Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joaquin Miller

Let us go and talk with the poets. (on arriving in San Francisco)

Greg Hand

The process of arriving at the tuition was different this year.... The conclusion was that ... there wasn't a good way to avoid getting near the tuition cap this year.

Ted Cruz

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

Billy Connolly

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here

Kristen Wiig

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

Kip Hawley

This will not cause confusion for the traveling public. This is going to be very easy for the customer arriving at the checkpoint to figure what they're supposed to do. We'll make that very, very clear.

Roger Griffiths

Last year we think we did suffer a little bit because we had people coming in every two or three days. People were not arriving until the last two or three days of training camp. To really have all but one player here from the beginning, we think is going to be very, very valuable to any success we have this season.

Don Anderson

Many northerners just arriving here have not even unpacked choosing to turn around and head north by northeast back toward Jacksonville, into Georgia, etc.,

Terry Ebbert

The people arriving on this side of the building are expected to fend for themselves. We have some water.

Chris Chocola

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

Chirlane McCray

I'm married, I'm monogamous, but I'm not dead, and Bill isn't either.

Guy Ritchie

We split all the bills 50-50. So what? That's perfectly normal, isn't it?

David Bradley

I invented it, Bill made it famous.

Denis Leary

Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do.

Ed Rollins

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

Bernard Goldberg

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

Charlie Dent

When you show up at a rally supporting a bill, you are supporting the bill.

Charlie Dent

You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.

Hiltrud Breyer

We want to show the red card to forced prostitution. It has nothing to do with fair play, it's a crime.

Steve Loucks

The other thing we're doing is making sure the customers pay with credit cards so they can get their money back more easily if the tickets can't be used.

Judy McDonald

We usually just play cards - there's always a card game going on. Or we sit around. Sit around and talk.

Sandy Prince

We are a full service florist with fresh-cut flowers, silk arrangements, balloons, table decorations, cake-a-grams, plush, greeting cards and candy.

Ken Hammond

We are looking for the owners of the cards to find out how they last used them,

Luke Mitchell

I do weights and work out different body parts on different days. I don't do cardio - I did too much in my tennis-playing days!

Dan Casey

When you think of the person who goes to Disneyland and spends $500 and puts it on the credit card and their interest rate is 15 percent (debt) ... the person that puts it in the credit union is getting 4 percent (gain). The difference is close to 20 percent.

Eddie Izzard

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

Lesa Young

We also send cards to acknowledge illnesses, births and deaths in the family. One officer who was out on leave for a while told me how much it meant to him that he got a card from us and that we were thinking of him during that time.

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Janet Jenkins

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Scott Hoyt

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

Alan Bennett

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

Tim Ebner

The one thing you saw today was a flow, it was up-and-down. When you play that way at that speed and that tempo, things are going to happen. They got the game-winner off one of our guys' skates but that's a credit to them because they got the puck to that point. Some days the bounces go your way and some days they don't.

Fernando Clavijo

The other team played hard; they executed a great free kick. You have to give them credit. We suffered some injuries but you have to give the credit to the team that played well.

Karen Hill

The people who have the weakest credit histories are in great danger of falling into a predatory environment.

Dick Wilcox

We struggled for rhythm the whole game. That's to their credit. We didn't play great but again, credit their defense. We had that one spurt, but they shut us down and we couldn't quite get over the hump.

Jay Wright

We struggled, and a lot of that credit goes to Marquette. But we finished it off, and that's a sign of a really good team.

Robert McKinley

We're in an environment right now where there's a lot of strain in the profitability of credit cards, ... Issuers are looking to hit you with fees and those sorts of things.

Jon Murphy

We started hitting shots. You credit the guys for not panicking at halftime (and) sticking with it.

James McCormack

When you've got credit growth that already exceeds (gross domestic product growth), that's a lot of new credit." ()

Noam Chomsky

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Greg Boyle

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Marcelo Porto

Today we initially hoped that stocks would rise and erase yesterday's losses, but Wall Street triggered a new wave of profit-taking.

Bob Goin

One thing I will say is that Kenyon is never going to be able to erase the great memories I have of him and I'm sure that's true for our fans, ... He was a model for future players. I have great respect for what he accomplished here.

Scott Adams

One "oh shit" can erase a thousand attaboys

Scott Sutton

The only way to erase that memory is to win the tournament. If we lose, it will be just as devastating as last year. But I think that last year's loss has helped this team get ready for this tournament.

Kelvin Garnett

I felt for these kids after that football game. Hopefully we can erase some of disappointment in basketball.

Conor Oberst

I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't erase it entirely, the idea that when you're sitting down to write a song, people are going to hear it.

