Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

We stand firmly behind Tom DeLay and ask that he be afforded the same rights as every other American -- that is innocent until proven otherwise,

Sandy Johnson

With Ms. Truesdale's current CD album, 'I know Him' on Nashville's CIS-Christian label, Jeanie Kay has brought forth an array of inspirational music sure to please any listener, ... Her soulful voice and her emotional, believable musical delivery reaches audiences in a direct manner not often afforded many singers.

Darcy Tucker

We're not afforded the luxury of looking past any games.

Jon Meacham

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Chris Stiepock

There are many athletes out there who would covet an X Games gold over an Olympic gold. I've heard it come from athletes mouths - and I'm sure their agents are standing next to them smirking - but when you win an X Games medal, you are instantly afforded a reputation that perhaps you aren't afforded in the Olympics.

Source Unknown

When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.

Tom Reilly

Many of the closeted people ... do use the Internet, because of the anonymity afforded by e-mail address. We're hoping to reach people who may not hear all the fuss.

Marsha Blackburn

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

Masayoshi Son

Softbank's Internet-focused strategy in recent years has served its shareholders well, ... We believe we have just scratched the surface of the opportunities afforded by the Internet.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Rob Morosi

The other two ramps which will be closed are from the southbound Lodge to north and southbound Telegraph.

Jeff Lyons

We started out a little flat, then kind of closed the gap, but they just kept coming at us with relentless pressure. We cut it back and they just roared right back They're just a very good team.

Herbie Hancock

When you try to define a purity as being something that's closed and limited, you're not talking about the music that I play called jazz.

Nate Parker

We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

P. J. Harvey

When we closed there was a general feeling of shock and dismay. But people will be pleased with what has happened. I'm looking forward to watching this sleeping giant wake up.

David Robertson

We're going to have it closed for at least this week and into the weekend.

Rick Maddalena

With the help of users, we've closed a lot of the redundant roads in the area.

Sam Keller

We're just so close. Look at the games we lost - we were right there. We should have closed out the LSU game, we had SC neutralized, and Oregon we just got outplayed, and we played flat. We shouldn't have lost all three of them - that's the thing that stands out. There's such a very fine line between being 6-0 and 3-3.

Edward Ruscha

Work takes different forms. I can spend two or three days without completing anything, and it's choppy: it's filled with all kinds of irrationalities and stupid actions. I have some notion, and then I drop it because something else comes along. I'm forever darting from one side of the room to the other.

Larry Wachtel

We're completing the first quarter now, but we're still getting data from the fourth quarter. This is old news. I fail to see what relevance this will have for the market today.

Mark Wiley

This program gives each family the joy of completing a complex task together as well as a means of enjoying our marine resources. We guarantee a 100 percent success rate.

Wendy Tellone

She's completing some of the projects she's been working on.

Bob Mayer

Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.

Douglas Conant

It would be counterproductive to tell people exactly what they are supposed to do and exactly how they are supposed to do it to a point where they become more concerned about your expectations than about completing their work in a quality way.

Jacques Chirac

Nobody, really nobody, will stop me from completing the mission that you have set for me,

Don Carty

Nonetheless, we look forward to completing the EC review process and then promptly obtaining final approvals from the U.S. and U.K. governments.

Beth McGraw

Nobody should consider going onto post secondary without completing the FAFSA form. And it's first come, first serve, so the money starts getting pulled out, starting Jan. 1.

Anthony Coley

New Jersey is no dumping ground. The Delaware River is to be treasured and protected, not mistreated and ignored.

Kim Brechtel

We were in Delaware for Thanksgiving weekend and needed to find a place to watch the game. You should have seen the looks on people faces when I walked into the Hooters there.

Don Parsley

We do some good work in Delaware and we have some great wrestlers. We'll able to showcase our kids to a quality audience.

Vince Trombetti

Delaware is young like us. It's pretty evenly matched, and I think the team that wants it more is the team that is going to come out on top.

Pat Clatchey

Delaware is getting a heck of a point guard and a quality young man.

Pat Kennedy

We knew Delaware would be desperate. They were struggling, and when you're struggling, teams are scary like that.

Nell Minow

In the post-Enron era, we have seen reforms from just about everybody -- from the Congress, from the (Securities and Exchange Commission) and from the stock exchanges, ... Everybody has stepped up to the plate except for the Delaware courts.

Homer

The Simpsons are going to Delaware!

Andrew Miller

I'm very upset to see it go, but I want to do this event in Delaware and specifically Wilmington. It's where I grew up, and I think it was filling a void.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Stanley

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

James Browning

The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality.

Mark Thompson

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

John Remington

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.

Marty Natalegawa

We've always been on a high state of alert. The perpetrators of the previous bombings are still very much at large and the risk is still very much with us,

Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

Gabriela Sabatini

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

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.

George Benson

If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.

Lilla Crawford

I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn't even exist.

Mike Shula

No, I couldn't have imagined that. Nor do I understand completely how it works. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to or ever want to. It's something you can't control, other than by winning each and every week.

Jenn Lyon

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

Kim Martin

I have always imagined that I am Jim Craig.

George R. R. Martin

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Charles Stanley

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Alan Moore

I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

China Mieville

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

Dave Barry

Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.

Dave Barry

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

Buenaventura Durruti

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Tom Coulson

When we first opened we had only six school buses. Now we have 24.

Butch Klein

When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed,

Nigel Hamilton

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

Ben Okri

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

Djimon Hounsou

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Damien Rice

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

Winfried Vahland

When Octavia was introduced in India in 2001, it had opened up new segments.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Peggy Laskowski

We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.

Cheri Yecke

What we see from our state university system is no growth. It has remained static over time.

Max Heindel

Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous.

Josiah Royce

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

James Meade

I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946.

Pola Negri

I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Clifford Garnto

We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.

Paul Tagliabue

to play in the state in which they're franchised.

Susan Hill

We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Gianluigi Buffon

For us, there is surely no other alternative. We have to win.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Rob Lowe

If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.

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And most surely they were with Us, of the elect, the best.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Ed Silliere

Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.