Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ram Kapoor

Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.

Fernando Alonso

I was told that 50,000 people celebrated my win. They were dancing in the fountain in the city center, and even in Madrid as well.

Joseph Zwilling

Because St. Patrick is the patron saint of the diocese, the day should be celebrated as a feast day.

Deborah Moggach

I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm all over the country, signifies the victory of good over evil and is an appropriate occasion for us to resolve to follow the high ideals in life.

Christine Harforth

Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream consists not only of the celebrated Overture, the famous Wedding March and the scarcely less familiar Nocturne and Scherzo.

David Liss

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

Natasha Trethewey

My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

Jacques Chirac

reflection, which I shall devote to explaining to my fellow citizens what my feelings are on this crisis and the means to remedy it.

Bob Taft

Recent, severe increases in gasoline prices in my state are, to say the least, baffling. Our citizens are demanding, if not complete answers, at least some rational justification for this dramatic price increase.

Randall Terry

Our policies are immoral. This has nothing to do with helping the citizens of China. This has to do with fattening the wallets of American big business.

Wayne Gray

Our quality of life of our citizens is impacted by the tourism economy that we have,

Jim Turner

Ordinary citizens have to look at their income as opposed to their expenses and determine where they're going to make cutbacks, ... They just decided they needed more money and raised taxes.

Charles Albert Gobat

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Sam Veda

Peace and prosperity prevails when citizens are law abiding.

Robert Stewart

Our only intent was the safety of the survivors and the citizens of this state.

Bertie Ahern

Such a proposal would show citizens the EU was working in their interests.

Erik Larson

Recovery had a lot to do with resolve and enthusiasm and the pace of rebuilding.

Sonny Vaccaro

Patrick's enthusiasm is contagious. He is what you want kids to feel like when they are picked for this kind of event. And the kid can play at the very highest level.

Eddie O'Sullivan

Paul is full of fire and enthusiasm and the perfect man to get the team going.

Winston Churchill

Success is bounding from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Joel Quenneville

Overall, I liked our preseason, ... I thought we did a lot of good things. We have a lot of momentum and enthusiasm going into opening night.

Carl Sagan

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

Larry Brown

I was just looking for something to give us enthusiasm and effort, ... I would have been horrified if they didn't fight back. But I was proud of the effort.

Graham Spanier

It is a very, very positive development for the whole Penn State family. There's so much enthusiasm right now in the university because of the turnaround in the team's performance.

Mike Pratt

Last season just kind of melded into this year. He never really stopped wrestling. He has such an enthusiasm for the sport, and it showed all of (his teammates) that this is what you can do when you work as hard as he does.

Tom Stutsman

People may have other ideas, such as improving the parks or extending streets or putting in new streets. All ideas are welcome.

Brian Spencer

Our plan is to set up a house and give a family a place to stay that may have no extended family or no place to go. We wanted to give them a place to stay for three or four months or until they could go home or find another place to go.

Gary Bardini

Our goal is to try and maintain the river levels and keep flows at a regulated level. It takes a lot of planning and coordination for an extended period of time.

Atharva Veda

Repent for all the wrongs done and resolve not to repeat the mistake; then God will extend His grace.

Ralph A. Cram

Republicanism rapidly extended itself to all the governments of western Europe, but it could not maintain itself in its primal integrity.

Matthew Scully

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

Randy Johnson

I was able to get my pitches in and didn't have to extend myself, which is nice. I was just glad that it didn't get postponed. I warmed up and I warmed up good.

Man Wong

I think they (the designers) met our plan, our thought. Very relaxed and still can enjoy, time after time...I wanted it to extend joy.

Rick Gibson

That's been one of our problems (holding leads or extending leads). We're a young team, but it's more than half way (through) the season, so we're not young anymore.

Nancy Buirski

Part of the fun of going to a film festival is the serendipity of it.

Gayla Curtis

We now have our own shaded pavilion and are well liked by the visitors and the Renaissance Festival employees.

Tom Rhodes

I think it's safe to say it's the only time any kind of film has been made at a film festival and premiered at the same festival,

Juan Antonio Bayona

I went to a festival pretending to work as a journalist to get free tickets and interview people I really admired. I remember one of these people was Guillermo del Toro.

Piers Handling

French films are increasingly taking pride of place. The number of French films at the Festival is second only to the US and Canada.

Douglas Booth

I'm a huge festival fan. I love to dance and dance all night long.

Ethan Thillo

I wouldn't say we're the most important Latino film festival in the country, but we have improved our quality year after year.

