Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Lind

The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects.

Peter Beattie

We appointed Tony Morris to start and finish a job and that's what I would prefer,

Bob Murray

We have appointed Kevin Ball caretaker manager until the end of the season and hope that supporters will give him their full backing. Sunderland supporters have been incredibly tolerant and supportive in the last few months, which have been very difficult. I would also like to thank them for that.

Phiroz Vandrevala

We have appointed a global company to work out the branding and positioning strategy for TCS in the global market. Their report is expected in a matter of weeks and the roll out of the strategy would begin next fiscal.

Nicholas Scoppetta

would have been unable to effectively serve in the role he was appointed to.

Bruce Fein

There is no pattern of demonstration that justices appointed by the president then try to defend the president's constitutional prerogatives.

Zhang Mao

We've appointed ombudsmen to check implementation of these measures in various hospitals.

Ron Brown

We've appointed a committee to look at our needs. We post the meetings and the public is welcome to come and voice their opinion. The public is always welcome. We need to find enough property where we can build as we need. We'll get it done.

Scott Alberts

Since everyone in ex-com was appointed by the president, you feel more comfortable telling them to take over their duties.

Patricia Lessnerkraus

She can thank her lightning political career to the fact that Helmut Kohl needed to have a woman and an east German in his cabinet in 1991. By appointing Merkel, Kohl killed two birds with one stone.

Dennis Lillee

If Australia want to regain the Ashes they would dramatically improve their chances by appointing Shane Warne as captain,

Pat McDonough

The governor is not appointing my people, and I don't get into a snit about it.

Howard Dean

you cannot expect the Iraqis to think that they have their own government if we're appointing their people. We need an election.

Brian Barwick

We will be in the business of appointing who we believe will be the right man to take care of one of the finest international teams in the world.

Javier Solana

We would like very much that (Abbas) will have the capability of appointing a government that goes in the direction that President Mubarak and the EU would like to go.

Ye Xiaowen

We have always been appointing and consecrating our own bishops. This is what we must stick to.

Mike Umaga

He's keen to get involved in some capacity. We need to have a second team running next season and we feel that appointing a local lad like Lee will be best to help get things moving.

Brian Barwick

We've got the best part of six months in real terms - the first international after the World Cup is in August - but that will not be the way we play it. I hope the appointment won't be after the World Cup and there's no reason why it should be. We have the opportunity of appointing before the World Cup and the upside of that is they can watch the side they will inherit in August with a sense of semi-distant ownership, and it may well be an advantage.

Michel Therrien

We want to put the puck on net a little bit more. There were times we did it, there were times we could have done it more.

Munir Akram

We have said right from the start, without negotiations, the document is not going anywhere. So we're happy finally that there's a recognition there has to be face-to-face negotiations. These will be difficult, these are a bit late. But it's not an impossible task,

J. C. Watts

We have to get a junior hockey franchise put together from top to bottom. We're looking forward to it, but that year and a bit is going to go by in a hurry.

Freddy Adu

Whenever you get the chance to represent your country in a World Cup, it's a great honor. It's a chance to show the world what you've got. I'm looking forward to it. I do wish, though, that I would be able to stay here and play with D.C. a little bit more, because this is an important stretch for us right now.

Helio Castroneves

When everyone jokes about (taking chances), there's a little bit of truth to it, ... Hopefully people have learned from what happened (at Sonoma).

Ron Wilson

Whenever we play L.A., we look at their stats and they're one of the most penalized teams in the league. They play hard all the time, right on the edge. So you've got to expect to get power plays. We lost a little bit of our discipline in the third period and had to kill some too, but in the first two periods, we kept on task.

Andre Agassi

When you see a little bit of that edge off, when he comes down into just warp speed, it gives you a little breath of life.

Brett Morgan

When you see a 12-year-old kid winning national races, you can see a little bit of that. But they're not like that.

Christopher Reid

When you scan a document it takes quite a bit of space -- 1/2 a megabyte or even a megabyte per page.

Brad Hill

We have to get back home and get after it tomorrow. There will be a great crowd there and you can't live with this too long. These weekends, man, can sneak up on you. You hang your head and you're down two (games).

Clark Haggans

Whenever they would seem to be getting any momentum, we stepped up and would silence the crowd and silence them. We just played hard and made plays when we had to.

Tayshaun Prince

Whenever they took the lead or tied it up and got the crowd into the game, we made some plays to put the crowd out of it. They would make another run, and we would respond again.

