Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bud Selig

We're not discussing contraction at the major league level.

John Thompson

Levy limits were discussed this year, but not enforced. Some of that's just every-year political stuff, but you don't know until the Legislature adjourns for the year what they really will do to us.

Carol Chastang

Many lenders may not have discussed the STAR program specifically with the borrower.

James Appathurai

Sofia will be an opportunity for foreign ministers to look forward to Riga. Indeed, this whole ministerial meeting is a stepping stone toward the very important Riga summit. But they will have a discussion on enlargement.

Malcolm Speed

Moving venues was one of the issues discussed today.

Jonathan Knight

My fellow band members don't discuss their loved ones, and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine!

Jim Fischer

One point here is that it's very valuable for the staff to be involved in that discussion. When there's really thoughtful discussion about an issue, it seems the right thing is done most of the time.

Nobu Matsuhisa

One evening, Mike Myers and Steven Spielberg were discussing 'Goldmember,' and I just happened to joke, 'If you need a Japanese character, let me know!' The next day, they called me for audition! I find it's always helpful to maintain a sense of humour.

Jaime Suchlicki

None of us want what we discussed here. It's the most likely scenario, but it's not what we wish for.

Alexandra Fuller

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

Albert Schweitzer

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

Albert Schweitzer

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

Albert Schweitzer

If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

Sathya Baba

Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of the heart.

Sathya Baba

Make the heart big and the mind pure.

Lois Frankel

Lela is the heart and soul of this city, ... And she is a... well, let's put it this way: She's an independent, strong-willed, very innovative person.

Source Unknown

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Al Ries

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

C. S. Lewis

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

Breyten Breytenbach

Even ivory towers need central heating.

Alberto Manguel

It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.

Anthony Hopkins

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

Chuck Jones

I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

Christopher Paolini

He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies.

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

Joel Bruckenstein

I'd like to see him have more pure value exposure,

Mary Tyler Moore

I can't eat pure sugar. I can't have candy.

Donald Harrison

I suspect what it is is pure stress.

Jeff Corbett

There are no pure, pure climber's stages, no 10-mile, 14-percent brutes. And there are no bone-flat sprinters' stages, either.

Doug Green

We're pretty kid-friendly. With the pure kids' shows, all the songs are up-tempo. We keep it moving.

Velimir Ilic

Our victory is as pure as a diamond,

Niall Ferguson

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

Mike Davis

I didn't want us to take any 3s tonight because of their size.

Joe Brancato

To be a part of this tonight is a thrill.

Mark Campbell

We haven't had any complaints. Tonight will be the first true test.

Buddy Hackett

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Antonio Villaraigosa

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.,

Dee Dee Ramone

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight...

Demi Lovato

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

Daniel Handler

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.