Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. Walker

Regardless of people's skepticism, I am pursuing what is (and has been) my dream for my own purposes. I appreciate the importance that so many others have placed on this effort, but I would still do it if I was alone and no one was watching.

Andrew Bacevich

Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

St. Teresa

Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth in nothing is wanting; alone God sufficeth.

John Schneider

People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

Annie Dillard

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Richard Doherty

Stern alone can make Sirius bigger than XM within a year.

Jamelle McMillan

Starting off I think there were doubts. Nobody outside of our school, maybe even our gym, thought we were going to be here, let alone in state, period.

Rachel Platten

'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

Chris Heaney

Our goal is always to win state, so those goals will stay the same. Bringing him in here with 500 wins, that alone will help us greatly.

Jill Stelfox

Patent infringement is a reality in the wireless space. It's an operating distraction, yes. There are only so many fights that you can pick. Though in a way, it also has a value because it ultimately shows people the value of what's being developed in this space and how important it is.

Romesh Wadhwani

I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you're gone.

Leo Kottke

It is another universe. ... It's encouraging to find out that you can still flex. I did have the hunch that I had probably developed some rock-hard habits by now. But it's not like that at all.

Sol Stern

I think there are some people on the right who keep some distance from him, because they regard him as still radical. The techniques we developed at Ramparts live on. We deliberately tried to be provocative -- we went for the jugular, we could be nasty with our opponents.

Edmund Phelps

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

Melvin Maddocks

It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.

Ben Kingsley

I think that the stamina, the marathon stamina that you required of your actor, I probably developed on great texts during my Shakespeare tenancy, if you like.

Jeff Ross

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Cleve Touchberry

I think her leadership status has developed and is good. I think a lot of people knew about her, but her performance in the state championship game opened a lot of other people's eyes, too.

Pat Robertson

(Regarding his prayers to keep Hurricane Gloria away from Virginia Beach) It was 'extremely important because I felt that if I couldn't move a hurricane, I could hardly move a nation

Nancy Lopez

Paula can't wait to get out of the gate. She's ready to play, so I felt playing her first was important. She has not stopped talking about playing in this event. She's excited. I love it. I want her to get out there and do it.

Marty Hickman

Our membership felt that something had to be done to level the playing field.

Kevin Huck

Our motivation was way up. We felt like we needed to come out and prove ourselves.

Charles Ramsey

Suffice it to say it took a few interviews, but we did get the information we felt was important at the time,

Sarah Parker

Suddenly, I felt like I was wearing patchouli in a room full of Chanel.

Rod Argent

Suddenly, and for the first time in all these years, it felt honest and right to include the name 'Zombies' somewhere on the album.

I. Stone

State, repeat. It felt so good. There was, like, five seconds, and I was thinking 'hold the ball.' It felt so good.

Joe Wilhelm

Stanford is the No. 7 team in the nation, and we were with them the whole way. I felt we raced a lot better on Sunday.

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Relatively speaking, Japan looks the least uncertain market in regard to politics and the economy.

Christo

We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.

Stacey Widlitz

Japan turned positive after seven quarters of negative comparisons. That's the story here.

Junichiro Koizumi

Japan must import most of its oil from abroad. There is much that we can do for each other.

John Roos

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

Masayoshi Son

Japan has the infrastructure for this kind of service, so it would be a shame not to use it.

Ed Loyd

Japan has taken a number of positive steps, but they've been small tentative steps and they've been painfully slow.

Chris Reilly

Japan hasn't seen much recovery in housing. But inflationary pressures in Japan could be very positive for properties.

Robert Bach

Japanese software will be developed. It will be a breakthrough in Japan.

Robert Bach

Japanese software will be developed. It will be a breakthrough in Japan.

Steve Sawyer

The Americans, Saudis and Japanese have got what they want.

John Danforth

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

Shu Qi

I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.

Clyde Prestowitz

I think the Japanese are in a very tough dilemma,

Pam Gregory

She got to see some of the Japanese skaters doing quad jumps and triple Axels, and it got her motivated.

Makoto Watanabe

She has shown that at 36, it is not too late for a Japanese woman to get married and have a family,

Liu Jinping

Since then there's been no boycotts of Japanese products at all.

Toshihiro Wada

We are going overweight in Japanese stocks, which have a strong momentum and solid fundamentals.

Connie Lemos

Our mother did not want them to take Ritchie's name and whitewash it and they didn't. She liked it.

Reggie Larry

Out of all the schools that I was recruited by, they stuck with me from the beginning. I really liked them. I like it out in Idaho. Going up and meeting everybody, I liked all the coaches. It was not just about basketball, they're very sociable and you could talk to them about everything.

Sean Berdy

Planking is not as easy as you think, but it was very addicting to do in public! I liked the fun attention from the people when planking.

Jeff Sessions

I might have liked a different type nominee myself, but that's the president's choice.

Tom Moffett

We noticed in the paper they liked to shoot a lot of threes and we wanted to take that away from them.

Robert Pires

I will remind him of that one for sure, ... I was pleased with that, I liked it very much.

Mitch Hedberg

I wrote a script for a guy, and he said he liked it but he thought that I need to rewrite it. I said, Screw that, I'll just make a copy.

Jason Patric

I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.

Kaley Cuoco

I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

A. J. McLean

I shop more than most women.

Charles Baudelaire

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

Etta James

I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

Richard Bach

Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.

Brett Ellis

Some of them are $40,000, and they've been sitting there for 120 days.

Mariella Ruocco

Somehow they sensed the seriousness of the situation and they stayed in the car.

Pierre Lacroix

That day was like sitting on the ice. Now we're sitting in the whirlpool.

Jaswant Singh

Other than sitting and talking to Pakistan, we can't do much more,

Laveranues Coles

Well, all I can say about that situation is, things come to the surface,

Bill Richardson

we'll all end up sitting in the dark.

Bill Bryson

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

Rahul Gandhi

I will speak to you tomorrow and till then I will sit there (among the delegates).

Ice Cube

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. You have to get it out in the open. You have to talk about it.

Patricia Marx

'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.

Robin Lord Taylor

I'm very loyal. Sociable to a certain extent. Neurotic, too.

Maria Fernandez

He's very sociable -- he blends into any type of crowd.

Cecelia Ahern

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

Bill Bryson

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

Mario Pescante

I will speak with him about doping. We are optimistic.

Linda Casey

I think it speaks to the convenience of convenience stores.

Mario Pescante

I will speak with (Rogge) about doping, ... We are optimistic.

Antoine Hood

I think I can speak for everyone on this team when I say he had our trust from Day 1.

Randy Couture

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Tiger Woods

I can't speak for him, but I did not play well at all.

Mike Holmgren

I want to see how they come out after halftime, ... stamina and so forth.

Mike Holmgren

He told me, 'I feel better,' ... He has his conditioning and he doesn't get as winded as he has a little more stamina and strength.

Michael Phelps

I got the stamina. I can close.

Bill Cosby

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

Carrie Chapman Catt

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

Carrie Fisher

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair,

Bertrand Russell

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

Heidi Klum

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Charles Barron

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

Billy Boyd

I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.

Ayn Rand

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Ben Goldacre

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

Jami Attenberg

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Harold King

That's what I thought when I wrote it,

James Frey

I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate, absolutely.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.