Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Asprin

Our mutual love of movie trivia factors occasionally in the 'Bone' character. It crops up a bit more in the 'Maestro' character.

John Sladek

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

Kenny Harrison

Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.

Gregg Easterbrook

Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved.

Mark Twain

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

John Sladek

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Tammy Bruce

We live now in a milieu that tells us anything goes, everything is okay, and all ideas and behaviours have merit. That's hogwash, and you know it.

Viktor Yushchenko

recognition, but not only recognition of my work, but actually the efforts that were made by my people in the course of many, many centuries in their attempts to get their freedom. Independence cost a lot for Ukraine, and probably freedom cost even more than that.

Robert Ward

Pay us a certain amount, pay us every month, make an attempt to pay this, but they say no.

Kenneth Posner

Payment associations have market power because they are owned and controlled by groups of banks. The public MasterCard would have independent directors and a governance system that would make it clear that it would not be attempting to collude in setting an interchange fee.

Tom Benson

Our main concern is with the people of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region who have experienced the recent tragedy. We are attempting to carry on in these difficult times and are looking out for the best interest of our coaches, staff, players and their families. My prayers are with each of those who have been adversely impacted.

David Gilmour

Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I don't claim responsibility and don't hold any great truck with.

Bill Thomas

People inside the house have stated she was banging on the door, attempting to regain entry.

Kehlog Albran

Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.

Kevin Honea

State Route 160 is not a new problem with the Highway Patrol. It's been our deadliest beat for the last three or four years, at least. This is an attempt on cutting down on the accident-causing violations.

Mark Souder

Springfield's attempt to eliminate our base totally failed,

Jamie Zawinski

I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

Scott Simms

There are no set plans. But development could coexist with the spent fuel storage.

Adam Blankman

Now that the world economy is on firmer footing, investors have grown skeptical that rapid growth can coexist with tame inflation.

Colin Trevorrow

Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.

Skip Bertman

When pro and college teams try to coexist long term, ... the college team usually loses.

Jan Denise

When I'm tempted to do something that feels like giving up, I won't ... because love doesn't give up (I Corinthians, 13). But, lest I push love aside, I will make sure that what I'm holding on to can coexist with love.

Deepak Chopra

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

Leonard Susskind

Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.

George Foresman

I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.

Bebe Neuwirth

I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn't like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you're] not part of the people in the bar.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Are you keeping anything else from me?” “I’m keeping a lot of things from you.” “Like?” “Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

Barry McCaffrey

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

B. H. Liddell Hart

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

Larry Martin

We need plans and ideas from outside this committee.

Billy Corgan

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

Bill Shankly

My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

Bill Crawford

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

Bhagat Singh

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.

Mohammed Aldouri

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq.

Abraham Lincoln

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

Denis Healey

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

David Horsey

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable either for recreation, science or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. It follows, then, that any wilderness program is a rearguard action, through which retreats are reduced to a minimum.

Anna Sui

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

Lynsey Addario

I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.

Bobby Jindal

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

Antonis Samaras

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool...

Allard Baird

It is all quiet there. There's nothing new, right now.

Michael Manning

He said he killed a woman. He told us to be quiet because we will get into trouble too,

Plaxico Burress

He's kind of got a little quiet 'Eli swagger' about him. You can actually sense that he's being more vocal and he understands that it's his team.

Gary Thompson

He was a better shooter than anything. He was a quiet leader. He did it with his actions, and the respect he had for his teammates.

Cindy Miller

He was a quiet guy, but not in a weird way. Just quiet.

Harry Pachon

He was a quiet ground-breaker, ... Many of his accomplishments go unrecognized because he did things in a quiet way.

Carla Bruni

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

Michelle Duffey

(Miranda) can't sit quiet for very long, so she'd be talking to somebody.

Jill Soloway

I'm a naturally open person - some might say radically open.

Jonathan Ive

It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.