Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard M. Nixon

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

Joe Nichols

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Daniel Handler

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Michelle Malkin

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

Maureen Johnson

I feel warm and reassured," I whispered. "He's like Santa.

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Jeff Bridges

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

Sarah Parsons

I think we are going to come out flying and smoke them and prove to everyone how good our team actually is. We didn't sacrifice this much and work so hard to come home empty handed.

Walter Nalangu

There are one or two shops open. The marketplace is empty it is normally packed with hundreds of people. The only food people have is what they have at home.

Russell Baker

Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.

Learned Hand

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

Pindar

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

Frank McCourt

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

John Lydon

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

Dick Jauron

Absolutely. In our league, when you go to a game, you see five receivers on the field, a lot of four, three receivers. You see empty (backfield) in every situation. So if you don't have at least three really good (corners), it'll be long Sundays.

Paul Nisbet

They were flying a lot of empty planes. They don't want that to happen again.