Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Pawlenty

Our country has been asleep at the switch on these things. The basic economics are that the supply of fossil fuels is limited and the demand is outstripping the supply. It's a recipe for continued crisis if we don't start changing our ways.

Larry Haverty

Management is not asleep at the switch. Anything you can do to move the needle in that direction is terrific for shareholders.

P.K. Shaw

It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time.

Paracelsus

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. - The Dream Game

Mike Schafer

That was a critical one when it was 3-2. We kind of fell asleep a little bit ... that was the game. They played very well. I have to tip my hat to their hockey team.

Dennis Goldford

That's the question. Is there corruption involved? Some improper exchange of favors or anything like that? We don't know that yet. Or is it at best evidence of incompetence -- somebody was simply asleep at the switch?

Jon Sakoda

Last year, instant messaging was the sleeping giant, and companies were literally asleep at the wheel. This year, people are awakening to the problem, but haven't necessarily come up with solutions.

Randy Scyoc

I was happy with way we played defense in the first half. In the second half, we sort of fell asleep a little bit and didn't box out sometimes, and they crawled back in the game.

Pascal Lamy

I am half asleep but the negotiations are wide awake.

Peter Capaldi

Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole thing was awkward.

Dana Gleason

Our packs are for people who truly use the gear and don't just read the magazines and dream about it. And it will last 15 to 17 years. The material has a lifetime guarantee.

Harry Aleo

People love the horse, and that's what it is all about. This is something that money can't buy. I've owned horses for 27 years, and you dream of something like this. But I never dreamed that I'd have the wonder horse.

William Shakespeare

Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown, But sound the trumpets, and about our task

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Ed Howell

Stanford has always been my dream. Being able to play volleyball at the next level is a dream come true.

George Bernard Shaw

Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''

James Farrior

Our goal is to try and get our offense a few extra possessions ? we did that today. It's a dream come true, but it's not over yet ?we've still got one more game.

Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

Steve James

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

Karen Anderson

Krista has big dreams. She's very driven. She wants to be all that she can be.

Constance Zimmer

I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up.

Andrew Wilson

It felt good. This was a must-win for us in order to keep our tournament dreams alive.

Maher Arar

I still have the nightmares. I see the same person who tortured me in my dreams.

Kaley Cuoco

I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.

Katori Hall

Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

Rachel Platten

I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

Ghazi Hamad

Rockets are one of the resistance tools. Our people have the right to resist the occupation. The occupation is the problem and as long as the problem exists our people have the right to resist.

Pete Domenici

that will include the taxes for the president's marginal tax reductions ... and a rebate of the surplus, giving back to the people some of the surplus that exists this year.

Robert Menard

Freedom of the press also exists for viewpoints that shock the majority of the population.

Stephen Evans

Freedom exists in the experience of the perceiver; it is undeniably unique and scuttled by need for confirmation from others.

Harry Browne

Job was tested, and he proved himself. Because of that he was rewarded greatly, and I think the same opportunity exists for those people suffering so sorely now.

Werner Herzog

Only 30 minutes from where I live, there is a completely hidden and forgotten archive. Nobody even knows that this exists here.

Charles Nelson

Shamrock only exists on St. Patrick's Day. Every other day of the year, it's just young clover.

Billy Gardell

'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.

William Arbaugh

This problem exists whether you use WEP or not, but it is trivial to exploit if not using WEP,

Robert Lugiewicz

He was just fooling around while waiting for a charter.

Carly Craig

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

Johnny Damon

So many times, you see guys getting hurt whether they're just fooling around or not playing very hard. For me, I have to keep up with the routine, play like every game may be my last.

Adam Yauch

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

Lawrence Eagleburger

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.

Chris Kemoeatu

We were always the two fooling around in meetings.

Benny Hinn

They think that God doesn't really heal, so these guys are just fooling the world.

