Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Costello

I think it could be done in a clean, safe way to deliver cheap energy and we in Australia have the energy they need.

Virgin Blue

Having secured over 30 per cent of the Australian domestic market, we are now focused on strengthening our network, developing our product for the business market and steadily building our presence as the low-fare value-based carrier in our region,

David Graveney

How we're going to manage the players through all this is something we're going to have to talk about. We have to make sure that our key guys like Freddie are fit and raring to go for the Australia and World Cup legs.

David Jones

I have been to Australia three times I think now ... but this is the first time I have come to present something which is all my own,

Fred Couples

I did play with Tiger in Australia and it was truly, truly a treat. I think I'm looking forward to that.

Grant Hackett

I am in two minds about it (the criteria). I think basing selection on world rankings is a bit harsh. I can understand Swimming Australia wants to set the bar fairly high, but I don't think it should be at the expense of a Commonwealth Games medal. I am a fan of choosing the team based on Commonwealth rankings.

Darren Lehmann

He is a bloke who can win a World Cup for Australia - he is that good.

Justin Smith

In three weeks he's gone from being a garbage collector in Australia to meeting with Valentino in New York.

James Wolfensohn

If you want to blow each other up, I have a nice house in Wyoming, and in New York and in Australia and I will watch with sadness as you do it,

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Dean Rusk

I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.

Dennis Quaid

I didn't want to throw like an actress.

Claire Bloom

I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

Bruce Schneier

ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet.

Julie Walters

I'd be hopeless at directing. I'm not the type. You've got to really know what you're doing and be quite controlling. It's a very lonely job.

Rose Byrne

The British are so funny.

Robin Cook

Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon, the US and French Opens are to tennis and the Masters, U.S. British Open and PGA championship are to golf.

Rem Murray

It caused my head to turn totally to the left, and it was frozen there for quite some time,

O. Singh

He is subject to no one else s rule, and the Lord, the King, causes everyone to fall at his feet.

Steve Sanford

There are a lot of species that come for landscaping, for pets, that don't cause problems. We didn't write a definition that would be bulletproof.

Kelly Ryan

I think that really, for the vast majority of dogs, it's not a problem, and if the people are cool with it and it's not interfering with their sleep, fine. But for some dogs, it can cause confusion about who's running the show.

Rick Parry

There is no cause for concern on our part.

Brian Rust

We took it down. It was our machine, our node, and our network. Because it wasn't vetted with our security and network groups, it could have potentially caused harm to our users.

John Meyers

It is possible for gold to push through US$600 an ounce. Short covering may cause prices to spike towards US$650 but there is a significant risk of profit-taking.

Gary Thayer

I think what he's concerned about is that the economy is on a good, healthy trajectory and if we do see some upward pressure on inflation somewhere down the road that that could cause the economy to heat up a bit.

Michael Howard

I think a lot of people will be disappointed to see that photograph and it will cause a lot of offense.

Dennis Miller

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Willie Savannah

Juan has been wanting to fight. If it was up to him, he would have defended his title three or four times in the past year instead of once.

Andrew Park

It is great that I can go to a place where I can walk on the same ground of somebody that defended our country,

Ian Holloway

We've got to learn to shut up shop like they did and I hope that we can defend like that when we go to Wolves,

Jim Nesser

I think we wore down a bit. It's tough to bang, rebound, defend and score. It took its toll on us. Plus, TJ stepped their game up.

Ted Cruz

I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

Dan DeBruycker

I don't know any team that has five guys who consistently can score. We try to take one or two guys away when we play each team. I learn something differently with how people defend us each game.

Jose Saramago

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

Dan Brown

I am a novelist, not a historian. I needed to go back, so I could defend the work.

Pythagoras

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

John Oliver

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

Joseph Chamberlain

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Tony Benn

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

Strobe Talbott

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell

Esther Hicks

You cannot be less than you are now. You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have achieved. That's why when someone achieves an empire and then something happens where it is lost or destroyed, they still have the vibration that they've achieved, and the empire will come back again - you see it all the time - because it is the vibrational status that the Universe is responding to, not the financial status.

Mark Romanek

You can have it all, my empire of dirt. I will let you down.

Hugo Chavez

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

James G. Stavridis

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Kari Appler

I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free.

Harrison Ford

I was always very grateful I was never 'hot,'... In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the hottest, the No. 1, the most adored. I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Mike Schmidli

We took up the entire space (of the old Grand Wayne Center). All the side rooms, every inch of it. So now we're all in one area. So much nicer and it's great.

Mike Wallace

What you're saying is that you were a living steroids experiment for your entire career,

Wayne Butler

I think that, with six fish, we?re going to make it through the entire summer without a problem. But whether we make it all the way through (this year)? I?d say we have a 40-60 chance.

Suzanne Condon

We may never know. . . . There is no way to re-create the entire past.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

William James

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William Ellery Channing

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Robinson Jeffers

And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom. You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.

Vladimir Lenin

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Walter Bagehot

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Lennie James

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

John F. Kennedy

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

James St. James

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

John Banville

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

Carol Fassig

It's a process that's been in use for hundreds of years, and there's such a tradition in it. It's been passed down from generation to generation.

Bible Bible

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

Al Franken

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Kurt Busch

Roger told me to stand on the right pedal, turn left and go fast. He doesn't want me to do anything different. Just race hard, race smart.

Bill Womack

Our left side should be really solid and we should be strong up the middle.

Gustavo Chacin

I just missed my spots and left some pitches up in the zone. I made mistakes and paid for it.

Gustavo Chacin

I just missed my, spots and left some pitches up in the zone, ... I made mistakes and paid for it.

Jeffrey Skilling

I'll always regret that I left when I left.

Debbie Carter

He said he got disoriented and lost his sense of direction.

J. Horton

He's been there and done that. He won some big games, he lost some tough games. He made some big plays, he missed some plays.

Gary Powers

When he walked Christensen, I thought he had lost it. I let him stay for two more batters and got us in a jam.

Julian Sensley

I think we just got by on talent. If we were playing a WAC team right now, we might have lost this game.

Chad Kroeger

I was very upset, and for two months, if I saw his picture somewhere I would get angry, ... I hadn't lost somebody to a shooting before - it wasn't as though he'd been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful.

Braylon Edwards

We lost to the team with the worst record in the NFL. It's time for some answers.

Patrice Neveu

We lost to a superior Senegal side who were more mobile and put a lot of pressure on us.

Scott Ballard

We lost that one in the first 10 minutes.

Paul Brutto

We lost some people. They lost some people. When you get to this point and the teams are so evenly matched, sometimes that's all it is. We probably made just one more play than they did.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Kofi Annan

the United Nations will do whatever we can to help.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Lord Palmerston

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.