Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

Carlos Fuentes

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

C. S. Lewis

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew

Karl Mayer

We have seen 60 or more animals in Moss Landing Harbor near the boat launch. If fishermen are speeding out of the north harbor in the dark at 5 a.m., the likelihood of boat strikes is fairly high.

Nick Brown

We have to get the time between the identification of the individual disease outbreaks and the slaughter of infected animals down as far as we can get it and to try and get it within twenty four hours.

Susan Basford

We have no intention of sending these animals to a sanctuary. I don't know why we would. I think a sanctuary is appropriate for old, sick, needy elephants.

Larry Lewis

When you see a moose cross the road, you tend to tunnel vision on that animal and don?t see the one that?s right behind it.

Ron Lind

We want precise land locations, where an animal was shot.

Alan Keyes

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

Karl Mayer

We have seen 60 or more animals in Moss Landing Harbor near the boat launch. If fishermen are speeding out of the north harbor in the dark at 5 a.m., the likelihood of boat strikes is fairly high.

Nick Brown

We have to get the time between the identification of the individual disease outbreaks and the slaughter of infected animals down as far as we can get it and to try and get it within twenty four hours.

Susan Basford

We have no intention of sending these animals to a sanctuary. I don't know why we would. I think a sanctuary is appropriate for old, sick, needy elephants.

Mark Ryan

We've seen them take nuts off of bolts. We've seen them open doors and walk out doors. We've seen them climb six-foot chain-link fences. These animals are probably ... one of the most challenging to work with in an environment like this,

Jim Campbell

We've seen good results in animals, but that could fail in humans. We're very hopeful here.

Teri Schweiss

The extent of the problem is the sheer numbers of animals that go through the animal shelter and the number of feral cats around town.

Diane Sauve

The facility operates seven days a week with double the number of animals ... the shelter that was built to house.

Zsuzsanna Jakab

There is a little more risk for those who have directly worked with the infected animals, so our goal must be to further minimize that risk.

Charles Patterson

When it was obvious that nobody was interested in a book about the 'Nazi' way we treat animals,

Scott Thaler

We have to go further and further out on a limb in order to keep today's audience entertained because they're not excited anymore about seeing a fast car chase on San Francisco streets. For a Coca-Cola and box of popcorn, it isn't worth getting somebody killed, and if at the end of the movie it says 'in memoriam to,' then you haven't properly done your job.

Terry Zwigoff

I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things like 'masterpiece,' 'spellbinding' and 'mesmerizing.' I mean, they're doing that with my film, but I don't want to use those blurbs. Critical reviews aren't worth too much anymore because just about every film can get one or two of them.

Sue Monk Kidd

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late.

Thomas Friedman

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

Elizabeth Thornton

To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

Hollie Woodard

We want the program to get better and better and better. We don't want to have any excuses anymore as to why Council Rock isn't what it used to be.

John Edgar Wideman

Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

Neneh Cherry

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.

Bonnie Williams

We want to promote the Red Cross as well as recognize the extraordinary deeds of our neighbors.

Sartaj Aziz

We have never crossed the Line of Control,

Mike Huckabee

What the Red Cross needs now more than donated goods is cash, ... This is shaping up to be one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, and it happened to our neighbors in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Kyle Beatty

The fact that it is fast moving would limit things like damage from rain fall. But the fast movement contributes higher wind speeds and means it will be fairly strong when it crosses the state.

Art Hogan

There are a lot of cross currents today. And there is talk that one of the big hedge funds is going under the waves.

Carl Tannenbaum

There are a lot of cross currents out there ... but overall the report suggests the job market is still doing pretty well.

Stephanie Scalessa

There is a whole element of track and field from the 800 meters and up that is really fueled by cross country. In those events, we weren't having much of a showing. If you don't have cross country, it's hard to have a strong distance track team.

Temple Grandin

I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

Scott Robertson

waiting until the end of the year and crossing our fingers and hoping that our students will pass.

Tove Jansson

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

John Updike

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

Caroll Spinney

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.

Charles R. Swindoll

There is only one you. God wanted you to be you. Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!

Michael Leunig

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Eliphas Levi

It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.

Phyllis Wise

Many of them have been more wonderful than we would have ever dared to hope for. I think that's what the most exciting part is - you just can't tell.

Robert Emmet

Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.

Gianfranco Fini

but have not always dared speak with such brutality.

C. S. Lewis

You die and you die and then you are beyond death.

Casey Higgins

We have a small lineup and we live and die by the 3. We weren't able to hit enough of them tonight.

John Donne

When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.

John Donne

When I died last, and, Dear, I die / As often as from thee I go, / Though it be but an hour ago, / And lovers' hours be full eternity.

Bram Stoker

Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)

Dave Barry

Eventually everyone has to die, except Elvis.