Ryan Thompson

It was more horseplay than anything else, fooling around,

Mark Carter

Auckland rested some of their key players and I reckon they are just fooling around with everyone. They'll win.

Dave Roberts

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Steve Yzerman

Regardless of how the game is played, there will be low-scoring games, and good teams have to win 1-0 or 2-1 (in the playoffs).

Terri Sullivan

Record wise we want to get back on track, so we know the opportunity is there to play games and do something with them. At this time of the year we're looking to play as many games as we can.

Ray Allen

Records are always made to be broken. I have a long way to go, games to play, threes to hit. The key is getting to playoff basketball.

Mike Rucker

Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be the underdog. Is that saying that the underdog wins? No. I don't think we put a whole lot of stock in that.

Rick Stansbury

Reggie needs to not always look for the 3-pointer. He's got to play off that dribble, take it to the hole, which he's done more lately. A mid-range game opens up the 3-point shot. It makes him a more versatile player. And he needs to be a screener, because screeners get open. But it's getting better.

Lana Ross

Our region is tough. We're going with the same lineup to give our players a lot of at bats. Right now, we're sore. We've played a lot of games with a little rest. Our pitchers are doing just enough and Maple Woods is a good team.

Jacques Rogge

Organizing the Games is never easy. But I am glad the fundamentals are sound.

Scott White

Oregon and Washington State are the most physical, hardest-fought games every year. You always have to pick it up a notch when you go play at Oregon.

Adolf Hitler

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

Phaedrus

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

Michael Sullivan

The reason they like them is they are outward forms,

Philip Kerr

There's something weird about the Scots. We are a troubled, slightly tortured race - the sense of the respectable outward character and, inside, the turmoil of something darker.

Kate Christensen

I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Matthew Devost

Most sites that are doing e-commerce should have some kind of security statement with regard to how your transactions are secured.

Stevie Smith

Marred pleasure's best, shadow makes the sun strong.

Tracy Kidder

I was really so afraid. Of my own shadow practically.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Abdul Kalam

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

Beth Lowery

She was like my shadow and I don't have my shadow no more. She's gone.

Democritus

The word is the shadow of the deed.

Democritus

Word is a shadow of a deed.

Adelbert von Chamisso

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Aberjhani

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

Patrick Campanelli

I think the videotape impeaches her on that issue. I think, in fact, the videotape shows that she's lying.

Barry McCaffrey

The 1998 study shows that we have turned the tide of youth drug use.

Joss Whedon

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

Guy Hansen

He didn't panic, ... and that shows you a lot about a young guy.

Graham Elliot

I think what somebody orders and how they eat and cook really shows who they are.

Tony Danza

We did 112 shows and had 112 parties.

Rob Sheldon

I think it shows that these are all outstanding kids.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think it shows how out of touch they are,

Jeff Schulte

He's a well-rounded athlete. And it shows on the tennis court.

Dan Jiron

State wild and scenic designation was not considered.

M. Wolfe

States can do as little or as much as they want.

Mary Parker

Our secretaries really know practically everyone who would need to be buzzed in, and if they didn't know them, they could communicate with them through this system, ... It's really state of the art.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Brian Clodi

I want to win the state championship. That's the ultimate goal.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Clint Burgess

I think we can get another state championship. I think that's reachable. That's our goal. The are a lot of obstacles, but I think we can do it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

Stewart Rahr

I can't seem to shake waking up early.

Dr. Miglietta

It can be anything from him waking up to having a seizure, or it could be involuntary.

Terry Pratchett

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Annie Dillard

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

Desmond Tutu

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Alvin Toffler

I work virtually every waking hour.

Avril Lavigne

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

Cesare Pavese

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

Douglas Coupland

I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

C. S. Lewis

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

C. S. Lewis

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

C. S. Lewis

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

C. S. Lewis

In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

C. S. Lewis

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis

Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

C. S. Lewis

The absent are easily refuted.

C. S. Lewis

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

C. S. Lewis

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.