Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Labov

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.

Chet Faker

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

Evangeline Lilly

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

Geoff Garin

The polls are pretty clear that voters want limits on the government's power.

Glynn Birch

The poll clearly shows this is a major concern, especially during the holidays because of increased drinking and increased driving.

E. B. White

The police said the woman had been talking to my daughter, but she never actually met up with her. They have cleared this woman of everything.

Katsuya Okada

The overall situation has now become clear ... the DPJ has suffered a great setback.

Kathleen Blanco

The path that I've outlined - moving our people from shelters or the homes of in-laws or friends and into hotels and transitional trailer communities here in Louisiana - gives our people hope, ... It gives them a clear path that they can see, a path that will help them get their lives together and get them home to Louisiana.

Madeline Albright

The path out of the wilderness is uphill, but it is clearly marked. It is time to move up that road.

Walter Brennan

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

Wendy Cope

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Billy Graham

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Zubin Mehta

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

Constance Marie

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

Constance Marie

I'm very supportive of women getting to a place in life when it's right for them to start a family. It's important for women to take their time to come into their own. I only want to say we might not have as much time as we think we have.

Chris Bohjalian

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Ralph Nader

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Kevin Landis

We play the Internet through Internet infrastructure companies. Their function is moving data.

Nicola Monaghan

It has taken me a long time to work out the function of ex-boyfriends, at least for me: how they can help you work out what you want from life and from a partner by showing you what you don't. If a man is your ex, it's better all round if he was not Mr. Right.

Winfried Vahland

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

Robin S. Sharma

Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.

Thomas Harrison

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

Phil Singer

Those numbers are a total function of his name, not him. He has a short record that has been described as thin.

Hank Johnson

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

Erin O'Connor

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

Edward Furlong

I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

Ban Ki-moon

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

Gerard Houllier

We have made another step towards the qualification. This is proof that this team is growing and getting more mature.

Naji Sabri

the outstanding problems which were left on the Iran-Iraq ware of the 1980s and later on.

F. Sionil Jose

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

Najib Mikati

In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.

Jerry Bell

We'll maybe find out something there later this week.

Shanna Carpenter

We are planning to reschedule the movie night later this week, while Welcome Week is still going on.

Tim Purpura

We haven't even thought about it or talked about it, ... After the 18-inning game, he might have said, 'See you later guys.'

Dave Wood

We?ll find out about Pat later this week and Mike?s hamstring has not responded to rehab the way we would have hoped.

Bryan Adams

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Jon Stewart

Wow. I can't wait till later when we see Oscar's salute to montages.

Nigel Farage

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

Daisy Berkowitz

Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

Ben Shapiro

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.

Rodney Stark

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

Mark Morton

To become a member of the National Organization you have to stand an inspection.

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Jacques Santini

We have had them (Greece) observed by a member of our technical staff,

Steve Sell

We have the potential to be terrific. But how can you predict?

John Shelton

We have the potential for some big problems, but we think right now it's just potential.

Rick Bohlander

We've got potential to play with any of them. We've just got to play a whole lot better than we did the other night.

Viktor Vekselberg

We have a very interesting and very serious potential international partner.

Mickey Williams

We have a ton of potential, but we also have a ton of injuries.

Tom Clark

The potential is there for transmissible outbreaks and we want to be able to respond to these as quickly as possible, but also to have up-to-date information,

Chip Taylor

The potential for these waystations is just terrific.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Rand Baker

We're starting to wrestle up to our potential. There were some tough teams, and it showed us where we need to get to by (the state tournament).

Madhup Tiwari

When we questioned him about his whereabouts he was unable to give any satisfactory answer.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Joe Gaylord

We can still stabilize the situation and make it right, but there's no question that this is a rough patch.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Harry Reid

We know the questions that must be asked, ... Now we need answers.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

John Whitehead

We will rebuild. It is now not a question of whether, but a question of how,

Kevin Lowery

We're well-known for our safety record. When it comes to safety, there is no question when it comes to our company.

Doug Wilson

We are in the race, there's no question about that.

Christo

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

William Shakespeare

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Paul Weller

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

Ira Levin

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Euclid

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

Hannah More

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

Martin Short

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

Oscar Wilde

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.