Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marie Miller

People have long been hoping to find a carved stone monument from this period of the Maya.

Judy Dufault

It depends on the rarity and who carved it.

Roy Greenslade

It hasn't got a proper foothold here yet -- citizen journalism hasn't carved out a niche for itself like in the United States.

Alan Reed

I come from a family of painters. My dad Ken is still a working artist. His dad used to paint as a hobby, and my great grandfather carved ships' figureheads. I discovered quite early on I had talent, but like all abilities it needed work and dedication.

Sally Drucker

He carved so many of them that the house used to look like a Cracker Barrel.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.

George Sutherland

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time

Walter Lippmann

I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, "Put not your trust in princes." Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

Roger Germann

She's been a pioneer because she hasn't played the woman card. She's stuck to her guns and carved a proven track record.

John Caudwell

I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.

Robert Fisk

Epitaph on a Tyrant" is about Stalin, but is perfect for Saddam Hussein.

Robert Silverberg

A few years ago, I actually did come up with a mocking sort of epitaph for myself. It's this: 'Here lies Robert Silverberg. He spent most of his life in the future. Now he's in the past.'

Mark Twain

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

Hedy Lamarr

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

Richard Jefferson

Our offense failed us. A lot of the decision-making.

Michael Riedel

People involved in 'Mamma Mia!' think Wynn is trashing their show because he tried -- and failed -- to get it himself.

Rocky Nichols

State policy and state law failed the victims of the Kaufman House.

Ron Rivera

That was a tough thing, too. They went after the young guy. It was a tough play and he failed as well.

Harry Reid

I think it's right and proper for the Moderator to speak out on matters of great public interest. Too often in the recent past Moderators have failed to do so.

William White

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

Kenny Guinn

I wish that we could have done this four years ago, so if it failed I would be totally responsible for it,

John Montgomery

I don't feel like the Hanover voters rejected us last time. I feel like I failed in communicating with them.

Tony Leon

He could do worse than to go to Delmas to see how his own government has failed its own people in its own backyard.

Barbara Miller

It is a very technical (thing) that they are trained to do. And doing so, the suspect kept moving his vehicle back and forth hitting them. At that time, shots were fired.

Michael Osterman

just doing text messaging back and forth will go a long way to satisfy market demand.

Meir Soloveichik

Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud.

Jonathon Modica

That would mean a lot. These past three or four weeks we've been going back and forth trying to get ourselves at. 500 and then we'd lose, then get back to. 500 and then lose again. I think it would do a lot for us.

Larry White

I think it's too much. It's an inconvenience. It takes most of your money now to get back and forth to work. There's no mass transit out there to go back and forth to work you have to drive.

Teresa Lamb

It is hard to lose a game this way. The girls played their hearts out. It was a back and forth game and I was very proud of them.

Ken Joyce

I went back and forth with it in my head for a while before I made the decision.

Larry Rothschild

I went back and forth in my mind a lot,

Rand Paul

I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

Alan Foreman

Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week.

Anne Mitchell

Parking limits handicap accessibility to your buses. This is especially true in Old Town.

Shinzo Abe

Surveys like this are also conducted by other countries. We should handle this calmly under international law.

Louis Hinnant

Surprised? Maybe. But not upset. This is the NCAA tournament. You don't get to hand pick where you go or who your opponent will be. For us, it's a privilege to be in Utah. It's a new experience.

Chad Campbell

Sure, it's going to be a long day, but I think it will be more mental than physical. We don't have to run around there tomorrow. So, while it's going to be tough walking around this course, we'll handle it.

Kyle Deines

Stay back, stay tall, throw your hands at it and try to take it to right field.

Dick Bennett

Stanford used their inside people well. The big kid, we were simply unable to handle him.

Michael Brown

Some of these kids think this is a game. They somehow got their hands on a weapon. They think they are playing Pac-Man or something and shooting at people.

Jose Vicente

Some low-ranking officers were passing information to the Pentagon . . . handing over secrets of the state.

David Hockney

Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.

Michael Rosen

On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.

Lord Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Ayn Rand

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

Ayn Rand

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Ayn Rand

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Ayn Rand

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Todd Swindall

Some of them (the evacuees) are in a little better shape than others. Some of them lost every single thing they had.

David Harris

Some of us lost our houses, so the whole team moved into the school. We're tightly-knit, we're like a family,

Ashleigh Cole

Rivalry or no rivalry, I think we would have lost this game.

Camille Little

Remembering that we lost to Maryland before was pressure on us.

Girish Tyagi

Physicians themselves haven't lost anything. As long as revenue is there, they're getting paid.

Benjamin Franklin

Many a Meal is lost for want of meat.

Connie Williams

(We need) supplies, something to sleep on. We lost everything. We used to live in New Orleans.

Jimmy Williams

We never lost our swagger. When we do what we have to do, nobody can play with us. That's how we feel.

C. S. Lewis

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

Eduardo Perez

That's the way it goes. You've got to have a short term memory in this game.

Manny Lawson

Getting a shutout here is going to be a memory for the rest of my life.

Adam Loewen

I don't remember what he said. I've got a short-term memory.

Natalie Williams

Hopefully, we'll be making (a memory) in the next three weeks. That would be a perfect way to end a career.

Doug Noble

He is mostly the same old person, but he does have memory loss.

Frank Robinson

He has that mentality, ... You have to have a short memory as a closer.

Paul Burrell

Whatever I write about her (Diana) is in memory of her and it is the truth.

Joan Felt

My father's memory is impaired, but mostly he's just an old man.

Bill Gates

No one will ever need more then 640K Memory

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.

Bill Vaughan

Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.

Sam Worthington

I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.

Doug Anderson

He was instrumental in saving as many ash trees as he could, and just a terrific guy.

Ed Markey

The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Edward Snowden

There's no saving me.

Ian Mckellen

'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.

Eduardo Galeano

I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.

Edward Abbey

The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

Edward Abbey

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

Brian Martin

We'll be able to stretch it (fuel) out a little.

Joshua Bell

I think it's really important to always kind of stretch your boundaries and your limits and get out of your comfort zone. And for me, that's very important.

Lewis Carroll

He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.

Geno Auriemma

She's stretching it out. She does whatever she has to do.

Brian O'Driscoll

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

Raymond Kelly

I don't stretch enough. I know I should do it more, and I'd like to do yoga, but I just don't have time.

Nancy Brown

What it's going to do is stretch us thin, personnel-wise.

Doris Lessing

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

Catherynne M. Valente

I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that I haven't done before.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.