Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Jay Leno

As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his recall election campaign. Which is ironic, isn't it? When Clinton was president, he couldn't recall anything.

Warren Beatty

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

Christopher Thornberg

The forecast for California is mediocre at best; at worst we are liable to dip into another recession, ... at least 50% if not more.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

This historic election has come about because there's a tremendous disconnect between the people of California and the leaders of California. We the people are doing our job -- working hard, raising our families and paying taxes. But the politicians are not doing their job.

Robert Klein

This is a historic step for the state of California in moving forward with the funding requirements of Proposition 71 and getting funds out to researchers.

Jerry Howard

This is a gut-shot not only to the housing industry but to the California homeowner,

Eric Idle

I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

James Arness

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Jerry Patterson

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

Pamela Falk

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

Dominic Barton

The economic leg is much longer than the social leg in China. That's why the big new motto of the government is 'harmonious society'.

Julian Bond

People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I don't see them; they don't see me; we don't interact; we have no relation one to the other; no physical relation.

Ken Hitchcock

Goats is a very emotional player who plays on the edge, and sometimes that edge tilts.

Ray Liotta

I get up at six to work out. I've done it since school, it's always been part of my life. It's a good way to take the edge off. I like getting up early; I've got a daughter, I'm a single dad.

Jon Cox

I want to see another city. Better than DC. It?s a true edge city.

Martin Evans

I have always been interested - indeed, waylaid - by the leading edges of technology, even during my Ph.D. years when I pioneered (but did not publish) agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA fractionation. Also, much later, I was instrumental in showing that Green Fluorescent Protein and RNAi could be made to work in mammalian cells.

Francis Spufford

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

Noel Coward

I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.

Kiana Tom

Our viewers are very educated, they can tell if I train or not.

Philip Dick

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

Deepak Chopra

I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.

Roger Tambellini

Jason is just playing great, ... He has the force on his side right now. It is good to get him off this tour and on the PGA Tour where he belongs.

Paul Manning

I said the other day no one knew what Steve could do, including himself. And he showed his potential here. He's going to be a force to be reckoned with.

Kammron Taylor

I was trying to force the issue too much.

E. P. Thompson

I thought it was a really good team effort. I thought we played well, defensively, and we forced them to take some tough shots all night. We did a good job on the boards.

Jim Haslett

He was outstanding. He made key plays, and he made key runs when he had to. He didn't force the ball.

Herman Edwards

He was taking what they were giving him. He was slinging it really well. Jay also did a great job of not trying to force it too much.

Greg Martz

I didn't want to force him out of the weight room, but I thought he'd do well in track.

LeBron James

I didn't want to force a jump shot. I wanted to get in the lane and get a good shot.

Shemar Moore

I always speak so highly of my mom because she's my partner in crime, and none of this would be possible without her love and support. Always have to make time for Mom.

Donna Jones

She was a quite a lady. And a leader. Everyone spoke so highly of her.

Bob Trezise

It is a highly unique and 21st century-like company, like the type that we'd like to inspire here in the Lansing area. They can go other places in the country.

Steven Galson

This is a very highly innovative product that will improve the quality of life for millions of Americans with diabetes.

Kevin Hassett

There's not really likely to be market panic around the nomination,

Cody Acree

Revenues are likely to be down but that's just normal seasonality,

John Hurt

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

Sam Hodder

If we don't take this opportunity, it's very likely that we won't get another chance.

Jerry Jones

I feel that we'll likely have a deal.

Peter Marcus

By 6:30 p.m., the number likely rose to 2 million.

Michael Cohen

Long term, I think they'll be higher. Short term, there's likely to be some pullback.

Lawrence Eagleburger

When you're in the presence of the president of the United States ... you're likely to pull your punches to some degree.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.

Rashad Anderson

People say we may lose this tournament because of lapses. It's not happening.

Bob Hamley

You find out more about people when you lose than you do when you're winning. We're trying to find our identity.

Jay Hakkinen

There's just rules to what you're doing. No matter what's happening, you need to be aware, and if you lose that awareness, you shouldn't have a rifle in your hand.

Luke Donald

I don't think you win or lose this tournament off the tee. I mean, it's all around the greens.

Ozzie Guillen

How can you be a choker or a loser when you've won 91 games?

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Jonathan Safran Foer

It is better to lose than never to have had.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Andrea Hirata

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Steve Squyres

We think Opportunity is now parked on what was once the shoreline of a salty sea on Mars.

Scott Barnes

Washington is a unique opportunity for my family.

Josh Blaisdell

We are still young. We only skated two seniors today. That's why we wanted this opportunity to play some better teams.

Ann Veneman

no specific position has been taken on that proposal.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

What we did when we took the position was to make a statement and we made a statement.

Silvan Shalom

I don't think its the real position of his party.

Joe Dumars

I think he's in a position where he would feel like he has something to prove.

Tom Brandt

I think Jens is sitting in position where he should ski in the top 30 in the state.

Victor Martinez

If I can, I will watch. I want to be in that position soon.

Clay Matthews III

I don't think there's a position I couldn't play on this field.

John Buchanan

I'd say our position is getting stronger, no doubt.

Craig Stevens

I don't think they are going to feel any pressure because they have never really been in this position before. The pressure is not on us, we just need to play relaxed and do our best.

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

James Canning

It's a proposed vision for the city, and it was used as we prepared this year's budget.

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

David Cameron

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

William C. Bryant

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Jonathan Galassi

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

Jon Postel

Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.

Spike Jonze

Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again.