Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paramahansa Yogananda

I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

Nancy Gibbs

The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.

Shirley Jones

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

Maggie Stiefvater

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

Chung Mong-joon

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

JT Woodruff

We never had any expectations for our first album, so I don't know why we should start now. We hope that we at least sell the same amount we sold of our last album. If it's more than that, great. We're on an independent label so we're not afforded the same things that major label bands are. We don't have the same outlets available to us, but we have different outlets that work for us that don't work for major label bands.

Hank Johnson

College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

Dennis Hastert

We stand firmly behind Tom DeLay and ask that he be afforded the same rights as every other American -- that is innocent until proven otherwise,

Sandy Johnson

With Ms. Truesdale's current CD album, 'I know Him' on Nashville's CIS-Christian label, Jeanie Kay has brought forth an array of inspirational music sure to please any listener, ... Her soulful voice and her emotional, believable musical delivery reaches audiences in a direct manner not often afforded many singers.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

Mary Tavenner

We have Longfellow and Whittier. I don't understand why we don't' name one after one of our own writers.

Walter Benjamin

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

John Schafer

We're like a small city. Name a job, we probably have it.

Cheryl Hayashi

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

Brian Rea

We just didn't make baskets. We were just a little juiced. They wanted to play so well, it just tensed us up a little bit. They made everything, and we didn't. That's just the name of the game.

Paul Haggis

I don't know how much credit I can take for 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' because I only worked on it for three weeks. I re-wrote the pilot, and then my name was on it forever.

Bob Watson

We'll know (Tuesday) by three o'clock where he's going to play. I will save a spot for him on our roster. I just didn't name him tonight.

Gail Carriger

Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.

Annie Dillard

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Steve Gray

Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.

Terence Lewis

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

Nicolas Cage

I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.

Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Samuel Butler

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Shaquille O'Neal

It matters in a fatherly way.

Junior Seau

We did what we had to do. Getting a win was key.

James Long

When the window shattered, you can't see through it.

Brad Halsey

We didn't play well and we didn't win the ballgame. That's what happens. I really don't know what else to say about it.

Vicente Fox

We are going to win this battle. We'll see who is tougher, we'll see who is more stubborn,

Dear Abbey

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Sharon Allen

We're just going to try and win another game.