Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Patrick Shanley

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

Mary Gauthier

I was adopted when I was about a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life. I couldn't relate to things in Baton Rouge, but I found songs that spoke to me.

Ed White

I think what happened is we all adopted each other.

Richard Thompson

Intelligent design is now being adopted by a number of credible scientists. If the Dover school district wins this case, you're going to see intelligent design popping up on school board agendas all over the country.

Ann Wilson

I'm a single mum and my daughter came from a really potentially tragic situation. If I had not adopted her she was kind of like a lost lamb.

Dave Walker

I'm pleased to receive this award, ... I have been a constant with this organization for many years now, but we wouldn't be here today if I wasn't surrounded by many other talented people along the way. I'm extremely proud of the Burlington community's dedication to professional baseball as evidence by the fact the Bees have survived and now prospered as the smallest full-season market in the Minor Leagues. I'm also pleased with the response we've gotten on a regional basis from the baseball fans all over Southeast Iowa and Western Illinois that have adopted the Bees as their hometown team.

Ed Smith

I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just went on about their lives. Some of them had good contacts with white people that they were serving in someone's home. Sometimes those white families almost effectively adopted you.

Steve Johnson

In legislation that became effective in 2005, Congress adopted a uniform definition for most people. It won't change what they can take, but it'll make it easier for them to understand.

Pat Toomey

The F.E.C.'s claims and legal theories are a bizarre interpretation of the club's mission, the Constitution, the laws adopted by Congress and their own regulations,

Dennis Patterson

It apparently was a similar type deal. They operated the same pitch, the same approach, no matter the government level.

Alan Feldman

Here we watch it minute by minute. When you force it underground, anything is possible. Apparently that's a risk the NCAA is willing to take.

Mark Valley

I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

Meaghan Jette Martin

I am good at baking. I don't know if that counts as a talent, but I love to bake. Everybody says I'm good at it, so apparently I make the best banana bread.

Ryan Baker

I noticed nothing was tampered with. All my gas was apparently there from the night before.

David Vitter

I just think the state is going to have to be involved in that helpful way, ... I just want to express my deep frustration about folks in Baton Rouge who apparently are completely focused on why this can't work instead of figuring out how to make it work so we can get these communities through these very crucial next several months.

Michael Fitzpatrick

The uncertainty relative to Nigeria remains a front burner issue, with more attacks taking place on Monday, but apparently the attacks did not result in any lost production.

Robbie Williams

This is my 48th award this year. Apparently when I reach 50 I can trade them in for a kettle

Nelson Wolff

Tom has an interest in us - apparently he does - and of course, he used to live here,

Alan Murray

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team injury-free,

James Caan

Joseph Russo is a dear friend of mine and I cannot express enough how pleased I am that your office has taken interest and is in pursuit of correcting this problem.

Samuel Jutzi

It can be contained in domestic birds. It can be eliminated in domestic birds, but at the current level of money, it cannot be contained.

Samuel Hopkins

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

Katori Hall

I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

Roy Moore

It is a crucial time to run for office when rights and liberties are being eroded, taxes climb, the education of our children declines and morality erodes while judges tell children they cannot pray,

Shooter Jennings

L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn't do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They said we couldn't do Iraq. We did it with 150 combat casualties in six weeks. We did it so fast we weren't prepared for their collapse. There is nobody we can't take down. The question is, what do you do with the power?

Herschel Sandler

Kevin is a great kid. I never doubt his commitment to his team and how hard he works, but to have an injury take you out of this is tough on the athlete. I feel for Kevin.

Wade Boggs

I talked to Wade and he said he regrets that he had other commitments and could not be here,

Tim Kearney

I think it's a lack of commitment. We have a real gap. We have the Comets, a 18-and-younger team. Then you go all the way to 13-and-younger. There's a five-year gap where there's no travel soccer.

Luis Figo

He did everything he could and did it with the utmost professionalism and commitment.

Peter Hughes

Her warmth and understanding, her vibrant energy and her commitment to education for all will be sadly missed.

Bill Buford

Her travel writing was characterized by a high moral purpose and an overwhelming sense of justice. What distinguishes her journalism is her eloquent outrage and commitment to fair play.

Michel Therrien

He's a leader of that team. He's a great example for young players, with his work ethic. He makes a huge commitment to fitness. He makes a huge commitment to what it takes to become a great player.

Neil Callaway

I think the commitment that Shock made to come back makes him a special type person. A lot of people would have bolted, but he hung in here with us, and we're grateful for that.

Keith Lockhart

What matters is what you do when you're here. My commitment to this place is real.

Su Chi

He knows that the constitution will not pass the Legislative Yuan.

Corrine Brown

Historically, amendments to the Constitution have been utilized as a tool to protect or defend the rights and liberties of American citizens.

Rush Limbaugh

In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people willing to obey the Constitution, willing to follow the law. Obama doesn't care. He is the law.

John Walsh

I'm passionate about the Constitution and the rule of law and the issue of fairness and the issue of acceptance. This is a wonderful community. Why would we want to do something that drives a wedge between us?

Robert Farmer

If one little item is determined to be unconstitutional the whole (legislation) is going to fall.

Rich Templin

Their real goal is not to protect the constitution but to protect Tallahassee's inside power brokers from the will of the people.

