Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Bacon

We don't know whether it'll be twice as large or three times as large or 50 percent as large as we initially planned.

Johnny Griffin

Much of what was said was initially said by the cooperating witness, ... It was leading questions.

Jay Wright

It actually looked a lot worse than it was. It's much, much better than they initially anticipated.

Clint Hurdle

I think initially we need for him just to go out there and get outs, then we'll find a job a for him.

Tim Nance

I think it's much better than what I initially thought. We were very, very fortunate.

Vince Carter

I wouldn't mind it. Initially it would be like.

Jarno Trulli

We can sell initially because of my image. But, if the wines aren't good, we won't sell any more. We've got to keep pushing quality to the limit.

Richard Engel

When students and liberals initially occupied Tahrir Square, it looked like it might be a passing thing.

Steve Niles

There's one or two people who are friends of mine who passed initially that I like to remind everyone once in a while. But that's just because I'm trying to get something else going on over there.

Benjamin Franklin

Mine is better than ours.

Anna Kournikova

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Ryan Newman

Mine was unintentional and his was intentional, and that's all I'm saying.

Ryan Newman

Mine was unintentional and his was intentional and that's all I am saying. NASCAR can do what they want.

Angus MacMillan

Mine production is nowhere near what we thought it would be at the start of the year.

Nik Wallenda

I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.

Karin Slaughter

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

Kate Atkinson

A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.

Irwin Thomas

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

Steve Rodriguez

We let them self-destruct. They had a lot of passed balls, a lot of walks. They kind of folded on us.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Jim Calhoun

We did what we could with the schedule put before us. We passed every test.

George Pataki

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

T.I.

My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

Keith Coogan

I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.

Craig Patrick

We didn't sense that there was any problems with the shoulder. He passed the physical.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Jermaine Jackson

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Deb Caletti

Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.

Kathryn Schulz

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.

Larry Ellison

Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

George Jessel

This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.

Alexandra Stoddard

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

Gene Ween

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.

Scott Weiss

I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.

CeeLo Green

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.