Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

Warren Farrell

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

William Pepper

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

William Cavendish

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

William Least Heat-Moon

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Wesley Clark

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

Vivienne Westwood

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

Van Morrison

I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

Billy Graham

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Cheech Marin

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.

Pete Rose

The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.

Don Logan

If you're the Dodgers you've got to make sure that when your players are here they're going to be able to have the same competitive things new stadiums offer. Ours is less than that, but it's passable.

Vin Scully

The Dodgers are such a .500 team that if there was a way to split a three-game series, they'd find it.

Orlando Hernandez

I threw every pitch I have. The Dodgers are a good hitting team.

Greg Aiello

That statement has as much credibility as the idea of the Dodgers returning to Brooklyn.

Joe Torre

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.

Dioner Navarro

It was quite a good experience, a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and I wanna thank the Dodgers for letting me be there. It's something I'll never forget.

Ben Vereen

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

Mercedes Lackey

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

Lana Wood

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

John Bradshaw

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

Fred Wilpon

This is more of a sports service, not necessarily just a Mets service.

C. S. Lewis

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Julio Franco

That was awesome. They cheered more for Puerto Rico than they did the Mets. I thought this was supposed to be a Mets town?

Griffin Dunne

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

Steve Alic

In the past, aberrations have occurred to make it one week. It will be two weeks exclusively every year. Two weeks is natural.

Dorothy Hamill

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Dan Ferrelli

It's possible that not all of the homicides occurred in Aurora's jurisdiction.

Matthew Alexy

It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.

Casey Wilson

When you're on a road trip, anything goes.

Willie McGinest

We have a long road to go. We are not worried about any records. Right now we are just worried about getting better.

John Beilein

Today's win was much-needed before the road trip. I can't really say I am comfortable now. I think our schedule has helped.

Jan Egeland

We need helicopters because the roads are gone,

George Philpott

We got off to a rough start. In the first event, the medley relay, we were disqualified, and with that long day on the road we just didn't get some of the times we wanted.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have not got down the road that far,

Jason Forte

We haven't had a road win in a while.

Sam Cowart

When you take thorough beatings on the road twice, that's a concern.

Denise Juneau

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.

Gino Guyer

You know, it's going to happen. I'm not going to worry too much. We're getting wins and right now we're in first place and that's all that matters.

Mike Vrabel

We got to 10 wins and I still think there are things we need to tighten up.

Pat Riley

You've got to have some wins like that.

Aaron Brown

I was nervous, ... And you think about Utah, and all the wins they've had, it makes you more nervous. But I did what I had to do.

Baba Kalyani

In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.

E. P. Thompson

For some reason, we play better on the road. Some of our wins are ugly, but we don't care.

Angelo Johnson

It was important. It's one of the wins we need to try and make districts.

David Bowens

That's good. Now, we've just got to get him the wins that count.

Jim Boeheim

This is one of the best, if not the best, wins we've ever had at Syracuse.

Alan Cohen

Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.

Hilary Mantel

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

Dick Cheney

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

Dick Cheney

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

Dick Cheney

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

Walter Benjamin

We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that vision, when we convince enough people that that is a realistic vision, and that the opposite vision is basically that if we don't do something in this 100 years, a hundred years from now this world is gonna be so destroyed, so raped and ravished that we won't HAVE much of a world to save.

English Proverbs

What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.

English Proverbs

If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.

Paul Buck

The only disappointing thing this year has been our numbers,