Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bethenny Frankel

Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?

Bette Davis

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

Philip Howard

Jane Grigson is the nearest thing that we have on this side of the great green bouillabaisse to M F K Fisher. with learning and wit that are rarely devoted to such a banausic subject as stuffing food down one's cake hole.

Kevin Rogers

Last year, I think it was the icing on the cake just to get to NTN. This year the expectations are higher.

Harry Browne

I won't try to describe the various ways I tried to get the cake plate back to her without being confronted with a request for my judgment of her cake. Suffice to say that her well-intentioned favor interfered with my own plans.

Nate McMillan

I think he's worked hard, but he needs to play. The thing is, that's not a league where you just go and it's a cake walk. For him, there's going to be guys down there challenging him because he's up here, he has a position, and they want to come up here.

Anne Donovan

The only thing that matters tonight, and I mean this sincerely, is that we just played a great defensive effort for 40 minutes. It's a great win for that reason. The icing on the cake is 100.

Dave Roberts

He wants to make the tax cuts permanent that reduces income to the government while we're in war which increases expenses.. I don't know how you can have your cake and eat it to.

Anita David

We had a white cake with a pink Canadian maple leaf in the middle of the cake.

Hubert Vedrine

Resorting to force is not desirable in the current situation, and would not solve the problems we are confronted with.

Scott Kaupin

Manchester would be hiring a very qualified town manager for their town. I think Manchester would be a perfect position for him. It's a similar town the size of Enfield; probably many of the same issues that he would be confronted with day to day.

John le Carre

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

Nick Hornby

I'm a liberal, unrepentantly so, but I often wonder and fear what would happen if I were confronted by any of my liberal beliefs, by somebody who actually who wanted to put them into practice.

Daunte Culpepper

I look forward to meeting my accusers in a court of law, so they can be confronted with this lie. In the end, the truth will come out and I will be vindicated.

Wayne Ayers

I think their desired stance is to stand pat for an extended period of time rather than cut rates, unless they are confronted with an external shock to the global financial system.

Stephen Kinzer

No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.

Oliver North

What I am saying to you, and you know what I'm talking about, what they are confronted with,

Michael Leunig

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

Hugh Christian

People living on some of the islands of the Pacific don't describe much lightning in their language.

Scott Podsednik

Our pitching has set the tone for us from day one. They don't have words to describe what our starting staff has gone out and done this series.

Malcolm Turnbull

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

Prince Frederik

It is a tremendous joy, ... It is impossible to describe that feeling for me and my wife, who is doing fine.

C.J. Woollum

Jeremy was incredibly sensational. There's no other way to describe it. He was phenomenal.

Charles Dickens

Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon.

Christopher Shays

I think it's pretty astonishing that you said you didn't have the resources necessary to do your job and then to describe coordination in such a feeble way.

Dale Barnes

It is hard to really describe what this night means because it has been so long since we had a true home game. Everything went well and we had a good crowd. It was a great opening night.

Shairon Martis

I was thinking I had to keep the fastball low to get as many groundballs as possible. I used fastballs and sliders. ... I feel very proud of having thrown a no-hitter, and I really don't have any other words to describe it.

Christoph Rieger

Recent numbers have been very favorable for euro-zone growth. We may see a small grind higher in yields.

Larry Fischer

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

Ralph Hake

Our sales growth in the quarter reflected the Amana acquisition and strong sales of higher-margin major appliances, ... That favorable sales mix improved operating income.

Lynn Frederick

Our girls knew what they had to do tonight. We did ourselves a favor tonight.

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.

Tasia Scolinos

pleased that the judge ruled in favor of the government in four out of five claims.

Gary Bauer

I might be in favor of bipartisanship if that means to get some conservatives in the Cabinet,

Catullus

The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

Bob Boughner

He interfered with me, but I did give it a little extra. I won't be winning an Oscar, put it that way.

Tim Stewart

Wireless, in my opinion, was not reliable; it could be interfered with by anything.

Li Hongzhi

What I am doing is teaching people to be kind and benevolent, ... It is not politically motivated. I have never interfered with state laws and decrees, nor have I been involved in politics.

Beck

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Joanna Lumley

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

Charles Schumer

I think my constituents' view is very simple -- no rush to judgment, don't be hasty, don't do anything too quick.

Greg Mitchell

I have learned how people think about themselves and others. Law and rules prevent proper judgment!

Tom Wright

He was put into positions that tested very quickly his style and his judgment,

Lawrence Eagleburger

Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel,

Michael Chertoff

My judgment was that we had a battlefield commander, ... To go down there, I would have been doing Mike Brown's job.

Bible Bible

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

Barbara Sher

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

Phil Gordon

Without hesitation, not only would we step quickly to the plate to participate, but for any request to make changes, we will make those changes,

Jeff Flowers

We just couldn't get it done at the plate today.

Rusty Wallace

When I took the plate off, I went 'Holy (smoke), you don't want to do this,'

Tracey Emin

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Xiaodong Song

We're talking about 50,000 times that of plate tectonic motion.

Jerry Angelo

We've got as lot of plates in the air.

Tom McKenna

He stepped up to the plate and took this like a man.

Keith Baird

It's not an earthquake, it's more of a plate shift,

Randy Johnson

Everything I threw over the plate they hit.

Bill Steele

Our trustees are not employee-friendly. We request you appoint new trustees who are employee-friendly.

Barbara Jones

He cooperated with our request to come out and SWAT was there and we took him into custody.

Ariel Sharon

I don't think it would be suitable (to request aid) at this time so we will wait a while.

Daniel Joseph

He had many requests to have someone end his life.

Kathleen Battle

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

Justin Long

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

Larry Pope

We get contribution requests all the time, ... We're not going to give $10 here and $100 there. We want to make a difference.

Kim Brown

The only request is they make it healthy.

Kenneth Blackwell

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

Stephen Hadley

Suffice to say they didn't come to me. They didn't come to the NSC,

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.

Sidney Crosby

I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Vernell Brown

He's got some big ones. If I was a coach, no way I'd have tried that.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Stefano Gabbana

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Keith McKeown

All the various discussions are going on with all the different parties.

Roger Williams

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

Rudy Gay

That will be a ways away. Whenever that happens, it happens. Right now it's just me and my team.

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Jesse Berger

For me the play is about preservation and transformation as ways of storytelling.

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.