Khloe Kardashian

I was realizing, 'I work out all the time. Why can't I drop this weight?' It's really food. So I started dieting a little.

Khloe Kardashian

I think all diets are kind of weird. The word 'die' is in it.

Kim Cattrall

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

Carlos Ghosn

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

Jonathan Davis

When Family Values first started it felt like music was fresh and exciting. We want to recreate that same feeling for our fans, and offer them a full day of fun and some great music.

Joyce Kesse

We want her back. Our family is aching.

Agnes Smedley

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

Charles Dudley Warner

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Scott McKenzie

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

Wang Yuanhong

Therefore, the previous mechanism can hardly mirror the true situation.

Michael Jackson

Many organizations were initially scared of the Internet and email. Now there's hardly a workplace on the planet that doesn't have an Internet connection.

James Gleick

People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.

Seth Meyers

I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag.

Arthur Conan

I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see.

George Soros

I hardly knew the man's name, ... He really invented me. He needed me for his political purposes, so I'm a figment of his imagination.

Martha Stewart

I hardly ever go there anymore. I don't miss it.

Stephen Hawking

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason

Charles Stross

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

Darren Shan

What are you doing?" "Looking for my fangs." "We don't grow fangs you idiot!

Bill Maher

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

Billie Joe Armstrong

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

Dennis Prager

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

Brad Williams

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

Afrojack

When I started producing, I was just making music under all different names. 'Black Afro.' 'Super Grandmaster.' 'Mister Bull.' Like, the most stupid, idiotic names. 'Afrojack' was one of those idiotic names.

Bob Brenly

He sees everything. With his experience, these young pitchers would have to be idiots not to sit next to him every day and see what he sees.

Bob Golic

When I turned on the TV one day and saw he was the offensive coordinator for the Patriots, the first thing I thought was ... Charlie? Wow, maybe I should have known that since I'm in sports broadcasting. Of course, now I try to get tickets and can't, and he doesn't return phone calls.

David Almond

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

Alex Padilla

This will not be known as the Times Square of the West, ... Times Square will be known as the l.a. live of the East.

Jermaine Jackson

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

John Hull

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

Dave Taylor

We have a number of sailboats in the club, and we don't want to be known as just a powerboat club. We want sailing people, too.

Josh McDowell

My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Tom Stoppard

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Eric Swalwell

One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents.

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Jacques Santini

We have had them (Greece) observed by a member of our technical staff,

Brian Molko

Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

Jay Dillon

The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Ted Dever

When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.

Joy Harjo

I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.

Lord Shaftesbury

Tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many, and be beguiled by one.

George Will

Overcriminalization has become a national plague.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

Khaled Hosseini

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Christo

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

William Shakespeare

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Alastair Campbell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Alastair Campbell

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Susie Pelzel

They were grateful. And we were treated with royal southern hospitality.

Oscar Wilde

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

Euclid

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

Keith Giffen

He's a prig. He's royalty and he can't get over it.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Billy Joel

Why should I worry? Why should I care?There's just this street population, and I've got 'street savoir-faire'.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Travis Parker

Wherever he's at, we just got to find him.

Daunte Culpepper

I'd like to think I'd have made it wherever I went in the draft.

Tenzin Gyatso

There is an old Tibetan saying: wherever you feel at home, you are at home. If your surroundings are pleasant, you are at home.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Bill Walker

Wherever she was needed, Dee was there to help.

Tyler Ebell

Wherever our game's going to be played, we have to go out there and play. And it's going to be on ESPN, so that's going to be nice.

Jeanette Winterson

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Zachary Quinto

I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

Dhani Jones

I like to do from racing my radio control cars to doing work at the zoo to poems to the TV show. There are a lot of things that I like to involve myself with, but I have a pretty packed schedule nine times out of ten. I have a good sense of working things in at the same time so that I can get all my hobbies in line.

David Sedaris

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

Carl Sagan

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

James Wolk

I can definitely tell you what viewers can expect from Season 2 [of 'Zoo']. It picks up right where Season 1 left off - the gang facing this wall of animals charging at a car. And so, it'll be satisfying in that way. The cliffhanger in Season 1 just kind of went to black screen. It picks up right where that left off. And from there on, the stakes just continue to rise in the season, and I think it's really adrenaline-filled.

James Wolk

I'm also not an avid watcher of the show ['Walking Dead'] for no good reason. I think it's obviously a great show. I think it's a good comparison [to "Zoo"], because it is this apocalyptic world we're living in Season 2 of "Zoo."

James Wolcott

I understand the people-watching, but I've never done it where people have to race to three different shows, from here to there. I mean, the biggest zoo I ever faced was Comic Con, and Comic Con takes place in one big hangar.

Janice Hahn

Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

Jane Goodall

The voice of the natural world would be, 'could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it than when you start interfering''