Famous Quotes & Sayings

Minnesota Fats

Paul Newman is not a very good pool player.

Sarah Caldwell

Success is important only to the extent that it.

Joshua A. Norton

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

Betty Hill

Well all you could see was the lights.

Maureen Reagan

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

Joe Davis

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

Jim Lampley

I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.

Sarah Caldwell

That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.

Rocco DiSpirito

The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.

Tony Robichaux

Regardless of what happens Tuesday (tonight), we're not going to carry it into the weekend. When this one's over, we'll immediately start thinking about and getting ready for the weekend.

Shane Battier

Pau is doing a great job. He's carrying the team and had a huge night.

Jim Sherman

Our offense has had to carry us and the hitters have really stepped up. To be able to maintain the pace we've set lately has really been something special. And it's not just one or two guys -- it's everybody we send out there.

Justin Johnson

Our offensive line is going to carry us through the season. We've got four returning starters on the line.

Glenn Takara

Our defense was good. We gotta try to carry it over to the next game. We can still get better, but we're on the right path now.

James Seals

supplying enough of the right resources for the child protection system to carry out its three-fold mission (protecting children, preserving families and providing permanent homes for children.)

Fu Mengzi

Such frequent mutual visits show China and the United States carry out high-level communication free of obstruction, which is conducive to the improvement of bilateral ties.

Jerry Rickrode

Steve has really improved. His intensity picked up to a different level, but you can never rely on a freshman to carry your team.

James Jones

Steve does a great job of getting everyone involved. When we're balanced, we're unbeatable. But when we rely on one or two guys to carry us, we're in trouble.

Gene Brockman

Our contribution could be contingent on what they (the fire district) decide to do.

Barry Axelrod

I think the Reds are our most viable alternative. We've talked to some other clubs, but those have been contingent discussions.

William Massey

Just about all the private funding has been contingent on our having the signed lease with the county.

Mike Greene

He's planning to be back for Saturday's game, but that's all contingent on how his mother is feeling.

Wilhelm Leibniz

There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.

Joel Staff

We have a number of new products rolling out. Some of them are contingent on what happens to natural gas prices.

Judith Butler

There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.

Gottfried Leibniz

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

Aaron Zapata

There are many sellers who have contingent offers on properties that they're having to withdraw because they're not getting their homes sold.

Brian Mason

People literally are dying on the transplant list who could be cured with this,

Gary Lewis

Over 90 percent of patients with APL are cured because of overall treatment of chemotherapy and retinoic acid, ... If you're cured, you're cured, but if it would happen to relapse, another arsenic derivative can be used as treatment to cure the disease the second time around.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

Guru Singh

I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of the Guru, who has eradicated evil, and instructed me in virtue.

Hugh Kingsmill

But bacon's not the only thing / That's cured by hanging from a string.

Seneca

Give yourself time and room; what reason could not avoid, delay has often cured

Mao Tse-Tung

So long as a person who has made mistakes. . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade.

William Taylor

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

Graham Moore

In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.

Tom Shannon

Our respective governments have very different visions for the hemisphere.

Glen Tullman

Our vision is to become indispensable to physicians.

Lester Snow

We need a different long-term vision for the Delta.

Bill Bradley

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

Charles R. Swindoll

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

Charles R. Swindoll

Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.

Bill Hybels

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Bill Hybels

It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.

Bill Hybels

You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.