Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing.

Patricia Sun

Patriotism is a beautiful thing - to love your country, your land, and your people and have a deep emotional affinity. But it can be so easily corrupted to polarized thinking, to harming others and ourselves if we don't realize what it is that is beautiful. It is beautiful because it is love.

Peter Malkin

Particularly, I enjoy strolling in the streets, watching passersby, gazing at the beautiful variety of the dresses and perceiving their joy; their sadness. At home, during the small hours of the night, I'll paint from memory what I have seen in the streets until I am under the impression of being with them again.

Alice Hogan

Such an ugly thing to happen in such a beautiful place.

Mark Twain

Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease.

Tom DeLay

Sure, when you get this number of people, there are stories of sexual exploitation. But in interviewing these employees one-on-one, there was no evidence of any of that going on. No evidence of sweatshops as portrayed by the national media. It's a beautiful island with beautiful people who are happy about what's happening.

Jim Murren

Our core competence is making beautiful and creative space that makes people feel special. So they took that care and put it in a medical setting. Everybody was motivated by a personal experience. We tried our best to put ourselves in the shoes of the patients and families and how they might feel.

Jim Willis

Robbie is probably the fastest kid on the team, and has a beautiful touch. He has played everywhere off the bench for us, and has fit in wherever he has played.

Ronnie Cates

Right there on the lake with the sun going down, (the amphitheater) is a beautiful structure. It's just a great way to enjoy an evening.

Reed Tuckson

Regardless of who you are or what group you're in, there is a significant gap between the care you deserve and the care you receive.

Tony Robichaux

Regardless of what happens Tuesday (tonight), we're not going to carry it into the weekend. When this one's over, we'll immediately start thinking about and getting ready for the weekend.

Peter Schmidt

Regardless of the quality or sophistication of rivals, the 207 will be another successful car and it will be the top selling car in the segment.

Vince Carter

Regardless of our seeding, as long as we're playing well and rolling into the playoffs, that's what we care about. We're just looking at whoever we play, we have to be prepared.

Vitali Klitschko

Recently I have been fighting more often with injuries than with my opponents. It's hard to retire from this sport, but I want to finish my career at the summit and leave the way open for my successors.

Tim Griffin

Record-high fuel costs, industry overcapacity, and the growth of low-cost carriers and the fares they are able to offer are negatively impacting the financial performance of many of the flights we currently operate,

Greg Mason

Reggie has just had a remarkable career and continues to give us a solid offensive presence that makes us a lot better.

Walter Miller

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

Henry Johnson

Previous winners have come from all walks of life in our community, and they all had one thing in common, the uncommon way they cared about our community.

Frank Degen

Previously, someone like a plumber, who may have run his office from home and had a secretary there, could not take this deduction because he provided goods and services outside the home. Of course, the IRS realized the inequity there and changed the rules.

Liz Boyd

Our position hasn't changed and we would expect her to veto this legislation just as she did before. It's a divisive piece of legislation. The suburban communities and the city need to work together on these issues.

James Nykolay

Our relationship grew when we stopped hungering to be noticed and we started to meld into each other. We talked about how the weight was lifting and how our world changed overnight.

Craig Fugate

Our recommendations have not changed since I've been here we need to get people to evacuate from storm surge, ... If you're not in that evacuation zone, the safest place for you may be in your home.

Nancy Engel

Our ranking hasn't changed much over the years of doing this survey.

Aaron Parchem

Our mind-set and preparation have changed so much over the season. We are two totally different people than we were in October. Now we get to do some fun things like shows and seminars.

Alan McMillan

Oracle's changed the game in terms of its acquisitions. IBM's stated policy is that it will not compete with applications vendors, but I'm curious if that will change going forward.

Kathy Reichs

People love the cliffhanger endings to chapters. I get a lot of comments that I've changed people's lives, how they've never read and now they have, how they were depressed and now they have a passion.

Kathy Reichs

People love the cliffhanger endings to chapters, ... I get a lot of comments that I've changed people's lives, how they've never read and now they have, how they were depressed and now they have a passion.

Imraan Ladak

Paul is my childhood idol and when sober is a wonderful person.

Bernard Arnault

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

Berkeley Breathed

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

Brad Goreski

I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy.

Ted Hughes

I wrote a letter to them saying, 'No, I don't want to collaborate,' and they kept coming back. Why would I want to be involved in moments of my childhood which I never want to return to? I want nothing to do with this film. I will never, never in a million years go to see it.

Tom Robbins

It is never too late to have a happy childhood

Eric Allin Cornell

My mother taught me to read when I was still quite young, and at least in my memory I passed the majority of my childhood reading.

The Years

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.

Bernard Berenson

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Eric Haxthausen

Our research shows that most drivers of new large pick-ups use them for commuting and personal trips.

Phil Jackson

Our particular team right now is not a team that does well resting on any kind of sense of accomplishment. We still have to drive ourselves and drive the team forward.

Todd Martin

part of it is driven by low interest rates, part of it is stimulation by governments to get people to start spending more.

