Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Ezra Taft Benson

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

Brian Kavanagh

The past winners of our World Racing Championships awards have truly reflected the winning spirit to support the growth of great international competition. As our member organizations look forward, we must provide a sharper focus on world rankings and recognition that can be widely tracked and accepted by the entire racing world.

Brittany Snow

At age 12, I was on 'Guiding Light,' and I wanted to be accepted by these adults I was working with. I started with the Eat Right for Your Type diet. A friend who was a little older was doing it. I have a perfectionist personality, so I wanted to do the best job I could. I was not eating anything it said not to.

Chuck Berry

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

Rebel Wilson

I went to a Christian high school, so I went under my middle name. I don't think they would have accepted me in the school - 'This is Rebel'... so I have two middle names, Melanie Elizabeth, and I went under those. But Rebel's way cooler.

Edmund White

If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

Pope Shenouda III

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

C. S. Forester

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

Warren Bennis

The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

Wen Jiabao

Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without basic research as the wellspring and driving force. But, in this world of ours, often because of material gains and immediate interests, it is easy to neglect basic research. This should be avoided.

Tom Headley

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has a number of Braddock markers in Allegheny and Fayette counties, but none in Westmoreland. We applied for a PAHMC marker but were turned down. So we put up our own marker on Main Street in Mt. Pleasant, which we dedicated.

Des Browne

The ability to send applications by post allows fraudsters to apply in false or stolen identities without fear of arrest and to make multiple applications in the hope of getting one through. It allows the possibility of passports being applied for with the photographs of people who are outside the U.K. and seeking to enter illegally.

Eric Topol

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

C. S. Forester

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

Colin Trevorrow

I applied everything that I could muster creatively to this mission to find a way to create a new 'Jurassic Park' movie for a new generation.

Alex Steffen

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

Zac Goldsmith

The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

Walter Brennan

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

Wendy Cope

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Billy Graham

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Zubin Mehta

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

Constance Marie

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

Constance Marie

I'm very supportive of women getting to a place in life when it's right for them to start a family. It's important for women to take their time to come into their own. I only want to say we might not have as much time as we think we have.

Chris Bohjalian

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

Rebecca Romijn

I've become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermodel, beautiful girlfriend roles. I mean, playing somebody who's perfect holds no allure for me, whatsoever. It's just boring.

Lorrie Moore

Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all of your socially handicapped characters with them. Tell him his old girlfriend is in all of your stories and then watch how funny he can be, see what a really great sense of humor he can have.

Alan Rickman

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

Chace Crawford

I'm not not looking for a girlfriend - but I'm not particularly looking for a girlfriend, either. I'm not knocking having a relationship; at the end of the day, you want to share with someone. But I just look at it as, I have the rest of my life to do that. I'm not in any rush.

Caitlin Rose

Love is like a promise. Once you break it.. it doesn't come back unless you really fight for it.

Bo Derek

I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.

Billy Joel

Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.

Bernie Mac

My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'

Benedict Cumberbatch

I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.

Viktor Vekselberg

My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

Karin Slaughter

I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

Lauren Beukes

I moved to New York for love, and it was a disaster, in 2000. And then I had American friends who had lived in South Africa, and they were in Chicago. They said, 'Come and spend some time with us, and we'll help you get over it.'

Paul Wolfowitz

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

Joe Crawford

We had fun. We played the right way, and we lived up to our potential.

Sophia Loren

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

Luke Nosek

If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.

Chanel Iman

When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling.

Jason Molina

I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We're tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.

Zac Goldsmith

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

Charlie Cox

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

Catherynne M. Valente

Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.

Dawn Powell

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.

Ben Whishaw

I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Death devours all lovely things.

Aidan Gillen

Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m enchanted by your beauty, my lady. Welcome aboard. You make a most welcome addition to our acerbic company…a lovely-smelling one, too. (Vik)

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.

