Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

Wesley Clark

I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'

Viswanathan Anand

I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!

Constance Marie

Family to me is foundation. It's the people that you can call on whether you love them or hate them. When push comes to shove, they're there for you, and that's kind of how this family is.

Chris Carter

If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the 'saga' of 'The X-Files.'

Don Rickles

I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

Rob Bishop

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

Martin Lapointe

The overtime calls hurt the game. It's a big game, a big rivalry. the refs should let us play. I guess this is the new NHL. To lose a game on a cheap penalty is not the way to play hockey.

Constantin Brancusi

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Dan Garofano

We played a good game today and got a lot of clutch hits and Silvestri really pitched great in relief. Districts are at the end of the month and we're right in there with everyone. Pasco has a couple games lead and then the rest of us are all bunched in there together.

J. J. Johnson

We had a problem in the fuel system on the first pass and still ran 4.77, ... It should have been a better run than that. The clutch didn't wear properly and it shook the tires on the night run. The weather will be decent on Saturday, so we should be able to run between a 4.73-4.75 and get into the top half of the field.

Paul Chappell

With this hand, you can clutch objects such as a ball, ... you can move the thumb out to the side and grip objects with the index finger in the way you do when opening a lock with a key.

Ivan Perez

We struggled in the clutch to make plays. I would say it's hard to play away from home in front of 6,000 people yelling at you. They got into us.

Tim Connolly

We're in Canada, so I might get to see it on TV. We get a clutch goal when we need it, and that's what happened.

Linn Williams

We're still not getting clutch hits. That's been our Achilles' heel all year.

Jeff Kane

Ultimately, our defense let us down the entire week, and we were unable to generate a lot of offense or come up with clutch hits.

John Gibbons

You watch Ortiz over the past few years and there is not a more clutch guy in the game.

Keith Castner

You've got to get clutch hits when someone's on second base, and we did. We've been struggling in that category, so that was good to see.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

Emilia Fox

I have a heart tattoo on the inside of my middle finger on my left hand.

Ronald Kessler

We plan to stay with this group over the next two years so that we can keep our fingers on the psychological pulse of this population.

Trombone Shorty

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

Ben Hatfield

We're not going to get into the violation history or finger pointing. That's in no one's interest at this point.

Nate Holland

I go to all of the trade shows, know a lot of the people making marketing decisions, and I want to keep my finger on the pulse of snowboarding.

Brian Celio

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

Bill Hemmer

You know what, point the finger at the police for doing something incorrectly or not.

Peter Moores

We have more than 200 suppliers and I'm not going to point the finger at any one of them.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

Ronald Kessler

We plan to stay with this group over the next two years so that we can keep our fingers on the psychological pulse of this population.

John Grahame

With the wind chill, it's forecast to be that way Monday, so we kind of got our fingers crossed.

Denis Leary

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Chris Carpenter

When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing happened when I went up to hit.

John Chaney

You can't put your fingers in any hole to stop this team.

Tony Gannon

These are not just babysitting camps. We like to get their hands and fingers moving.

Eric Wilson

No one is getting help here. There is one number to phone for Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Everybody's fingers are getting numb trying to get attention, and we are not getting it.

Carol Bellamy

We still have to learn the lesson of the grip poverty has,

Rose Nix

You can't take it too seriously. One day, you're going to hang up those grips and when you look back, you don't want it to have been so serious that it's not fun.

Aaron Small

Mel taught me a new grip on my sinker in spring training, and I've used it all year, ... It has really helped me.

Richard Bilotti

Warner has to come to grips on its spending. They don't need all that to open a film when Wal-Mart is more important.

Gary Clausen

Joey will be ready to play. He's a tough kid. The hand might be a little tender for a while and it could give him a little trouble when he grips the bat, but it's not broken. And it's not his pitching hand.

Valentino Rossi

We made some modifications in order to improve the acceleration and unfortunately we lost a lot of grip in braking.

Sloane Stephens

I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip.

Bill Hancock

It's a huge organization that's trying to get a grip on its own problems.

Akinori Otsuka

I couldn't get a grip and hooked it a little too much.

Jeff Valdez

When I got into this business, the 18-34-year-old thing was hammered into me.

Carol Smith

We hammered the walls in the pouring rain, in the mud.

Arthur Bloch

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

Mick Durham

We've tried to hammer home a lot of different points.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.

John Philip Sousa

You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

Willis Reed

All I can say is that those nails dodged the hammer a lot. I would not hire Walton and Artis to work on my house.

