Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Tortorella

We have a short time left in our season. At times you have to have amnesia and for a good part of this game we will, but there are some things to learn from it and now we'll just get ready for Montreal.

Stephen Wright

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I may have forgotten this before.

Angela Davis

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

Tom Paulin

It's ironic that early on in the war with Afghanistan, the Americans and the British were saying, 'We recognise there must be a Palestinian state,' then they rapidly forgot about it. I think history will show that that kind of amnesia will come back to haunt you.

Roy Oswalt

You have to go out and have amnesia and next day be the guy,

Tracy Kidder

Don't join America's collective amnesia for the suffering that seems so distant but in fact surrounds us, ... Don't forget about the forgotten people in this world.

P. J. O'Rourke

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

Dr. Goodman

That's what we call a retrograde amnesia, which is an amnesia following the event for a period of time. That's a fairly significant concussion. That person may pass all of these tests, which may not prove one thing or another, and the last thing they need is to go back into a situation where they can face subsequent injury to their head again. But nobody wants to hear this.

Freddie Shepherd

I must have amnesia as I can't remember sending a text message to Mr. Eriksson. I don't even have his number so I'd love to see this message. All I can say is that I'd like to wish Mr. Eriksson well with England in the summer, and good luck for whatever he chooses to do after that.

Tom Poti

We knew they were vulnerable, they had a tough loss the other night and we knew they had a new goalie. And with a team like that, you've got to jump on them early and that's what we did. We got the first goal and we just kept going from there.

Derackk Curtis

We knew they were going to come out strong early and we managed to stem the tide. D-Y is a well-coached veteran team that plays with a lot of emotion. Our goalie, Matt Ryan, was obviously a key factor for us.

Lisa Gansky

Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

John Eyler

We are pleased with the early signals this year,

Pat Scelza

We started subbing and early in the fourth quarter we had some freshmen on the field.

Curt Fredrickson

We started really well. Playing on the road isn't easy and getting a good start is so important and we really did a good job early on. We didn't maintain the intensity, but after a start like that, it is tough to keep up that level.

Jack Schrader

We started out well, executing and getting open shots in rhythm. They crawled back into it right at the end of the first half, and in the second half we got some good looks early but missed them.

Chris Renner

We struggled early on with our team trying to identify their roles. That is what the early season and midseason tournaments are for. The guys have done that.

Greg Kennett

We are looking to make it five in a row after this match. The key is to peak at the right time and to hopefully peak in the early to middle of April. There is no reason why we can't win the Valley this year.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

Bill Cosby

The people who got into office forgot about the people.

Larry Brown

We started playing a little fast. We missed a lot of really good shots and I thought we got a little tight. We forgot time and score.

Edith Wharton

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

Judd Gregg

Well, she didn't run after me, ... She just told me I forgot one of the sheets.

Moises Rodrigues

We are all immigrants. Some people have forgotten that.

Carl Sandburg

Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

Barry Goldwater

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Elizabeth Bibesco

What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

Natasha Trethewey

'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.

Katie Featherston

I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

Jimmy Spencer

He just hit me in the back bumper. When you're up in the top five, you better respect your competitors, 'cause it'll come back to haunt you.

Lindsey Bruno

You keep waiting for it to just happen. We've done this before. But at some point, it's going to come back and haunt us if we don't start to capitalize.

Tim Massaquoi

That would be something that would haunt us.

Brodrick Bunkley

Please don't remind me. It's going to haunt me for while. I wish I would have done better in this game.

Louise Nurding

The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!

Ronnie Reyes

We're still making mistakes that are haunting us. What do you do?

Ann Brashares

The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Bruno Latour

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

Demetri Martin

One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

Paul Wolfowitz

He's always been excruciatingly careful, which is ironic in his situation.

Graeme Dott

I got some luck in the last frame, which I thought was ironic because I thought I might win then.

Douglas Coupland

Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.

Alexandra Adornetto

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

Orson Scott Card

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not,

Andre Agassi

It's quite ironic that it turned out that way,

Ron Scott

It's an ironic time to be having a party in Detroit.

Lisa Ellis

Simple sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream rapidly and used up quickly.

Anna Akana

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

Cecilia Zalkind

We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.

Jack Cheevers

We are working rapidly ... to remedy the situation.

Richard Flanagan

The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.

Jack Kilby

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

Betsy Beers

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

Kenny Harris

The site is rapidly taking shape. We're very excited.

Lynn Coady

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

Jennifer Grey

I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

Angelique Kidjo

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

Nolan North

I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll recognise me.

Najib Razak

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

John Connolly

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Olga Kurylenko

My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.

James Balog

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

Oscar Wilde

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

Jim Davis

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

Charlie Chaplin

This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.

Charlie Chaplin

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Charles Sumner

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Charles Sumner

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Charles Sumner

The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

Charles Sumner

Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

Charles Dudley Warner

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

Charles de Gaulle

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Charles de Gaulle

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.