Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hans Blix

We have not seen a serious effort on the Iraqi side ... or evidence that would clear up the question marks.

Cheryl Everall

We haven't heard anything back yet, but that's why we're speaking publicly now. I think this is an issue of importance not only to clear our name but to demand justice for this family.

Trent Duffy

The president has made clear that he was not satisfied with the federal response. That is why he ordered a comprehensive 'lessons learned' report and plans to work aggressively to implement improvements to our disaster response plans by the start of hurricane season.

Scott Bleier

Those are the segments that have the most powerful organic growth going forward for the next two to three years, minimum, ... You have to steer clear of the very highly-speculative small-cap technology names, those stocks that have been around for a long time and have reinvented themselves over the last year as Internet companies.

Maxim Medvedkov

We'll do our utmost in order to complete the negotiations this year. By the autumn, I think we'll have a clear understanding of whether we can do it or not.

Rick Fried

Those make it pretty clear that it's from the raw sewage.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Unfortunately the picture is still hazy and not very clear as to the scope of the program and the nature of the program.

Richard Engel

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

Raf Simons

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

Derek Smith

Time of possession obviously helps us. We've just got to keep on working.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Ali Smith

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

Adolf Galland

As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

Douglas Massey

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good.

Donald Barthelme

Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.

Don DeLillo

Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

Donald Sutherland

I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit.

Don Kardong

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

Deepak Chopra

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.