Famous Quotes & Sayings

At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.

Carrie Fisher

What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.

Carrie Fisher

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

Carly Fiorina

I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.

Ernie Els

Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.

Estelle

I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.

Lee Hazlewood

I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great.

I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.

We'd like the thread of history to stay alive, ... Even if the bricks were used for signage along the Centennial Trail, that would lessen the impact of losing the building.

We'd kind of been faking it, at the beginning of the year, that we got along and that everything was going well. At that point, we really realized we needed to get it together if we were going to be as successful as everyone thought we were going to be.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Brian White

We are definitely younger in that position than anywhere else on the team. But the way they have been practicing, this will be a strength for us, along with attack.

We are definitely focused on small business. Our average client is 25 to 30 desktops. That's the market that we've been in all along and we intend to stay in. Virtually all of our clients are less than 100 employees, although we do have larger clients where we do some aspect of supporting their environment.

Wole Soyinka

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

Iris Apfel

We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.

Samira Wiley

When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.

Shari Sebbens

I've only auditioned for one non-culturally specific role. I went through drama school and studied classic texts and played lead roles in 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' alongside a very culturally diverse group of acting students. But as soon as we graduate and enter the industry, all of those roles fall away.

Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right direction! He will send people along the way who will assist you, but you must be doing your part as well.

Natalie Zea

Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to seek out stuff that sort of more along the lighter fare. I have more fun on those sets than I do on drama sets just because when it's heavy, it's heavy, and it's hard to get away from it.

Natalie Maines

I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.

I don't really shop a lot. I order things online. When I travel, I'll get some pieces along the way.

If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.

Nick Lowe

All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.

Nick Earls

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.

Ne-Yo

For my prom, I wore a white suit with a burgundy shirt, tie and cummerbund, along with white shoes, a white trilby and a cane. I was extra fly that day.

Neil MacGregor

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.

Linda Lael Miller

I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard.

Dick Cheney

We are grateful to members of the Third Battalion 25th Marines who served along the Euphrates River corridor,

We are grateful for the leadership and vision of Jim Knight and wish him well. Duke Health Raleigh is also very pleased to welcome Doug to our hospital family. He brings a distinguished career in health care along with a vast knowledge of our community.

We are grateful for the cooperation of the Departments of State and Treasury. The license we have been given opens the way for the Cuban Baseball Federation's participation, along with other federations from around the world, in the inaugural Baseball Classic, and we now look forward with even greater anticipation to the opening of the tournament in early March.

We are going to work with the Egyptians to plug the breaches in the barrier along the border ... within two or three days, and to return order in this sector,

Luke Bryan

I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that's very flattering. It's cool to know that with people listening to rock and rap, I'm sitting on their iPods along with that stuff.

Sharon Jones

Everything on my body turned real dark. My toes, under my feet, inside my mouth, under my tongue - I just turned really dark. I'm still here, but it's gonna take a while to get back to normal. Chemo kills all the good cells along with the bad.