Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Surely you do not disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine per

Jim Cummings

Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue this character with their 'New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' TV series.

Earl Woods

Playing Through: Straight Talk on Hard Work, Big Dreams, and Adventures with Tiger

Ryan Stasik

Playing live is what we do, It's an adventure for us as well as the audience.

Barry Lopez

What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneurs north? Or is it, rather, to have a good family life and to be imbued with a far-reaching and intimate knowledge of one’s homeland, which is what the Tununirmiut told the whalers at Pond’s Bay wealth was? Is it to retain a capacity for awe and astonishment in our lives, to continue to hunger after what is genuine and worthy? Is it to live at moral peace with the universe?

C. S. Lewis

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

Berkeley Breathed

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

Richard Branson

I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes.

Ivette Mendez

Reforms are clearly overdue and we believe an independent monitor along with the federal investigation are the catalysts to provide them.

Bill Cline

Records are made to be broken. My hats off to them...somebody will probably come along and break theirs.

Lynn Franco

Recent turmoil on Wall Street and in worldwide financial markets, along with continuing layoff announcements, have not dampened consumer confidence,

Greg Knapp

Really, when all is over and done with, people will judge a quarterback by wins and losses. That's the best criteria you can have. Sure, we want him to improve his completion percentage. We'd like for him to complete every pass he throws, but you have to be realistic. This offense develops, for many young players, from the inside out. We're moving along at just the right pace.

O. J. Simpson

Reggie, Michael and J.D. are coming along well. I'm really proud of how the three of them look thus far in the season. The other ones are learning. Most of the other ones, this is their first year, but they've got good basics and good mechanics, so I think we'll improve as the season goes.

John Browning

Our recent experience, particularly with solar, has given us the expertise and confidence to develop new products and markets alongside our mainstream business,

Eric Lindquist

Patients breathe. If you've got a lung tumor, the patient's going to move, so the tumor is going to move. You have to have an intelligent robot capable of moving along with the target. So this robotic system really expands radiosurgery for use throughout the body.

David Pepper

Part of getting along well is ... to put what was a good race behind us. We're going to work closely together. To move the region forward, you need a county commission that can really work closely together. Frankly, before the race, Mark and I always had a good relationship and we have a good relationship now.

Jeff Halpern

Part of what we're trying to do is get pucks to the net and outwork teams along the boards, something we'd like to build on. But now pucks are just going to the net. Some of the time when we're getting a lot of those chances we're trying to get second and third opportunities. It's really just getting the bounces.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

Barry Zito

I think it was good to get one of these in. Generally you encounter in spring every situation you'd face in the regular season. This was another one of those.

Muhsin Muhammad

I expect to encounter a fired up team.

Ayn Rand

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

Jim Parsons

My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

Judith Ivey

She encounters all these different men, ... in the Adirondacks to help her out (or) not to help her, and so on -- and they're all suspicious.

John Kessel

Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.

Kent Conrad

She starts off in a positive position with me because of these conversations we have had, ... She is a lovely person. Some people you encounter in life and you like them.

Zinedine Zidane

It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind.

Kathleen Hohl

Regardless of the number of men we ordain to the priesthood each year, that number does not keep pace with the number of priests who retire from the ministry. As a result of fewer priests, the need for well-trained lay ministers is even more important.

Graeme Edge

(Rehearsal's) mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.

Jon Peck

Our report can only reflect the numbers provided to the state. There are larger communities that reported fewer than some smaller communities.

Karen Hoem

Our overall goal this year was to make the playoffs. It's been a few years since we've been there.

Chris Shaw

Our question mark is in the back. We lost a few and our goalie. We are young in the back, but talented,

Ken Goldstein

Part of the real story here is that, through July, producers were still getting more output, with fewer labor hours put in. Productivity in the third quarter is probably going to be stronger than in the second quarter, confirming the idea that, while the stock market's not in good shape, the overall economy's not that bad.

Markus Persson

PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.

Brad Radke

Our offense is much improved. We had a few guys who had down years last year. They'll help out more.

Chris Liddell

Our market share remains broadly where it was in the last few quarters, ... It's a monetization issue, and that is something we're going to have to reverse in the future.

Charles Keating

Regarding the differences between playing in various mediums, television and theatre, one's job is to tell the story.

Bobby Cox

Reitsma can do the job, we know that.

Mark Fischer

Pat always took the jobs nobody else wanted. What makes this place work is the people who give their time to others and that was Pat. She wasn't an ordinary soccer mom.

Tom DeLay

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Joe Torre

Stepping up is one thing, getting the job done is another.

Jim Christian

Some of my friends said I was taking the Kent job at the worst possible time. They said all I could do was go down.

Tim Roth

Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA.

Roy Roberts

Our whole line did a nice job of moving people around.

Michelle Sommers

Right now negotiations remain civil. We want to keep it that way. We want to get the job done.

C. S. Lewis

There seems no plan because it is all plan.

Kenneth Chenault

My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.

Louis Orr

I can't speak for Seton Hall. I don't know what their plans are. I can only speak for me and our team.

Bobby Shelton

There are no specific plans at this time.

Michael Barrett

There are no plans to do any of this, but we're monitoring the situation closely.

Thomas Kurth

There are no plans for this in the foreseeable future.

Jim Parker

We're in the process of making plans for this Sunday and beyond.

Charles R. Swindoll

God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense.

Dave Ramsey

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

Grady Little

Outstanding. He just getting his work in and getting ready for a big season.

Lois Frankel

Right now, the city, we're calm, we're under control, we're ready to go,

Samuel Pahlsson

Rested? I don't know, but I'm ready to go.

Paul Davis

I think this team is ready to get on a roll right now. I think this is the team you're going to start seeing.

Robinson Cano

I want to win a World Series, so I'm going down to spring training and get ready for the season.

Ben Broussard

I went up there ready to hit. I didn't want to take any pitches.

Christina Sims

The are just hopping ready to get there.

Ed Pinckney

That was a long time ago. I'm ready for another one.

M. Thompson

I was ready to take some shots. I'm not going to be shying away from shots.

Arun Sarin

Those were the big surprises for our shareholders,

Chris Walker

We don't play a very pretty game. It's ugly, and I think that surprises a lot of people.

Chris Walker

We don't play a real pretty game. It's ugly, and that's the way we like it. It surprises a lot of people.

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Peter Gade

Anyway, in the new system, many surprises could happen.

John Fischer

There's nothing really going on right now. I don't really understand these jumps. It surprises me the way it's been fluctuating.

Frank Morgan

Certainly, as expected, there were no real surprises here.

Patrick McDonald

What surprises me is (residents) want everything for nothing.

Franz Beckenbauer

It only surprises me that no one thought of it before.

Estelle

I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.

Simon Schama

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Gore Vidal

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

Ciara

I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.

Colleen Murphy

I think it's going to be great. Unless there's a blizzard.

Luke Waddington

I think it's discounted, unless they do something and do something decisive.

Rod Thorn

Unless we get very fortunate, ... we are not going to be a championship contender.

Robert Farmer

Unless they shrunk up over the years, he must not have been a real big fellow,