Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Eric Haxthausen

Our research shows that most drivers of new large pick-ups use them for commuting and personal trips.

Phil Jackson

Our particular team right now is not a team that does well resting on any kind of sense of accomplishment. We still have to drive ourselves and drive the team forward.

Todd Martin

part of it is driven by low interest rates, part of it is stimulation by governments to get people to start spending more.

Lawrence Eagles

Part of the recovery overnight (in the price of oil) may have been due to anti-Israeli protests in Jordan, where 30,000 protestors had to be driven back from the boarder by security forces,

Brandon Curtis

Passengers will know that if there is a problem on the bus, the driver isn't disconnected from help.

Michael Hara

Our objective is to drive towards 60 percent. We will try to make that this year.

Charissa McAfee

Our number one recommendation is to have a plan before you go out. Designate a driver who doesn't drink. Use cabs.

Sam Keller

Our offense is so good, that's all I can say. We can drive down on anybody.

Lawrence Summers

Our national savings rate is still far too low, driven by a personal savings rate that is not where it should be,

Jon Gruden

I was really impressed with the strides that he made and the poise that he showed after a horrific start, a rough start. He showed me a lot. He showed the whole league a lot.

Louise Nurding

I would be upset if I was on the 'worst dressed'. It would make me think, 'Surely I haven't done anything that horrific - have I?'

David Parkin

He's had a horrific run with injury, and now he's missing more games. I don't know whether that's too smart in your developmental years.

Deval Patrick

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.

John Riddle

To me, this is a film that really stands out. It's a very powerful film with horrific scenes from the camps.

William Cataldo

This was a horrific crime. The torture took place over a period of several hours.

Sean Greene

We'll be looking into traffic studies and the planning of the roadway. This was a horrific incident.

Cameron Mathison

Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

Wayne Bennett

He's one of the toughest I've been involved with. He's played under some horrific injuries.

Paul Charles

Our market share has risen to record levels on the most competitive routes in Europe.

Chris Dwyer

Stable water levels are really important for management of vegetation.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Billy Corgan

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Bill Sienkiewicz

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Ned Yost

I think we all were (impressed). There's some reason why he has jumped three levels in a year and a half. You could see why today.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Melina Kennedy

We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.

Jay Nixon

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

Randall Upshaw

It's surprising to me that the prosecutor would even think about charging (Etheridge) in this case.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Chelsea Cain

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Daniel Craig

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Vladimir Putin

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Hannah More

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...

Jose Maldonado

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.

Argus Hamilton

The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

Argus Hamilton

Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Kia Wright

We don't want to ever feel like that again, like we did after the West Virginia game.

Dave Grohl

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

Albert Bushnell Hart

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

E. M. Forster

Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.

Donald Glover

My swag is always capital and live in north Virginia.

Corey Reynolds

I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.

Bill Cosby

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

Carrie Chapman Catt

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

Carrie Fisher

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair,

Bertrand Russell

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

Heidi Klum

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Charles Barron

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

Billy Boyd

I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.

Ayn Rand

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Ben Goldacre

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

John Allen

That worked out so well, and reservations were so popular.

Adam Giles

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

Joan Chen

I worked a year in L.A. That was... a treat.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Reggie Lewis

I worked a lot on my ball-handling and outside shooting during the off season.

Maria Sharapova

I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

Brandon Sing

It couldn't have worked out any better than it did today.

David Peterson

It couldn't have worked out any better than it did,

Matt Kuchar

I'd like to see something done about the long putters and belly putters. But I go back and forth on that. I've actually worked with a belly putter.