Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denzel Washington

Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch....

Kathryn Lasky

I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.

Liam Hemsworth

We're showing a situation that these kids are caught in and being forced to do but the violence is not glorified. Most of the kids in there are not wanting to be doing it.

John Callahan

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

Cathy Allinger

We're not caught up in terms of information and equipment.

Rodney Harrison

We're not caught up in history because what we've done in the past means nothing. As soon as you start feeling good about yourself, that's when you've set yourself up for failure.

Mike Kelly

Man, I started to get a little worried, but then I thought, it's just a balloon, it's not going to hurt anybody. But when the ropes got caught on the pole, I saw how much force it really had. Somebody could have gotten killed by this.

English Proverb

Make not the sauce till you have caught the fish.

Robert Brusca

LTCM didn't cause this; LTCM got caught up in this,

Mike Sirant

We accomplished what we set out to do. We had to continue a certain level of play from (Saturday) night, and for the most part we did.

Ron Agor

We always depended on her for information about people, certain organizations and their achievements.

Blaise Pascal

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Kerri Strug

You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I've learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference.

Kevin Love

Randy Wittman told me not to shoot 3-pointers. That got me very uncomfortable. There were certain labels tagged on me very early in my career, spots on the floor where I felt uncomfortable.

Kevin Love

When you're on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn't do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by - legacy. Go about things the right way.

Katie McGrath

I wasn't born an actress, but I was certainly born dramatic!

Johan Cruyff

Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.

Jason Ritter

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

David Hume

I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.

David Hume

Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable.

David Hume

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

August Wilson

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

Antonin Artaud

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

Antonin Artaud

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Dennis Miller

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

Al Yankovic

I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

David Walliams

It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.

David Ricardo

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

David Ricardo

But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.

David Ricardo

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

David Ricardo

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

David Hyde Pierce

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.

David Hockney

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.

David Hume

When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.

David Hume

The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

Antony Sher

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

Tom Waits

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

Karen Traviss

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

Jason Leffler

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

Carroll Quigley

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

Tim Shea

One of the things I'm trying to do, and we all need to do, is look outside our public schools.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

Vince McMahon

Obviously, we've got some time problems with doing a Pay-Per-View outside the country.

Sergei Bubka

She's a personality, not only for sports. She is very intelligent, and she's a star outside of sports.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

Brandon Marshall

I wouldn’t change any of my reactions

Larry Ellison

My first reaction is not if I live to a thousand years. But who knows?

Don Carty

My first reaction is it could have been a lot worse than it was.

Rolf Elgeti

We're seeing a technical reaction to yesterday's sell-off. But, I think we'll be seeing more selling Thursday and Friday.

Al Goldman

What has been going on is a very sharp reaction to a slowing economy.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, my reaction to that is it's sad.

Colin Morton

I would be surprised if the stock does not react pretty strongly.

Steve Friedman

If we're going to be able to react, we need to react quickly,

James Dines

We react in a way that has nothing do to with who we are or what our experiences have been,

Mark Begich

Let's not get caught up in the D.C. trap of Democrats versus Republicans. When you're in Alaska it's about what's important for Alaska.

Jennifer Lopez

She is so smart. But she is trapped in her body.

Spanish Proverb

I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap

Chuck Feeney

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

Andy Serkis

You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.

Tadashi Yanai

Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.

Fred Peters

They're trying to set some kind of trap for appeal, judge, but I don't think you have to go for it.

Teresa Kerry

this person was trying to trap me and I was not going to let him.

Harold Schaitberger

There's a breakdown. We've got firefighters still trapped in New Orleans.