Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gray

Regardless of whether a major hurricane makes landfall this year, it is inevitable that we will see hurricane-spawned destruction in coming years on a scale many, many times greater than we have in the past.

John Stroger

Refugees are those people coming from foreign countries.

Phil Flynn

Refineries are squeezing out every gallon of gasoline possible, and they?re doing a good job of it. The problem is, it?s coming at the expense of the other products like heating oil.

Source Unknown

Reincarnation: People coming back to life at quitting time.

Joe Vaverchak

Previously I don?t think we won two doubles matches in any of our matches. So, today was a little stepping stone with that, especially with the one team coming back from a set down.

Liza Kelly

Oregon does a lot of traveling, so they make a big deal about coming back east and they also have a number of eastern teams come out and play them. They actually had Hopkins come out and play them in Hawaii and all the girls were like, 'We wanna go to Hawaii.' But they definitely still get a lot of good opponents out there, so it's very similar.

Bobby Moresco

Paul and I tried to write from a place that was real and honest. Maybe the issue of race isn't the same as it was, but it's still here. We tried to dig into the soul and find the place where it was coming from.

Shari Walling

Patrick didn't let the bronchitis he is coming off of slow him down. He's a very tough competitor and he made sure we scored the points we needed to win the meet.

Joan Heller

Patients coming out panic stricken are spreading the contamination. They're gonna run. They're scared and hurt and want to get away.

Joseph Towle

went publicly and conveyed this material to the lawyers. At this point the seal of confession is not in play.

Joe Kalinowski

I think the worst of the confession season is over.

Gavin Newsom

I am disappointed but I confess I'm not particularly surprised,

Jerry Ray

He (James Earl Ray) said he wouldn't confess to anything he didn't do,

Hamish Bowles

There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

Abraham Lincoln

It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the Offended power, to confess our national sins, and pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Lee Siegel

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

Robert Udell

He's a child. Thirteen-year-olds are more susceptible to a false confession than a 40-year-old.

Sue Kidd

I grew up in a small town in Georgia, and I must confess that I was mining my memories of that small town. I can vividly see a lot of the scenery in terms of my own place.

Julie Daum

Some have made more money than they expected. Some have been merged out of a job. Some have been as successful as they could have imagined and feel it's time to move to the next phase of their lives.

Romesh Gunesekera

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Jose Ramos

I thought I had made it. I never imagined I would be here marching.

Kim Martin

I have always imagined that I am Jim Craig.

Joaquin Phoenix

I was an actor because the work was rewarding. I never imagined that it would all lead to this moment.

Charlie Williams

He was very well-respected as a major league ump, but I always imagined it had to be tough for a young African-American to work his way through the minor leagues in the '70s,' Reed said.

Karen Knight

This was not something that was expected. We never imagined we'd be working with this population.

Jenn Lyon

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.

Blake Mycoskie

I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.

Kenneth Starr

He was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.

Luis Federico Leloir

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

P. J. O'Rourke

As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

Doris Lessing

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

Tim Hunt

Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.

Shuji Nakamura

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

Alfred Bea

The $500,000 is the top prize in that game.

Aristotle

Those who act receive the prizes.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.

Marcus Aurelius

To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Winning prizes is always a pleasure, and especially these because they come from your colleagues.

Andre Agassi

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

David Hockney

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Evan Hirsche

We're talking about a prized wildlife refuge that's been effectively turned into a toxic dump.

Christine Parker

We'll have thousands of prizes to give away.

Victor Chayet

Recent generations didn't receive telegrams and didn't know you could send them.

Benjamin Franklin

Receive before you write, but write before you pay.

Kelly Downard

I think the recommendation will probably be received favorably. We don't have one.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

Sen. Nass

I think it will receive an even more overwhelming reception in the Senate.

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

Harold Williams

I was going through various hypothetical situations: What if we receive a stolen object? What if it turns out one of our dealers say someone like Symes turns out to be a fence?

Richard Kolko

If we receive a request we will assist.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.