Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Keys

You got to realize that the vision, the image, according to 1964 U.S. rock and roll standards, was mohair suit and tie, and nicey-nicey ol' boy next door.

Eddie Greene

According to the locality it's a lot of crime. But this is heaven compared to where we came from.

Granth Sahib

According to their pre-ordained destiny, they act out their karma. Serving the True Guru, a lasting peace is found.

Scott Harris

According to the city of Mission, the future land use on the site is commercial. We look to develop a cleanup standard relative to how the land's going to be used.

Dora Russell

According to our view, freedom given and understood early enough would result in a natural evolution to maturity and self-discipline.

JD Salinas

According to our records he's still getting a paycheck. He says he gives to charitable donations. We checked with seven around the county, none of them could say they were getting money from him.

Istvan Gyulai

According to our information the Greek team leader was informed but not the athletes. To our mind this doesn't constitute a refusal.

Philip Omondi

According to our flight schedule the earliest we can get to Asmara is on Sunday night. We hope we can be allowed to play next Tuesday.

Ed Jovanovski

According to everybody else he has a lot to prove. And there has been a lot on his mind but he's focused on hockey. He's going to be OK.

Les Cauthen

People were scared. They have been hitting the town real hard. They have been here the last two weekends and last week arrested our bartender.

John Mott

I have arrested people I went to high school with, played sports with and have known for years, ... Sometimes people don't think I recognize them, but I do.

Richard White

You know, it makes me sad, ... But I'm not going to get into it. I don't want to get arrested and get into trouble. I'm just trying to get into college.

Robert Foster

We are caught in a bind here. I don't have a choice as a steward of this system.

Robert A. Heinlein

I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.

Elliott Abrams

In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact.

Mark Richt

If you don't sign those guys on signing day and another team does, they will have a much better chance of having them in one semester from now. It's not a binding situation. It's a relationship thing.

Alan Greenspan

A continuation of this trend would soon make the lack of refining capacity a binding constraint on growth in oil use, ... lagging.

Grant Teaff

It made it tough for everybody no matter where they were. One was a conference signing period and the other was the national signing period. Even after a kid had signed his letter-of-intent for the conference, schools could just wait around and start recruiting that player because they really only had one school to beat. It wasn't a binding letter like the national one.

Jack Clarke

The real turning point in the game was a 10-minute period when we had a guy in the bin and we went up by 14. We came out of that period well. That was the point where we bowed our backs, and that made the difference in the match.

Ronald Kessler

The really hard thing is how do you get the information in the first place? How do you get someone to rat on someone like bin Laden? That is so difficult and that requires years and patience and money, ... Inside the CIA.

Richard Ben-Veniste

The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center.

Scott Shane

Mr. Ford's decision to pardon Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he might have been charged with because of Watergate is seen by many historians as the central event of his 896-day presidency.

Jacquie Fernandes

Everything that happened in the past we've let go, we've moved on. Ever since Central last year, this is what we've been waiting for and it's finally here, so we're trying to prove ourselves all over again. Show everybody that we've got a new side and just try to work to get back Central.

Rachel Nichols

There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

Michael Eckert

But we're not looking at anything like we've seen in the last few days like central Texas.

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.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

I started in dance classes when I was, like, seven years old. And the arts in general, it kept me not only off the street, I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, so it kept my mind focused. It kept me passionate about something. So I wasn't easily distracted.

Clive Granger

Forecasts vary in horizon, from a few seconds up to a few days in financial markets, compared to from one to several months for macro variables. We have to provide uncertainty intervals around the central forecasts to indicate the extent to which we are unclear about the future.

Steve Joyner

We had a little talk at halftime. And after that we had a little better understanding of what we needed to do. I still think Central is one of the most dangerous teams in the CIAA.

Alex Sanchez

We have many women CEOs around the state of Florida. We're seeing that around South Florida, Central Florida.

Richard Wright

Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.

Rick Carlisle

Every point counts right now. I know David regrets what happened. We have to channel our emotional energy into emotional strength. That's got to be one our goals as we head down the stretch.

Chris Long

From Thursday through Monday, SPEED Channel takes the NASCAR fan through the entire race weekend in a very traditional way,

Gary Forrest

He's got a giant upside. He's got all the skill in the world. He's got the power, the will. He's just got to channel it in the right direction. He's a little raw systems-wise. I think he'll be one of the strongest defensemen in the league next year. The sky's the limit.

E. B. White

It's good to see The Golf Channel somehow get into it. By then hopefully it's plugged into cable.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

Alex Graves

Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

Patrick Warburton

Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.

Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't direct movies for a living.

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.

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Dave Moates

That's high school baseball. It's not earth-shattering. It's early in the year, too. They have to learn to pitch and play in games like this to be successful in games like this in April.

Bob Cook

We have incorporated the teachers into an early intervention team which visits all our nurseries up to twice a week.

Dana Altman

We've won some games we shouldn't. We probably lost some games we should've won. We just need to focus on getting better. If a few weeks down the line we're still in the hunt, we can talk about it later. But it's too early for our team to be talking about anything like that.

Frank Schade

Early in the year we would have been fouling in that situation. Toward the end of the year we've gone away from that.

Barry Trotz

Early in the year we were getting a lot of grief from people, saying you're playing some teams that aren't quite as strong. But they were strong teams, we just sort of got their number early.

Ramon Ortiz

Early in the year, we know what happened. I didn't feel too good. I was scared about the groin. I feel good now, and everything is working. I don't feel anything in the leg.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Cedomir Jovanovic

We have to remove the judges who were the spearhead of the former regime.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Bernie Sanders

I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

Bernie Sanders

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Ronald Reagan

How could an actor become president?

Stephen Colbert

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Buck Henry

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Chris Matthews

We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president.

Chris Matthews

There is absolutely no record ever of Hillary Clinton or anyone in her campaign ever saying that President [Barack] Obama is not legitimate.

Chris Matthews

I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'

Arthur Koestler

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Ben Jonson

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

Abdallah II of Jordan

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

Rumi

True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul...

Rumi

If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.

Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.

Rumi

Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.

Rumi

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

Rumi

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Ingrid Bergman

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Bob Stern

He told us there were three N's of obesity. Nintendo. Netscape. And Nickelodeon.

Jennifer Hudson

I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives.

George Saintsbury

So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.

Jeffrey Archer

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.