Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold Larwood

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

Harold H. Greene

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

Harold H. Greene

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

Harold Evans

I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.

Gwen John

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

Gwen Ifill

We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years

Gwen Ifill

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

Gwendolyn Brooks

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

Gwen Stefani

I had done the No Doubt record Push and Shove, and that was a real challenge for me: I think after the giving birth twice, going on multiple tours, all the stuff that I had done, I really got quite burned out after that.

Gwyneth Paltrow

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Jessica Seinfeld made a toast. She turned to the assembled guests. 'And you are all so lucky to be part of Gwyneth's world. Because this is the real deal. And she's invited all of you good people in here. I would never do that.'

Gregg Allman

Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

Gregg Allman

It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies...

Gregg Easterbrook

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

Jeff Nelson

I never realized how much I would get. But it's good. One day it will stop and you won't get anything.

I had a lot going for me. I had a step back. But I'm back, and now I realize what's more valuable to me.

I just realized I can't be Brett Hull at 30 or 25, ... I was Brett Hull at 41.

Robert Esche

I have to work hard, obviously. If you're realistic and you look at the big picture, that is it. It's nothing derogatory.

Boris Trajkovski

I really think that a ceasefire is a realistic possibility,

He sound more subdued than triumphant, more realistic than grandiose.

Jeff Francoeur

I don't think I'll realize what's going on until after the season, ... Then I can sit back and look at it and say, 'Wow, what a ride it's been.'

I didn't even realize that there is a possibility ... I would be very sad to see it go.

Gibril Wilson

I didn't realize that the punt was short. It was unfortunate. ... You've got to make your own breaks, so it's all on us.

Kurt Warner

I didn't realize that, the little things you learn.

Kristin Gore

I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.

I didn't realize it was that big of a run. We got some buckets in transition and I think we wore them down a little bit.

I didn't realize it was six years. That's pretty brutal.

I didn't realize it's been that long. If we can do that, it would be pretty special.

Dan Campbell

I didn't realize how young our team was, ... We're all pretty much on an even plane.

Indira Gandhi

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Ingmar Bergman

I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

Ingmar Bergman

I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities.

Jack L. Chalker

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.