Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Canada

Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.

Rep. Arza

We don't want the state solving local problems, but we want to be partners in the local problem.

Blaise Pascal

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

Barry Gibb

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

Ray Davies

Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.

Eugene Mirman

There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is funny, and conveying it to an audience.

G. H. Hardy

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.

George W. Bush

I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly as I can.

George W. Bush

It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London

George W. Bush

I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.

George W. Bush

We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Dale Carnegie

If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dan Colen

Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

Steve Miller

It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible

John Wooden

When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Gove

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

Aaron Eckhart

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

George Harrison

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.

Joan Sutherland

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.