Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Potter

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

Michael Brewer

When you said you were a battered husband, you intended that someone battered you?

Nasser Hussain

One thing I'm not going to do is walk away from this team in their present bruised and battered state and give it to some young lad and say, 'Here, you take them out there,'

Ari Schwartz

He followed them from battered women's shelter to battered women's shelter. That's kind of the worst-case scenario.

Linda Chavez

I don't believe what I did with Marta was illegal or was unethical or wrong, ... She was being battered and I invited her into my home. I provided her with assistance, I helped her get back to Guatemala, and I believe that was an act of compassion.

Chris Broad

He's a bit sore, battered and bruised but he has no broken bones. He was taken to hospital but was allowed home last night. He's having a couple of days off and hopefully he'll be back for the weekend. We'll just have to wait and see.

Georgia Johnson

I battered the cordons around me/ And cradled my wings on the breeze,/ Then soared to the uttermost reaches/ With rapture, with power, with ease!

Mario Cipollini

I'm all battered and I feel pain but I hope I can continue. My goal is to win a stage soon.

Dave Kiser

Kari has carried us on the boards all year. She has improved so much. She put in a lot of time in the off-season. When it comes to the state tournament they just don't call as many fouls, especially off the ball. She's been bruised, battered and bloody. She's a warrior. I love her game.

Janet Jackson

When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat - I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.

Rick Oltman

What we're saying is the law needs to be applied. The law needs to be followed and that means the law for everyone, not just the illegal alien Mexicans but people who are here illegally from Europe and from around the world.

Norman Black

We believe we followed every state regulation and rule interpretation and application at the time we were exiting the insurance business.

Louis Leakey

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Martin Jacques

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.

Luke Hemsworth

I don't think most people decide to become an actor because they want to be followed around all the time... I see it when I'm with my brothers, and I don't get it. I don't understand why someone wants to take a photo of us getting out of a car or on the beach. I think that's really weird.

Tamika Williams

Wow, I'm getting old. She followed me at my old high school.

Ken Mehlman

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

Butch Davis

We're going to survey the hotels and motels in town. There's a real nice shelter at Family Faith Church, ... and we're going to solicit the hotels and see what comes out of it. The hotel population right now is still between 500 and 600.

Tony Williams

What all of us heard (at Monday night's public hearing) is that the animal shelter is not open enough. I think we need to do a better job of organizing it so that it's more available to the public,

Mike Ferguson

We got to the First Baptist Church of Baton Rouge, which had been converted into a shelter for several dozen mothers and newborn infants, and I found the pastor and asked him to put me to work, ... He told me to collect the trash.

Rebecca Ferguson

Work made me more streetwise because you can be so sheltered at home. I'd definitely encourage my kids Lillie and Karl, who are nine and seven, to get Saturday jobs in the future.

J. Taylor

We're fortunate that we had family to help us evacuate. If not for them, we'd probably be in a shelter somewhere with all those other people. My father wired us money from Maine and Robert's grandparents and parents also wired us money for the trip. Everybody in the family wanted us to leave Gulfport.

Charlie Munger

You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me that they're better [than the others] because they only sold [the schemes] to their top-20 clients, so no-one would notice.

Leigh Foreman

We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of this tragedy. It appears that most of the shelters ordered by FEMA have now been produced, but we do expect to see some carryover into 2006. In addition, industry sales in 2006 may increase due both to the need to replenish dealer lots that were depleted while manufacturers diverted their production capabilities to filling FEMA orders, and the permanent rebuilding of the hurricane-stricken areas.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Roberto Moreno

When you talk to these children, money and shelter is an issue that they're painfully aware of. We got the same question over and over again. They just absolutely had to be sure.