Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kent Cooper

Because we can't see a lot of their activities, people wonder how big they are and how active. There is a hazy line between indirect and direct involvement in elections.

Drew Carey

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

Francis Crick

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.

J. I. Packer

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

Sadakichi Robbins

The real surprise is that none of the usual indirect bidders turned up. Maybe they were scared away by the jump in direct bidding (Wednesday).

Anais Nin

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

Doug E. Fresh

Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that's going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That's the only way to make it work.

Peter Hendy

Let's not jump to conclusions. People prefer them to what they had before.

Corey Brewer

Let them jump off the bandwagon. Because then they're going to have to jump right back on because we feel like we're going to keep winning.

Devron Bostick

Last year, we were still jumping around at this time.

Caitlyn Jenner

I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

Jamie Oliver

Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.

Jason Biggs

I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.

Jason Aldean

Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.

Cameron Diaz

I'm always jumping on a plane somewhere. With my lifestyle, I'm all over the place.

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Donald Trump

Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in,

Adam Katz

This was not a money issue. Was the money fabulous? No. Was it part of the decision-making process? Absolutely. . . . But by no means was it the only thing involved. In the end, the money was a secondary, maybe even a tertiary consideration.

John Cassavetes

I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.

Paul Moore

The reading process, and being concise, is just as important. To really vet the content, a software product was just not going to do it alone. Maybe a combination of things is the answer.

Tom Shales

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.

Sue Monk Kidd

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

Sharon Salzberg

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.

Chris Farley

My first vision for this race was that maybe 500 people would show up. So thank you guys. This is awesome.

Kenny Perry

We're just going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Ed Smith

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

Joe Horn

None of us will give up. Trust me.

Jake Green

None of us want to leave. We're really pointing for this District.

Richard Ross

None of us want to be here Saturday night.

Mike Enzi

None of us wants this premium ultimately to be enacted into law.

David Stockman

None of us really understand what's going on with all these numbers

Roy Williams

None of us really thought that we'd be at this level.

Brett Bushong

None of us read it. We didn't want to tamper with it. We just wanted to respect them.

Deepika Padukone

I am very scared to invest emotionally in a relationship.

Art Garfunkel

Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

Ayn Rand

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Brett Hull

I'm scared to death to fly commercial I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

Jenny Jones

She didn't want to go outside. She was scared for her life.

Sarah Garuti

When he got angry, he would have a tone of voice that really scared me.

Ben Stein

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Chauncey Billups

It's all about guts. I've had so many ups and downs, I'm not scared of being down.

Dean Koontz

...,we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy,

Deb Caletti

It's shocking the things we call love.

Carnie Wilson

I can be a lady - surprise!

Booker T. Washington

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

Elie Wiesel

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

Brett Favre

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Tom Slade

She may be a big surprise for a lot of people.

Jerramy Stevens

So it's not a surprise that he's got something to say about it and that he's getting upset. Because that's his style, and I know that.

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Cathleen Schine

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Monty Python

Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Tubby Smith

We really got rattled. They really had another gear; they turned it up.

Timothy Simons

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.

Blaise Pascal

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Jamie Oliver

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Arthur Conan Doyle

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes

Ryan Robertson

We pounded it inside. That isn't something we do real well, but we did it better than usual tonight.

Clara Barton

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

Raymond E. Feist

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

Franz Ferdinand

He would never do just the usual on-the-road burgers and chips.

Richard Shelley

Otherwise, everyone was wearing masks, gowns, gloves, and all of the usual precautions.