Stephen Wright

When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded

Keith Brooking

We set the tone defensively. We stopped the run and had them in second-and-long, third-and-long. When the crowd here gets into it, it can be very difficult for the offense to hear and to execute.

K'naan

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

Ron Wilson

We desperately need the space. Our high school, especially, is severely crowded at this point and has been for years. We've known this for a long time.

Jane Austen

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

January Jones

Crows follow me wherever I go.

Ty Warner

Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with something cuddly seems like a natural fit.

James Lovell

Santa is a magical and cuddly man, not a fat, smelly slob. I even saw a Santa last year wearing trainers (sneakers).

Dreama Walker

I feel like a total hippie right now. I'm passionate about all sorts of things - a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark things, to be honest.

Eric Lascelles

This report was largely in line with expectations. It was a grim report.

Shereen El Feki

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.

Jerry Jones

Yeah, I did (think about it). Initially there, it looked like the grim reaper was sitting there on one of those crossbars, just overlooking the day. It seemed like everything we did, we got stopped on the field. But when we got (to overtime). I just thought it was our turn to score.

Jerry Jones

Yeah, I did (think about it), ... Initially there, it looked like the grim reaper was sitting there on one of those crossbars, just overlooking the day. It seemed like everything we did, we got stopped on the field. But when we got (to overtime). I just thought it was our turn to score.

Mufi Hannemann

Hurricane Katrina is a grim reminder of the importance of preparedness,

Tim Curry

I think that me turning up is kind of a grim anti-climax. And I think that he should just have the life that he was meant to have. I think having a wrinkly actor show up 20 years after is a little old, really.

Tim Curry

I think that me turning up is kind of a grim anti-climax, ... And I think that he should just have the life that he was meant to have. I think having a wrinkly actor show up 20 years after is a little old, really.

Manmohan Singh

From the beginning, as a thinking student of 15, 16 years ago, I was troubled by the grim poverty that I saw around me.

Roger Clemens

Maybe, I'm the Grim Reaper, ... I miss a start and we scored 10 runs.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I was just after Generation X. I missed the John Hughes movies; I had to watch them on TBS.

Charles Owens

Jerry spoke with Hughes (Jr.) several times a day, usually at 2 or 3 a.m., when Hughes called him. They never met in person.

Joel Edgerton

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.

Shawn Amos

You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Terri Sewell

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

Emun Elliott

It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone who's so private. I suppose you admire people who have the qualities you wish you had.

John Entwistle

Wow, I sure do miss John hey, groupies!

Jai Courtney

Would I want Johnny Depp's career? Sure! But do I want all the trappings and all the stuff that comes with that? I don't know. It's a pretty serious trade off. Can you prevent it? Probably not.

Keyshawn Johnson

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Erwin Chemerinsky

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices.

C. S. Lewis

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

David McCullough

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

Louis MacNeice

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

Jessica White

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal

Eugenio Montale

The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.

Archibald MacLeish

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

Austin O'Malley

A small poet repeats himself like a clock.

Randy Huth

We used to have a singer but he didn't work out and we never replaced him. We all do vocals on the record, and live, we, me and Joel, split it up.

Ellen Bogard

We're going to replace them all just to make sure.

Robert Reich

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

Kevin Phillips

Obviously, we are not going to be able to replace these vans with one bus. It's going to be a two-to-one ratio.

Alan Alda

No one can replace a unique person like Peter.

Thomas Schaaf

We can't replace Miro, but we have to put that aside.

John Garber

We're never going to replace the radiologist, and that's not the intent,

Lois Lowry

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

Doug Cole

Other things can be replaced ... but not photos.

Edward Kennedy

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

Terry Pratchett

Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?' I don't know. I like being a writer.

Allan Bloom

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

William Congreve

Well, Sir Joseph, you have such a winning way with you.

Jaron Lanier

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

Frances Mayes

Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

Fernando Pessoa

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

Linda Howard

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

Maggie Stiefvater

you're like a siren, leading me into dangerous places

David Cunliffe

Those who are flexible in thought, will inevitably succeed.

Akhenaton

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

Babette March

I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Barbara Hepworth

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

Brian Tracy

Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.

Jamie Hyneman

If at first you don't succeed, C4

Bill Gates

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

Bill Gates

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

Ben Horowitz

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

Billy Corgan

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

Cameron Russell

I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.

Sam Harris

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

Sam Brownback

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

Ray LaMontagne

My backstory is so tedious.