Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Gilpin Faust

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Alan Greenspan

History has demonstrated that implicit in any removal of power from central planners and broadening of market mechanisms -- as would occur under WTO -- is a more general spread of rights to individuals,

David Resler

It could be a drag on earnings...something that delays the revival of profits so central to the revival of the economy itself.

Yi Xianrong

It is a clear signal to the property market that the central government has the determination and the means to curb investments and housing prices.

Jon Katz

I think the new reality that's converging all this is, you have on the one end this culture of extraordinarily gifted outsiders who have patched together the Internet. And then there's the rest of the world -- business, education and politics -- that suddenly has woken up to the fact that they desperately need the Internet. It's very important. And so they become sort of central while still not being in the mainstream.

Kemp Ewing

I think that they've just got some talent going to Lenoir-Rhyne from this area. And to be coming from South Central really means a lot to us. I think that with the young coaches teaching these guys and what they're going to teach, you're going to see some more guys walk through these doors and sign and do some things in the future.

Stephen Colbert

I want to thank Comedy Central for picking up the show, but more importantly I want to congratulate Comedy Central for picking up the show,

Freda Craft

Hopefully we can make it to Jackson this year, but we know we have to go through teams like Choctaw Central and Southeast Lauderdale.

John Mraule

Hopefully we are peaking right now. We played Central tough. It was a good game, but we just need to control the ball.

Matt Raymond

Roads are not only crucial in fighting forest fires but also in promoting forest health.

Jeremy Reichert

Our main focus for the next two weeks will be preparing for the division (matches). This will determine the seeding for zone and is crucial to our success.

Erik Solheim

In order to get the parties to the table it is crucial that the ceasefire is respected. If we can make some progress during my visit, I will be satisfied.

Kirby Dean

I think our kids have tried really hard, and played really hard. There?s just been times late in crucial games when we haven?t executed.

David Graveney

His figures may not always look as good as some of the other spinners around the world but he fulfils a crucial role in our attack.

Leo Mazzone

He wouldn't lay it out there. But he'd let them put something in play that he wouldn't let them put in play in a crucial situation.

Chandrika Kumaratunga

In this crucial hour, we must transcend all differences and work for an undivided Sri Lanka as a unified Sri Lankan nation ... We must guarantee the rights of the minorities,

Corey Maggette

I made two crucial mistakes on the last two possessions, and I'm going to take it like a man. Those plays were my fault. Kaman was doing a great job, I should have just left Tinsley with Kaman.

Hugh Johnson

The election is another element of ambiguity, ... and oil remains the crucial variable.

Bill Fischer

There are still some practical concerns. We don't want to violate federal laws on disclosing employees' medical records but once that practical discussion occurs we can go forward from there.

Rob Cline

We've been through this before. There's been discussion about it, but nothing ever really happened. I wonder this time if it won't just because of the speed that they're getting all this information out.

Brian Samson

We think all of those three are going to happen in the next two years. Ramona will probably be next. Actually there's been some discussion about whether to make Ramona a (full) station.

Gordon Strachan

I had a discussion about it over a plate of soup with Stan,

Mikhail Kamynin

If the upcoming discussion in London and Vienna and other talks over this theme go off normally, the holding of such negotiations in Moscow in mid-February is possible.

Greg Shaheen

The human element allows for the right kind of discussion to get a true consensus. It's powerful, it's poignant and it's human, and for us it works.

Jim Petro

All this discussion that we've heard about pay-to-play, it's gone on for 100 years. I think the one way to stop it, without having any gray areas, without having any limits, is to simply say if you're a vendor, don't start contributing to officeholders. That's off-limits.

Bill Foley

It's become a way of life here. There's very little discussion about it anymore.

John Scott

That is a discussion we will be having with the FA. We would like to be able to do it because that would send out a powerful message.

Julie Gayet

I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.

Alex Pareene

The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture.

Lydia Leonard

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

George Carl

A distressing gap exists between the public's expectations for retirement and the reality.

Adauto Lima

This is positive. The tax structure that exists today in Brazil, even for local investors, is an aberration.

Bill Maris

The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal - that's not what I'm talking about.

Richard C. Armitage

Being thought of as sexy makes one employable, but it's not going to last forever, so I try not to think about it. It's like something that exists outside of me.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

Jared Kushner

You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Lexa Doig

I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.

Moon Bloodgood

I love science fiction.

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Khaled Hosseini

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Danielle Sautter

It is just horrible to think someone would do something like that.

Harold Nicholas

If you were black, you experienced (prejudice). It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it.

Kevin Williamson

I had this horrible teacher who told me that I would never be a writer,

Doug Aitken

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

Greg Massoni

It just was a horrible vote, and disgraceful he voted the way he did, as way too many legislators did in the House.

Mike Farrell

They had a horrible season. Horrible ... But I thought they did very well, keeping a lot of kids at home, but they went into a lot of different states, including Maryland. For the record they had, they did very well.

Jim Graham

It's a horrible tragedy for us, but I'm pleased that we had such solid presence and response. I think it's really going to make a difference.

John McCormick

It's a horrible thing for people to do." ()

Jamie Foxx

They really want to say how horrible it was at the Superdome, about how horrible it was with the whole hurricane.

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Richard Lewis

You can't really find somebody that has been so prolific, so 'on the scene,' so popular and cutting-edge as Carlin, ... He is the Rolling Stones of stand-up.

Rep. Baxley

I want to tell you something about accountability: It's hard. It hurts. If you're going to do the right thing, it's not always going to be the popular thing.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Shigeki Maruyama

The LPGA is very popular in Japan, ... She will be a big star.

Karen Bell

It's just not as popular as is used to be.

Tina Kuckkahn

It's the most popular place for student activities.

Nicholas Hytner

Even in rehearsals, I didn't realize it would be as popular as it proved. After I read it, I said: 'It's brilliant, but it's quite esoteric.' We scheduled 70 or 80 performances.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.