Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christo

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.

Natalie Massenet

I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.

Douglas Conant

When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They had to cut costs to the point where they were literally taking the chicken out of chicken noodle soup and the product was no longer competitive.

Adrian McKinty

I did the same thing as every Irish person who comes to New York. I arrived on a Wednesday, and by Saturday night, I was pulling pints at a pub in the Bronx.

Carrie Rodgers

When they arrived he fired several shots at them, and he did strike one of those officers in the leg. They did return fire, but at this point it's unknown whether he was struck or not.

Monica Bellucci

Truly, I am a woman of the last minute. When I was pregnant, I organised three different hospitals because I couldn't decide where I wanted to have my baby: London, Rome or Paris. In the end, I decided to go to Rome, arrived on the Monday and gave birth on the Saturday.

Nydia Velazquez

Of course, preserving the American dream has always meant creating opportunity for the most recently arrived Americans - those who have come here from other parts of the globe to work hard and build a new, better life.

Don Rickles

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.

Brian Skerry

Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an exaggeration to say that when our oceans' health declines, our very survival is at risk.

Yuvraj Singh

Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.

John Conyers

Today's witness, Kenneth W. Starr, wrote the tawdry, salacious and unnecessarily graphic referral that he delivered to us in September with so much drama and fanfare. And now the majority members of this committee have called that same prosecutor forward to testify in an unprecedented desperation effort to breathe new life into a dying inquiry.

Denise Vedder

We're not sure how this happened. Fortunately, he was able to breathe because the dirt only went up to his waist. But he was in a lot of pain.

Allison Watson

We are providing the tools to train partners to deliver the people-ready message and supporting them with compelling evidence about why customers who invest in this outperform customers who don't. We want them to know how to live and breathe this message and successfully sell their offerings to customers.

Tom Fox

We've kind of ate, slept and breathed tree farming the last 20 years,

Pat Olmi

We can breathe a little heading into Game 2. All we need is one win to advance.

Alice Walker

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

Will Shields

I'm most proud of the fact I carried myself on and off the field consistently for what the NFL stands for.

Elizabeth Warren

I loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn't at home with them.

Barack Obama

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

Paulo Freire

Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.

Willie Thomas

We pride ourselves on our defense, and our defense carried us tonight. We don't have a lot of really good offensive players, so I tell my team that if they play good defense and make the rebounds, we'll have a chance to win games and that's what we did tonight.

Mickey Martin

We pressed them, forced some turnovers and got big momentum on our side. We looked dead in the water, but the momentum switched and we carried it through.

Aimee Garcia

When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me.

Lawrence Timmons

I can't get carried away with having a good time because everyone, especially the young guys, have to know there's a time and place for everything.

Miroslav Klose

We are not going to get carried away by this win. We have to start playing well for 90 minutes and not just a half.

Jorge Cantu

We play with pride. And the other thing is, wearing Mexico right on your chest means something. All the Latin people are watching. All the American people are watching. Everybody's watching.

Brooke Burns

I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.

Richie Sambora

When you're sick on the road, it's the worst. That's when you become the most vulnerable and neurotic. You become scared. If I had a cold or a chest infection, and I had to sing all those high parts, there was stage fright.

Penny Bragg

When I read those words, my heart just leaped outside of my chest because I could hardly believe. I just could not imagine what was happening.

Marvin Minsky

I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.

Stacy London

A lot of women don't realize that even a small heel helps you throw your shoulders back and keep your chest up; it really does make a difference in the way you present yourself. It changes your posture and makes you look more confident.

Jill Hazelbaker

We're doing exceptionally well. I think Menendez will need every penny in his war chest to defend his record of corruption.

M. Wolfe

This holiday was typical of how they had gone astray. It was a season of fantastic embellishment, with lots of sequins and embroidery. Every place looked like a treasure chest and Gap had none of it.

S. Walker

I'm still grateful I get the honor to put my country's name on my chest as a coach.

William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.

William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

John Reed

War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces

John Crawford

I am so delighted. It's hard to talk about without choking up. We thought were in risk of losing our pristine bay.

Keith Ellis

He got up, smacked me on the side of my face first, then started choking me.

