Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Alexander Cockburn

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

Aldous Huxley

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

Alexander Pope

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

Alexander Pope

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

E. P. Thompson

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

Doug Stanhope

The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely to be found offensive and trying to make it funny‚ but the object is still to make you laugh. Offense is only a calculated risk. It's highly unlikely that a comedian whose only goal was to repulse you would ever make it past an open-mic stage, far less build a long career of touring theatres and television appearances.

Doug Stanhope

I don't like being in the UK for every other reason aside from the show. It's aesthetically uncomfortable to me on almost every level for reasons that might sound petty but I can't get past. The audiences are far more challenging and while I wouldn't say I prefer it, I certainly need it to ward off my inherent laziness.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Doris Lessing

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

Doris Lessing

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

Donna Summer

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

Donna Tartt

Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we want to impress.

Donna Tartt

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned and this regime is on its way to annihilation.

Fred W. Friendly

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

Maggie Stiefvater

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

John C. Maxwell

Point out a great strength of someone in your life today!

James Patterson

Max-I'm not going to die today.

Elmer Bernstein

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

Edward Bok

The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.