Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

All colours are arbitrary.

Mark McKinnon

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

Kenneth Burke

It is deplorable, but not tragic, simply to be a victim of circumstance. Sheer victimization is not an assertion - and it naturally makes not for vision but for frustration. The victimizing circumstances, or accidents, seem arbitrary and exorbitant, even silly.

Dorothy Fisher

Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of decision.

Oleg Orlov

Only the most outrageous, truly inadmissible limitations on the rights of international organizations were dropped. The bill still provides for widespread and arbitrary repression of Russian and international NGOs.

Francis Gaskins

On the face of it, it looks like it should be shorted -- not bought. It's the most arbitrary pricing I've ever seen.

Christopher Shays

I would be inclined to support gas tax relief on the House floor, but I would prefer the reinstatement of the gas tax be based on price, not an arbitrary time frame,

Tony Blair

I don't think we should have some arbitrary timetable ... You give it as long as it takes to come to a conclusive and final judgment they're not cooperating. And at the present they're not.

Steve Adams

Hard data is behind boundary changes. It is not an arbitrary decision at all.

Jay Wong

Valuations have run up since the bellwether stocks have had nice rallies. The large caps look slightly overbought.

Ronnie Bottoms

I think they're a top-five team in our region, and we want to get there. We told them it'd be nice feather in our caps to get this one.

Jo Natale

We realized people were moving to club stores and retailers that offer consistent, low prices so we did it too. We wound up saving money because we didn't have the cost of setting up and taking down the end caps for the sales.

Brian Tora

I would of thought Dubai could come in with a higher offer that caps the PSA bid. The share price suggests Dubai may come back.

Peter Ueberroth

If elected, I would impose stiff spending caps to rein in the out-of-control spending.

Danton Cole

I don't think our thinking caps were on to start. We took a couple dumb penalties and with their power play they make you pay. All of a sudden it's 3-0.

John Hartson

To get 50 caps you have to go through highs and lows - and I certainly had a few - it has never been rosy but to be still here, as well as enjoying good times at Celtic is very pleasing.

James McGlynn

Whatever's hot drains money from whatever hasn't been. All the data I see says large caps should do better.

Gary Speed

I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.

Cecelia Ahern

I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.

Cecelia Ahern

You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped monochrome, leaping behind postboxes as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Wally? forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

Carrie Brownstein

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

Carrie Brownstein

I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.

Carrie Fisher

I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.

Carrie Fisher

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Carrie Fisher

Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

Carrie Fisher

I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.

Pat Roberts

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Aesop

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory