Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Wynn

He seems to define himself all the time by saying 'better than Steve Wynn,' or 'better than the Mirage.' We, at first, were amused by this and ignored him.

Nik Kershaw

I was amused to read that they've actually put together a marketing plan, which said I would be touring extensively in the spring. So how was I?

John Hodgman

I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all.

Kate McEnroe

I am always amused by them. They aren't wrong, but they just aren't project- specific enough.

Joseph Hoffman

In some ways, he may be looking down at all of this and be amused by it all. He was a person who liked being anonymous.

Alexander Downer

Their sort of ugly, sneering, amused attitude at the slaughter of innocent people is just horrific,

Michael Leunig

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

James Thurber

It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused

Gordon Fischer

I think Iowa has lost a visionary -- a brilliant mind -- a gregarious, friendly guy - a great Democrat. I think it's a tremendous loss for Iowa.

Frank Brothers

He was a brilliant 2-year-old in my opinion. He's a bigger-looking colt, and he's done better at 3. He's filled out more and he's gotten taller.

Burt Flickinger

He's a brilliant person, but did not have extensive executive experience

Margot Asquith

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

William Gibson

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

Orrin Hatch

I know what a great man he is. He is honest, competent, a brilliant person. I think it's a real tribute to George W. Bush to pick somebody of that kind of caliber.

Charlie Jones

It's brilliant - I'm going to be a Mitchell. I am really looking forward to getting started.

Lillian Hellman

It may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant

Christine Benz

It's hard to say whether he's making brilliant choices because it's hard to go wrong in Internet stocks, ... It's hard to say whether he's a good stock picker or just lucky.

Robert Pitofsky

I don't want the Federal Trade Commission to be the thought police, ... I don't want a bureaucrat like me influencing the content of these materials. But, rather, we need to influence the way these materials are marketed.

Barack Obama

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

David McAllister

The democratic process allows any politician with an agenda, any organization with a big enough showing, even any bureaucrat with enough zeal to initiate legislation that impacts others more than themselves.

Paul Bubb

It can tend to get cold inside Holt Arena. That can be remedied. I am working with the facilities people to better control the temperature. We are looking at a number of different things.

Markus Persson

The only thing I think that is wrong with modern gaming now is the free-to-play stuff on mobile phones. I think it's very cynical and cold and weird.

Glenn Kroll

He said he was sick of the cold and the snow and wanted to get down to Florida where it was warm.

Luke Donald

It got considerably colder and it was just hard to keep your hands warm, hard to keep your rhythm.

Dusty Baker

He has been knocking on 99 for a while and never had 100. He was knocking on it last year and got cold at the end.

Bruce Miller

Right now the colder temperatures and higher humidity have really reduced it so we are going to be able to contain it and start establishing control lines to get a handle on this thing.

Eric Ellis

If you start processing now and we have a cold spell in between and it starts freezing up, it's just a lot of work to keep everything liquid. Once you start processing, you like to be able to do it day after day and not have those long spells in between.

Glenn Johnson

In the winter, early in the season, it actually can have a warming effect and hold the temperatures up, where temperatures drop much colder in interior sections, and then the opposite takes place in the summer.

Jonathan Witz

I'm confident we are going to have a great festival under any (weather) conditions. We are not dependent on snow or cold weather to pull this festival off; snow would simply be the icing on the cake.

Billy Joel

I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,

George Kell

Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall of Famer George Kell.

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Kweisi Mfume

Our minds are open, ... I reached out to George Bush. I wanted him here.

Eddie Jones

If you remember back in 2000, Sam had an outstanding season with Queensland and was really pressuring George for the Wallabies spot.

Will Wright

Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.

Fred Hartsfield

I hope I have had an impact. I'm very impressed with George and how hard they play.

Billy Donovan

It's teams like George Mason that give so many people hope in their lives, just seeing what great things can be accomplished.

Max Minghella

It's surreal working with people you admire. I don't think it ever goes away, no matter how human people are; there's always that moment of 'Oh wow, that's still George Clooney!' But I find that the most talented people tend to be the nicest.

Aaron Smith

Patients are still getting harassed by local and state law enforcement.

Friedrich Schiller

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

Kresley Cole

I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.

Elia Kazan

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

Pia Zadora

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

Daniel Craig

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

Stendhal

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

Christopher Lee

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

George Carlin

How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?

Christine Keeler

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.