Quotes and Sayings about October
"This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Abuse, America, Children, Country, Fight, October, Violence)
"And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West."
- Dave Barry
(Related: October)
"Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October."
- Peter Bart
(Related: Business, Disney, Entertainment, Intention, October)
"I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan."
- Benazir Bhutto
(Related: Elections, October, Planning)
"October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again."
- Hal Borland
(Related: October, Sight)
"You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it."
- Warren Buffett
(Related: Time, People, Being, October, Talk)
"I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role."
- Gerard Butler
(Related: Fact, June, Months, October, Singing)
"The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside."
- John Dyer
(Related: Work, Life, Majority, May, October, Painting)
"You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October."
- Whitey Ford
(Related: Baseball, October)
"Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish."
- Arthur Hailey
(Related: First, October)
"From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition."
- Scott Hamilton
(Related: Competition, March, October)
"I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about."
- Jeffrey Hunter
(Related: Chance, July, October, Writers)
"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: People, Company, June, Linux, October, Office, Want)
"October, that's when they pay off for playing ball."
- Reggie Jackson
(Related: October)
"From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my home in Missouri."
- Jesse James
(Related: Home, October, Relatives)
"On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother."
- Calamity Jane
(Related: Mother, Father, Baby, October, Temper)
"So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized."
- Kim Dae Jung
(Related: Economy, May, Now, October, Reform)
"In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441."
- David Kay
(Related: Work, Fact, Iraq, Judgment, October)
"Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October."
- Christine Keeler
(Related: October)
"In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944."
- Gyorgy Legeti
(Related: Deserted, Labor, October, Service)
"I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that."
- Ivan Lendl
(Related: Travel, Time, Christmas, First, Now, October, Weekend, Will)
"Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October."
- John Leonard
(Related: Books, October)
"October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful."
- Thomas Merton
(Related: Time, America, College, October)
"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes."
- Simon Newcomb
(Related: History, Eyes, October)
"My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Film, First, October, Production)
"I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943."
- John Pople
(Related: College, Examination, Mathematics, October, Physics, Trinity, University)
"It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family."
- George Porter
(Related: Family, Happiness, Work, Home, Time, Wife, October, Students)
"Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that."
- Paul Reiser
(Related: October)
"The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble."
- Joseph Rotblat
(Related: Life, War, Crisis, Facts, October)
"I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play."
- Darrell Royal
(Related: Fun, October, Play)
"Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run."
- James Stockdale
(Related: Time, Wife, Day, First, October)
"Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now."
- Picabo Street
(Related: Friend, Now, October)
"On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view."
- Hideki Tojo
(Related: Thought, Army, October)
"All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken."
- Thomas Wolfe
(Related: Home, Love, Earth, Hounds, October, Old, Sea, Voice)