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.

Michael Sullivan

Our members and our overseas colleagues now have an opportunity to proceed to trial on our claims.

Peter Kruse

People need to deal with international colleagues and if you know an individual and you can remember his face during a telephone discussion, that's a useful side effect.

Michael Lord

Our software developers need to be in touch with colleagues and communication is easier if you can see each other.

Nathan Thielman

Our colleagues at KIWAKKUKI called it the 'crash' period because it was kind of crazy.

Yasin Malik

I will need to talk to my party colleagues and the decision will be conveyed by Wednesday.

David Kennedy

Just as the search committee rallied around this selection, I'm convinced that all of our industry colleagues will also find David Rehr the right person to lead NAB.

Kristin Dierking

I thank family, friends and Dad's former colleagues in this past difficult year.

Virginia Foxx

Like the rest of my colleagues joining me today, I am strongly in support of scientific research to save and improve human life.

Woody Johnson

I think he's performing fabulously. We're not winning, but he's doing everything he can to win and I think the team is doing everything they can to win. When I'm down at league meetings and I talk to my colleagues down there, they say, 'Woody, this happens, unfortunately.

Chris Winans

Our own court filings on this matter speak for themselves.

Andrew Smith

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here. After three years of working in the Russian court system our expectations were not particularly high.

Steven Cron

Paula is eager to have her day in court and we are ready to get started.

O. Henry

Our motto is keep kids on the court and out of court.

Sean Williamson

Springdale is just so big and strong that there's no way that we could win a half court game with them. It had to be full court, and we were able to dictate the tempo with some full-court pressure.

David Vitter

Our goal is to have a full and fair debate vote in September, ... If Judge Roberts is to be confirmed, we'd like to have him on the court by the time it goes back into session Oct. 3.

Taurean Green

Our front court guys have been playing great as of late, but teams are going to start to key on them. When they get doubled, the guards are going to have to knock down some shots.

Dmitry Rogozin

Our victory was stolen from us. After a court decision, we found ourselves in a difficult situation, and it is important for us at present to strengthen our organization, rather than dwell on things past.

Stan Carpenter

Our ultimate goal, like most teams, is to make it to the state championship. We think we have a shot. We also have a lot to work on, too. We can't just walk out on the court and expect to win.

Andrei Popov

Our position as regards the restrictions imposed by the European Union remains unchanged -- these sanctions are unsubstantiated, deliberate and useless.

Gilbert Ryle

Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with deliberate abusiveness, as 'the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine'.

Juan Enriquez

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go.

Timothy Noah

If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves.

William Stone

Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.

Joanna Scott

When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.

Robert Grant

The demands of modern living are so exacting that men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely

Rick Lynch

We have a very deliberate process on how we work with those detainees,

Pete Carroll

Reggie has had a great season. He's done everything. Every play he's on the field, he's been an enormous factor.

Suzanne Marchman

Our focus right now is really just trying to make sure these kids are OK. They've suffered through an enormous ordeal.

Peter Sorensen

Removing one female lamprey isn't always a terribly valuable exercise. But to prevent a group from spawning, there is enormous payoff there.

C. S. Lewis

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

Michael Chertoff

That would be hugely, hugely difficult, and require an enormous expenditure of resources.

Ernie Accorsi

I think he's going to be a terrific quarterback, ... He hasn't even played 16 games. He's getting better all the time. He has enormous talent and poise. I'm happy this franchise will have him as their quarterback for a long time.

John Calvert

ID is making enormous progress. Is it going to happen overnight? No. Is it going to happen? Yes.

Mark Stephens

He knew this was a judgment that would be of enormous interest. So I think he's playing to people who like intrigue.

Jon Cryer

I feel like I could dominate the origami field. I think I have enormous potential in that area.

Paul Taylor

Price matters in this market. This is an increasingly price-sensitive consumer.

Bryce Fisher

Our offense is good. It's only a matter of time.

Al Groh

Our mentality is that no matter who we're playing, you'd better ready to prove yourself every week. Teams that don't have that mentality usually end up with an unpleasant result.

Nathaniel Bronner

Success is often not a matter of talent, but a matter of tenacity.

Hunter Collins

(State) is where most upsets happen. It doesn't matter who you're wrestling. It's not like other tournaments. At state, you've got to be ready to go at the first whistle of every match.

The Eagles

Our stance on the matter has not changed.

Joe Sacco

Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.

Chipper Jones

Roger isn't ever going to let up, no matter who he's playing.

Tiger Woods

Rocco is very loose. No matter whether he's shooting 80 or 60, he's still the same.

Ron Gardenhire

Right now, pride can go out the window. It's about winning. I've had his back for three years.

Becki Newton

I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

Bill Cowher

I'm their biggest fan every Sunday they go out there and play. I'm pulling for them, for the people in New Orleans and everything they're going through. If there are three or four hours that people can get away from the reality that is existing for them right now, the uncertainty, the unknown, the Saints can bring a sense of pride to them for that short period of time.

Bill Cowher

I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.

Bill Cosby

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.

Bibhu Mohapatra

I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.

Bertha von Suttner

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

C. S. Lewis

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

C. S. Lewis

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

Kate Michelman

It is a pure sham. It is sponsored and promoted by those who want to take away a woman's right to choose.

Bob Ray

I went out and really promoted it (the tournament) this year. It's our third year and we got everything together in our heads.

Patricia Edwards

If they promote this correctly, it could be huge.

Todd Rundgren

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Charles Pickering

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

Dale Groutage

Sen. (Craig) Thomas has had at least 17 years to promote that technology.

Neil Kinnock

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Marissa Moss

With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.

Douglas Brinkley

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

Rick Perlstein

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

Dan Kaiser

We had to take two schools out of the Reagan area.

Douglas Brinkley

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.

Dick Pole

He won't do that. He respects the game. He wouldn't do that.

Eric Beder

I think that Oakley in some respects does all its stuff by itself,

Michele Patenaude

It tells us that the administration respects us as professionals and that they respect our work.

Jami Attenberg

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Hank Haney

I'm not saying I teach Tiger Woods. We're old friends. He respects my views on the game, just as he respects other people's views.

David Sullivan

Everyone respects everyone else's turf and everyone realizes that sacrifices have been made.

Bill Cowher

For us to come in here and do what we did, it took a supreme effort.

Russ Feingold

should disqualify you from being on the Supreme Court.

Rand Paul

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Christine Pelosi

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Hillary Clinton

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Henry Ford

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Elizabeth Gilbert

God is an experience of supreme love.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.