Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Marsha Blackburn

To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best - make money for American investors.

Stan Magee

There is a lot of wisdom at this table and we all bring something good to the table that will allow us to made a decision amongst ourselves without committing taxpayer dollars to do it.

Paul Bubb

We will begin an immediate search to fill the head coaching position. The timing of this announcement will allow us to move forward with expectations of having a new head coach named before the college basketball season concludes.

Laura Bush

We will ask not only what is legal but what is right, not what the lawyers allow but what the public deserves.

Larry Jones

We had to jump the fence and pass my brother's body over the wire fence , and even then the nurses and guards refused to allow us into the Health Centre saying that there were no doctors on duty. It was only when we started to misbehave that they looked at my brother and said he was dead.

Olympia Snowe

To allow this program to lapse could potentially jeopardize thousands of dairy farms throughout the United States,

Maria LaHood

To allow the Bush administration to evade accountability and continue to hide behind a smoke screen of 'national security' is to do grave and irreparable damage to the Constitution and the guarantee of human rights that people in this country could once be proud of.

Bill Wade

To allow that kind of thing just because a set of recreational users want to take snowmobiles and whatever else into Yellowstone is crazy,

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Manuel Miranda

Conservatives want someone with a clear, written record. The Roberts hearing has been superb as a technical, tactical matter, but it's left some people in despair and just clamoring for someone with a written record. The left keeps asking, 'What does the right know that we don't know?' Well the truth of the matter is, we don't know anything. We're all being asked to take a leap of faith.

Aaron Peirsol

Couldn't have asked for a better meet as far as the competition goes, ... Those are some great fans sitting out there, a lot of kids and that's kind of who we're trying to reach with this.

Poppy Z. Brite

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

Marcus Brigstocke

I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.

Scott Walker

You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

Simon McBurney

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

Doug Miller

Being young, sometimes you don't know how to control your emotions. He'll mature. I'd take him on my team any time.

Robby Reasonover

We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.

Dong Tao

Will the government really hit the brakes? I doubt it. Much of the investment is following government instructions. It's in second- and third-tier cities. This is what the government wants. They've regained solid control over inflation.

Jim Furyk

Winning two years in a row, pretty much being in control of this tournament most of the way, he's the guy to beat.

John Cislo

Winning two road games puts us in position to control our destiny in getting a home playoff game. It would be good to get one at home.

Mitch Moore

Winning the district championship outright is up to us. It's always good to control your own destiny, and it'll be good to be at home for two games over spring break.

Jim Bolla

We can't control anything like that. A lot is going to depend on what happens with our RPI number and what happens with other teams.

Larry Coker

We were very efficient with our ones. I was happy with that. The game was under control in the first quarter. I would've liked to finish better. We played a lot with our second and third team. When they get an opportunity, they have to perform. They're one play away from being starters. It wasn't a real joyous dressing room.

Ray Chen

We were able to get our new silicon modulator to control the transmission of laser light, while using 10× less power than normally needed for silicon modulators.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Eric Antebi

So long as he wears the name tags.

Lee Krasner

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Peter Greenaway

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

Jose Antonio Vargas

The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia page I was terrified to look at. And so I just snapped. I thought, 'If I'm going to come out with this, I'm going to do it in a big way. And not just for myself. This can't just be my story.'

Shawn Witherspoon

A lot of people don't know where Murray is, and they don't even know how to say Murray. It's one of those things where we can put our name out there.

John Marks

They've been very strong. They've been aggressive. I think they know they have to make a name for themselves, and they don't have a lot of time to do it.

Yvonne Dillaha

For a long time he could only write his name. He's just about got it down. He can write his name and address, and my name and phone number. It took three years.

Todd Whitaker

They are still under the umbrella and name of the Coca-Cola Company.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.