Russ Diamond

I'm going to retake ownership of my constitution. The constitution was written to limit the power of those we elect to office. This fight is a very important one. There are 12.5 million Pennsylvanians and 253 people in office in Harrisburg, drunk on the power. They don't get it. Out here, it's us versus them.

Elton Gallegly

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

Lamar S. Smith

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Samuel Wilson

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

David Brokaw

They define something special in human nature. They give us a measure of what's possible and what's truly sensational or phenomenal.

Kevin Hall

We're not going to define success by a dollar figure.

John Roberts

An administrator can define the rules without the need to do any programming.

Paul Hewitt

This is a 401(k)-styled defined contribution plan, ... It has performed very, very well.

Ryan Ford

A shoulder pad on T-shirts, in sweaters, in shirts, in jackets, in everything. It's not a huge overwhelming pad, but it's a very defined shoulder.

Curtis Hanson

defined by the outward differences in the appearances, we tried to extend this duality to the two geographic worlds in which the story takes place.

Mika

Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.

Kim Clijsters

This is horrible, I can't even get up the stairs properly. Tests on Thursday will have to define the nature of the injury.

Tom Baker

has been driven by increased demand for our growing lineup of new game themes, strong gaming operations performance and solid market share growth by our major international subsidiaries.

Carl Herrman

What we would like is that people will demand more. We're hoping to work together again.

Bjorn Hanson

What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent years. This year it will only grow about two and a half percent.

Joe Mauer

Having the first year of going through that and getting to know these guys, that's a lot of information, ... It's not only a physical demand on you, but mentally as well.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Marty Booker

I don't know anything about the diva thing. To play receiver in this league, sometimes you have to be demanding and selfish.

Richard Aboulafia

I don't know which is more bloated, the production expectations or the demand expectations.

John Hamm

We can do what we can do to make sure people aren't being gouged; that the price is fair and is being determined by demand and not gouging,

Daniel Doctoroff

We can do something truly exceptional ... something that demands a new standard of imagination and ambition.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Sumner Redstone

We are extremely fortunate to have John, a top-notch executive with more than 25 years of experience in the service-oriented retail business, as the new leader of Blockbuster Entertainment,

James Sullivan

I have been very frustrated with what seems to be the overuse of executive session.

Lumkile Mondi

The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.

Barbara Stewart

It's the top executive who wants to live the way he lives elsewhere--in a fine, fine building, in an extraordinary living space.

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Howard Dean

That's how we're going to fix Medicare, is to get somebody who has executive experience in governing, particularly in health care, ... With me, you'll get results, because I'm a governor and I've done it.

William Crawford

We have executives running this city. We need to wait for a master plan to make a decision? It's part of my frustration.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.

Jim McMahon

Not at all, I mean I understand what these guys have gone through. Not only them, but the generations before them. Without them, we couldn't have the freedoms that we have today.

John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust.

Dave Anderson

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Charles B. Rangel

It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.

Jose Morales

The Mexicans are going to keep coming, wall or no wall, new laws or old laws.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

William Cory

All beauteous things for which we liveBy laws of time and space decay.But oh, the very reason whyI clasp them, is because they die.

J. J. Johnson

There's lawsuits threatened on everything we do. You got to vote what you think is right for the kids. If somebody wants to sue you, let them sue.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Hunter Tylo

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Mark McCormack

We thought the lawsuit was pretty frivolous." ()

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Mike McCurry

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report." ()

Elton Gallegly

What I heard, unfortunately, was more legal hair-splitting,

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Dan Ravicher

I think it's stupid that this type of policy is legal and profitable.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Erich Dumbeck

I'm not sure on the legal side of things, I'm not well versed in that, but I'd like to see something done through the legal system that says, 'Don't do this again,' and I don't know what that means to do that are.

Steve Hall

I have two legal opinions that say that it's unconstitutional.

Tom Donohue

The comprehensive legal reforms enacted in 2004 truly have made Mississippi open for business.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Dale Marshall

As usual, national self-interest dominated, but at least the whole process wasn't derailed.

Gerard Houllier

About a third of the national team is made of Lyon players and I have the right to say that I disagree.

Billy Bennett

It's kind of depressing, seeing it all on national TV.

Monique Currie

It's just really disappointing. We were just so close. I think we had all the tools in place to win the national championship. Sometimes things don't work out the way you want it to.

Fred Gray

If there had been no E.D. Nixon to get into the ruts and gullies and try to do something when it was very unpopular, things would not have been accomplished.

Louie Gohmert

We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.

Andrew McPherson

I said, 'Oh great, this is the Nixon tapes'.

Bob Crowder

When Nixon visited China, I thought there is an opportunity there.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

William Wordsworth

A power is passing from the earth.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Woodrow Wilson

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

William McKinley

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William J. Clinton

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

Sarah Palin

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

Kevin Youkilis

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

Thomas Jefferson

If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.

Martin Seligman

The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

Peter Drucker

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

Mark Twain

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

Mason Cooley

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

Lulu

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Shaharyar Khan

The ECB should not feel insecure. They have strict security at all the grounds.

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Thomas Brooks

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Rand Beers

The precondition to freedom is security.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

Trisha Goddard

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

Virginia Woolf

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Viola Spolin

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.

William Westmoreland

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.