Kelly Greenberg

I think we just get so mad when we feel that we have let a game slip through our fingers. We like to think of ourselves as a mentally tough team. Winning at Albany doesn't erase the feeling in our guts after the New Hampshire loss. Now we need to win again.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Cass McCombs

Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.

Ben Affleck

The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

Diana Wynne Jones

I've got a hangover!" "No, you hit your head on the floor," Sophie said. Howl rose up on his hands and knees with a scramble. "I can't stay," he said. "I've got to rescue that fool Sophie." "I'm here!" Sophie shook his shoulder. "But so is Mis Angorian! Get up and do something about her!

Diana Wynne Jones

I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.

Jamie Chung

There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with 'Sucker Punch' and 'Hangover 2.' Those movies didn't hold back. They really went for it.

Brian Molko

When every day became a hangover and when you look at yourself in the mirror and go 'I don't like how you're coming across to people.' and when every day just started to feel the same. After the 50th shag, it doesn't mean so much anymore.

Charles Bukowski

I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing.

Charles Bukowski

The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.

Charles Bukowski

I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.

Alan Moore

I've never really cared much about money. I've got enough to live on. And it's not like I live in a fancy house, it's not like I own a car, and it's not like I ever go on holiday.

Alan Bradley

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

Al Sharpton

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

Caroline Kennedy

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

Bob Ulrich

We are pleased with our performance during this year's holiday season and remain comfortable with our outlook for the year overall.

Charlie Adam

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

Betty Who

I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.

Earl Wilson

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

Denis Norden

Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Charles Dickens

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Chester W. Nimitz

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

Chris Johnson

We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season.

Phil Nevin

Where is he? It's his first day, and he's already 20 minutes late. I hope someone is going to make him run laps.

Maria Bamford

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Charles Stanley

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Alan Moore

I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

China Mieville

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

Dave Barry

Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.

Dave Barry

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

Buenaventura Durruti

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Charles M. Schwab

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

Anthony Chan

The overall trend is that we're making progress,

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Dean Ornish

What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.

John Abizaid

There are peaks and valleys that you go through, but overall the trend is good,

Austin Eguavoen

I was satisfied with my team's overall performance.

Al Groh

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Cathy Cook

I don't know what the overall stimulus was.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Charles Payne

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

Sandra King

When we see a possible discrepancy, we need to investigate to make sure the taxpayers are not paying for something that simply doesn't exist. It's our responsibility to investigate that discrepancy. It's our responsibility to the people, really.

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Chris McKay

So, I got stuck reading for them and paying the bill.

Doug Martin

We want this thing killed. This is a joke, and the sad thing is, we're paying for it.

Kristin Armstrong

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

Rick Savage

We are more than paying our own way toward sheriff services.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Alan Perlis

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whenever God begins something, we have the assurance that He will finish it. Nothing will stand in the way of Him accomplishing His purpose in this world and in our lives. What God starts, He finishes, and nobody can hinder Him. Sure, delays will happen. Just remember, God is in charge of the delays as well as the progress.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

Bruno Rossi

In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.

Charles William Eliot

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Ai Weiwei

There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.

Bill Phillips

Focus on progress not perfection.

Toshihiko Sakai

We see the trend of Treasury purchases continuing.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

Carolyn Beck

We're trying to reduce that and save lives.

Jeff Miller

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Brian Dawkins

I will never have my best season.

Steve Spurrier

Six and five, ... We thought 6-5 would be a wonderful season for this team.

Richard Walker

We've still a lot to do before the season starts.

W. S. Gilbert

She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.

Walter Brower

The PD is over now. We've got a new season to play now, and we need to go 3-0 to get to where we want to be.

Derrick Brooks

(We) still have a lot to accomplish. That's something to think about when the season is over.

Ashley Scott

I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.

Ricky Ford

This season has really been a tale of two seasons for me,

Dema Kovalenko

We didn't come out to play, we didn't come out with any urgency. We've got to do better because, if we do this in the playoffs, the season is over.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

German Proverb

When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top

David Seiders

When you start to see cancellations, you really get worried.

George White

When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.

Grady Fuson

When you start talking about prospects, it's a very subjective term. The way I look at it is as long as you've got a uniform on, you've got a chance.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.

Casey Affleck

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

Audre Lorde

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

Maggie Q

You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

Austin Carlile

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

Tyra Banks

I don't wake up with naturally sculpted cheekbones - I paint them on!

Bailee Madison

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Paul Begala

no one will wake up Nov. 8 and not know what they were getting.

Conan O'Brien

Tomorrow is Election Day. That's the day we Americans wake up, consider our options, and then remember we didn't register to vote.

Andrew Rannells

I can't wake up at all without caffeine.