Gennady Onishchenko

Now, we have to shift from the complaint that no one is paying any attention, to showing that these funds are being spent as effectively as possible.

Danny Green

I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed.

Jules Feiffer

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father

Michael Hancock

If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is.

Steven Pinker

My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.

Zadie Smith

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

Bruno Julliard

Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.

Edmund Burke

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

Robert Ingersoll

There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control

Marc Bolan

The prospect of being immortal doesn't excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal.

Jim Tunney

We're not disappointed at all. We're excited Bode is there in the first place. We're still very proud of him.

Rob Jordan

Like everything else, you have success, and you like to be recognized for it. I don't know if it necessarily translates into anything on the field, but the kids are excited about it, and it's a neat experience.

Peter Cohan

Mainframes just don't get people excited any more.

Leslie Feist

Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-based. The record that we're doing right now is really guitar-based. I feel like finally I get to write some parts that I'll be excited to play on tour for this record.

Jimmie Johnson

Last year's experience showed me that so much can go on, ... There's no need to get too excited yet.

Stanley Asumnu

Last year, we weren't getting this many people to our games. We're excited that the fans are happy, so we're just happy to give them something to see.

Larry Coker

Selfishly speaking, having Kirby is a tremendous lift for our football team. I'm probably more excited about Kirby now than maybe I've ever been.

Philippe Perrin

So, I thought it was very interesting, very challenging, and I personally like being challenged. So, I overall, I was more excited than anything else.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

Jamal Lewis

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.

David Nicholson

My good fortune was that I married her.

Dikembe Mutombo

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

William Atwood

We were contacted by 'Wheel of Fortune' to see if we wanted to be part of the program.

Kazeronnie Mak

Only the misfortune understands what fortune is.And knows how to treasure it.

Tom Brokaw

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.

Tom Golisano

We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.

Donald Trump

Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.

William Shakespeare

She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them

Maina Kiai

Unfortunately this has come after a lot of public pressure. It's a pity it's taken too long to happen.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Charles Dickens

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Charles Spurgeon

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Chris Bosh

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

Ariana Grande

Never take yourself too seriously.

Arthur Helps

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

Daniel Quinn

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

Ryan Robertson

We pounded it inside. That isn't something we do real well, but we did it better than usual tonight.

Raymond E. Feist

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Jamie Oliver

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes

Blaise Pascal

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Franz Ferdinand

He would never do just the usual on-the-road burgers and chips.

Clara Barton

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

Richard Shelley

Otherwise, everyone was wearing masks, gowns, gloves, and all of the usual precautions.