Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Williams

As I got here, things began to look up. But I'm looking at (how) I have four more years before retirement, and I need to get back and work on that.

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

William Trevor

And when she was old, if she began to believe that Ralph had been a figment, and this summer too, it would not matter because time turned memories into figments anyway.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

Patrick White

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

Mike Huckabee

For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system.

Maria Semple

I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.

Sonakshi Sinha

I want to be talked about for the films I am doing rather than a party I attended, the dress I wore, and the men I may have met and dated. In any case, by and large I think I have spoken about more for the profession I am in than my personal life. That's the way I like it because frankly, I don't really have a personal life to begin with.

People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and know that everything I've done has been through hard work. People respect me as a marketer and brand builder.

Simon McBurney

When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

Shonda Rhimes

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

Steven Pressfield

All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.

Mike Sherman

To be honest with you, he's reluctant to go to the hospital to begin with. The symptoms were exactly the same as (last year). And we made him go to the hospital, which is ludicrous for him not to go. He gets there, they run some tests, the tests are negative. He wanted to come back here, so he signed himself out of the hospital. They weren't done doing the tests.

Valentino Rossi

To be honest I didn't expect Casey to be so strong at the beginning of the season and he is doing a very good job on the Honda.

To begin with, we were tight. We played real tense and timid today. They got up early on us, 3-0, before taking the 5-1 lead after one. We then played outstanding defense in the second period, but we weren't able to score offensively.

James Blunt

To begin with there was the comparisons to David Gray and Damien Rice because they were singer-songwriters. But what's funny is that if you listen to those two they don't sound anything like each other. It's so weird I should be compared to those two, but people need some association. But I'm really glad I've been given a voice by my parents that sounds different. I'm very lucky for that.

Joseph Bruchac

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

Oliver Goldsmith

To begin with Ireland, the most western part of the continent, the natives are peculiarly remarkable for their gaiety and levity of their disposition ; the English, transplanted there, in time lose their serious melancholy air, and become gay and tho

To begin with, I had to take my faith and my beliefs and set them aside, so I could take an objective approach. I wanted to know why I believed the things I had been told. Through the whole process, it strengthened me. I feel I am more of a believer now than I ever was. There are some skeptics' views that really make a lot of sense. I really had to wrestle with them. Scripture comes to life now in a way it never had.

James Allen

To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Roger Vivier

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.

Michelle Monaghan

Toward the beginning of the film, she's unaware of what he really does, but then she kind of surmises something is going on. But she's completely smitten with Ethan, as one would be.

This operation removes the stigma of having bonds trading in the market that reminds investors of the debt crisis and moratorium of 1987 followed by the restructuring of the mid 1990s; signaling the beginning of new stage that could eventually lead the credit to investment grade status within a few years.

We should begin to see some serious results in two to five years, ... is to be too optimistic.

We think that the best thing for Real Sociedad is for a change of coach to begin a new cycle at the club,

There have been other works found, fragments of works found, but this is just superb in its quality. From beginning to end there's not a weak moment.

There have been a lot of things done to secure data and identify people, like passwords, etc. But this is a new phenomenon, where somebody entitled to use the system begins to use it outside of the parameters. Say a person is entitled to look up social security numbers and do a credit check as part of mortgage application, then all of a sudden this person decides to run 500 people through in the after hours.

Patrick Fitzgerald

was at the beginning of the chain of phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter. And then he lied about it afterwards.

We are very pleased to begin 2006 with excellent top and bottom line growth, exceeding expectations and building on the strong growth momentum we saw in 2005.

We are very pleased to be able to bring the WPT to the fans in other countries who have been itching to try their hand at making a WPT Final Table, ... Through these regional WPT Tours with ABS-CBN and Aidan Tracey, we have begun to create a global network of WPT Tours that will inspire the players in those countries and grow our brand internationally. It will be fun to see local players evolve into regional poker stars, just as our primary WPT Tour players over the past few years have garnered international recognition, and are now recognizable everywhere they go.

John Walker

We are very interested in the cable television sector in Korea. It's highly diversified. We are now just beginning a period of consolidation in that industry.