Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Brown

Sure, of course. My boys know I'm famous. They see me on the TV but they'd rather watch 'The Simpsons.' But I'm definitely a cool father. I take them to the zoo and the beach and the countryside and to buy them sneakers. I play soccer with them. I just taught them how to play chess.

Scott Paxson

Sure, I wish I was with my family. But I'm not going to complain about being on a beach when it's 80 degrees.

William Daley

Someone said he should smile more in the practice session. On the walk on the beach with a number of (advisers) they had specific ideas on issues they thought their counterparts in communities would respond to.

Willie Snead

Our football program is honored to represent Palm Beach County and the state of Florida. We look forward to bringing 'Raider Nation' football to South Carolina.

Rick Wright

Our vision is that the service providers at the beach will become ambassadors for downtown businesses. There will be no effort to contract with service providers that directly compete with downtown businesses.

Larry Fishman

People who stopped at the gates of the Casino before now can traverse through, and when they get to the Asbury side, see a vibrant, lively, beach community.

Behati Prinsloo

The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I'm away working.

Becca Fitzpatrick

We need a ride. We're stranded." "We still have two legs, leftie and rightie. Mine are in the mood for exercise. They feel like a nice long walk--ARE YOU CRAZY?" she shrieked. I was standing with the tip of the beach umbrella aimed at the driver's-side window. "What?" I said. "We have to get in.

Barry Pepper

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

Reed Tuckson

Regardless of who you are or what group you're in, there is a significant gap between the care you deserve and the care you receive.

Tony Robichaux

Regardless of what happens Tuesday (tonight), we're not going to carry it into the weekend. When this one's over, we'll immediately start thinking about and getting ready for the weekend.

Peter Schmidt

Regardless of the quality or sophistication of rivals, the 207 will be another successful car and it will be the top selling car in the segment.

Vince Carter

Regardless of our seeding, as long as we're playing well and rolling into the playoffs, that's what we care about. We're just looking at whoever we play, we have to be prepared.

Vitali Klitschko

Recently I have been fighting more often with injuries than with my opponents. It's hard to retire from this sport, but I want to finish my career at the summit and leave the way open for my successors.

Tim Griffin

Record-high fuel costs, industry overcapacity, and the growth of low-cost carriers and the fares they are able to offer are negatively impacting the financial performance of many of the flights we currently operate,

Greg Mason

Reggie has just had a remarkable career and continues to give us a solid offensive presence that makes us a lot better.

Walter Miller

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

Henry Johnson

Previous winners have come from all walks of life in our community, and they all had one thing in common, the uncommon way they cared about our community.

Paul Konerko

Really, you can split that thing five ways. Those guys were unbelievable.

Bret Meuli

Our record should have been flip-flopped. There was an inning in four or five games where we lost games. If we could have had five innings back, we would have made the playoffs. The playoffs are our goal.

Eric Etchison

Our offense got complacent. We got up by four or five runs and the offense just went stagnant.

Kenichi Chizuka

Our original outlook was that we are looking to win five medals. Talking with the various federations, we might get two or three more.

Stan Smith

Our (offensive) line is amazing. If the line gets off and gives the back five yards, it opens up a lot of things. I can't stress enough how well they do.

Steve Roach

People have been saying that for five or six years. You can only put these things off for so long and then the day comes when your realize you're in serious danger.

Peter Lynch

People have been looking for recessions for the last five years,

Leslie Peterson

People need the help now. Easily, I could give out five times what I give out.

Martha Stewart

People make jokes about making lemonade. I actually like lemons. These are my first lemons in five months,

Becca Fitzpatrick

I swear to you, Nora Grey, on this day, from now and forever, to give myself to you. I am yours. My love, my body, my soul—I place in your possession and protection.” He held out the ring, a single offering, a binding promise. ~ Patch + Nora

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Ayn Rand

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Dave Reichert

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

Dean Ornish

Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.

Corrie Ten Boom

Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

Conan O'Brien

Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of the escaped billionaire drug lord, El Chapo. Mexico said they'll get the money by borrowing it from El Chapo.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Jack Warner

I still want to get (sophomore) Leah Kincaid regionally qualified in the long jump, and I would like to get the (400-meter relay) team regionally qualified.

Elizabeth Dole

go for the most qualified people, but there's not going to be a litmus test.

James Garner

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

Dr. Manniko

This year she has qualified for the Olympics.

E. O. Wilson

Marv is a very qualified individual, and I don't know whether that will take place or not.

Pat Buchanan

There's no way this woman is qualified for the United States Supreme Court,

Jack Ma

Don't hire the most qualified, hire the craziest

Michael Zolensky

By this week, more than 200 samples will be circulating. Everyone who wants one, and who is qualified to do the analysis, will have one.

Tom Johnson

They're very well qualified to talk about what they're going to talk about.

Carl Jung

Gone surfing. Be back soon. -D

Alana Blanchard

Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.

Brian May

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

Brandon Cruz

I get to surf every day.

Aubrey Plaza

I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

Hal Joseph

We are just scratching the surface right now.

Dan Millman

Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf

Gary Hume

The surface is all you get of me.

Deborah Fallows

This takes Web surfing into a different category. It is a destination in of itself.

Bill Shorten

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

Bill Crawford

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

C. S. Lewis

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

Carl Rogers

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Tsuneo Watanabe

Imagine, a 32-year-old youngster teaching an 80-year-old something. Do I want him to come to the Giants? Yes, I want him. I want him to be our manager.

Charles Kettering

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time...

Charles Darwin

...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.

Charles Babbage

Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it.

Blaise Pascal

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Carrie Chapman Catt

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

Charles Darwin

...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

Blaise Pascal

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

Chris Evert

Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

C. S. Lewis

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

Alain Badiou

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Brian Littrell

In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.

Brian Michael Bendis

If you like Powers, you'll love The Victories!

Tim Anderson

I think that the stock's probably washed out for a while,

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

Imelda May

I wash my face and put moisturiser on; I've never had a facial, and I don't get my hair or my nails done. I just do it all myself.

Linus Roache

I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes.

Randy Pausch

I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

Susan Brooks

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

Frank Richard Stockton

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.