Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynda Barry

These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.

Og Mandino

Failure is... the highway to success.

Helena Christensen

I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.

Emma Thompson

Why do we wear them? They're so painful.

John Howard

We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

That's an especially high number for a sleepy market,

Joe Thornton

That's a highlight reel goal. He's a special player.

John Mayer

That's a high felony. We want to apprehend him as soon as possible.

Paul Foster

That might mean higher potential fares for US Air.

That's a significant number of students to educate, The high school would be too small.

That's a pretty low bar. We need a higher bar.

That's a lot of excitement. It's going to be like playing in his old high school.

Exiling a rally to a remote stretch of sun-baked highway makes a mockery of the right to assemble,

He was still in the playoffs when he threw us the playbook and told us to learn it. We all had to learn a new system and that's what we wanted, because, obviously, that system is so successful at the highest level that that's what you want to learn.

Brian Doyle

He was shooting movies back in junior high school. Been doing it for years. He always had a camera.

Trevor Pryce

He's Peyton Manning , for God's sake. You're not going to make him look like a high school quarterback in one game.

Jeff Fisher

I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years - high school, college and the NFL.

To me it makes the timing of what he's done and the manner in which he's done it highly suspect.

Compaq is No. 1 in the retail segment, they're No. 1 in the high end of the business. In the small-business segment, they don't have the same market share they have elsewhere. The key for Compaq is how well they'll execute.

Application of the new system may be especially advantageous in situations of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses.

Kate Warne

Any nervousness about Cisco translates into Nortel and all other high quality technology stocks and into some of the smaller riskier ones as well.

Neil Peart

And the men who hold high placesmust be the ones who startto mold a new realitycloser to the heart.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Edward Hirsch

A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move through. You can't just start at the highest pitch and stay there, but you can in a lyric poem.

As a teen in junior high school, I was always told that I could sing. I knew then that singing and performing was what I wanted to do.

Our dividend payment makes us one of the highest yielding stocks in the industry.

People talk about stocks being relatively high in terms of the five-year averages, but it's not as rosy as those numbers suggest because the size of the economy, and therefore demand, has grown. There's still a perceived tightness in the market.

David Healy

People think highly of Henderson, but I'm sorry that Devine is leaving. He tells it like it is, and he's a known quantity.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Of course, those highways are evacuation routes. Hopefully, they're used while they're still there.

Normally this time of year we have highs in the upper 50s.

Peter Wright

After (the first set), he played pretty high quality tennis. He just couldn't hold down the match.

Margaret Spellings

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.