Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Leitner

On a day-to-day basis, I am appalled at the hazardous materials that just pass by us on the railroad.

Christie Brinkley

Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appalled when I sold out and did something so bourgeois. I'd say, 'Come on, guys, with what I earn from this job, we can all go to Morocco.'

Thomas Doherty

I think any American would be appalled if their private conversations were recorded without their knowledge.

David Halberstam

I think they were watching the movie 'Patton' when they should have been watching 'The Battle of Algiers' about urban insurgency. I'm a Vietnam-era journalist. I think most journalists were appalled as we moved toward war in Iraq. The worst mistake this administration made was not about weapons of mass destruction. It was the administration's view that we'd be welcomed as the great liberator.

Lucie Morillon

Our first reaction is to be appalled at Yahoo helping to give information that puts dissidents in jail.

John Cooney

Suddenly, people were shocked and appalled by the goings-on of the clergy.

Monica Crowley

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.

Robert Fisk

William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.

Rashad Anderson

We just couldn't get a stop. I'm just as appalled as you guys.

Jay Wright

We've won games that way. We've shot poorly and then got on the offensive boards and played defense. They were just too good.

Pig Miller

We know Gary will go to the boards and will press. We've got to turn it into our style of game and get out and run.

Paul Proctor

Ultimately the change has to come from the board down.

Richard Johns

Ultimately, if the board decides to centralize the campus, then we will decide what to do with the school.

Marcus Aurelius

The perfumes at our board last night - Were exquisite, I won't deny it, But we were starved, we were outright, For meat, could no how come by it

Paul Hodgson

The perception has been growing that it is better that there be a clear line of distinction between the people the board hires and the people hired by the corporation.

E. O. Wilson

The plight of the children on board this ship serves as a timely reminder that slavery and bondage are still realities in the world.

Kerry Killinger

We are pleased to welcome Regina to our Board of Directors. She is a nationally recognized leader in the legal, corporate, and nonprofit communities. Her leadership skills and commitment to promoting economic advancement for all complement the Board and make her a valuable addition.

David Wood

We usually send out information to board members to get their feel for whether we should disseminate information further.

Mack Brown

We take for granted now what he does. He does whatever he needs to do to win.

Vance Moss

Here, it's taken for granted ? antibiotics, drainage equipment. There, as a surgeon, we have to use the basics.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Elizabeth Thomas

Had we not participated in those meetings, DASA might not have granted certification.

Source Unknown

Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

Jane Jacobs

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

Charlize Theron

I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.

Eric Smith

What we see is the state taking over a number of responsibilities that have been granted not only to the local officials but local residents through the legislative process.

Adam Rayner

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Brian Molko

Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

Jay Dillon

The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.

Ted Dever

When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.

Steve Hahn

There are no limos in the garage. Any money AARP makes will get plowed back into the services our members want.

Marty Brown

Frankly, I don't think they've worked members very much, and then all of the sudden we get an ultimatum. It just doesn't feel to me like there's been enough groundwork done.

Brad Dayspring

I think a lot of members will be supportive of the legislation.

Sibel Edmonds

When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.

Jenni Allen

There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.

Jill Soloway

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Samuel L. Jackson

She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her.

Lino Spiteri

What would politics be without its own particular peculiar sense of humour, even if it is not quite funny, ha ha.

David Gray

For this particular location, people come here and it's really about wine,

Kelly Pleasants

We have to be particular about what we can take.

Seth Shostak

In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?

Jim Martin

There are so many parts of this project that are intertwined that they have to be staged and set up in a particular order, and they would like to get this particular ramp done first so other ramps can follow.

Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.

Charles Tillman

The mind is a powerful tool.

Charles Tupper

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

Charles de Gaulle

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

O. Singh

Unless he does something drastically amazing, or I play really poorly, I should be quite comfortable.

Joe Linklater

We're quite pleased, but we have to remain vigilant about this.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Charles Edward Merriam

[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.