Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Swift

We have some bumps in the road, like code enforcement, but we're taking steps to fix that directly. Basically, I think the current council is doing a pretty good job and most residents think that is the case, too.

Mo Forte

We have had a couple of kids banged up, we have some bumps and bruises. When you are not in pads you are not going to have the bumps and bruises you have when you put the pads on.

Darren Sharper

We have had a couple of bumps in a row right now, but I'm still thinking extremely positive about what we can do as a team. There's always a chance we can switch things around.

Lori Wilde

For all its ups and downs and challenges, I love writing. We only grow through adversity, so I welcome the difficulties, knowing bumps in the road are my greatest teachers.

Ray Tanner

We're hitting a few bumps in the road. But we're working our way out.

Bruce Springsteen

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

James Whitcomb Riley

O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

Scott Gaffney

We've got guys who are hungry and selfless, and we've got the right mix. We're going to grow up a lot this season. We'll take our fair share of bumps in the road, but we're going to get better.

Roy H. Williams

Mike still needs more balls, more catches, more hits. You don't get hit at all in practice and he hasn't gotten hit much in games. You've got to get used to the bumps and bruises on your wrists, your legs.

Justin McNaull

The real downside of this hysteria is that people hear rumors about outages in other towns and rush out to gas up, thereby increasing the likelihood of gas lines and outages in their own town.

Jerry Frament

The only downside that I see is possibly a low appraisal.

Brian Moody

The only downside is that they're not as big as SUVs and can't go off road as much.

Mike McGrath

The only downside is that your yard will smell like an Italian restaurant for a few hours. If that's a downside.

Kerry Collins

We started out like gangbusters. We were really clicking, but as what happens in every game, there are ups and downs and ebbs and flows.

Kerry Collins

We started out like gangbusters, ... We were really clicking, but as what happens in every game, there are ups and downs and ebbs and flows.

Penn Jillette

Well, see, there's a downside to that, too,

Annika Sorenstam

She didn't hit greens, but her short game helped her. She had a lot of up and downs to keep the score going. And she missed a lot of putts early on, kind of like I did, but in the end she was pretty solid.

Theresa Walker

She had her ups and downs during those days.

Michael Specter

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Lorne Calvert

We've always been proud Saskatoonians and Saskatchewanians, ... There really are so many things to celebrate. It's the greatest place in the world.

Brian Tracy

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Al Davis

We've got labor peace and it's intelligent. It makes sense. We do have the greatest league in the world.

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

Jack McConnell

Sir Tom is one of today's greatest Scots." ()

Mary Wittenberg

Monday is the start of two races. One of the races will be over in 2? hours. The other race to be the world's greatest marathoner won't be over for 18 months.

Justin Gatlin

Maurice is one of the greatest competitors in the world. However this is a new era, the young guys are coming.

Aristotle

The greatest victory is over self.

Carol Leifer

Growing up, it was always, 'If you buy kosher meat, they're killed humanely.' But I've seen so many horrible videos. What we thought was humane 100 years ago is not humane anymore. The ways animals suffer, I just couldn't be a part of it anymore.

Carlos Ghosn

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

Kevin Lewis

We want her to grow with some knowledge of her culture.

Aaron Sorkin

I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

Alan Titchmarsh

I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce that, but our climate has always changed. The Romans had vineyards in Yorkshire. We're all on this bandwagon of 'Ban the 4x4 in Fulham'. Why didn't we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution? In those days you couldn't have seen across the street for all the carbon emissions and the crap coming out of the chimneys.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

David Baker

We've seen incredible growth in the past two years.

Carlos Castaneda

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Agnes Varda

I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.

Charles de Gaulle

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Charles Dickens

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Brian Cox

At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.

Brian Eno

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

David Allen

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Bob McKenzie

There are a lot of considerations, especially on a road that is as traveled as I-15.

Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Kim Cattrall

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

Jason Collins

I knew that I was choosing the road less traveled but I'm not walking it alone.

Sam Cowart

When you take thorough beatings on the road twice, that's a concern.

Craig Faulkner

We've got a really tough road but if we win those three I think we can get the No. 1 seed in the district.

Brian Hill

We've always said there's something better down the road waiting for you. It wasn't the right time or the right place.

John Adams

Since the road has been changed, that's just let everything come off the park.

Mike Koepp

We're going to have to be road warriors from here on out.

Dianna Agron

If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up.

David Suzuki

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.

Byron Katie

Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.

Jane Austen

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

Chetan Bhagat

Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.

Brett Favre

You know, I've had my ups and downs.

Brian Tracy

In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .

Bill Vaughan

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

Anthony Brown

Watching upsets and being a part of an upset are two different things.