Lawrence Eagles

Part of the recovery overnight (in the price of oil) may have been due to anti-Israeli protests in Jordan, where 30,000 protestors had to be driven back from the boarder by security forces,

Brandon Curtis

Passengers will know that if there is a problem on the bus, the driver isn't disconnected from help.

Michael Hara

Our objective is to drive towards 60 percent. We will try to make that this year.

Charissa McAfee

Our number one recommendation is to have a plan before you go out. Designate a driver who doesn't drink. Use cabs.

Sam Keller

Our offense is so good, that's all I can say. We can drive down on anybody.

Lawrence Summers

Our national savings rate is still far too low, driven by a personal savings rate that is not where it should be,

Nora Martinez

Patty Kelly fought very hard to keep it in the family and to keep it open. She wanted to keep it part of Hoboken.

Shintaro Ishihara

Part of her must feel carefree, relieved, now that she has left the imperial family and become a commoner. I want to set up an opportunity so that she can get a taste of this.

Harris Pastides

Our medical school puts the highest percentage of graduates into pediatrics and family practice in the country.

Marion Jones

Our lives are so hectic and full, and we have a big family right now.

Mike Strauss

People need to sign up to be organ donors, but then they need to talk to their family about it so there is no question what to do with your organs.

Liz Harrison

People have passed on wonderful family trips, family reunions, missed funerals, missed weddings.

Wendy Rosenbach

People have larger tracts of land and they'll hunt it themselves or have family and friends hunt it.

Kendall Simmons

People in his family have diabetes, so he knew what I was going through, and he talked to me about it. On other teams, when they find out you have it, it's like you have a handicap and you become a liability. They don't even give you a chance.

Tommy Hutton

People may see this and judge without really knowing the stuff he's gone through the last few years. My wife and I went to see him and his family after his son died. He was very quiet. At a time like that, all you can do as a friend is just be there.

Ron Finley

People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word.

Zlatan Milisic

Surely what do we do when such people are refusing the food passage?

Fisher DeBerry

Our team stayed in a little truck stop up there once and in the restaurant there, you could have your food prepared two ways: fried or deep-fried.

Bruce Rasmussen

Our staff members are distributing tents, blankets, food and plastic sheeting to survivors as quickly as we can right through the night.

Michael Jacobson

Our goal is to get it out of the food supply. There are healthier alternatives.

Roland Kampmeier

Roland had an adventurous spirit. He always said there were two things he didn't mind spending money on: good food and travel.

Robinson Cano

Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, and it's a great place to visit.

C. S. Lewis

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Bill Bryson

Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

John Woo

He will be spending the holidays with the troops.

Sadie Jones

My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

Richard Migliore

It has been kind of wearing on me. I got through the holidays OK but then it was like, 'OK, I want to get back to work.' Sure, it's frustrating but I have been through this before.

Gary Crane

Christina stepped up for us. She has been playing well throughout the holidays and has improved for us.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.

Patsy Crisel

(Relay) is important because the money raised stays here.

Tom Lewis

Our political system has become more about money than it has about people,

Phil Hardberger

or at least give us the money to do it.

Jay Johnson

People laugh, but we have to move money around occasionally.

Deborah Voso

People often underestimate how much money it takes to live in retirement.

Nancy Bain

Surveyors could make some money on this one.

Peter Schiff

Some of the smaller stocks have been moving, but the big stocks are going to take real money to move.

Francis Maude

Some of that money may well have been from overseas sources.

John Nicholson

Our staff needs raises; we need roads, parks, all the things that this money can provide,

Kelsey Jakupcin

Our parents really support us. They come to every one of our matches.

Scott Smith

Our parents get to stay in some five-star hotel, and we're staying in a hostel.

William Raspberry

Parents who were not successful in school still have the power to teach.

Dennis Wharton

Surveys we have seen suggest parents are using them.

Gerhard Schr

Otherwise, I have been shaped by parents and I am proud of that as well.

David Garcelon

It is a sensitive time, but the parents are very good. There's always one of them there.

Rep. Hogue

I feel real strong that violence should be in (the statute). We need to give parents a tool to protect their children.

Parry Aftab

I have 11,000 volunteers working for me, and I still can't keep up. I don't know how parents would.

Dawn Check

I think the program is really supported by parents. It's worthwhile to the community. It's part of their education, part of preparing them to go out in the world.

John Harris

That was a pretty big 2-iron, especially considering how poor the first two shots were,

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Gary Parlin

(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday.

Mike Hohensee

I thought he did some tremendous things. I thought he did some poor things. He has a lot of room to grow.

Gerry Byrne

For the record, this is a poor decision.

Unknown

May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies, and quick to make friends.

Augusto Pinochet

I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.

Vanessa Ferlito

I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

Ernie Els

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

Eddie Jones

Pau has been doing it for us all season and he did it again. He saved us.

Connie King

I was the one who saved the town.

Bruce Bochy

He saved us with that effort, ... especially the way we've been struggling to score runs.

Hines Ward

He saved the year for us with that tackle.

Sheri Mowles

He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

Adrian Rogers

You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.

Coolio

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

Vance Moss

We saved lives. Every day, we saved lives.