Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Asprin

Our mutual love of movie trivia factors occasionally in the 'Bone' character. It crops up a bit more in the 'Maestro' character.

John Sladek

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

Kenny Harrison

Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.

Gregg Easterbrook

Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved.

Mark Twain

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

John Sladek

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Tammy Bruce

We live now in a milieu that tells us anything goes, everything is okay, and all ideas and behaviours have merit. That's hogwash, and you know it.

Richard Josephson

Starr County has always been a difficult jurisdiction for corporate defendants. ... The people here are good people; they just tend to favor individuals in cases where there are corporate defendants involved. It's just a fact of life.

Charles Phillips

Some of the managers missed some of the initial run up in tech stocks, ... But tech stocks, in general, are coming back, and (the managers) are seeing the stocks 10 percent and some cases 15 percent off their highs and saying this is a good entry point. Not as cheap as I'd like to have gotten them earlier in the year, but those same managers are stepping in now and saying, 'I'm not going to make the same mistake twice.'

Elliot Cohen

Our preference is not to discuss these cases because they're ongoing and involve informants and information that we don't want to jeopardize.

John Locke

Our Savior's great rule, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for the regulating of human society, that, by that alone, one might without difficulty determine all the cases and doubts in social morality.

Robert McCann

Our first option is not to ... go to court. That's never a first option. There are cases where, for whatever reason, the owners or operators don't want to take measures to comply with the environmental laws everyone else has to comply with.

James Krouse

Outsourcing has always generated significant political debate, which in some cases has stalled this sector's growth at the state and local level. As the economy continues a strong recovery, we expect outsourcing opportunities to increase on the state and local level.

F. Schumacher

Man, that was intense, ... I didn't expect that I would have to pedal it right there, but I didn't want to give up that $100,000 without fighting for it. I wish everyone could experience that rush because then they'd know why we do what we do. It's just great to win the Budweiser Shootout and get $100,000, 50 cases of beer, and a ride with the Clydesdales.

Anthony Ricco

Most of these cases become the battleground for fundamental issues that every defendant has in a criminal case.

Frank Jackson

We never like cases to take this long, but they happen. The court has heard that request (to continue the current trial date), but has so far denied it.

Chris Winans

Our own court filings on this matter speak for themselves.

Andrew Smith

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here. After three years of working in the Russian court system our expectations were not particularly high.

Steven Cron

Paula is eager to have her day in court and we are ready to get started.

O. Henry

Our motto is keep kids on the court and out of court.

Sean Williamson

Springdale is just so big and strong that there's no way that we could win a half court game with them. It had to be full court, and we were able to dictate the tempo with some full-court pressure.

David Vitter

Our goal is to have a full and fair debate vote in September, ... If Judge Roberts is to be confirmed, we'd like to have him on the court by the time it goes back into session Oct. 3.

Taurean Green

Our front court guys have been playing great as of late, but teams are going to start to key on them. When they get doubled, the guards are going to have to knock down some shots.

Dmitry Rogozin

Our victory was stolen from us. After a court decision, we found ourselves in a difficult situation, and it is important for us at present to strengthen our organization, rather than dwell on things past.

Stan Carpenter

Our ultimate goal, like most teams, is to make it to the state championship. We think we have a shot. We also have a lot to work on, too. We can't just walk out on the court and expect to win.

Dena Erwin

For some time he's had a felony warrant out. We notified San Francisco and left it up to them how they'd make the arrest.

John Buchanan

I feel very strongly that once someone has paid the penalty for the felony they have committed, that their voting rights should be restored.

M. Thompson

If they're caught, they'll get prosecuted fullest extent, ... It's a felony in this state.

Jim Sughrue

We were coordinating for a possible felony stop but didn't have to do that.

Tom DeLay

with the intent that a felony be committed.

Paul Boyce

While this may not rise to the level of a felony crime, it's still serious.

Jessica Smith

I have no record. They all say felony and guilty. I've never even been to Washington.

Vanilla Ice

Anything less than the best is a felony.

Benjamin Johnson

It wouldn't just be the 12 million undocumented immigrants that are subject to a felony prosecution. It would be lots of other people ... who are temporarily out of status or whose violations of immigration law were very innocent.

George Parnham

I think that speaks volumes to what this jury should do.

Henry Wade

I think informally prosecutors talk and say, you know, 'What can we do to get minorities off the jury panel?'

Andy Birchfield

I don't have any qualms about the short trial schedule. There was not time for the jury to get bored, I hope.

Anthony Mizzi

If only lawyers could be sworn in like all the witnesses to tell the truth in a jury trial, so justice will not only be seen to be done but be done !

Thomas Bergstrom

It could have been a lot worse. Obviously, it could have been better, but I think the jury worked very, very hard...

Dick DeGuerin

I think the jury is there to be entertained, in part, and to listen to something they can make sense of.

Condoleezza Rice

I think the jury is out on whether the North Koreans are serious.

Bruce Brody

I think the jury is out on that.

Mark Barrett

he respects, as we respect, the verdict of the jury on that.

Todd Swindall

Some of them (the evacuees) are in a little better shape than others. Some of them lost every single thing they had.

David Harris

Some of us lost our houses, so the whole team moved into the school. We're tightly-knit, we're like a family,

Ashleigh Cole

Rivalry or no rivalry, I think we would have lost this game.

Camille Little

Remembering that we lost to Maryland before was pressure on us.

Girish Tyagi

Physicians themselves haven't lost anything. As long as revenue is there, they're getting paid.

Benjamin Franklin

Many a Meal is lost for want of meat.

Connie Williams

(We need) supplies, something to sleep on. We lost everything. We used to live in New Orleans.

Jimmy Williams

We never lost our swagger. When we do what we have to do, nobody can play with us. That's how we feel.

C. S. Lewis

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

Barry Mann

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

B. R. Ambedkar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Bill Crawford

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

Bill Crawford

One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.

Bill Cosby

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

David Boies

We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.

Clarence Darrow

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

Anais Nin

In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

Angela Davis

A fair trial would have been no trial at all.

Ann Coulter

[Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom.

Jane Austen

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Richard G. Scott

Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.

Bernhard Goetz

The whole trial seemed surreal.

Connie Willis

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.