Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Mike Tice

The story got in the paper, then it got on the web, then it went worldwide, ... Then our phones started ringing and people started asking about Moss so we had a meeting and said, 'Since these calls are coming, what is the value of Moss?' We said it was three No. 1s because we knew no one in his right mind would ever give up three No. 1s.

Majel Barrett

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

Travis Leffew

I sent a few text messages, but I couldn't call a lot of people because I was still getting calls from people asking me about signing as a free agent. When it gets in the paper, that's when everybody will know.

Elena Cuevas

This is the first time that it is nationwide and you can see it. People are asking for some respect.

Brodie Croyle

That offensive line y'all have been asking questions about, they showed up. They'd been criticized all camp, saying they're kind of our weak link.

Lee Raymond

You should be down asking your representatives in Congress how did they let this happen? They had been told for two years this was going to happen.

Janis Karpinski

You take a request down - literally, you take a request to the Finance Office. If the Pay Officer recognized your face and you were asking for $450,000 to pay a contractor for work, they would pay you in cash: $450,000. Out of control.

Chip Cherry

You sometimes need help navigating through that process. And this way, when you call, you're calling a person rather than just asking if there's somebody who can help you.

Bill Gates

avoid the kinds of security problems people have had.

Jon Daniels

Avoiding the arbitration process for the next two years with a core player such as Mark is an important step for both he and the club. We're hopeful the contract is the continuation of a relationship that will last well beyond the term of this agreement.

Bob Motzko

That (pass) was a great play. You guys have been following me with Hooton, and I just can't explain it. He just can't get points. I've never seen anything like it and I can't figure it out because he doesn't have a lot of flaws. He's got great hands, shoots well and competes his tail off, but he's just got a way of avoiding points.

Ben Adams

(ADR) allows parties to control and design the outcome of their disputes by crafting creative solutions that avoid the randomness of trial decisions, ... Schedules can also be controlled, reducing business, professional and personal disruption.

Lynn Jurich

With Zipcar, consumers avoid the upfront cost of buying a car, not to mention gas, insurance, and repairs. Plus, they reduce the number of polluting vehicles on the road. Suddenly the planet-smart carless option is also the convenient money-saving option.

Heidi Bayley

Whenever you're hanging ice even if it's not over someone's head, which we avoid for obvious reasons it's very heavy and, of course, it melts. You don't want it to drop in the middle of the event because it feels disastrous even though nothing disastrous actually happens.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire, and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Donald Selkin

Cyclical stocks should really not do well if the economy is going to slow, and you can see, look at the cyclical components of the Dow, a stock like International Paper, Du Pont, all at multi-year lows. I really don't see much there, I would avoid them.

Melvin T. Reid

An investor is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in business, and how to avoid them.

Patrick Lang

The state agrees with Storms that his sentence may be impacted by the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in State v. Foster. The state has no objection to having Storms returned to the trial court for re-sentencing.

Roger Toussaint

The struggle and defiance and unfortunately sacrifice will be required and will occur and judges need to understand that, the courts need to understand that and the lawmakers need to understand that.

Kevin Keegan

The tide is very much in our court now.

John Wallace

Publicly he's saying one thing and in the court he's saying another thing.

S. Hughes

Edna is going to be sorely missed. Her team leadership is invaluable and it's going to be hard not to have her in the locker room before and after games. Her guidance off the court is also going to be something that will be hard to replace.

Jim Sharp

We gave away something on one of the few court victories we've had on this. We need stronger oversight.

Steve Willis

We will be making that request, but that's up to the court system to decide.

Gary Waters

This was the first time we dominated a team with Quincy not shooting well. These kids now understand what to do on the court in situations and they'll compete.

Dick Bennett

We got some offensive rebounds in the second half and the fact that our half court defense was better ... particularly from Ivory Clark. He made Brandon Roy work for everything he got.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

David Albright

And that's one of the things that has to give you pause, is that they have been thinking about this a long time, ... And so the question is, when did they start in earnest to learn how to make a nuclear explosive?

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

Bible Bible

Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. (2 Chronicles 6:40)

Bible Bible

Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. (2 Chronicles 7:15)

Jim Volk

Right now the perception is we are not going to get the earnings recovery we thought we were going to get.

Lorenzo Carmon

Some people will wait until they see the pipes going in the ground to come sign up, but it gets to be more expensive when you do that.

Larry Sabato

This is going to be a very expensive race between an incumbent and a quasi-incumbent.

John Truscott

This isn't a public service announcement, it's a very expensive radio campaign. It's unfortunate that a seemingly good program has been tainted.

