Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Parkinson

He was very shy. A man uneasy with the fame that came with the job. A man who liked to observe in the shade. He reminded me of Alec Guinness in that sense. But, my word, when he stood centre stage you'd better watch him.

He will gallop Friday morning and when he works on Monday, Alex Solis will be there for the work. Luis Ortega is coming for the first part and will stay through the work and then Francisco Alvarado will be here for the rest of the week.

He is a very alert and very good child, ... Jacob is well, he's healthy, he is unharmed. There does not appear to be any injuries to him and so he is still a good, healthy young man.

Chris Mortensen

He has spent the last month exploring and evaluating what's best for his future and it's come down to these options. Alex simply wants to get better as a young man and a student and as a quarterback. That's the bottom line and he's just trying to come to the right conclusion.

From the time that the company got its first unwarrantable failure, that put them on alert that those examinations weren't being conducted properly. Such unwarrantable failure is just intolerable, and that should be referred to the U.S. attorney for possible criminal prosecution.

I wouldn't necessarily have to get the ball, but just me being in there, I think teams would be more alert thinking I might get the ball.

If they'd been smart, they would have only used it to stop terrorist attacks from happening and not in prosecutions. Defense lawyers are obviously quite alert to the fact that they've got to go back and look at this: whether their defendants were charged based on evidence illegally obtained.

John Walters

We're trying to get out the word that the last 10 years of research have helped to alert us to the use of marijuana in particular is a very dangerous risk for the mental health of our young people.

Bayard Taylor

I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.

I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexander. But I don't believe I am the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.

Adam Carolla

If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

Brendan Myers

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.

Carl Honore

Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.

Phil Neville

There is only one Alex Ferguson, but there are similarities,

Alan Furst

When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.

Aimee Mullins

Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You're with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was the first person out on the runway, but I thought, 'I have done the Olympics, I can do this.'

Bille August

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.

Charles Rangel

The President's policies in Iraq contributed to the slow response of federal troops who should have been on alert even before the hurricane struck.

Milan Mandaric

The reason we didn't talk to Alex before was that we had information that he would rather stay at Rangers.

Mark Boal

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

Peter Beard

I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.

Jack Cole

When you kick in a door, all it does is alert them that someone is coming that they don't want to see,

We will have played four different teams three times this year. We played Freedom, Newton-Conover and Alexander Central three times, and now South Caldwell.

Douglas Conant

When providing people with the direction and expected behaviors, you need to be alert to the fact that they will hold you accountable. People want to know if you are walking the talk. They will be watching your every move and you need to be one in the same... every minute of every day.

Scott Boras

We had a situation where we knew Alex was going to be traded -- but we had to wait and see where he would end up. So we had an oral understanding, a bridge.

Dave Nonis

We wanted to bring in someone to help Alex and that s what we accomplished.

Luis Sojo

We wanted to take 15 pitchers. It was tough. He wasn't the only one. Luis Rodriguez with Minnesota led the league in hitting in winter ball. But we wanted to keep 15 pitchers. I left a message to Alex and I talked to Luis. With Alex, it's his first year with Boston and I know that's important, too. We just didn't have any choice.

We've had a lot of players go down this season. It started with Alex Bannister. And each time we've had someone else step up and take their place.

To me, he's one of the best guys I've ever seen at this stage of his career. He can be another Alex Rodriguez or better than him. This kid is coming up from Double-A. What he's doing is amazing.

Sepp Blatter

The red alert is on for Germany's World Cup committee.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.

We will give Alexander and his family all of the support they need as they go through this decision making process.

We would ask the Interpol head office in Lyon, France to issue a red alert notice on Zhang Du. Once the notice is issued, it would circulate among the 186 Interpol offices. When he is found in their jurisdiction, and if allowed by their laws, they could arrest him or an information would be forwarded to the requesting party as to his presence thereat,