Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Buckley

Ultimately, it was the increase in the amount of cash that he was requiring that set off the alarm bells.

Gary Doer

We've already completed the tests on mercury and fish and . . . so far there's nothing to alarm us,

Frank Barrows

We've tried to neither overly alarm nor under-inform people.

Rebecca Miller

We were in bed and we heard someone's fire alarm go off, started smelling smoke and looked out the window, everyone was outside, so we just rushed out and saw everything was on fire.

Matt Nerzig

We find it ironic and alarming that the people who protect the building are paid less than everyone else who works at the building.

Pat Campbell

We're just not getting out of bed until the fourth quarter. We hit the snooze button and the alarm isn't ringing.

Vladimir Putin

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

Joyce Holliman

When I came out of the apartment Steve was, um -- I had him in a chair. As soon as I opened the door, I was thinking that it was a false alarm or something.

Lucas Sithole

Security guards at the shopping centre heard an alarm early this morning and upon investigation saw smoke coming out of the building, but could not ascertain where the fire was coming from.

Alan Greenspan

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

Charles Williams

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Anderson Cooper

We heard church bells ringing. We heard people yelling, screaming, clapping. A friend of one of the miners came over, crying, to tell us that he had heard and just been told in the church that 12 of them (miners) had been found alive.

Pat Brogan

Fundamentals for the Bells are going to continue to deteriorate over the next couple of quarters.

Bill Evans

I would've been very happy to go into halftime at 6-0, but we had a couple upperclassmen get their bells rung and we didn't have the depth to cover it up. That touchdown was a back-breaker,

Sophie Kennedy Clark

I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was.

Chris Avellone

What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.

LeVar Burton

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

Karen Steuer

If this hunt goes through, there will be other requests coming to the Russian government to hunt belugas. Before long we could have a hunt of a couple thousand Belugas. Once you start commercial whaling in any species, you have to make sure all of the bells and whistles are in place, that all the regulations are there from A to Z. Every time we have had a commercial hunt of whales there has been over-exploitation.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Benjamin Franklin

Success is the residue of planning.

William Shakespeare

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

Dennis Conner

If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.

Juergen Klinsmann

Sebastian played a big role in our planning for the World Cup.

Abraham Lincoln

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Dorothy Teeter

The planning is complicated. ... But we can't wait any longer.

Johan Bruyneel

He's planning on being here. Just sitting with me in the car, he helps.

Tom Bentz

There are some signs that things are getting better.

Rosette Lerias

There are no signs of life, no rooftops, no nothing.

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Phil Garner

We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course.

M. Wolfe

I still think we could be better, though. We showed signs in the first inning of being very good. We let up after that.

Richard Lobb

But we're not waiting for signs to show up.

Kevin Earley

Now there are no street signs and no landmarks. It was really tough trying to navigate.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Brian Gionta

We know we need to start scoring. We just have to stick with it. We know we're doing the right things.

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.

Charlie Chaplin

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

Charlie Chaplin

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

Charlie Chaplin

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

Charles Wang

I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction.

Charles Tillman

I think everyone needs competition in life, whether it be myself, you, the President.

Charles Tillman

I like to compete. I think competition brings out the best in anybody.

Charles Taze Russell

Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.

Charles W. Pickering

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

Charles de Gaulle

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Chelsea Handler

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Gloria Moore

I wish he would've heeded the warning and left, but he didn't and we hurt,

Bobby Ray Inman

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Jamie Zawinski

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

David Baldacci

Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.....

James Buchan

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .

George Bernard Shaw

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.