Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. Hughes

We were bailing out water until 1 a.m. and pumping out the basement. I can't figure out why everyone else pays city taxes but mine are four or five times higher because I have to spend $4,000 every four years to fix my house. I thought taxes fixed problems like these.

Shannon Bailey

When I explained to him what happened, he was furious and confused. Bailey and Frank never, and I mean never, ride in the opposite direction. They always ride in the same direction.

Bob Blick

We know we're a lot better team than what we've shown. There's motivation there to show our fans and school that we're a better team that what we've shown. Nobody's quitting and nobody's bailing out. We've just got to stop the turnovers and that type of thing.

David Herron

We're seeing a lot of volatility, a lot of indecision as people bail out of stocks and other people jump in. We could be seeing the classic signs of bottoming, but we thought the market was topping for three years before it went down, so maybe we're going to be thinking it's bottoming for three years before it goes up.

David Icke

Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had been installed as US Treasury Secretary to begin the bank bail out policy, with enormous benefit to Goldman Sachs, in the closing weeks of the Bush administration. Goldman Sachs was also instrumental in the collapse of the economy in Greece that started the 'euro panic' that later engulfed Ireland.

Jason Scanlan

(Sisters) was trying to sub guys in every two minutes and shoot three's. Our kids like to play the passing lanes -- Chris Bailey did an excellent job getting out there (and getting steals).

Robert Herzfeld

Mr. Bailey has obviously paid a very steep price for his mistake, and I think this is an appropriate resolution.

Harvey Rosenfield

Solving the energy crisis in California does not require bailing out Edison,

Randy Osnes

She's exceptionally quick and extremely knowledgeable. She gets a great jump on the ball and is very aggressive. We're happy that Henderson State saw in Bailey what we've seen for four years.

Carl Andre

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

Carl Andre

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

Alan Kay

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

Charles Dickens

Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to the destruction of all. For pleasures are very voracious, too apt to worry one another, and each, like Aaron's serpent, is prone to swallow up the rest. Thus drinking will soon destroy the power, gaming the means, and sensuality the taste, for other pleasures less seductive, but far more salubrious, and permanent as they are pure.

Brian Clough

I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

Bret Easton Ellis

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

Bret Easton Ellis

There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.

Bret Easton Ellis

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

John Wycliffe

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.

Dawn Kelsch

If all else fails we will still have the lakes, the land, the horses and the fish, and there are a lot of fish.

Diana Nyad

I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.

A.J. Chilson

When a number fails to identify a football player try the name on the back of his uniform.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

David Antin

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

Matt Lundy

We take it very seriously when someone fails validation and then responds by identifying where they received counterfeit or infringing products.

Bible Bible

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

William Shakespeare

To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

Samuel Coleridge

When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.

Melvin Watkins

What he told us is, it's an opportunity to get back to playing basketball. All the speculation was a heavy burden.

Edmund Phelps

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

Broderick Crawford

I was always the second heavy.

August Wilson

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Cary Sherman

Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation. But when your product is being regularly stolen, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action.

Soma Somasegar

But the processes out there, I think, are too heavy weight.

Robert Mintz

Obviously they are taking a look at the evidence. They must be heavy into deliberations.