Famous Quotes & Sayings

The snow was falling heavily outside. I sat before a blank page for close to ten hours. I refused to get up; instead attempted with great pains to coerce stubborn thoughts from my noodle. Useless it seemed until the 11th hour and then all I'd seen and felt and heard, arrived, and was transcribed effortlessly like the tune of chirping birds.

The attempted murder charge is farcical because the Americans have already said David has never fired a shot at any coalition forces or civilians.

The attempted cover-up failed, and the investigation continues, ... Our investigative committee will continue to aggressively pursue the truth until we are satisfied that a thorough and credible examination of our men's basketball program has been completed.

It's raised as a question mark that the thought of a gun may have averted her attempted rape. It would have been good to point out the existing evidence on that topic.

The officer first attempted to verbally stop the fight and then tried to physically separate them. The officer was physically struck. To ensure the combatants' safety as well as his own safety, the officer used the means necessary.

It's just as much a violation to be in possession of forbidden doping substances or to have attempted to use them or distributed them to others. All of those are doping violations of the same significance as a positive test.

Terry McMillan

That's part of their problem -- they're cowards. I think that he (Plummer) should be charged with attempted murder for risking my life without my knowledge or consent ... I think that what you (BET) are doing should be applauded because I think more than anything there are women out there that are victims. And I think that we need to hold men accountable for their actions.

Karen Hughes

That just defies all logic and all common sense. When Gov. Bush unveiled his plan to end social promotions in public schools, it was heralded by the national press as a sweeping reform, the most sweeping ever attempted in the country.

It's not a documentary. It's a historical fiction. But we have attempted to make the world, the background, the detail of that world as authentic as possible.

E. B. White

Everyone has been wonderful, ... So many people have sent me supportive e-mails or attempted phone calls.

Banks that understood the difference have attempted to save their position on the market and raise the capital.

That's what we do when there's excessive absences. They tried the home phone number, the father's work number. They attempted to reach the family.

Sarah Mlynowski

Even though I knew my way around Facebook, Twitter terrified me. RT? OH? Hootsuite? Huh? My Twitter-savvy friends attempted to explain what a hashtag was, but, still mystified, I signed up for an online Twitter 101 class. Yes. I'm geeky like that.

He (Paris) tells us he got into some waves in a wake. He attempted to steer out of it and in doing so the boat pitched over on its side,

Rebecca MacKinnon

Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

I built up an excellent relationship with Jon when I was at Hawthorn and it's no secret we attempted to recruit him once before,

Jamie Lee Curtis

I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more.

I attempted to take a required math course during my first semester, dropped the class after having difficulty understanding my professor.

Andre Agassi

I attempted to play in Shanghai with an injury that was not fully healed and it set me back substantially.

I attempted to liberate some sunglasses from the corner drugstore. It wasn't a good idea. So they came charging out of there with ball-bats. I guess they thought I was a pretty vicious individual.

I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress.

I attempted to do everything successfully. It was taxing, but I didn't think about it at the time.

Mindy McCready

I attempted to commit suicide after I found out I was pregnant,

Cappie Pondexter

I don't want to say we got complacent, We attempted to play hard.

Hope Davis

I do remember that first night. We attempted to fill the pool and discovered it had a leak. I think Michael Ritchie patched a leak. I remember him standing there with a garden hose, filling this tremendous pool. He was just determined.

David Bailey

He told me basically that he was pretty sure, real sure that he had the guy that kidnapped my daughter or attempted to kidnap my daughter.

Kathleen Blanco

The Corps Of Engineers has attempted to fix the situation under emergency conditions, ... They're not the best conditions, and probably too little, too late.

George Washington

The consciousness of having attempted faithfully to discharge my duty, and the approbation of my Country will be a sufficient recompense for my Services

John Nash

The mental disturbances originated in the early months of 1959, at a time when Alicia happened to be pregnant. And as a consequence I resigned my position as a faculty member at M.I.T. and, ultimately... travelled to Europe and attempted to gain status there as a refugee.