Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Oswald

Recent research suggests that regularly seeing good friends in the local park will bring a greater boost to mental health than having a shiny German automobile parked outside your retirement home. My candid advice to aging Americans would be to use your hard-earned cash to invest much more in friendships than in material items.

Deborah Tannen

Part of the reason (motherly advice) bugs us as daughters is because our mothers are so powerful in our lives. They loom like giants. The reason mothers keep at it is because they're so powerless. They cannot get you to do what is so obvious to them you should do.

Peter Gregory

Surgery is an option, but the advice we have received from two leading specialists in the field is that the injury may still settle without recourse to an opera-tion,

kim booher

Start with the simple tasks in restoring a relationship. Just communicating is a good first step.

Eliot Spitzer

Restitution I have almost always believed is best handled through individual arbitration or litigation where individual investors, if they believe they have relied upon improper advice rendered by Merrill Lynch or anybody else, can file that claim, ... That is the best forum for those issues to be resolved.

Allan Hoffenblum

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse again. That's my advice to him, which I believe he will do because he's a natural optimist, ... No matter what happens on Election Night, he'll figure out a way to say 'This is fantastic.'

Jim May

People who use the system ought to have some say in decisions of that system. I think they (FAA) certainly look to us for advice and counsel, but I don't thinks we have that kind of input now.

Andrew Peters

I might ask him how his game went, but other than that we don't talk much about hockey. I ask him for advice all the time, and he asks me, but after that it's all jokes.

Rick Greenspan

I will begin to turn my attention to identifying the strongest possible candidates to serve as the next head basketball coach at IU. I will seek the advice and counsel of a great many, scour the country and eventually bring recommended candidates forward to the president.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Jennifer Wise

Our goal is to have Gregory have Fergie as a companion and have him focus more on the dog.

Ezra Taft Benson

I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions.

The Koran

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

Alan Stern

Just on a visceral level, the fact that Pluto has a whole suite of companions will make some people feel better.

Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Friedrich Muller

If a man find a prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly, he may walk with him, overcoming all dangers, happy, but considerate.

Gary Hume

One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

George Eliot

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

Mike Winters

Like any companion animal, it's a life-long commitment. It's not just something for the various holiday seasons.

Anand Sharma

Passport is a must before crossing the international border.

William Spindler

Our staff on the ground reports that a trickle of refugees are crossing the Palk Strait to India in small fishing boats, fearing an escalation in the violence.

Alan Noble

I can't relax until we give them a safe landing, wherever it is. To me that's more important than crossing the finish line.

Jeff Allen

Getting state management is a nice first down, but delisting is crossing the goal line.

W. S. Gilbert

For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and tossing about in a steamer from Harwich, / Which is something between a large bathing-machine and a very small second-class carriage.

Michael Loomis

Kids are crossing everywhere in that parking area. We need to stop the traffic and get safe lines of passage for pedestrians.

Tasnim Aslam

Because of the widespread devastation the information about crossing procedures took some time to trickle down.

Akira Sasaki

I had wanted to perform strongly and pump my fist after crossing the finish line. I feel greater than my last second-place finish because this time making it to the podium was a much more vivid target.

Karen Turner

He was going door-to-door looking for school crossing guards and went to my in-laws' house, ... They said they were too old, but told him to see me.

Bert Blyleven

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

KC Boutiette

I was waving to all my Dutch fans, because that's all that's out there.

Darby Stanchfield

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.

Gail Carriger

Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.

Guido van Rossum

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.

Bas Rutten

I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.

Lars Lagerback

I think we had a very good game, playing on this level equal with the Dutch team. It was a really good match and it could have gone either way.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

Marco Basten

The passing away of the grand old man of the training camp, the father of Dutch football, is an enormous loss for the football world.

Lenny Harris

Jeffrey said the most important thing is staying healthy, ... We already have got the horses. But when you're not healthy, you can't win. That's just the name of the game.

Melody Davidson

I was honest. I just said we were horses---.

Greg Booth

I think people feel we just sell our horses around the block. They are surprised that we sell our horses to other countries.

Tony McCoy

I think I've always used the whip in the correct way. I see marked horses every day, and it's not a pretty sight, but I've never marked a horse. Never.

Buck Showalter

I'd like to see him get back down there and get on the horse.

Danny Bonaduce

It's weird because horses kind of come and go in my life.

Jim Willis

I have a new place where I can ride my motorcycle and my horses out into the forest.

Greg Gilchrist

I think that the record, the undefeated part, horses win two in a row, three in a row, but now, you want to keep that record together. You know you are probably not going to do it, but you sure want to.

Matt Howard

He's a tough horse, he's been training very well here.