Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Markee

This is a reminder and a wakeup call to city officials that much more needs to be done.

Nicholas Burns

This is an historic opportunity to shape the future of the country. ... We call on the new leadership to establish an inclusive transitional government leading to elections, and to ensure full respect for human rights throughout the country.

Patrick Comack

This is going to cause more price wars, minute wars, whatever you want to call it. It's great for consumers but terrible for the wireless companies.

Rick Parker

This is going to be one of those judgment call things that's going to be tough.

Frank Robinson

This is another step, and a very important step, in ownership being named. It was just a matter of when this thing was going to get done. That's the key right there. ... You want to get ownership named, so you can get the new ballpark, so you can feel what I call 'whole' as a team and as a franchise.

Glenn Rogers

This is a tremendous wake-up call for the church,

Donovan Hayles

This is the game we call a make-up game in terms of points and we have the opportunity of going back into the lead by two points.

Bob Davis

This is the first real cattle call for people to get a glimpse of who might be running for president in 2008.

Nicolle Packer

This is not like a pregnancy test, where you are either pregnant or you're not. It has to be prepared carefully and interpreted by an expert, who can mostly call it, I believe. But it is definitely skill-based, and that is why Wada is looking for a more clear-cut test.

Hanya Yanagihara

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

Alexander McCall Smith

Each of us is born into our own mysteries...but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

Alexander McCall Smith

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

Drew Brees

It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.

Doug Stanhope

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

Doug Stanhope

So you stick something up your ass, and you hope it might work, and it usually helps.

Colleen Hoover

All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.

Clare Boothe Luce

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Chuck D.

If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.

Les Brown

People couldn't get down here. They couldn't find it, so they'd go a different way and go somewhere else.

Carol Schatz

People couldn't get down here. Some stayed and went on walking tours.

Kim Clijsters

People come up to me here and say, 'This is your year,'  ... but I know it's not easy. You always have to focus.

Annie Golden

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

Martin Berson

People come to yoga to find themselves. Stretching releases tension, but there?s also a meditative, spiritual aspect. ..You are going to get physical benefits, and that?s fine. But if you have the right teacher, you?re going to get all the other stuff, too.

Steve Farmer

People come to visit here, and they really like the place.

Bob Richards

People come to see the stars, and then they walk away with two or three new favorites.

Mari Dietz

People come back year after year to see what we're wearing.

John McGee

People feel more comfortable with that. They know everybody.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The President is the peoples lobbyist.

Howard Coble

I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.

Howard Dean

Barry Goldwater once said, 'I'd rather be right than president.' I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.

Ibrahim Rugova

As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

Dick Cheney

He realizes he won't be president that long.

Geena Davis

For Thelma to be president -- I just think it's delightful,

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.

James Buchanan

I am the last President of the United States!

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Brock Yates

Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.

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

Bruno Heller

Never name a show after a character if you want to be the guy running the show.

Adlai Stevenson

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Abdallah II of Jordan

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

Kevin Quinn

We did a lot of running this summer together,

Thomas Fuller

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Bernie Sanders

I've run for statewide office plenty of times, and people know me.