Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dryden

Welcome as kindly showers to the long parched earth.

We have contacted Mike this morning and will meet with him early next week. If he provides us with evidence we will investigate fully.

Robert Rodriguez

We're still writing the script to see if there's enough for a third one, or if we're just going to do a second one, ... We're supposed to shoot in January, but we might do it earlier if we keep working at this clip.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

Brian Wilson

Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am.

There also have been studies done that showed people recover faster and are discharged earlier in green buildings.

Graham Spanier

There are a lot of people who are retiring earlier and have a lot of energy and are not ready to stop working,

There are many people here who are just outraged. I've been getting requests to have him removed from the settlement on an early basis.

There are many good players and pretty tough first-round matches. Things will be hard for me, as early as my first match.

David McCallum

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

David Henry Hwang

Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there.

Donella Meadows

There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.

Hugh Hefner

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

Ed O'Neill

Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.

Elaine Pagels

I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out.

Without the (stimulus package) this would not have happened. They front-loaded everything into the first half and the money is running out. It is too early to say whether the economy is back on track, particularly in the private sector.

Roger Enrico

With a much sharper focus on the marketplace, we're generating healthy volume gains, better returns and higher earnings growth,

Dogen

There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The program is very much at an early stage of development, where it is right now ... quite dismantled in fact. It's all in boxes, ... They were far away from having an industrial-scale enrichment capability.

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

Ben Quayle

And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem.

Barry Bonds

I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.

Andrew Lo

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

Bill O'Reilly

The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.

We have to be somewhere in 2011 and we could be somewhere as early as 2008. There is a temporary place to play in Norfolk, which is something we could look at strongly.

William McKinley

We have seen some really big winners this week. Today was no different. With one-day gains on the earnings picks from four to six percent and momentum picks up as much as eighteen percent, I am quite sure the users were happy.

Jan Egeland

This will help energize further the struggle to reach the earthquake stricken communities in the Himalayas.

This was a huge win for us. Earlier in the year we hadn't played these guys very well. We are treating every game like it's a playoff game right now and each point is important.

This was a huge match for us. Getting league wins early in the season means we're moving in the right direction.

There is only one thing to do for a man who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it

The only thing we're disappointed in is we left too many on. We scored early with three runs, and we were able to make it hold up. We felt like we should have had five or six runs instead of three.

David Sullivan

The players need to look at themselves and stand up and be counted. Some people aren't playing to their maximum potential. Unfortunately some of them don't see it like that. Some of them aren't earning their money.

The phones have been ringing off the hook with people wanting to get married, some as early as tomorrow, ... I still maintain it's legal and the right thing to do.