Famous Quotes & Sayings

August Wilson

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

Adrian Moss

We always get better in practice because we have four strong, physical guys. It's got to be real hard to play against.

Diablo Cody

For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.

Al Capone

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

Clint Hurdle

We had been looking for that big hit, big swing for quite some time. I was looking for that at-bat since the fourth inning.

Ted Carmichael

We had a very good fourth quarter for employment.

Tina Brown

Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted.

Clayton Jolley

We're sending four people. That's a lot for our organization.

Perry Florio

We're just giving teams goals. You can't win giving three or four goals away.

David Icke

If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.

David Duchovny

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

Bear Grylls

Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

Barry Alvarez

We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.

Audre Lorde

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

Arnold Palmer

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it.

Arnold Palmer

I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.

Wes Parent

We actually had a 3-1 lead in the first period and then we ran into penalty trouble and they (Port Perry) scored two power-play goals to even the game at 3-3 after the first period.

Bruce Reichman

We always have a good game with them. They're a tough team. They're very physical and very well-coached.

David Icke

If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.

David Duchovny

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

Bear Grylls

Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

Barry Alvarez

We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.

Audre Lorde

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

Arnold Palmer

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it.

Arnold Palmer

I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.

Derek Jeter

I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them.

Derek Jeter

Nine games? It's too long.

David Ricardo

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Barry Commoner

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Alan Dershowitz

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

Charles Darwin

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Blaise Pascal

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Blaise Pascal

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

Blaise Pascal

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Douglas Fairbanks

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Thomas Couture

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Uday Kotak

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

Lee Majors

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

Kevin McCloud

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

Ronnie Milsap

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

Mack Brown

We did not have to show very much from a scheme point of view, ... and that's what we wanted.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

Cara Castronuova

I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

Rivers Cuomo

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.

Theodor Mommsen

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

Bob Garfield

We have a point of view on most stories that we do, but we're not ideological, ... We're not a show where everything comes from a left-wing perspective.

Ken Goldstein

One of the things this points out is that we're on the road to recovery, but the road is going to be bumpy -- it always is.

Mark Dyer

Obviously, we're getting closer. At some point in the calendar, we have to have negotiations with the one it comes down to.

Jeff Shaffer

No one point is more important than another.

John Grace

Macquarie may have to raise the offer. It's a question of what shareholders want.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Rep. Schultheis

We're here to represent our constituents, and there's no question they want this bill.

Meggie Ford

This question may as well be in Chinese.

Steve Bietau

She is not 100 percent, and we know that. Right now, it?s a question that we don?t know how to answer.

James Rubin

Mr. Haider is still going to be governor, as I understand the reports, and still going to be in the party. So the question is what the party's role will be in the Austrian government.

John Hunter

set out systematically to question every established process.

John Fitzgibbon

Semiconductors have always done well, ... The question is how well.

Stuart Klaskin

The possibility of a strike exists. There is no question about it. The possibility is distant, but it exists.

Brian K. Vaughan

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

Lucius Thomas

But rallying the troops turned it around for me to some extent.

Robert Kiyosaki

Texans don't bury their failures. They get inspired by them. They take their failures and turn them into rallying cries. Failure inspires Texans to become winners. But that formula is not just the formula for Texans. It is formula for all winners.

Betty Buckley

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

Paul Parkin

There was a standing ovation. There was raucous applause. I think it will become a rallying cry.

Pranab Mukherjee

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.

James Connolly

The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.

Valentino Rossi

But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.

David Keith

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

Bethany Mota

I remember when I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to come over and we would give each other blindfolded makeovers, which turned out interestingly to say the least!

Amy Pascal

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!

Michael Mosley

In the sixth grade, I auditioned for a play called 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.' I got the lead, and I was terrified, but I went and did it.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

John Ferguson

This is the sixth year we've (hosted the memorial).

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Audra McDonald

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Timothy Tyson

Nonviolent, yes. Passive, no. He was nonviolent, but he marched through the South like Sherman through Georgia.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Brad Pitt

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

Jamie Foxx

I'm a southern gentleman.

Fred Coan

We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

Peter Flynn

We want students to take these tests very seriously,

Andrea Ruedi

We'd especially like to see students from the hospitality program.

Robert Mason

We have a school, ... The students know they have a school.

Carmen Davis

There are unhappy parents, students and staff. The only ones who are happy are the administration.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Jane Jacobs

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Jan Morris

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

Dennis Kucinich

We show our support and love the troops, whatever our opinion.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Kathleen Blanco

Let's just support the Saints. That's what I say.

Vandana Shiva

My travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology. They are not really different, except that there is an added dimension of seeing ecological destruction and seeing the very life-support system that makes us survive on this planet being destroyed. That makes me do more than just inquire; it compels me to act and to intervene.

Thomas Collins

We are here to support ECOMIL and we want them to succeed.

Jason Chaffetz

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.

Janez Drnovsek

It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO.

Ayn Rand

The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Joel Quenneville

He's had a tremendous year, I'll tell you,

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.