Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daphne Gottlieb

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

Frank McCourt

I'd just go into a room in my memory and just look around and start seeing things that I'd forgotten, like the alphabet on the blackboard in Irish, which we had to chant every day for months and months and months. I remember the Gaelic script and things like that. And this awful, putrid lavatory that we used outside." ()

Graham Nelson

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!

John Williams

I don't think we're going to get into the Greek alphabet this year. The good news is it's still 56 days before it starts.

Steve Farhood

From the inception of the alphabet organizations, they have been very, very selfish. It's never been about what's good for boxing. It's always been about what's good for them, specifically what's good for them financially.

Josh Pais

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.

Dr. Seuss

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!

Virginia Postrel

For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms?

Mark McKinnon

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

Michael Ratner

It is an outrage that the U.S. government put him before a tribunal that is essentially a court of conviction not of justice.

Karen Russell

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world, I guess. I feel a different kind of conviction about my choices. I feel much more insecure and awkward in the world, somehow, than I do when I'm writing.

Joe Biden

I think if I had this evidence before a jury, I could get a conviction,

Kofi Annan

he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

Myles Munroe

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

Mark Mellman

Kerry had an opportunity in the debates to show the American people his strength and conviction and to lay out his plans, and people have responded very positively to that. So we see trends nationally moving in our direction and trends in battleground states moving towards us as well.

William M. Thackeray

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do -- a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil.

Richard Cripps

There are no signs here that give you the impression that the selling pressure has bottomed. There's just not a lot of conviction out there.

William Cotton

I wouldn't dare speculate why. I know he's a good thinker and he's a man of conviction.

Phil Savage

Reggie has a lot of talent. In my opinion, with Reggie Bush, more could be less and less could be more.

Sathya Baba

Peace is shore less ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world.

Katsuhiko Machida

Survival today means innovating and doing things that no one else does. This is a lesson not only for Sharp but for all of Japan.

Drew Frank

That'd be nice. Maybe I should. As I teach, I don't keep lesson plans from one year to the next and I don't keep anything from one season to the next.

Stephen M. Walt

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Andy Newman

Remember every storm is different. The better prepared you are, the less of an inconvenience it's going to be.

Louis Benevides

Plano West is just an up-and-coming team. They've come a long way in less than a season.

Darrell Nichols

I think there's less tolerance for repeat problems. I think they are now going to be a little more strict with what's going on.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

James Davis

Our profits would increase, gosh, a lot, ... Of course, we?d lower our prices.

Sgt. Delaney

I wish that the numbers were lower for this neighborhood.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

Ronald Allen

I would think that (61/2 years) would be the lower limit. After all, Ryan is more responsible for this than Fawell is.

Laurie Berger

Basically, the Web presents travel vendors with an opportunity to sell their product at a lower cost. If they can sell it at a lower cost, they can also pass on those savings to the consumer.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Mark Begich

If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Paul Taylor

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

Allen Iverson

I want to win a ring. I want to have the opportunity to get back to the Finals. All that matters is us getting into the playoffs, because then, anything can happen.

Idris Jala

It allows you to raise matters in an independent and unbiased manner.

Alonzo Jackson

I don't even think like that, ... Why wouldn't you want me? I went out there and did what I had to do today. That's all that really matters to me right now.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Gilbert Arenas

I'm an All-Star in my mind, and I'm an All-Star to this city, my peers and this organization. So that's all that matters to me.

John Agius

There are one or two matters I wish to take up with them.

Bryan Whitman

He was relieved for matters of personal conduct.

Pete Carroll

What matters to me is we accomplished everything we could possibly accomplish, ... No one will ever be able to take that away from us no matter how the polls go.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Sophie Hannah

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Janine Turner

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

John Donne

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

Tao Lin

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

Charles Olson

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Carl Sandburg

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency

Claude Julien

Jose made some big saves in the third to keep us in the game.

Lauren Kellin

It all starts with Amy. She doesn't get any credit. She makes all the big saves and makes us look good.

Kevin Klette

He made some big saves for us when it counted. He's been doing that all year for us.

Mike Strauss

There is no better way to put it other than it saves lives.

Ashley Tisdale

I use Kerastase Oleo-Relax when I get out of the shower. It saves my hair. Actually, I've been doing this Brazilian treatment to my hair. It's a lifesaver; I don't even use a straightener anymore.

Henrik Lundqvist

It was one of the most important saves of my career.

Marty Turco

There's nothing really that I'd do differently. But you just have to make those saves at that time -- especially short-handed.

Dominik Jakubek

I am shaking right now. Our team battled all day. I made some big saves, and the team made some big saves when I couldn't. We stuck with it, and I am ecstatic.

William Hedgcock Webster

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

Edmond Rostand

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

Cal Cochran

It's just another game. The stakes don't change.

George Herbert

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.

R. C. Sproul

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

Madeleine L'Engle

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

Fred Thompson

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

Werner Heisenberg

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

Alain de Botton

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.

Allison Tolman

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

Debi Mazar

I'm a girl who's curvy, and I'm Latvian, but I don't have hips, and I have a tiny waist.

Muhammad Yunus

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

Alexander McCall Smith

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

David Foster Wallace

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

Amos Oz

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

Amy Lee

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.