Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christian Slater

The older I get, the more I realize how important it is to have certain things that are really my own, parts of my life that I keep to myself.

Lee J. Cobb

After a certain point it grows to implied as well as articulated threats, and people succumb. My wife did, and she was institutionalized.

John Schuerholz

After 12 years, ... somebody might say 'You know, those guys down there, they certainly know what they're doing.'

After Friday night we want to be in the top half of the district. It's like the NFL. They have a preseason; We also have a preseason. Now the games that we play count. We certainly have to start out on the right foot when the games count.

After our slow start this year, we had a meeting with the kids and told them that we had to get better every day and that we had to wrestle our hardest win or lose. They have responded and we are certainly doing that. There will be some more tight matches coming up and wrestling here (Paulsboro) is good experience. Our kids battled, all the way up and down the lineup.

After 'Old Lady' I showed this earlier version (of 'Joseph') to my publisher. I said, 'What if I redo this?' I made all new illustrations for it ... and I just lucked out. I feel a little vindicated in a certain sense.

After I have resigned from my position as chairman, I hope that all external criticism or pressure being exerted by certain authorities can be focused on me as an individual, and not on the company, shareholders, or innocent employees within the company.

A day like today certainly doesn't derail the change we've seen in the last two weeks. The market was up 16 or 17 percent in a straight shot. It was due for a pullback.

Donald Rumsfeld

some sort of document of that type is certainly a likelihood.

Stevie Wonder

Some things are definitely our responsibility as individuals, and certain things are the responsibility of people committed to making sure everything is OK,

Something like that certainly drives home the point that you are on your way out the door.

Lynn Coady

Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.

Some people consider Steve Jobs the Walt Disney of his generation. He understands technology, he understands entertainment and he certainly understands marketing.

Chris Gibson

Some people like the challenge of trying to compete under certain environmental conditions, and if that's the case, ... then Badwater is right up your alley.

Southwest certainly was a part of the increase in January. We'll see in the coming months what the trends look like. It'll probably be a little easier to make a judgment (about Southwest's impact) at the end of the first quarter.

Robert Gibbs

So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies.

So we're certainly concerned. We're watching the situation closely, but at the present time the system's functioning as it's designed and we're being reasonably successful in managing flows.

Arlen Specter

So they weren't necessarily your views then and they certainly aren't your views now?

E. O. Wilson

So, they're supposed to be home at the right certain time. If they're not, it's going to tell them that they're not there and then they can actually locate, find out where they're at.

William Devane

So the writers would have the dialogue be a certain way until it got to the floor. Once the scene hits the floor, the actors are in charge.

So the whole thrust of any kind of reportage of the Royal Family, certainly in the tabloids, it may have been intrusive in terms of the way you define it, but it was certainly very laudatory and it really maintained and expanded the fairy tale.

Greg Olsen

Space is not for wimps. It's certainly not just writing a check.

Jim McKay

So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience.

Pete Hamill

One great example of the way Tweed really helped the Irish was when the water started to overflow from the Croton Reservoir, it went to certain parts of Manhattan but not to where the poor lived. The mythology of the dirty Irish developed because they had no water, not until Tweed, through aggravation or bribery, got the water to flow through poor neighborhoods.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Once you see it up close and personal, it is pretty rough to take. It just isn't a certain area.

Once you reach a certain temperature, it feels the same whether you're in Oregon at 32 degrees or North Dakota at 32 below. It's an opportunity to get an education free, a chance to go someplace different.

John Abraham

Once you get to a certain point in your life, a lot of people look at you as more of a meal ticket than a person.

Adrian Gonzalez

On-demand solutions are influencing the mindset and expectations of customers with regard to pricing and time-to-value. While $1 million TMS deals are still possible, they are certainly the exception and relatively rare these days.

Now it is certain that the end of the (super-loose) policy is coming at the March meeting (next week).

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

John Chafee

Now is certainly not the time for Congress to embark on massive tax cuts or spending programs predicated on revenues we have not yet received. Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

Novel technologies for delivering ... vaccines can certainly find a market if they are more effective, less costly, less invasive or more convenient to use than the alternatives.

Maria Semple

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.