Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Jim Myers

The other team played better than us today. That's basically what it came down to.

Michelle Wie

The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery.

Tom Coughlin

The personality of the quarterback, he has a large plate and he is going to lead by example and by his play. That's basically where our football team is. Our players do rally around Eli and his play and that's the position he has taken and that's the way it should be.

Dan Scott

We've actually got a mail-order pharmacy looking at us. They've basically told us, if we stay at 2 -to-1, they're not coming.

Robert Killebrew

There are some days we play excellent, basically like a steel curtain. But we still have a lot of work to do.

Don Howe

The others had contracts that were up during the course of the year.

Dave Lewis

We are pleased to have Henrik and Daniel under contract for another year,

Joy Bacon

We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.

David Davies

Whether that leads to a contract is another matter entirely.

Tamara Faulkner

We're going to prevent what is still going to happen, contract procurement irregularities.

Bernie Bickerstaff

When we come to a decision, we make that move regardless of when it is. Some team could pick Kareem up at a nominal cost and still have the right (to pick up the option on his contract for next season).

Willis Reed

Yes, because the contract that they forced us into, the previous contract three years ago, in my opinion, I already gave them their raises. That's why I had a wage freeze in the first three years (of the new contract proposal).

Jay Fiedler

With my contract situation and the team moving in a new direction, it was pretty much a done deal.

Shaun Rinier

We're expecting a contract (today). The association has pretty much made their point to me, they want this resolved (today) or there could be another work stoppage.

Campbell Scott

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

Ted Cruz

There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

Earl Wilson

Somebody figured it out / we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Earl Wilson

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Janet Reno

We are going to try to enforce it in a way that is fair, firm and prompt.

Dax Shepard

You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.

Mitch Kapor

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

Bobby Bowden

Yeah. I could hardly lose in that situation because Joe is showing the world it can be done. When everybody had given up on Joe, Joe showed it could be done. One play and he doesn't lose a game. I want to do the same thing. He enforced my thinking we can do it.

Charles Dickens

Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.

Charles Dickens

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

Charles Dickens

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

Charles Dickens

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

Charles Dickens

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Charles Dickens

An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.

Charles Dickens

With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.

Charles Dickens

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

Catherynne M. Valente

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Diane Ackerman

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Jamie Zawinski

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

Czeslaw Milosz

Irony is the glory of slaves.

Ann Beattie

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

James Patterson

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

John Hurt

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

Guenael Rodier

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

Charlize Theron

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Jeffrey Joerres

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Donald Johanson

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

Mohammad Afzal

We are not confirming it until laboratory tests come out.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Rafael Benitez

We were trying to protect him and other tired players.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

John Ashcroft

We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Brandon Sanderson

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Golshifteh Farahani

I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

Thomas Haden Church

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Kenny Graham

We started pulling some of the starters even though it was only 2-0 but you have to look at the big picture.

Vince Carter

When you think something can't be done, that's when he pulls off another stunt.

Bill Maher

New polls show that Obama is now pulling away from Mitt Romney. And, of course, what could be more natural than to see Mitt Romney and pull away?

Greg Williams

When we get real rain I'll have to get a tractor and pull them out of the mud.

Wayne Morgan

We're going to have to pull up our bootstraps.

Nick Rodriguez

We're doing better than I was hoping. I didn't think we'd be able to pull off a win until sometime around March.

John W. Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them. We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

John Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them, ... We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

Sherri Shepherd

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

Charles Caleb Colton

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

Charles Stanley

God takes full responsibility for the life wholly devoted to Him.

Alan Rickman

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Alan Moore

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

Al Pacino

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

Al Madrigal

My primary responsibility is to be funny,

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

Akio Morita

If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?

Chris Colfer

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do.

Darren Lockyer

St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13.

Andrew Johns

Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

Jimmy Collins

Young is rugged for a freshman. He set screens we couldn't get around.

Graham Lowe

I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

Gavin Henson

I've always said Scott is something of a rugby revolutionary.

Jeffrey Hunter

It was more rugged than I had anticipated,

Javier Bardem

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

Jonathan Davis

It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

Jonah Lomu

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didnt just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

Brooke Niquette

We're so young, but we're willing to learn. We can do well.

Ed Stewart

Unfortunately, no one other than Southwest has been willing to come to the table.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Scott Carson

wanted more than we were willing to give.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Daniel Kahneman

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.