John Townsend

You're standing on hallowed ground here. Sometimes hallowed ground is very expensive ground.

Tom Barton

We like to refer to those servers as the most expensive they ever purchased.

Anna Nicole Smith

It's very expensive to be me.

Mark Nicholas

Signs and postcards -- a mail-out that went out the first of last week -- that's probably been the most expensive thing we've done so far.

Adam Jaffe

largest and most expensive marketing failure since the Edsel.

David Wood

Stay-at-home parents like Marge perform many household services that would expensive to replace, and consequently have a significant need for life insurance.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Mahmud Abbas

after nearly 40 years of occupation, still do not live as free people in their own land.

Don Allen

Sometimes you have to have a little luck on your side, as well, especially the way we shot some free throws down the stretch.

Ray Gilmer

This is not a deep, hard freeze yet, but that may change.

Mark Bell

The whole goalie was in the net, so I'm sure the puck was in there with him. I've never seen a goalie freeze the puck with his pad.

Michael Schroeder

This governor got a free pass from conservatives for two years. The party is over.

Ayn Rand

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

E. B. White

I've seen a guy reeling in a giant tarpon on a Stella. The reel literally glows.

Jim Calhoun

These are two giant tests. I told our guys at a team meeting that we're 22-1 and 9-1, but we still have more tests. We've got to keep proving it and proving it.

John Bunting

As I said to the team, that's one giant M.O. -missed opportunity,

Ed Rendell

Twenty to 25 years ago, Pennsylvania was the industrial giant of this country.

Josh Franco

Today, Mike Giant is no secret to anyone.

Susan Rosenberg

There's something very special about Doris. She is very soft-spoken, but she's a giant of a person.

Kevin Frandsen

He's wearing a Giants uniform, and I'm playing for his team, too.

Honore de

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Joe Clark

He was a giant of a man, had an extraordinary impact on the country.

Janice Hahn

They're going to temporarily put a halt to removing those trees so we can have an opportunity to look at it and see if we can save the trees and the hawks,

David Bowman

San Antonio had to rely on the hold harmless provision this year.

Jane Siberry

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Aesop

Harm seek, harm find.

Albert Einstein

From discord, find Harmony.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I think if you socialize, dine with, spend time with known terrorists that are on the list of those who want to do harm to America, you put yourself in peril. I don't dine, socialize or spend time with people who are on the terrorist lists.

Steve Largent

Where is the harm in the wireless industry?

Plato

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

Christina Gallach

Solana says those responsible at the local, political and religious level must prevent any repetition of such acts, which can only harm the image of peaceful Islam.

Randall Upshaw

If it wasn't for Proof trying to harm someone, we wouldn't be here today.

Hilary Clinton

I've been subject to quite a lot of illegal leaking,

Don Blair

This is anti-Bluffton and anti-community, ... nothing illegal about it, and nothing we can do to prevent it.

Rep. Hutchins

This is not a racial issue and should not be presented as such. The principle is legal versus illegal status.

Barbara Kingsolver

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Will Adams

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Robert Forney

You didn't know it's illegal to sell this in the United States?

Richard Kite

You have three vans in one location with a significant number of illegal aliens. This was obviously a coordinated smuggling effort.

Robin Cook

We are looking for a strong declaration that there must be a return to the rule of law and an end to the illegal occupation of the farms,

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Chuck D.

On a number of occasions, he sliced people down. The tribe's lawyers were not able to shake my testimony.

Randy Mayes

When I first started, I said 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, the lawyers say, 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, we're even older than most of the judges.

John Pomfret

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Erin Runnion

I don't think there's a way to prevent this,

Nina Simmons

You can put some procedures in place to try to prevent it - but if you're one of those schools that has that tradition, it's going to happen.

Jesus Christ

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Rosie Perez

You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

Marie Dressler

I'll have my double chins in privacy.

Lisa Kudrow

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

Kate Millett

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Ken Leonard

That's what you want to get your program to, but we still have to prove it,

Hillary Clinton

There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Jim Colborn

He allows me to have my own program and supports me and makes me feel like I am appreciated and respected.

Vinton Cerf

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Kenneth Williams

The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Brendon Urie

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Thomas Sowell

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

Suzanne Vega

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Simon Cowell

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

Scott Adams

We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English.

Sonia Rykiel

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

Solon

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

Taron Egerton

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

William Shakespeare

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

Mick Jagger

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

Gene Fowler

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Wendell Berry

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

Joseph Addison

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

James Russell Lowell

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Ellen Goodman

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.