Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his name.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

Todd Howard

Our most ambitious project ever is finally done. We're excited to get the game into everyone's hands and let them experience it for themselves. We hope they enjoy it. I think it's our best game yet.

Todd Howard

Our most ambitious project ever is finally done.

William Butler Yeats

Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns,Amid the rustle of his planted hills,Life overflows without ambitious pains;And rains down life until the basin spills,And mounts more dizzy high the more it rainsAs though to choose whatever shape it wills. . . .

Doug McCuistion

Spirit and Opportunity are approaching targets that a year ago seemed well out of reach. Their successes strengthen NASA's commitment to a vision with the ambitious targets of returning samples from Mars and sending human explorers to Mars.

Bill Bryson

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Terry Brown

I will bring new vision and ideas on ways to help the freshman class be successful and unite as a whole. I want to be class president because I am hungry - hungry in a way that RDH won't fill. I am hungry to see the class of 2009 reach its full potential as one of the largest and most ambitious classes in school history and truly make a difference in our campus community.

Charles Cooper

It is a matter of enormous pride to see two of our colleagues become Supreme Court justices. The Reagan administration was very deliberate in trying to promote bright, ambitious young conservatives. And this is in many respects the fulfillment of that effort.

Peter Lewis

Regardless of its geographic origin, people quickly began to notice that the pox traveled from one person to another. They sometimes blamed transmission on common and morally innocuous practices - drinking from a common cup, kissing friends in church, following a syphilitic comrade on the latrine.

William Jenkins

Regionalism presented some obstacles in the past, ... But the boundaries are beginning to disappear and we have this wonderful, intellectual synergism.

Diana Aviv

Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating when they were teens.

Bill Daly

Our partnership with NASN represents a significant step by the league to re-establish its relationship with its existing European-based fans, as well as begin the process of developing new ones.

Brendan Gilfillan

Our park system is a vital system that needs to be preserved but to be sure in the long run that we have the resources to preserve it ... we have to exert fiscal restraint and begin fixing our chronic budget shortfalls.

Walter Pater

Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the flame more eager and devouring.

Jerry York

Patrick had a very productive career here at BC and we wish him all the best as he begins his professional career.

Nicholas Burns

Part of the purpose of my visit to Delhi this week is to work with the Indian government on a plan that would separate the civil and military nuclear states of India over the coming years, ... Once that plan has been clearly enunciated and once it has been committed to by the Indian government and we begin to see its implementation, it will be a short time before the U.S. Congress enacts the necessary legislative changes to bring this into being, and that will be a welcome moment, indeed.

Fran Foley

Part of the plan from the beginning was to take pressure off the draft. The plan is coming together.

Tony Shaver

Part of (the improvement) is understanding shot selection. We've defined shot selection as much as we can for the players and the team. They understand that and now they are playing with more freedom.

David Novak

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

Joe Wilcox

Lifestyle is changing, with greater emphasis on context. It used to be that location defined work and home life. That no longer applies. Even people that work in an office sometimes take work at home.

Bruce Cockburn

I think if I really put my mind to it I probably did think I would be, but under what conditions, ... I expect to be doing this until I drop or become incapacitated. I don't make any more defined plans than that.

Cindy Hockenberry

It all comes down to whether you're defined as a trader or an investor. There's so much misinformation out there on the distinction, because the IRS hasn't really issued definitive guidelines on it.

Samuel Wilson

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Carmen Ejogo

Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.

Richard Lazarus

John is conservative in his political beliefs. He is somebody, though, who has not defined his life driven by his politics or driven by his ideology.

Lee Evans

I'm a lot more confident, ... I think more so this year, my role is defined and I know what they expect of me.

Erin McKean

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Werner Herzog

I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.

Erin McKean

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

Martin H. Fischer

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Harold Bloom

I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.

Melanie Rawn

I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.

Marvin Emerson

When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.

Joey Santiago

I just found the word 'Pixies' in a dictionary and it sounded like rock 'n' roll.

Jack Lynch

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

Sandra Anderson

Part of it is due to lack of rainfall.

Brian Ainsworth

(Starter) Ike (Martinez) was getting tired. He was losing velocity on his stuff. So right now we only have the two pitchers due to all the injuries.

Nita Lowey

Stand up, delink paying the UN dues from family planning. Don't let this issue be hijacked by an extremist group in the Republican party, ... Late Edition.

Roger Cursley

Some of the sectors that have gone so far like miners and the oil stocks are due to come back a little, and it doesn't take much in those big sectors to take the index down.

David Briggs

Our pattern has been a tough month, followed by a good one, and it looks like we're due for a good one.

Sigve Brekke

Our sales and profit should grow due to higher subscribers this year.

Damien Newton

Our roads and streets are getting less safe. A lot of it's due to reckless driving, and we should be reversing that trend by having stricter enforcement.

Donn Walker

Our understanding was that this was an emergency landing due to engine trouble.

Danny Smith

Robinson is due for a major revival. We have to provide a reliable source for people.

John Tesh

Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.

Charles Churchill

Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.

Bill Cowher

Sports Town: A Look at the Famous Sports Pages of the Post-Gazette.

Julie Nelson

That was his famous saying, ... He would never let them leave feeling like they had failed.

Andy Roddick

That's the weird part for me, ... Being famous never feels normal. I don't know if it will ever become normal.

Vic Peters

That says something in itself. It's still one of the most famous bonspiels in the world.

David Baum

It isn't about how famous you are or how much money you have.

Marvin Oliver's

I was very fortunate. You hear the names of entertainers, famous people who lose their lives not getting a kidney.

Gore Vidal

I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.

Bhagavad Gita

One's inferior natural work is better than superior unnatural work. One who does the work ordained by one's inherent nature incurs no sin.

Elbert Hubbard

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Aristotle

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

Rowan Atkinson

I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did.

Victor Munoz

On paper we are inferior to Real and to say anything else would be ridiculous.

Alexander Crummell

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

Alfred Adler

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Alvin Ailey

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Carl Jung

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Abraham Lincoln

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

George M. Cohan

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Carolyn Wells

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Indira Gandhi

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

Henry David Thoreau

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Archibald Cox

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

Vanessa Mae

But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.

Barton Gellman

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

Richard Cobden

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

James Blankenship

We wanted to come out and win the second half. That is an old cliche, but sometimes you've got to resort to that. And that's where we were at halftime.

Jerry Jones

The development could be virtually anything, from a five- star resort to a vacation-club development.

Walt Harris

Our special teams is the most respected part of our team.

Howard Rubenstein

out of respect we will not be doing anything for the moment.

Paul DePodesta

out of respect for what he's done here.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

out of respect for the will of the people.

Ron Anderson

Out of respect for Jerry, I can't say anything more.

George Bataille

Respect is really only a devious route taken by violence.

James Howell

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Carl Sagan

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

E. M. Forster

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

David Bailey

My paintings are rubbish.

Anton Chekhov

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish that is their strength.

A. N. Wilson

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

Alan Shearer

It was a tremendous turnaround because we were rubbish in first half.

Eugene O'Neill

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

Kingsley Amis

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Morley Safer

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

Emile Zola

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

Jules Verne

The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.

Vidya Balan

It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

Andy Stanley

To understand why, submit and apply.

Darryl Stallworth

I submit to you that it is a no-brainer. By the victim's own admission, it was a robbery.

Kit Williams

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

Angela Ruggiero

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

Ato Boldon

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.

Carl Lewis

By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation,

George Bernard Shaw

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

Burn Gorman

I had a great time doing Torchwood, I really did.

Plato

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

Leonard Cohen

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

Mel Brooks

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Rosanne Cash

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.