Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

David Mitchell

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

Michael Moriarty

I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.

Orrin Hatch

The position that you have been nominated for is chief justice of the United States. Do you plan to use that role as a bully pulpit to encourage members of the bar to take seriously their responsibility to undertake pro bono work as you have done throughout your legal career?

Kathleen Blanco

We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what happened to it.

Jim Evans

We've already turned down arbitration. We wish to settle our differences at the bargaining table, and are ready to return to the table to do so.

Ray Corn

We vaulted the best we have vaulted and probably ... had one of the best (floor) performances of the year. The debacle on bars and beam really cost us.

Adam Sieminski

We believe that the oil ministers are inclined to defend a $55 per barrel floor in the near term.

Britani Pittullo

We are going to see if she can come back on bars for the rest of the year. Until then, we're going to really miss her.

Charles Caleb Colton

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

Charles Dickens

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Stanley

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Charles Stanley

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Charles Spurgeon

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

Charles Spurgeon

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Rhona Martin

We didn't play well enough and didn't do enough to win. That's the top line.

Alan Ball

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

Al Hirt

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

China Chow

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

Dave Franco

I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.

Dave Franco

I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.

Dave Chappelle

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

David Krumholtz

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

Dave Barry

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

Dave Barry

Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.