Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antarrious Williams

We know we have two important games left in the season. A lot of people are going to ask us about Alabama, but we're not worried about Alabama right now. I'm like, 'Alabama who?' It's all about Georgia, and we're just getting ready for these 'Dogs.

Patrick Mahoney

We applaud federal and state law enforcement for their tireless work in making these arrests concerning the Alabama church fires.

Daniel Pearl

We are pleased to have this opportunity to work with Mr. Williams and continue efforts in assisting the victims of Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, ... We continue to call on our associates and guests to keep helping our fellow residents of southern Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama during these difficult times.

Debbie Smith

We?re in San Francisco. She?s from Alabama and she knows where the Goodie Shop is. That?s because she grew up in Arlington.

Artur Davis

Until we get a new president, we are not going to see greater diversity on the Alabama bench or in the South.

Tanya Chaplin

We're going to focus on our own performance and not worry about what Stanford or Alabama is doing.

William Stewart

The people of Alabama just have a general distrust of government. They don't want to give (lawmakers) discretion.

Thomas H. Cook

I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a woman, taught nothing but the classics. They revered the great British and American writers.

Judy Green

When I came to the University of Alabama in 1996, I was given all the tools to develop the volleyball program. We have an effective and ongoing recruiting program that gives us an opportunity to recruit the right kind of kids.

Alan Paton

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

Mayor Espy

We want the people of Clarksdale to know we are neither broke nor nasty.

Colby Armstrong

We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game and we broke down a little in the second. We played right into their hands.

Jeremy Mincey

Vernell Brown is a tough guy. He has the heart of a lion. To do what he did with a broken leg - to come in and make a game-changing play - I can't say enough about him.

David Catalfamo

Ultimately, it's important to be sure that no laws were broken and no crimes were committed.

Diane Warren

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

Diane Warren

I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

Diane Setterfield

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

David Mitchell

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.

Dave Barry

Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain.

Tom Kite

Whether or not he'll be the next captain I don't know, but he'd certainly be my pick, ... He's played in Ryder Cups, won major championships. He has the enthusiasm and respect of the players. He's a team player 100 percent.

Ken Gordon

We felt it was better to go in this direction at this time. It's not indefinite but the decision is to just go with the captain at this time.

Deb Gaines

We are getting close (to where we need to be). We are improving from week to week. I enjoy seeing them smile and reaching them (as a coach). They have all stepped up this year and we have a couple of captains who are very passionate.

Shane Warne

Yep. And I'm sorry for that. It's cost me lots of stuff. At the end of the day, it's cost me probably - a chance to captain Australia.

Blaise Pascal

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Ian Bell

When your captain goes down it is not a great thing, but we have a good squad and we hope all the guys who are not involved stay ready in case they are needed,

Doug Russell

Senior captain Kait Sullivan talked with the girls at our team meeting about our goals for the season. Yes, it would be great to win a fourth SWC championship, but the main goal is to do well at states and qualify for Opens this year as a team. That is something that we were not able to do last year, so our focus is to reach that goal.

Jim McCarthy

She was a great boss. She was the kind of captain that could take suggestions. She was more of a player's coach.

Bobby Bowers

For September, October and November, tourism to New Orleans will be crippled for sure.

Randy Newman

Jackson Browne is underrated, at this point in his career. He has written consistently well his whole career. Maybe because he is always doing things for the Crippled Squirrel Foundation, things like that.

Bill Thompson

We made sure all those young men being crippled by enemy fire were safe. We took them home.

Tracy Morgan

My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy.

F. Sionil Jose

I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.

Greg Valliere

If the President is really crippled I would look at the dollar to see whether there really is a market impact,

Jerry Costello

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.

Danny McBride

In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It was usually just the crippled kid, the pregnant girl, and me. It was pretty awkward, just hanging with all these freaks who didn't want to show their legs.

Mike Antonovich

Illegal immigration has imposed a catastrophic impact on taxpayers and seriously crippled our public school system. While we need legal immigration, which is essential, illegal immigration has been detrimental to the economy and to our quality of life.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

David Suzuki

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Rob Cohen

I think there's a love of infamy and heroism that doesn't play into the zeitgeist,

Joseph Campbell

Heroism is a matter of integrity--becoming more and more at each step ourselves.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Albert Camus

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Nic Buchanan

Everything before then was written off as savagery or barbarism. Any story that involved heroism was about white people.

Harry Anderson

This is another blow. But we're actually walking a little taller because of the heroism at some of our hospitals.

Deena Burnett

The transcript really doesn't give you a sense of the heroism on that flight. I would like to have (the tape) released.

Nelson Mandela

I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity....

Robert Osborne

I'd worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that.

Kathleen Mitchell

He had to come here while negotiations were ongoing. The Hudson was the jugular vein of the Revolution,

Richard Doherty

It's mostly for the Hudson Valley to work on these new developments.

John Cahill

You wouldn't even think of swimming in the Hudson 20 years ago,

Jerry Narron

I've seen Tim Hudson since '99 and I thought Holby might need another day. If Ramirez had been pitching, he would have been in there.

Bobby Cox

If everything works right, Hudson will open. It's Hudson's turn this year.

Charles Dickens

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.

Alan Watts

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Jon Allen

We know how important this is to the individual and we're trying to work with them.

Diane Wakoski

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Dian Fossey

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

Elizabeth Kostova

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

Bella Abzug

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Jason Asbell

We've tried to put ourselves in position to play some really talented teams or individual players.

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.

Russ Rader

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

Donald Harrison

I suspect what it is is pure stress.

Doug Green

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

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.

Velimir Ilic

Our victory is as pure as a diamond,

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.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

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

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.

Jennifer Morrison

For us it's a visible reminder of the season.

Anthony Biondo

For three state titles. It was kind of a reminder for me.

Todd Harris

It's a huge, scary in-your-face reminder of how out of touch the Legislature is,

Alessia Cara

Every time I sing, it it's a reminder to myself that I have to be confident.

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And most surely it is a reminder for you and your people, and you shall soon be questioned.

Paul Theroux

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

Rick Riordan

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.

Victor Davis Hanson

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

Bill Bryson

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Aneurin Barnard

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

Craig Roberts

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

Xavier Niel

Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

Alexa Von Tobel

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

Ving Rhames

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Chris Corrigan

Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.

Nancy Cartwright

Everyone is tired of that Richard Gere story

Nikki Sixx

They're the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of our era.

David Giuntoli

We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down the river. I love the woods in Sandy, but it's an hour away, so I don't love that.

David R. Brower

You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

David R. Brower

Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.

David R. Brower

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

Buffalo Bill

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

Cesar Pelli

The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.

Blake Shelton

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

Dean Acheson

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

David Hockney

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

Alan Watts

The wake doesn't drive the ship

David Dreman

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

Benjamin Franklin

Little leaks sink the ship.

Alan Shepard

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder

Catherine Ponder

Your ships come in only after you have sent them out.

Wayne Pacelle

We ship 300 out in a day and get 400 in.

S. Walker

We've been trying to get on the ship for a month.

William Campbell

To find out that my ship had ties to Taunton was great.

Dexter Fletcher

Spending time on 18th-century ships in Tahiti when I was 17 was quite unusual.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Charles Dudley Warner

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Charles de Lint

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Charles Dickens

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

Charles Dickens

As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

Charles Dickens

It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.

Alan Greenspan

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

Alan Bennett

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

Al Seckel

I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

Al Lopez

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.