Billy Connolly

If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.

Erwin Rommel

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

Abraham Torres

The overall way it is being handled for public relations and for the whole hospital is wrong.

Dale Romans

The pedigree says he should handle the distance, and he trains like it, too.

Dennis Christopher

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.

Brad Shove

We pretty much lost this one in the first half. We played very poorly. We didn't put enough pressure on them. We had to do a better job of getting our hands up. They got too many open shots.

Vint Cerf

In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.

Susan Sontag

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

Ernest Hemingway

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

Lynn Coady

Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

Pierre de Coubertin

In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.

Connie Mack

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

Amisha Patel

Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.

David Pratt

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

David Eagleman

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

Neil Strauss

There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there's a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It's a shame.

Jo Maso

We prefer to keep managing it (the strain). Frederic wanted to train from Wednesday morning but we prefer to hold him back.

Anthony D'Angelo

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

William Kingdon Clifford

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

Victor Valdes

We are not going to hold back, we want to win the title as quickly as possible.

Brian Randle

We prayed for them in the locker room.

Peter Quinn

We are not locking ourselves into any set of technologies, ... We're looking at a standard format. There are a number of technologies that can accommodate the format.

Natalie Coughlin

I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.

Paulo Coelho

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Denham Brown

We seniors took it upon ourselves to lock him up and not let him get started.

Stan Wasowski

We are locked into a weather pattern right now.

Criss Angel

Picking locks or handcuffs for me is not really a big deal, I can do it pretty much in seconds, I've been doing since I was 14 years old. I used to sit on my bed as a kid with a pick set and you know just picking locks and stuff, so I'm used to it.

Ken Dulaney

Unfortunately, the only way to really secure a PDA is the lock it into a vault.

Tom McMahon

We're still trying to lock down how to reward the winner.

Chet Faker

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

Joseph Grundfest

The pig may have moved through the python.

Corey Johnson

Whatever happens, happens. Accept things and move on.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Matt Anderson

We played well for our first game. We're still trying to move them around and get them comfortable with each other.

Stephen Bell

We played a little better today, but still not as well as we can. We were able to move up one spot today and still have a shot to win with a solid round on Wednesday.

Mary Tyler Moore

I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.

Lizzo

I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Martin Puryear

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Philip Johnson

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.

John Burnside

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

Julie Harris

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

Roland Barthes

The Text is not a definitive object.

Rumi

No better love than love with no object

L.A. Reid

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

Pokey Chatman

Usually when I give my opening statement, I can find something that's wrong. But, there wasn't a whole lot tonight.

Bill Richardson

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Ed Helms

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

Alan Horowitz

We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.

Robert Niro

(United) 93,' if it was not opening the festival, it would seem strange.

Dave Wannstedt

With us, everything is sort of new, from a personnel standpoint. Simonitis is really the only one that was in the lineup on Opening Day a year ago.

Nora Ephron

Another thing you end up doing when you get older, is you spend so much time sort of trying desperately to keep from just looking just a little older. You're just constantly putting stuff on your face and having things removed from yourself and opening up copies of "Vogue" so that you can find new ways to throw whatever money you've managed to save into the arms of some doctor who has just come up with a new way of lasering your face that feels like electroshock and all these things.

Nikola Tesla

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Christine Ebersole

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

Meles Zenawi

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

James Howard Kunstler

Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.

Alan Cohen

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Millard Fillmore

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Nydia Velazquez

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

Lauren Lapkus

I'm more of a tomboy - I fall into the jeans-and-a-T-shirt style, for sure - but I have a girlie side to me.

Missy Elliott

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

John Hendricks

We got to get things going on the other side of the ball.

Henry Markram

Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

Twyla Tharp

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

Charles Long

We're working on getting the sidewalk buttoned up.

Charlie Ergen

The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer,

Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Vidya Balan

Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.

Ben Casnocha

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

Michael Sheen

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.

James Joyce

Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

John Podhoretz

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

Joko Beck

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

Arthur Baer

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Bruce Schneier

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Ken Hitchcock

We can't get all wrapped up in what's going on,

Jim Gaffigan

You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.

Tom Epstein

We want to wrap this up by the end of the month.

Monica Johnson

It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.

Tyler Perry

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

Mayor Goulbourne

It should all be wrapped up by week's end.

Keith Kameg

This could have been wrapped up that night.

Patti LaBelle

They were wrapped up in blankets. They couldn't clap.

David Levithan

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.