Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?

John Gonzalez

We've spread a lot of innings around. We've used nine different guys, and the roles on the staff are becoming much more defined.

B. R. Hayden

We have rockets stacking up and the storage is becoming a problem.

David Emerson

The fact that Mr. Harper has reached out to someone like me is an indication that they are becoming a middle-of-the-road party. I think I can be helpful moving in that direction.

John Thune

The fact he is doing this at the very time the Republican convention is going on tells me that his political situation is becoming very difficult, ... The Daschle campaign is very desperate right now.

Michael Marks

There is no doubt that governments are becoming much more protectionist.

Tom Watson

I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.

Stephan Pastis

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

Thomas J. Stanley

Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.

Mike Shanahan

There is no question that Troy is ready to be an offensive coordinator. At some point, Gary is going to get bogged down with the responsibilities that go with being a head coach, and he will turn it over to Troy.

Harry Connick

While local, state and federal officials were bogged down in bureaucracy, Connick flew to his native city and personally delivered water and food to survivors.

Bindi Irwin

It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.

Trent Duffy

We're not going to be bogged down. The schedule is too full for that to happen.

Robbie Williams

Because I'm no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I'm no longer bogged down by the stupid stuff that used to cripple me. I don't bruise easily any more.

Martha Beck

Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.

Wayne Johnson

He's been bogged down in the process of government and people want to see him break free. He's got to get out of Sacramento. Because he's been unable to respond, he's taking a drubbing.

Nick Hornby

I think English literature has gotten really bogged down over the last few years.

Ed Miller

We got bogged down at the 30 too many times,

Pierre Berbizier

We want to play with the same rights of the other team, we cannot play with a handicap.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have said consistently that General Motors cannot shrink itself to prosperity. In fact, shrinking General Motors only exacerbates its problems.

David Murangari

Whenever there is a power cut, the whole shift is distorted and time is lost. Time cannot be reversed.

Joe Nickel

When you say, 'I don't know,' you cannot then draw a conclusion. That's faulty logic.

Danial Shapiro

When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern dance.' I cannot get so worked up. It's important to me, I love doing it, but for God's sake, it's just modern dance.

Tom Segev

We were always told we cannot use them, we cannot publish them because it would help Holocaust deniers. Now suddenly these papers are being released to fight the Holocaust deniers.

James Morris

We have put financial systems in place to help ensure people do not starve if donations are not immediately forthcoming. But these internal loans cannot be repeated if the international community does not step in to replenish funds.

Atal Vajpayee

We have proved that India is neither a proliferation threat nor an exporter of sensitive nuclear or missile technology. This cannot be said to be true of all parties to the NPT,

Brigham Young

We have a work to do just as important in its sphere as the Savior's work was in its sphere. Our fathers cannot be made perfect without us; we cannot be made perfect without them. They have done their work and now sleep. We are now called upon to do ours; which is to be the greatest work man ever performed on the earth.

Gordon Brown

We have said very clearly that not only is the rebate justified, but if in the national interest it was necessary to do so we would have to use our veto.

Charles Prince

We have said pretty clearly that our focus is on extending the franchise transactions.

Red Berenson

We have to have a good game tomorrow. When the smoke clears on Sunday, we'll see what our situation is. But if we don't, I don't know that we deserve any.

Marty Heires

We have no intention of doing what they seem to be trying to prevent. Right in our application we state very clearly we have no intention of opening branches.

John Emery

We have never looked at exiting that asset. I want to be perfectly clear on that.

Ed Wade

We want our fans to be excited. We're giving them a lot of reason to be excited. But we clearly understand that you play the game on the field. That's what it's all about.

John Terry

We were a lot of points in front and we've dropped a few - we lost to Fulham and a couple of results didn't go our way. But we are still fighting. We are seven points clear and any team would take that at the end of the season.

John Devine

We have product and distribution plans to fit each of those brands, ... I know there's a lot of speculation about what we're doing and that's fine. But I want to be clear we do not have plans to drop any brands.

Gareth Davis

We've spoken to Steve at length and made it very clear that we would like him to stay. It's an ongoing process, and my expectation is that it will be a few days before we know one way or the other.

Carlos Ghosn

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Rob Fields

We want people to know we take this very seriously. This isn't for us to go out there and play. It's a lifestyle, a commitment you've got to make.

Charlie Daniels

Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.

Charles Taylor

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Daryl Gross

We have a young team and I think they've shown me they have a level of commitment and desire to compete. It's really exciting.

Delores Killette

The people of New Orleans have our commitment to restore service to pre- hurricane levels as quickly as we can.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Peter McCormick

The people in the party wanted to give him a graceful exit and he wouldn't let them." ()

Fred Klein

Several passing motorists tried to warn him by honking their horns and flashing their lights, ... And he continued, exit after exit.

Eliot Engel

Setting a timetable for exit in Iraq is a mistake, but so is the Administration refusing to level with the American people about the situation there.

Lynn Jurich

On Sundays, I like to plan how I want to exit the week and what are the key things I need to get done that week. I list them, and then I do check-ins on them each morning.

Matthew Wilkins

I don't think we will be seeing Hector Ruiz exit stage left imminently.

Max Cleland

We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.

Sue Curtis

We had no findings, no management letter and no exit items.

April Masini

Having an exit strategy can be a social saver.... The key is keeping your little white lie plausible.

Sheila Garrard

I get the feeling they may have regretted that exit and they've probably been looking for a good reason to get back in with an eye on sector consolidation.

Jonathan Overpeck

What we didn't predict is that it would be so dramatic.

Martin Freeman

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

Dick Jauron

I don't think it makes any sense for me to predict where anything's going. We all know things are not predictable.

Sergei Fedorov

I can't really predict anything. I'd like to think day-to-day.

Arthur Miller

I couldn't have predicted that a work like 'Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it has

Karen Thomas

You can never really predict who comes in or what they will need.

Marc Lipsitch

We can't predict what a virus we've never seen will do.

Guy Caruso

We're not predicting that we're just saying that's possible.

Denis Villeneuve

The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Brian Dawkins

The questions you have are the things we just have to go play through,

Scott Anderson

The questions will be, who can have at that resource?

Aaron Miles

There are a lot of questions around here.

Charles de Gaulle

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something

Dhirubhai Ambani

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

Dave Barry

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

David Sze

When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.

Erica Jong

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Lou Jiwei

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

Alan Watts

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

Carol Kane

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

Carol Vorderman

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

Carol Vorderman

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

Carlos Queiroz

Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him.

Carlos Mesa

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

Carlos Delgado

I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.

Carlos Beltran

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

Carl Crawford

Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Stephen Colletti

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Chetan Bhagat

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Richard Caborn

We have had the pantomime. Let's now have the serious stuff.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.