Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Benson

We have neighbors complaining about the noise and it?s just not worth it. We?re not out to shut people down, but we?re not going to tolerate problems. I guess you could say that the city is less willing to overlook bars than it was in the past.

Mark Roberts

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

Tammy Duckworth

I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

Travie McCoy

We didn't want to worry about the formula that has been implanted into our brains - this verse/pre-chorus/chorus format. When we were writing 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea about any of that. We didn't know how to count bars or how to write what's considered a well-formatted pop song.

David Mitchell

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

Jamie Zawinski

I dont get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

Alan Moore

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

Michael Moriarty

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

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.

Charlotte Bronte

Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup.

Charlotte Bronte

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

Charles de Gaulle

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Charles de Lint

What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins

Charles Caleb Colton

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

Charles Caleb Colton

That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.

Charles Stanley

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

Charles Spurgeon

I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.

Charles Spurgeon

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

Charles Edison

He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

Michael Schultz

The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.

Tom Tryon

The reality is, we can't sustain ourselves with property tax dollars because the state is taking so much money away from counties,

David Kyambadde

We shall make an initial injection of 50,000 U.S. dollars into the project.

Shia LaBeouf

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

Brian Wilson

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

Cindy Mydland

We know for a fact that there's a lot of medical expense dollars leaving Brookings County. A lot of them were already Sioux Valley patients, quite honestly, and they were driving to Sioux Falls.

David Mixner

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

Cher

I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it.

Carl Edwards

It's not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be driving down the interstate.

Tracy Harris

When you run with those girls every day, you can't help but get better and that is what is driving them.

Bob Krueger

We want everyone to get home safely who may be impaired from driving for any reason.

Joe Pitts

Ultimately, this could mean more jobs and more investments in Clarksville. There are no specific projects in the works right now that are driving this, but we hope to find one after this passes to somewhat use as a 'guinea pig' to help work out the process.

Dave Barry

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

David Swanson

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

Laila Robins

I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.

Nick Pisca

We started driving around together as soon as we got our licenses. We love to drive.

Elbert Hatchett

This sudden jump turned her driving experience upside down and her whole world upside down. She lost the most precious thing there was to her. Her intoxication had nothing to do with that.

Jon Groth

We were too passive offensively today until the ninth, when we put up some runs. I was glad to see us come back late. It ended just short of where we needed it to.

Alfredo Palacio

The people of Ecuador, particularly the people of Quito, today have ended the dictatorship, the immorality, the great power, the terror of fear,

Tim Fish

I really started self-publishing on a serious level in 2002. Those smaller books did well, ended up moving from doing a series to compiling everything into a trade paperback in about 2005.

Ewen Bremner

I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also had plenty of experiences where everyone thought we were doing brilliant work and it ended up pretty horrific. Same as any actor, really.

Roxanne Cardejon

We started out with only one tumbler and we ended up with seven at the KIF championships.

Angelo Babbaro

We started out last year also at 3-0, but we ended up going 3-3, so we've got to keep up the intensity.

Darren Rommerdahl

We started off a little slow but got better as the game went on ...When we ended up getting our opportunities, we were hungry enough to go and get some goals.

John Shaw

We started flat, we played flat and we ended flat. I don't know why, but maybe my younger players just weren't ready for it.

Ignacio Bunye

We are thankful that the incident ended peacefully.

Trevor St. John

I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I moved to L.A. and auditioned and did very well there. My first gig was playing a skinhead in John Singleton's 'Higher Learning', and I played Glenn Close's son in a TV movie called 'Serving In Silence.'

Dave Chappelle

Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Brian Molko

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Jamie Carragher

I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave,

Bill Maher

Donald Rumsfeld also lost his gig last week. When asked what his future plans are, Rumsfeld said, 'What's a plan?'

Bill Bailey

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

Tom Stoppard

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

Denis Law

There's no way Ryan Giggs is another George Best. He's another Ryan Giggs

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Charles Payne

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Chris McKay

So, I got stuck reading for them and paying the bill.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

Sandra King

When we see a possible discrepancy, we need to investigate to make sure the taxpayers are not paying for something that simply doesn't exist. It's our responsibility to investigate that discrepancy. It's our responsibility to the people, really.

Guy Pearce

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

Verlene Powell

One of the big things that Boise seemed to have a problem with at this school. Was that we were paying to teach all these teachers, but they were going to other states because of better pay and what not.

Clark Chapman

But there are more asteroids out there, so we should be paying attention.

Randy Carlyle

We have to get points out of it. We're playing teams that are all in our conference.

Jack Sanders

We have a young team, but they're playing pretty good.

Jason Vines

We've shown we can compete. But when you're playing uphill, its that much more difficult.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Tom Lehman

I just can't stomach playing poorly. More than anything, I hate not getting the most out of my game.

Stefan Hell

Eventually I realised there must be a way by playing with the molecules; trying to turn the molecules on and off allows you to see adjacent things you couldn't see before.

Junior Spivey

We're just trying to get to know one another, trying to get to know one another's tendencies. The most important part of it is communicating and being on the same page. . . . We're all professionals and you've been playing the position pretty much your whole life.

Mark Mooney

(Walker) has just been playing real well. She runs real hard, she is just up and down the court.

Elaine Stritch

When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.

Drew Brees

We're starting to get in that rhythm we need to be in,

Chelsea Handler

I'm not graceful either. I have no rhythm, I'm never on top.

Matt Maldre

Search for variety in between the rhythm of what we already know, and you will find wonder.

C. S. Lewis

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

Richard Kovalcheck

I feel like we got in a rhythm towards the end there,

Jameer Nelson

I feel like I'm starting to get my rhythm now.

Ai Miyazato

I don't feel tired at all, and want to keep with the rhythm I have right now.

Shinji Mori

I did that a lot in Japan. By doing that, I can get some rhythm back and keep my balance.

Alex Lifeson

Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its importance, particularly in a three-piece band.