Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Pelosi

Instead of unconscionably blaming others, President Bush must take charge and take responsibility, and must get it right, and that is my concern and the message that I will bring to the president, ... Mr. President, you should have taken charge and you should have taken responsibility.

Jimmy Smits

When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.

Dave Binder

We want to get as much of that liquid overheating them off as much as possible. I'm not blaming anyone, but no one here feels that the conditions during the UNLV game were acceptable.

Michael McCormick

What bothers me is suddenly there's this inherent distrust of the judiciary, ... Suddenly, we're blaming everybody we can blame.

Heather Bishop

She started yelling and screaming. She didn't want to go. My dad returned her to custody up here (in the jail), but she was blaming me, saying her kids were going to be taken away from her.

Andrew Bacevich

If this opens up so we have more and more officers speaking up and blaming Rumsfeld and blaming senior civilians, then it is possibly heading towards a fairly dangerous civilian-military crisis.

Sen. Currie

He's a man of the people. Sure, people see the crime rates and other stuff, but I don't sense they are necessarily blaming him for that.

Dale Jarrett

I don't know how he's blaming me. Jeff came up. He's got to know that someone else is there, too.

Author unknown

I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.

Nick Kirby

It is not breeding quickly enough. It is being caught out in the wild and it is not recovering from the fishing pressures on the east coast.

Terry Maple

These pandas are immature. They won't be physically mature for three or four, maybe five more years, so we got a ways to wait. I hope soon thereafter they will breed and produce offspring and then we'll study that mother with her baby.

James Blake

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.

Rig Veda

Deeds done with a sense of righteousness do not give an opportunity for sin to breed and consequently inhibit the emergence of sin and evil.

Eric Khoo

Now I see a better breed of young Singaporeans who are more vocal and will make certain changes to the country.

Preston Wilson

When you're able to come back in the fashion that we did, it breeds confidence.

Lynn White

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Josh Billings

Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Gary Brown

Ken Lay is what I would call a fix-it man who thinks he can pick up the phone and take care of it because of who he is, a man of power. It's as though he thinks he can call anyone, any time. They're not going to like that kind of attitude.

Rich Beem

Just think of it as a golf cart with a V-8. Call it the Silver Bullet, baby.

Gary Griffiths

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

Ayn Rand

know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Anthony Principi

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan . . . deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care, ... Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.

Walt Jocketty

I would think it's a good fit, ... but that's not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he's obviously one of the top managers in the game that's not employed as a manager. Jim is going to manage somewhere in 2006. Definitely.

James Rankins

Jon helped a lot. We told the guys in the locker room that they had to pick up some of the weight (Shepherd usually carries). Fortunately, we played good enough defense to take care of it.

Lenny Harris

Joe pretty much doesn't care what you've done in the past. He's worried about what you do now. That's an impact remark that he made. Hopefully, guys can go out there and do what they can to win a job.

John Canavan

(Jobless) claims nobody is going to care about, housing completions nobody is going to care about, chain store sales people might eye a little bit,

Chuck D.

I think it's a great accomplishment for these guys. To match what last year's team did is a hard thing to do. I don't care what league you are in.

Ralph Preston

Gold is telling us that not everyone is convinced inflation is in check.

Dan Rather

I am convinced we can do so again. That must be our focus and priority.

Tang Jiaxuan

I am convinced that this meeting will succeed,

Louis Michel

I am convinced that the electoral process is irreversible and that there will be elections before June 30, 2006.

P. Herbert

I am fully convinced that he will elevate the program to what you expect.

Stephanie Allmen

He will be with us for the foreseeable future. He's been convinced to stay on as EVP of finance.

Bob Horn

In the end, the evidence that was presented really convinced the jury to the standard that we were set to.

Peter Cardillo

In technology, it's just a lack of serious buying. The market needs to be convinced that the Fed will not raise (interest) rates for the remainder of the year. This is all part of the summer doldrums, but we see cyclical stocks doing a little better here.

Paul Phillips

In each study, we've come away convinced that the use of depleted uranium munitions does not present significant or residual environmental or health risks,

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Renée Arrington

If you find that you have several disengaged workers, that might be symptomatic of your culture.

Beppe Severgnini

If you are the owner of a factory employing 500 people, on Monday you talk to any of them about soccer, and that's completely unifying. Italy doesn't have very much in terms of national culture like that. ... You have Hollywood and all the stars, we don't have anything remotely (like that). Soccer compensates.

Stephen Harper

Can the prime minister tell us why this Liberal culture of waste and scandal is only stopped once it is actually exposed publicly?

Reese Witherspoon

I'm having a great time playing Becky, ... She's a world away from Elle Woods and for me it's a great departure. It was a natural decision for me to get as far away from American pop culture as I could.

Alex Jones

Today is an entertainment show that has a news segment. I don't think there's any question that NBC sees it that way.

