Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm at a point in my life where I can't see as well, I can't hear as well and I damn sure can't run as fast. And you get tired after a while. I've been doing it for 53 years and I think that's long enough.

Spencer Tracy

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!

More often than not, a patch will actually do more damage than good if you roll it out too quickly without testing it first.

(Money managers) expect the Fed to stop raising rates before short-term rates inflict any significant damage to economic growth.

Steve Buyer

My great fear is that future presidents will now flaunt the law in a more egregious manner ... and that's how they'll defend impeachments in the future, ... Damage was done.

My favorite one that made me go 'wow' was the Notre Dame game when he shook off a tackle, hit the hole, jumped over the safety and took it to the house. That was wild.

No one was hurt, thank God, ... Some of their houses have structural damage though.

Obviously they're trying to repair that reputation. But since their reputation has been so damaged in the aftermarket, it's unlikely they are going to fill the lost orders with replacement tire sales.

Graeme Souness

Given the history of hamstrings here we're not going to take a risk if we felt it was going to damage it further.

Frank Pallone

Given the damage that just one oil spill could do to a coastal community, it seems to me that undoing the moratorium is just not worth it,

From what I've heard, they feel like they should have played a more 'worthy' opponent. Let's just say that some of their players, like Michael Robinson, said they wanted somebody ranked higher like maybe a Notre Dame or something like that.

I don't' think we've seen any sign here that there is an urgency to risk damaging the pace of the upturn. Why rush, why panic?

I don't think we've ever printed anything that really did any damage to someone.

Bill Frist

If accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks,

Simon Cowell

I find Paula patronizing. It's as simple as that. Paula is more damaging than I am to these contestants because a lot of people just shouldn't be singing for a living.

Melissa Rosenberg

I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic, and I don't find that as interesting as one who's really damaged and flawed and has post-traumatic stress disorder.

Hugh Laurie

I find it preposterous. I can see in some ways I am playing a sexy character. The idea of a damaged genius is an interesting, intriguing character, but it has nothing to do with me . . . I think whoever is playing this role would be in the position I am now.

I can think of no place in Washington in which more damage had taken place than there.

I have everything Notre Dame. If Notre Dame had underwear, I'd probably be wearing it.

I have everything Notre Dame, ... If Notre Dame had underwear, I'd probably be wearing it.

Aamir Khan

I don?t know about the technicalities involved in raising the height of the dam. What I do know is that farmers have been displaced from their land and they have lost their livelihood. Till the people who have already been displaced by the dam are not rehabilitated, the height of the dam should not be raised.

I did not want to damage public broadcasting's image with controversy.

I don't give a damn what they do. My players' lives are more important than any damned football game.

John Tortorella

I don't give a damn about the Leafs. We're not going to look over our shoulder.

I don't feel like there's been damage done to me for the Olympics because I'm not going to get five gold medals.

Alex Rodriguez

I don't know what it was. I couldn't see the damn thing. He had us all talking to ourselves, and nothing that was said was helpful.

I don't know yet whether he's turning a corner. He's a pretty resilient fellow, so now I think he gets it. But I think a lot of damage has been done to people's view of government and that's not the greatest thing to have presided over.

Alan Cumming

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

Edward Young

Live now; be damn'd hereafter.

Courtney Love

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

Oscar Levant

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Edna O'Brien

My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.