Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Abrams

I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, overly modest person who left many flashier lawyers in his wake as he persuaded judges and juries alike that what he said could be trusted and should carry the day.

Mike Jones

Think about what is sitting on their bench - lucky to be alive by everything I've heard - and how they were able to somehow overcome the emotional part of that and still get through all those matches to get here. I give them credit. There's something special there, because they may have lost, but they didn't play like losers.

The worm may be dead, but hands-on learning is alive at Bailey Station.

The way I feel now, I'm 45 years old and I have a new life. I feel reborn. I'm alive again.

The way health care is funded in the U.S. is not sustainable. People are being kept alive who are probably better off dead. The cost of health care is too high, and you don't get much for it - it's twice as high in the U.S. as elsewhere, and it's because of the middlemen.

Erwin McManus

The word 'entertain' means to hold someone's attention, and what we want is a faith that is vibrant and alive and beautiful and real.

Ella Wilcox

The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;Not a church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high.But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river;And the lamp of my soul is alight with love for life, and the world, and the Giver.

The rivalry that exists between Jodie, Libby and Alice will keep us going like we did with the boys in the early days.

Jerry Cantrell

There will be some Alice In Chains shows this year - that's a fact.

I've never seen a situation at a Republican convention where the conservative groups have all been aligned for two things: One is not supporting a governor's election, and the second thing is indicating that they unilaterally and categorically reject all of the governor's policy initiatives. This governor has gotten a free pass from conservatives for two years. The party is over.

Karl Shapiro

To girls and wives always alive and fated; To men and scholars always dead like Greek And always mistranslated.

You had 10 different layers to the story. All the planets were aligned that day.

We were on life support and now we're alive again.

What they did in the second half was run more laterally, created some gaps. And some of their biggest plays came when we stuffed it inside at the point of attack and then they reversed it. We didn't quite stay alive as much as we talked about.

We teach what the state curriculum tells us to teach. We have our aligned our curriculum to the state's.

We just played that four or six minutes in the third quarter tentatively. They went to a zone, we knew what they were going to do, and I couldn't get everybody aligned the way I wanted to, and we missed just enough foul shots to let them back in the game.

Brian Williams

There's a danger that all these images start to look alike to viewers.

There's something about this team. Our bats seem to come alive after the fifth inning. We had some timely hits that kept us in the game.

Jerry Reinsdorf

There's hardly anybody still alive from 1917, and those few who are really don't much remember that. So this is the first time this has happened in almost everybody's lifetime. And the impact has just been incredible. Baseball makes people think about their ancestors, their parents and their grandparents.

There's no question they've alienated the city. But the risk of alienating the fans is relatively low, particularly in light of the level of success the team has enjoyed in the last few years. The upside potential is much greater than the downside potential.

David Remnick

There's no doubt that Ali wrote a great deal of what he recited.

Bill Buford

There's not stuffiness, there's not reverence about literature ... it's actually very hip, often spontaneous, dramatizations of what's appearing in the magazine, to show just how alive and up-to-the-minute some of the fiction can be.

Rabindranath Tagore

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

Jon Favreau

The title's 'Cowboys & Aliens,' so you can get away with a lot if you chose to. You could make it the union of Cowboys Movies and Alien Movies and done whatever was convenient at any given moment. I think that's what most people would do, especially if you went broader and more comedic. Do whatever's the most fun in the moment.

Jacob Whitesides

I stay up late; I'm like a vampire. I stay up until, like, 6 A.M. and then sleep till 4 P.M. I lay in bed till it's dark, and then I come alive in the night.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now -- completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.

What still alive at twenty-two. / A clean, upstanding chap like you! / Sure, if your throat is hard to slit, / Slit your girl's and swing for it.

We showed that the centre-left is alive and kicking.

We felt the direction vintage sports clothing went in the last few years is not what we believe in. We want to return to our core values. We believe vintage American clothing doesn't go out of style. I never designed for fads. The emphasis the last few years by the people who bought our company was on the hip-hop clothing trend. That's not the reason I started this company. People were wearing things without any kind of context. Things just went full circle and some of the people we were aligned with before we sold popped back up to support us. Timelessness is important to us.

The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice.

The Israelis and some Westerners are trying to delete Arafat from our memory, but he will remain alive in our hearts,

The festival also helps to keep alive this music that is historically considered America's contribution to music.