David Lambert

He mentioned it six months ago, and I thought it was a great idea. Natchez is a great walking town, so it's a great place for a festival like this.

Amy Turner

When I got the project, it seemed to make a lot of sense to put the festival on Gold Avenue,

Jason Abercrombie

Parrish pitched very good for us. He followed our game plan, which was to throw strikes and make them put it in play.

Tom Slater

Paul Burnside was really the story today. He has really thrown well of late and he followed it up today with another outstanding outing. He got after and it and did a tremendous job. If Paul Burnside can't come in and give us the innings the way he did, it could have been a long afternoon. He just did a great job of running for us and I was really proud of him.

Zac Sandvig

Our offensive line did a great job blocking, and so did our receivers downfield. But Adams, I can't say enough about him. I had some huge holes up front and just followed them through.

Austin Perez

Our members have been following the law for 20 years now.

Bible Bible

Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.

Andrew Peterson

out of the rain, into the sun, follow it on and on and on ...

C.C. Sabathia

Playing meaningful games every night in September makes it fun. I follow what the other teams are doing. I watch every game now. I even went out and got the (satellite TV) package.

David Herro

Managers, instead of following their convictions, are following the crowd. There is a herd instinct.

Russ Brown

I'm here to win. That's just the way were are. I have no problem following him around . He was doing what he had to win and I was doing what I had to do to win. The track did what they had to do. I hit him. They made the right call. They put me in the back and that's the way it is.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Wesley Moultrie

Our requirement would be that the tobacco firms in the U.S. maintain a high level of liquidity.

Andy Roberts

Our replacement technicians are highly trained and experienced mechanics.

Greg Aiello

Passions run high this time of year. The main thing is, Pittsburgh won the game. It could've been worse.

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Janice Miller

Part of Planet Digital's mission is to provide people with the highest standard of hands-on training possible,

Jim Keller

Our low power, high performance technology is very well suited to that.

Tom Phillips

People I know in the administration have a very high regard for Nathan,

Kathleen Murray

People have to reschedule their weddings for many reasons. You don't want to be left high and dry.

Mark Waggoner

Supplies really aren't a problem. Consumption over the holidays is usually a little higher than normal but production has been keeping up.

Kofi Annan

particular to the relatives and friends of those who lost their lives in the service of the ideals of the United Nations.

Source Unknown

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

Lynn Coady

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

Norman Douglas

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

Andrew Motion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

Coco Chanel

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

Bruce Gordon

Not only is he diametrically opposed to all that the NAACP has worked for, but ... is intent on promoting his personal ideals and beliefs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

Dustie Robertson

Me and Joyous always work really well together. We can just read each other.

Van Morrison

Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.

Wally Amos

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive things to do, ... Who's In Charge.

Bob Harrington

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Mike White

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Jennifer Coolidge

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

Roger Enrico

Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,

R. Robinson

I do not see this as an occasion for celebration,

Andrew Fastow

I think I said on more than one occasion yesterday that I was greedy.

Michael Starke

I thought we rose to the occasion and played well.

Chosun Ilbo

For the sake of the remaining two years of his administration, Roh should seize the occasion to find a replacement for the man.

Amy Bloom

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

Dave Roberts

With everything he has been through this year, for Sean to rise to the occasion like that, it says a lot about his character.

John Tortorella

We're tired of the 25-per-cent rule. We need an occasional goddamn save.

John Collins

On occasion during cross-examination, the defendant was tearful and perhaps remorseful.

Mitchel McLaughlin

If this situation is not resolved satisfactorily, he will not travel.

Jonathan Tropper

On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve themselves in shorter order.

Robert Williams

When I get out of here I'm not going to look back. All I want to do now is resolve this. I just want to go anywhere.

Aeschylus

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

Jeff Koons

We waited too long to resolve this, ... Negotiations went sideways, and then up and down.

Henry Mazurek

We will resolve it. Whatever time it takes.

Richard Kaplan

We have very little tolerance on this, ... While they're doing what they need to do, we are doing what we need to do. We're not resting until this is resolved with or without First Student.

Arthur Phillips

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

Benjamin Franklin

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

Carrie Chapman Catt

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

Charles Darwin

...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

Blaise Pascal

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

Chris Evert

Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

C. S. Lewis

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

Alain Badiou

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Brian Littrell

In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.

Brian Michael Bendis

If you like Powers, you'll love The Victories!

Miranda Cosgrove

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.