Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Powers

I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.

James Blunt

School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said, 'Yeah, I'm going to be a musician.' I just had to do a quick stop gap in the army first.

Jake Shimabukuro

When you play guitar and strum, you're using biceps and triceps to move up and down. I realized you could just turn your wrist, your forearm, using smaller muscles in your arm that are much more efficient and much quicker.

Evangeline Lilly

I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.

Mickey Rourke

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

Frank Herbert

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

George Grosz

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

Ha-Joon Chang

The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage.

Jim Butcher

If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

Jim Butcher

But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, "BOO!

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

Burke Marshall

With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

Bubba Watson

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.

James Hillman

The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love

James Dobson

Respect is intended to operate on a two-way street.

Myles Munroe

A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

Milton Friedman

Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace.

Milton Friedman

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Milton Friedman

Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles that [Ronald] Reagan had. He did some very good things. We owe to Richard Nixon the volunteer army - he got rid of the draft. And that was a major increase in freedom.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.

Ice T

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

Bobby Frasor

He can have a guy hanging all over his arm but still have the touch to finish. It's something I've never seen a post player have.

He can conduct just as much as Klemperer conducted. He has to find a way of making music with his face, his arms and little gestures. He has to be much more concentrated. But as I say, Klemperer also found a way.

He and his brother are real close. This being his first year and everything, we're really going to have to take Derek in our arms and carry him along.

He always told me the people in Armstrong County were wonderful and I found out he was right,

He always talked about how he wanted to ride with Lance Armstrong to see if he could beat him.

Healthy environment and rich natural heritage are of paramount importance for the future of unified Korea, ... Environmental concerns underlie all of the major topics that have been identified as priority, (including) economic cooperation, tension and arms reduction.

Wesley Clark

He also has his hands still on the sinews of power in Serbia. He controls the army, he controls the police, including a very effective and brutal secret police network, ... He controls the media, and he controls the economy and finances.

He pitched the first four and did an outstanding job for us. It gave us the lead and let us get more arms in there.

He pitched really well. His arm was a little sore Friday and that's why we took him out. He doesn't throw hard, but he throws strikes and keeps the ball low.

Her arms are so long and she's so strong, she's able to power her way inside and into the paint. But she also has the finesse to pull up and hit a 3 during crucial parts of the game.

Alex Kapranos

He put his arm around me. I look very, very small.