Diego Rivera

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

Chelsea Handler

It always freaks me out when I go to a sushi place and there's a Mexican.

Carlos Fuentes

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

John Willard

My plate was overflowing, especially with the Mexican chips. Some of the things I didn't like. It was three things I didn't like.

Jorge Ramos

Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848.

Liza Davis

Mexican immigration authorities notified us .Ê.Ê. that they were planning on going there, and subsequently we had people at the scene who were told it was being closed.

Liza Davis

Mexican immigration authorities notified us . . . that they were planning on going there, and subsequently we had people at the scene who were told it was being closed.

Eva Longoria

Anytime there is Mexican food around, you can bet I’ll be eating it,

Christian Camargo

There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

Oscar Martinez

We must work with Mexico as a partner, be respectful to Mexico and not treat them as a subordinate.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico.

Vicente Fox

These humanitarian missions are a reflection of the sentiments of solidarity of the people of Mexico with the U.S. population,

Bruce Beresford

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I am such a vacation girl. I have little places that I go to frequently! If I am not too busy on a weekend, I try to go someplace like Mexico or Manzanillo or something like that.

Daymond Langkow

Our little one doesn't really like to travel, so going to Mexico would be a little tough. It'll be nice to have some time off.

Stephen Kinzer

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

Robert Brown

Mexico has done some record-setting ... opium and marijuana production eradication,

Yotam Ottolenghi

Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.

Mark Rosenbaum

Thousands of students are placed on uneven playing fields,

Bill Steele

Unlike soap or deodorant, which can be placed by marketing, shaving is very much performance.

Austin Boyce

We didn't think it would end like this. We thought we would have placed for sure this year.

Adam Rita

We slapped him on (the list) when he was placed on suspension. But we understand he's going to the NFL.

Robert A. Schuller

I think family-run ministries are fabulous, but they have to be placed in proper governance.

Comte de Lautreamont

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Norman MacCaig

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Roger McGough

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Douglas Coupland

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

Wilfred Owen

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Octavio Paz

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Phoebe Snow

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Steven Sinofsky

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

Mike Hooper

When and if there is something to say in relation to the drug testing program we will do so.

Curtis Jackson

I'll have long, straight hair, like down to my back, when I go to Heaven. And I'm not even going to work out, but I'll be in shape. It's a whole new program up there.

Dick Cheney

It's a tougher program for tougher customers.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Bud Selig

We have the toughest program now in American sports, ... and I'm proud of that.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Dana Gioia

We wanted to make sure the program could work as broadly as possible, so we wanted to test it in more challenging markets.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Val McDermid

I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

Charlie Chaplin

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

Jeff Sessions

Let me tell you why I wouldn't vote for Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

Chris Hedges

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

Kathleen Norris

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Seth Rogen

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

Ken Follett

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Reggie Jackson

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

Lou Holtz

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

Bethany Mota

I remember when I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to come over and we would give each other blindfolded makeovers, which turned out interestingly to say the least!

Chauncey Billups

We didn't play that great, but we got it done. Sixty wins, that sounds good.

Ahna O'Reilly

When you're six years old, you do not appreciate that you're living in the Alps. My sisters and I, all we wanted was to go to Disneyland.

Whitney Hite

There are as many as six teams that can win it. We see us as one of those teams. It's wide open.

Olivia Newton-John

I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.

Randy Quisenberry

Yeah, we're together another time. I'm really surprised because I didn't think they'd let us stay with six (teams).

Allen Smith

We're not talking about something that will be in and out of here in six hours.

John Danowski

We are now the hunted. It wasn't like this six weeks ago.

Bryan Clay

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Dan Wakefield

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Baltasar Gracian

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Oscar Wilde

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Chris Faidley

I know how to say 'faster' and 'defend' in Bosnian, Spanish and Creole.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Cobi Jones

Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Frank Gehrke

It's a lot better than it would have been two weeks ago.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.