Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Sathya Baba

Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday.

Bill Cosby

In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

Bill Cosby

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Carrie Mae Weems

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

Sachin Tendulkar

I was just relaxing and spending time with the family. Everyone was together and that?s how a birthday should be.

Robin Oakley

Jean-Marie Le Pen was like a man who just had six birthdays in one day.

Keith Bowman

The... acquisition of the Birthdays chain of stores is compounding what are without doubt the most challenging trading conditions the group has seen in years.

Gloria Davis

(That weekend) is my birthday weekend. One of my staff reminded me this morning. I've just been so focused on Decatur and Dodge City, I forgot about it.

George Carey

People have described me as a ''management bishop'' but I say to my critics, ''Jesus was a management expert too.''

Mayor Baptiste

Our goal had been to find all seven people, but I have to rely on the experts to tell me when they have done all they can do.

Erica Abbett

Our gas experts on site that day conducted a thorough investigation on our system. Through these investigations, there was no indication that the leak was occurring outside.

Kathleen Tierney

We need a panel of qualified experts that is knowledgeable and objective and has all the investigative and subpoena powers necessary,

Carl Rogers

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

Peter Goldmark

I went to the government to seek help from our counterterrorism experts, ... The counterterrorism officials then in the White House refused to give us any help.

Mayco Villafana

It is a significant hardening of the infrastructure. It is a recognition that - from everything the experts are saying - that the forecasts are for more intense storm seasons, (which) has made us rethink what we need to do.

Bill Collins

It has been a great year so far. It's been a real joy to see how our students have benefited from these experts in their fields.

Merrill Goozner

It is ludicrous that the FDA could not find highly qualified experts in these fields who did not have ties to the manufacturer.

Johnny Damon

Regardless of the reaction, I felt the fans wanted to see that.

Dan Fellman

Releasing select sequences of Superman Returns in IMAX 3D marks a groundbreaking moment in movies. This film is going to give fans an opportunity to be immersed in a major live-action motion picture like never before.

John DeMarco

Parker was so overpowering, and so good on his feet, he could take you down and pin you all in one move. It was different than what everyone else was doing, and the fans wanted to see him.

Neal Schon

Our original fans really had a hard time. But then we gained a whole slew of brand-new fans that outweighed the initial fans.

Gerard Way

Surrounding myself with fans makes me feel like I'm not going throgh it alone.

Bill Furlong

Steelers' fans are rabid about posters. They're selling for $24. Seahawks posters are more in the $14 range.

George Steinbrenner

Our team played hard, but we let our fans down. We will do better.

Chris Gratton

Our sport's regrouping here after the lockout and heading into the Olympics on a positive note with getting some fans back. Obviously, this is news that you don't want to see.

Mikael Silvestre

Our fans will have to be present in numbers on Saturday,

Larry Fischer

People may have to look for their favorite booth, but it will be there,

Michael Mayer

'Rigoletto' has long been one of my favorite operas, and it was on my short list way back when I first talked to Peter Gelb. I started thinking about what I could bring to this masterpiece, which has been seen all over the world for so many years.

Johnny Ramone

'Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.

John Legend

I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.

Andy Hill

Jason was probably the favorite to win this tournament. It felt great to avenge my loss to him. After that match, I knew I could win here.

Kyle Cook

That was probably one of my favorite questions.

Lorena Ochoa

It is my favorite tournament. I have a lot of friends here and my relatives come to watch me from Mexico.

Eve

'Lip Lock' is a play on words. It sounds flirty and fun. Also, my lips are one of my favorite features. Also, it's like, literally locking the game down with my words because I'm a lyricist.

Phil Jackson

I still think we have a good chance, ... I still feel that we're the odds-on favorite to be the team of destiny.

Ron Cowen

I don't share your optimism. We can talk about this for 19 hours, because I get pretty passionate about it.

William Butler Yeats

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Gary Bettman

He was a splendid athlete, a passionate player and someone who never hesitated to speak his mind.

Kris Benson

He was very passionate about anything that he did.

Mike Eggl

Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue.

Deepak Chopra

Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with.

Dave Ramsey

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .

Albert Einstein

I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.

Lois Lowry

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

Nell Leyshon

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.

Irish Proverb

Youth sheds many a skin.The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Annie Dillard

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Judd Nelson

Death is not my best subject.

J. R. Moehringer

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

Hannah Arendt

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Rosalind Wiseman

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Glenn Close

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness

Dan Mclaughlin

It's probably the most broached topic we have at our town meetings.

Joe Gibbs

It's going to be a big topic of discussion.

Herman Melville

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.

Mike Leinbach

I'm here to tell you that it really is truly better.

Herbie Hancock

I was trying to make something truly collaborative,

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Albert Schweitzer

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Chris Hemsworth

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

H. Hunt

We are now well and truly in the post-Maui era.

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.