Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Butler

We've avoided a race because it is inappropriate, and it may make you make some bad decisions. The damage is not just to the patient but the reputation of the whole field.

John Stossel

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

Randy Fletcher

When we went to the zone, we played well. I don't like to go to the zone, but we've been playing it and playing it fairly well. The one time we went to sleep and they came right up and hit a three. But, we sucked it up and caused some bad shots.

Roger Hansen

When I was over there, I was quite surprised with how fast they adjusted because of their flexibility and their feet. I never saw a kid in pro ball with bad feet or bad hands. If you've got that, you can adjust from there.

Mike Pelfrey

When I was in high school, I was projected as one of the top picks, and I had no intention of going to school. But, I had a bad senior year and I fell. Looking back, if I had gone (pro) out of high school, I would not have made it. I wasn't mature enough. ... Going to college was the best thing I ever did.

Sam Claflin

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.

Margaret Johnston

To my delight, instead of the usual unkempt, gum-chewing, tobacco-scented, tired and bored woman in a bad part of town, I was greeted by a lovely, clean, organized and educated lady with a deep and true love of children.

John Shaughnessy

We're making it tougher and tougher for the bad guys,

Lee Miller

We're spending a lot of money. We have to take advantage of this bad weather,

Joe Biden

When we were in the Balkans, we, in fact, dealt with the Croats as well as the Serbs according to the Dayton accords...

Linda Lightfoot

When we were dealing with the paper world and you were allowed to see the file, you could view the ideas that went into policy development. E-mail is very easy to be lost, and it is a lot more difficult to follow.

Tom Daschle

When I was accused of being an obstructionist, there was a corresponding, a very significant increase in the number of issues that my family and I had to deal with. And I worry about that,

Willa Cather

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Mike Keating

We're mindful that looting is a possibility and we have the resources if we need to deal with it.

Boeing Co

We remain confident a deal will be completed in the near future.

Joshua Slen

We're staffed to deal with thousands of calls, as long as they don't all come at the same time.

Marlon Cook

We're sort of a little behind on it, but we're dealing with it as quickly as we can.

Norman Blake

We're so much happier now. We were in a position we didn't want to be in, dealing with labels that didn't know what to do with us. This album is on our own label, and we're responsible for every aspect of the release.

Chogyam Trungpa

The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.

S. Hughes

Words of Muslims are important. It's important for people to know that Muslims think that terrorism is the epitome of injustice because it targets innocent people. People need to hear those words, and they're more credible from Muslims themselves.

Elizabeth Taylor

Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.

Brad Goreski

Marilyn Monroe to me is the epitome of glamour, and always has been since I was a kid.

Paul Epstein

I would have to say that the modern Sam Goody store is the epitome of what has gone wrong in the music retail world. It doesn't surprise me that this has happened, although I am not happy about it.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound.

Ted Cruz

On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.

John Dunlap

Glen was the epitome of the servant leader that Southeastern is all about. He's always willing to help anybody, anywhere, any time. That was his legacy.

Jackson Katz

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.

Bill Brown

We're going to pillage the three law offices and the Birch Funeral Home.

Charles Lamb

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Charles Bradlaugh

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Charlie Munger

I'd say 3/4 of advertising works on pure Pavlov. Think how association, pure association, works. Take Coca-Cola company (we're the biggest share-holder). They want to be associated with every wonderful image: heroics in the Olympics, wonderful music, you name it. They don't want to be associated with presidents' funerals and so-forth.

William Shakespeare

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Bill Murray

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.

Brendan Behan

I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.

Ella R. Bloor

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

Judi Dench

Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.

Sid Luft

When we got married in the early '50s, Judy was still very beautiful. She was only 5 foot tall just a shrimp of a girl, really but she had a very sensuous body and, up close, her skin was like porcelain, pure white. I was crazy about her. She had incredibly kissable lips.

Colleen Stogsdill

When we first walked in there to eat, we fell in love with it. We've been married for 20 years and we'd always wanted to own a restaurant. It had a good location and we live in Canby so that made it really nice.

Judy Morgan

Years later, we added up the time we had spent together before we got married and discovered that it was only a mere 30 days or so. It worked for us, but I sure didn't recommend it to my children.

Chris Cleave

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

Chirlane McCray

I'm married, I'm monogamous, but I'm not dead, and Bill isn't either.

