Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Strahan

The fact that we're in the playoffs doesn't mean anything to us, to be honest with you. Hopefully, we can accomplish our goal of going into the playoffs on a winning note.

Michael Parenti

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

Michael Ondaatje

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

Michael Ondaatje

When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

Michael Ondaatje

Death means you are in the third person.

If the message has been needed or something isn't getting done right we would reinforce it and that's what we did. Just because it's provincials doesn't mean that's going to change. So we've done that before.

Eric Zorn

I just feel excited, I mean that is about all I can say, what can you do with that kind of money.

I'm more worried about the wins. The records don't really mean nothing to me. I just want to win.

Annika Sorenstam

I'm more than pleased, ... I feel great. I wouldn't use the word relieved, but this means so much to me to win this championship.

If no violation is reported at the end of the day, this means the procedure was satisfactory and no violations were detected.

Kofi Annan

If member states are going to get a meaningful outcome, there will need to be more give and take.

Bob Arum

I have never seen a period of time when the heavyweight championship meant so little. It's clear.

Kenny Rogers

I have not made a decision. I have to talk to the ones who mean the most to me and then decide.

The findings of the report mean that Shabbir can resume bowling.

Neal Stephenson

"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique."

Neal Stephenson

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

Neal Stephenson

Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed, and their genetic legacy was erased from the universe forever, but a few found some way to survive and to propagate.

Neal Shusterman

The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn to some common experience, or maybe we're pulled in by the people we care about. Our friends, our families can drag us onto coasters and Tilt-A-Whirls that are really meant for them. But in the end, no matter whose rides we find ourselves on, the experience is all our own.

Neal Shusterman

I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.

Neal Shusterman

What can fingerprints mean when they’re not necessarily yours?

Neal Shusterman

Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen." I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?

Neal Shusterman

Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.

Neal Shusterman

We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.

Neale Donald Walsch

You, and you alone, decide what something means to you. Yet this is a decision that most people make based upon past feelings, experiences, understandings, or future fears. None of this has anything to do with what is going on right here, right now.

Neale Donald Walsch

It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.

Neale Donald Walsch

When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.

Neale Donald Walsch

Enthusiasm means everything. Not just a little. Everything. If you are involved in some kind of project right now, or launching any personal endeavor, your enthusiasm (or lack of it) will directly determine how successful this undertaking will be. If you are not excited at the core of your being by it, drop it right now. If you are excited at the core of your being, demonstrate that in everything you think and say and do.

Neale Donald Walsch

Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means.

Nate Parker

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

Nate Berkus

'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

Nate Berkus

You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

Nancy Reagan

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

Nancy Reagan

Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.