Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Rapp

I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.

Abraham Cowley

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

Abraham Lincoln

If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

Alex O'Loughlin

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges his inner self year after year. One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being. And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

Curtis Stone

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

Nile Rodgers

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.

Carter Burwell

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.

I thought we played hard, but I thought we had too many mental breakdowns. We weren't making very many reads, we weren't cutting hard to the ball.

I thought Ryan and Lewis (Jackson) played hard. (Friday) we were diving on the floor, going after every loose ball, cutting off passes. Tonight we didn't do any of that. I don't know why. It's stunning.

We still have a long way to go, but we have the guys here now who see what the plan is, and they understand it, ... They realize that there's no cutting corners, that it's going to be a lot of hard work, learning to play as a team, doing things the right way ... Our guys are starting to get that and things are turning around.

Kyle Cooper

We are just waiting on the inventory report now. Yesterday's big move wasn't justified. The Iranians are always talking about cutting output and supporting prices.

Columbus Short

You stay with the foundation and then you just try different things because you don't know how the director will cut it and you want to give him, what will work, and you want to give him some options, give yourself some options, discover some things when you start to play. That's what we do; we get paid to play.

Dan Lipinski

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Cliff Richard

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.

E. W. Howe

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

Colin Hay

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

Alan Greenspan

We should not be cutting taxes by borrowing,

(The president) is cutting a little here and cutting a little there and really selling the Great Lakes short at a time when there ought to be investment.

Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.

Elena Roger

I thought that I'd never be able to work in films or TV. Another girl would be cutting her nose to be an actress. I was always very sure about myself.

Greg Fitzsimmons

I'm sure people are shocked when they see a guy speeding and cutting them off and having road rage while in a Prius.

Hilaire Belloc

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

Eric Hoffer

There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

The part that is related to FEMA we can get back, but trips to the zoo, to the mall and to the movies we have to incur, ... I'll have to find the money by cutting something else because we will not say no to helping evacuees.

Kevin Love

The players that are here from last year and the players that have joined this team are really on a mission. We're not done until that buzzer sounds tomorrow and, hopefully, we're cutting down the nets.

Arlen Specter

There has been a generalization that justices like to retire at the end of a term so as not to disrupt the work of the court, ... if you were to have a 4-4 court, with its proclivity for being evenly divided, you wouldn't have decisions for the cutting edge of all the questions.

We're trying to be on the students' side by cutting out the middleman, the wholesalers.

We kept cutting the lead to four, then we got it to two, but we just couldn't get over the hump. Centralia is a good team. They're tough to play.

We need to either start cutting expenditures and services, or we need to find new revenues.