Rik Mayall

I am a global light entertainment phenomena, so how can I remember everything?

Agnes Kosinski

He is great. He sings, he's a comic, he does a magic show... It's great family entertainment.

Celia Chen

People who spent money on travel and luxury goods are spending more money entertaining themselves at home.

Jerry Jones

I'm not happy with the proposal. I didn't think we'd be entertaining the type of proposal we got from the players.

Neal Stephenson

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

John Perry Barlow

The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.

Marshal Cohen

The entertainment industry has become more of an influence than ever before when it comes to fashion.

Jake Roberts

It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Mike Ramsey

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror.

Graeme Smith

We are fearful it is possibly going to be sold for scrap, which would be a travesty.

Sharon Dillon

I didn't want them to play (with fear).

Ken Hitchcock

I don't know whether it's the fear of getting embarrassed or whatever but we've got a lot of competitive guys and we really love to play in these type of games.

Spanish Proverb

He who is feared gets more than his own.

Raul Martinez

He feared for his life and discharged his weapon but was unaware at the time whether he'd struck the individual. We're still really unclear whether he did strike the individual.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

Alfredo Alonso

Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it.

Hilary Rosen

Our list represents many different genres throughout all parts of the 20th century. And our hope is that each song will help tell a very different story,

Octavia Butler

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

Rachel Nichols

One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

Nicholas Sparks

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

Lynn Abbey

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

James Cagney

There were many tough guys to play in the scripts that Warner kept assigning me. Each of my subsequent roles in the hoodlum genre offered the opportunity to inject something new, which I always tired to do. One could be funny, and the next one flat. Some roles were mean, and others were meaner.

Kim Weston

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

Venus Williams

I will always be the older sister. That's never going to change.

David Montgomery

I like older people, ... How can't I?

John Croft

Dan, Bee's older brother, is still very sensitive about it, and angry, I guess, about the whole thing. He didn't want any mention, in fact, of the tsunami or Thailand.

Jeremiah Jeremiah

a pervasive problem in our society of how people look at older workers.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Robert Lorenz

Every actor's different. It seems to me the older veterans, they don't need to hear as much. But younger actors need a little more feedback, a little more assurance, and that's fine.

Trey Aby

We'll still play some of the older teams. But with what we did this year, some things are going to change.

Corey Clark

Older women have always been attracted to me.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Tyga

The first rap album I bought was Eminem's The Slim Shady LP so I wasn't even based on West Coast rap like that.

William Wordsworth

The truth is easier when you leavin' it out. Like when you "5 minutes away" but you're just leavin your house?

Tupac Shakur

And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.

Tupac Shakur

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

Tupac Shakur

In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

Tupac Shakur

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

Tupac Shakur

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

Tupac Shakur

My only fear of death is reincarnation

Tupac Shakur

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.

James Wolpert

I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Chris Collins

I think actually the scouting report was to kind of shoot it low, so I don't know what I was doing.

Jack Rio

I don't have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Mack Brown

It's unprofessional for someone to be reporting something that's not factual.

Charles Parker

They called 911 and reported it to the police,

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Mike Moran

The report should be viewed as a solid one.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Rob Sheffield

'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.

William Shenstone

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

Ricardo Montalban

Revenge is a dish best served cold

Robert Crumb

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Samuel Johnson

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

Walt Whitman

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

Wislawa Szymborska

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

Wes Craven

I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays of Aeschylus and follow what happens when people seek revenge, and there are people plucking their eyes out. And Greek mythology is filled with all kinds of monsters and whatnot.

Yukio Mishima

I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.

Paul Davis

Keep writing that stuff ? I'll keep getting 27 points.

Jack Soden

We've been thinking about this stuff for so long, but now we can actually do it.

Allard Baird

We think he has the stuff to be a starter.

Mike Fitzpatrick

I think it's the weight of the swelling inventories. And the geopolitical stuff has cooled off a little bit, but it's just in the background.

Roderick Wilmont

I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play, that's all. I see the stuff on TV. I know as much as you all know.

Robin Trower

If all you've got is somebody else's stuff that you've lifted, nothing really deep, then it is going to thin out.

Robin Trower

There are no plans to do any more live stuff. I really feel like there's enough live shows out there.

Rick Riordan

All invincible and stuff

Samantha Barks

I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

Nicole Polizzi

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand

Karl Lagerfeld

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

Wendell Berry

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

Mahatma Gandhi

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

Pope Francis

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

Quentin Tarantino

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.

Terry Pratchett

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

Mustafa Akyol

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

Takeshi Kitano

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Bianca Lawson

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.

William Wordsworth

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Sargent Shriver

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Willa Cather

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Salvador Dali

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Samuel Johnson

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

Narendra Modi

Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

Ellen Glasgow

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

Joey Ramone

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

P. D. James

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.