Chirlane McCray

In the 1970s, I identified as a lesbian and wrote about it. In 1991, I met the love of my life, married him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Bipasha Basu

My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.

Paul Robeson

Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

Charles Spurgeon

To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.

Letitia Baldrige

I think it's the epitome of bad taste. There are only three things that should not be commercialized: when you are born, when you get married and when you die. You should not make a deal with a funeral parlor to get publicity, and it's very bad taste to get publicity for a wedding.

Navarrete Ashford

We now have an ice cream parlor with old-fashioned sodas.

Ken Sawyer

If anyone looks at this at all, they'll see this is about an illegal activity and not a legalized slots parlor. And the NHL's position is very clear. The league is against gambling on hockey. A slots parlor is about a gaming operation involving slots.

John Garrott

She enjoyed the bingo parlor and that's what she was doing the night that she was killed. She was coming back from that. She was doing something that she loved anyway.

Charles Fort

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

Thomas Gibson

When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band play, and I just loved Louis Armstrong and the sound of his voice, and I got up there with the band and started singing Louis Armstrong songs when I was a kid. I have no idea why, but I did it and I loved it.

Pete Fenson

We actually had a shoot at a pizza parlor the other day. They had me in the kitchen making pizza.

Charles Manson

If it wasn't for the publicity, I would've been out of here and gone a long time ago.

Jose Theodore

When you start you lose your focus, you don't play as well. You can't get distracted by good publicity or bad. You have to make sure you do your job and that's what he's been doing.

Cathy Freeman

I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia.

Bill Moyers

News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.

Barbara Corcoran

The power of publicity is more important than advertising.

Ava Gardner

Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

Brendan Behan

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

Brendan Behan

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

Brendan Behan

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

David Berkowitz

We're making very good progress, but we're not stopping there. We're working with manufacturers to reduce fat and sodium in things like salad dressing ... and we're going to continue to work to make the food taste as good as it can taste.

Scott Gomez

We're going to face a different club. They got a lot of young guys who got their first taste of it. We've got to be ready for that on Monday night.

Rob Davis

What this is all about is getting a taste of success. It doesn't matter who you beat, once you know what it takes to win, you'll work harder and that opens up other opportunities.

Anais Nin

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection

Lee Youngblood

What he has consistently told the president, for several years now, is that if we do have some sort of guest worker program, it shouldn't smell, taste or look like an amnesty program.

Brian Billick

We both want that nasty, foul taste out of our mouths from last Sunday. All but early in the season, there's a lot riding on it right now.

Ron Meyer

Universal had its most profitable year ever in 2005 due in no small part to Marc, whose impact on this company has been the foundation for its unique culture and its far-ranging achievements, His combination of strengths is unique in that he has been able to attract exceptional creative talent in a specialty film environment and at the same time is revered in the global sales and distribution community for his taste and acumen.

Robert Rodriguez

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Brendan Gaughan

We feel that we're still going to win but it has taken a lot to get us there. I'm actually pretty happy it was this hard; if it would have come easy, it would have felt maybe a little less satisfying. When this win does come -- and it will come -- it'll make everything feel and taste so much better.

John Carr

We've always said controllers are like runways -- it takes three to five years to make a good one,

Jamie Dixon

We've always played three guards in certain instances over the years. A number of programs do that. Oftentimes, your smaller players are your better players. Last year, our bigger guys were our better players.

Philip Goodhart

We've always had a broader cultural coverage, particularly in the last three or four years We have short stories in every issue. We have more of an interior life. Perhaps the mistake was not to make more noise about that in the earlier issues.

Adam Rothberg

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

Ozzie Guillen

When we were really struggling, you didn't see guys get two hits in a game. Any time someone got one hit, one walk -- nobody could put it together. Tonight when we were hitting the ball, one guy got three hits, one had two RBIs, one had two hits, all of a sudden you don't need nine guys to get a hit -- just two or three to get a hit at the right time.

Arron Afflalo

When we were down nine, it became a kind of desperation time for us. But three minutes is a long time.

Marty Schottenheimer

When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner.

Jason Peters

When I was little I'd design these dresses and show them to my family. There'd always be three or four or five (designs) on the fridge.

Justina Machado

When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling; I was never anorexic, just picky. When I was in my 30s, I'd go back and forth, now that I'm 41, I'm like, 'Whatever, man!' For the most part, I just do a regular workout.