Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mavis Staples

I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.

Patrick Ness

I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

Paul Provenza

When I was a young comic just starting out, I was very cautious, as I didn't want to alienate people. George Carlin's bravery became a benchmark. I became perfectly fine with alienating some people in the audience. That just comes with the territory.

Neal Pollack

Typically, the protagonist of a noir work is an alienated loner. A Packer fan in Chicago -- who could be more alienated than that?

You are alive only when you live by the skin of your teeth.

We've made much progress in this past quarter, especially in getting our inventory more closely aligned with sales, restructuring our organization into functional operating units and putting people in key leadership roles,

We're very thankful she's alive and wasn't seriously injured. Whether you're 25 or 75, we don't recommend chasing after the person who stole your purse.

Greg Thomas

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Roy Barnes

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Molly Parker

I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.

Peter Mayhew

They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

We're dedicating this show to Bill and Alice Hughes.

Yesterday there were rumors that (OPEC president) Ali Rodriguez was going to push for pretty substantial production increases from OPEC, but what we've heard is that these production increases will be less than what was speculated. Yesterday had crude prices down sharply but they're rebounding today. Inventories are still low and demand, globally, continues to rise.

We?re a family store. A lot of motorcycle dealerships are male-oriented. Most tend to exclude or alienate women, which may be as simple as racy posters or talking down to female customers. But here we have consciously created an environment that beginners -- regardless of their sex -- would be comfortable coming in to talk to our experts.

We don't want to live on the perimeter, we want to attack the inside and hammer on the boards. When you have a 6-4 point guard and two 6-3 swingmen, you have an opportunity to keep the ball alive and make some things happen inside, and that's what we're banking on.

We emerged to find an alien landscape. We bound our wounds, we buried our dead, and we commenced to rebuild.

We earn a good income and we negotiate pensions and health care in virtually every public and private sector of today's city economy, ... Those are all indicative a labor movement that is alive and kicking.

We're a lot alike in that we've let a lot of close ones get away.

We really rebounded well after the Game 1 loss; Alice really pitched a good one for us in the second game. We didn't play bad in this series. In our last outing, we had 15 errors and just had two this time. That's a lot better and the girls played better.

We really needed this win to stay alive in region play. We had a great comeback and did just enough to come out of here with a win. I have to give Great Falls a lot of credit, they played very physical and gave us all we could handle.

We have some people this year who bought a Fan Forward for George Mason. They may have bought ticket rights for $5, thinking that this was the year the stars were aligned in their favor. By purchasing this reservation early, they now have the chance to buy Final Four tickets to see their team at face value.

We do that as another part of making sure director interests are aligned with shareholders. The best way to do that is to make sure they are shareholders.

Douglas Hyde

We are told that the keeping alive a language spoken by so small a number of the community is a barrier to progress.

We celebrate our history and the new generation of young emerging jazz artists who dedicate their heart and soul to become part of America's greatest indigenous art form. During the month of April, we want to send a message to everyone that jazz is alive and thriving in every corner of the city.

Well, it's a little bit of a mix of hope and distress. Hope because we still see three of our friends obviously alive and also a bit of distress because the other friend, Tom Fox from the United States, is not shown.

Jerry Sloan

Well, we're still alive and that's the important thing, the games mean something. It's not like you just throw it out there and you don't care whether you win or lose.

We had many opportunities to bring the world with us, instead we've alienated the world and lost so many of our young men and women and we're on the verge of creating a civil war.

My belief in the alien existence has made me change my previous views on God. All this time, I believe that God is almighty. But apparently, I know somehow that even God's creations are far more fantastic than I could imagine.

Most kids would've given up after a lot less, but Ali is an exception to most rules. He's special, he has a heart of steel.

Richard Williams

Microsoft has a long-term e-business goal that involves MSN. They've got to keep MSN alive and relevant enough within the marketplace until they have their e-business web channel ready.

Jennifer Haigh

William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.

When the bats come alive like that, it's pretty nice.