Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Springsteen

My god man, you sound like you should be singing in some bar in a backwater town in New Jersey!

No, I felt good. The first goal was a screen and I barely saw it. But it's not good any time six goals go in.

Now the Valley's become as much a dining destination as it is for resorts and golf. Barbara pulled the stars into alignment. She is the ultimate promoter of the Southwest, and she's one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. . . . She's hung the moon as far as I'm concerned.

Isabella Bird

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.

NYU was perfectly happy to have them sit there NYU had bottled water and granola bars out there for the protestors so they could be safe and comfortable, ... The arrests were carefully stage-managed with the union and the police department.

Daisy Donovan

Nutty as 12 monkeys in a 10 monkey barrel

Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Negotiators were prepared to discuss that issue today, but Sikorsky would rather play games than engage in good-faith bargaining that would get people back to work.

Neil set darn near every record that we have. He's set the bar and he's set it very, very high.

Neil Diamond

Neil Diamond impersonators will be much in demand at bar mitzvahs.

Eric Alterman

Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago.

Obviously I'm on the outside looking in at this situation, but what I think is the past is really starting to haunt them. They've had so many losing seasons, very few players want to try out for the team. From what I understand, they barely got enough players in this season to hold a formal training camp.

Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.

Omar Vizquel

Obviously Barry is being the target of it because of the home run chase.

Michael Shermer

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

The primary barrier to doing this would be the money.

We were blown off the floor in every way from top to bottom. Classical was tough in the post, they made shots, and they played very good defense. We played okay for a 5-to-8-minute stretch, but we played poorly at both ends. It's just one of those games that you'll have to throw in the barrel and move on.

Jim Messina

We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today!

Gordon Brown

We need to make our economy more pro-competition and pro-enterprise. Wherever there are barriers to companies, we will remove them.

We need to make a decision that will raise the bar on standards without raising the bar on price. That's a difficult, difficult task.

Shawn Levy

When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt.

When you break down the barriers between communications, every IM user is able to send and receive more messages, which means they'll be spending a little more time on their messenger, and get a few more impressions.

We've never actually stopped talking. We all saw each other-there wasn't any great divide. There were no big walls or barriers to get over.

David Cunliffe

We want to make sure that there are no unintended barriers for Kiwis who are coming home. We want to give them the latest information about what's going on back here. We want to make it easier to find a job.

The places that are really and truly hurt are your bars and taverns. Bowling establishments are hurt dramatically.

There are only a few bumps and bruises now. I am optimistic Barry will play and there is no problem with Steven Pressley.

There are only a few bumps and bruises now, ... I am optimistic Barry will play and there is no problem with Steven Pressley.

There are people who think there are hundreds of millions, perhaps even billion barrel oil fields down there or trillions of cubic feet of gas.

Lara Spencer

It's not a bargain if it has bedbugs.

Kurt Braunohler

All the great game show hosts have a signature 'look,' from Bob Barker's year-round Brazil Nut-hued tan to Monty Hall's oversized lamb chop sideburns. As the host of IFC's new comedy game show 'Bunk,' I, too, have worked to develop a style signature by being the first man or woman in TV history to host every show in my bare feet!

Kurt Eichenwald

By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.

Kyrsten Sinema

I have great respect for Sandra Day O'Connor. She has broken so many barriers for women in the law, and was a master negotiator and pragmatist in her days on the Supreme Court.

John Wycliffe

Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.