Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Skousen

Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation - all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith's vision of an opulent society.

Paul Retherford

One of the things that Adam gives us is explosive quickness. He can get into the gap and win balls, then make it past a few guys so quickly.

Reggie Campbell

One of Colorado State's big safeties said before the game that if they stopped Adam (Ballard) and Lamar (Owens), then they'd win the game. I think I knew right then that I would be getting more touches. I just didn't know it would turn into a game of that magnitude.

Ellie Goulding

My hairdresser in the U.K., Adam Reed, has his own line, Percy and Reed, and it's really good. And I use Moroccan Oil and Kerastase as well.

Steve Loney

Naturally Adam has a lot to learn, but he did well for a person who had never played the position.

Bill Polian

Obviously, we are glad to have Adam here, we know he'll do a great job for us. He had a great career in New England and we hope he has a great career here.

David Thomas

Obviously I think we missed Adam being 100 percent-especially on the press break. For some inexplicable reason we missed a lot of shots early. I think their quickness bothered us.

David Saliba

I can't say enough about Adam. Adam did a good job and snuffed the rally. He did a great job coming in and throwing strikes.

Chris Knutsen

Getting to know Adam a little bit, he is that way, ... I hit one good, I'll hit one better.' And that doesn't always equate to a good punt the next time.

Robin Dezarn

Missing her first birthday ... I'm not very happy about that, but I'll try to get by.

Samuel Freeman Miller

May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

Andy Cole

My little boy said to me it would be nice if I got a hat-trick to celebrate my birthday, so I dedicate my two goals to him.

Robert Webb

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.

Kate Christensen

My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

Jonathan Keltz

My 21st birthday was awesome. I was in L.A., and it was great. I had a bunch of friends that came out. The night ended up in a completely different direction than we thought it was going to go.

Michael Ashcroft

My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday.

Denis Diderot

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

David Liss

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

Christine Harforth

Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream consists not only of the celebrated Overture, the famous Wedding March and the scarcely less familiar Nocturne and Scherzo.

George Parnham

Only one mental health expert testified that Andrea knew that what she was doing was wrong, and that was the celebrated Park Dietz. Every other mental health expert ... testified that she was either incapable of knowing what she was doing was wrong or did not know what she was doing was wrong.

Julie Christie

One of the most celebrated people in the world desperate not to be recognized,

Joseph Zwilling

Because St. Patrick is the patron saint of the diocese, the day should be celebrated as a feast day.

Deborah Moggach

I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

Natasha Trethewey

My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

Wilbur Smith

The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated writers, like Ray Bradbury - so I felt I had at least one toe on the ladder.

Alexandra Paul

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Fuller

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert Klein

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

Tony Blair

Let no one be in doubt that the rules of the game are changing, ... If you come to our country from abroad, don't meddle in extremism.

Mark Gottfried

LSU is one of the better teams in the country. Their front line is tremendous.

John Ashcroft

making it the country with the fourth highest rate of legal immigrants.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Peter Murray

More is going on now than at any time since the Victorians.

Mark Brunell

Obviously, it's been a long time since he's been in the playoffs, but he is used to winning in the playoffs.

Tyler Bolick

Basically, salaries have stayed the same since I started.

William Petty

I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them.

Roberto Galvan

I have been here since Sunday. We are waiting for the blow.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Kathy Connolly

She's been here since 5 a.m. this morning.