John Yost

It's much messier, ... The officers get contaminated with the pepper spray and if the guy keeps fighting, it gets very dangerous for the officer because he is coughing, choking and tearing up as well.

Bart Bryant

I feared choking my guts out a lot. All week long.

Missy Clark

It was one of those 'why' things. Then talking to one of his teachers, (we learned) kids at school had been talking about the choking game.

Boris Schlossberg

The country's 7.25% short term rates - the highest in the industrialized world - are choking economic demand with many analysts now predicting the possibility of a recession in 2006.

William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

William Lashner

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

Will Rothhaar

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Wayne Schwertner

The past year we should have had a good hatch. We should have had a good hatch for the last few years.

Brian Kernighan

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Bobbi Brown

Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bill Hader

I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Greg Goodwin

We played with what we had. The kids really stepped up and played tough. It will only help us in the tournament.

George Rinehart

We played a practice round in the wind yesterday. I think that helped us a lot. We knew where we could hit and where we couldn't hit it.

Paul Wayne

We play a pretty competitive league and non-league schedule which helps prepare us for the tournament.

Theo James

I want diversity in what I do, as that's what helps you in the long term. It's more fulfilling, and you'll have a longer shelf life as an actor.

Goeran Persson

We have lost so many -- a father, a mother, granddad, our little child, our small, small sister, my friend,

Lisa Brown

We have lost our way on our path. It is time to do things in a way that respects our spirit, our ancestors, and where we come from.

Tim Russert

We have lost one of our very, very best,

John Chernick

We'd like another chance; we lost to them at Amboy.

Jalen Rose

We are not getting it down. It's an embarrassment. We lost by 30 points at home.

Mike Nelson

Wasted possessions. We lost it because we had wasted opportunities.

Ricky Williams

Yeah, we made a bet. I lost the bet. I lost the bet.

Dave Forney

Those kind of get lost in the shuffle. He was there all night. He's been outstanding of late.

Zeke Jones

Unfortunately, we lost Dustin; he was never able to get his motor running, and that was disappointing for him.

Richard Smith

We're pounding on them. We want this thing on the shelf here, as soon as possible.

Bruce Bochy

When he's good, he's pounding the strike zone and picking.

Omar Minaya

He was dominating, pounding the strike zone with velocity over 90. But it wasn't so much the velocity but the command, velocity and the delivery.

John Brockington

How do you think it went? ... He wasn't going to take any lip. He was pounding on the table and saying we'd just go home. We're thinking, 'Fine. Let's go home.'

Bob Ernst

They really do some pounding on each other out on the water.

Danielle Kinley

They were all out at the plate. They started pounding my helmet. It was great.

Manish Jha

We need to tell a story in 30 seconds or in one minute.

Bill Bradley

In 30 seconds you can say a lot,

Chris Travers

I thought if we could get it down to three with 40 seconds left, we would have had a shot.

Brian Bickford

You have two or three seconds to get someone's attention. What we look for is those kind of attention-getting devices.

Mike Caldwell

Our possessions were about 10 seconds long. Theirs were for about 40 seconds long.

Brenda Frese

I think it was like 10 seconds after the game.

Jim Court

I thought about it for 10 seconds or so.

Sue Donohoe

When he wanted to know what time it was, you had to get down there. You didn't tell him that it was 30 seconds left.

Jim Calhoun

We've got to take away 3-point shooting and not get fatigued by the shot clock. They make as many shots under 12 seconds as any team you're going to play.

Ron Williams

He blurted out that Taylor was in trouble.

Bonnie Henrickson

This is not a knee-jerk thing. We've just go to get better. Ivana and Taylor will be the first ones off the bench.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Mitt Romney

Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.

Mary Daubert

When the first rescuers arrived, he was still conscious. But then he went unconscious and they were unable to revive him.

William Faulkner

Some things you must always be unable to bear.

Alan Cohen

When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.

Walter Benjamin

My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.

Walter Benjamin

Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.

Maurice Maeterlinck

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

Alan Parker

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

David Suzuki

The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives.

Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Bill Johnson

I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!

Edward Hopper

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.