Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Murray

He had no idea what Matthews was doing, and he was crushed when he found out.

Kevin Fry

I gave him the green light because I figured they'd throw him a fastball, and they did and he crushed it.

Bill Self

I know it hurts. It crushed him. But if the kid isn't tough, how can a walk-on kid from Asheville, N.C., come in here, get an education and start for Kansas?

Pete Carroll

I'm just crushed for him. It's been a year and a half now for his recovery - we'll wait and see what it all means.

Arturo Lomibao

(The) military has effectively crushed the plot but some people responsible for it are still out there.

Lloyd Edgecombe

The entire island is upset right now. We are a small community. This thing has crushed the entire community.

Paul Byrd

The thing I see is that we're getting the hits now. Before, maybe if a guy crushed a line drive, it was hit right at somebody for an out. Now the hits are starting to fall in and we're stringing them together.

Chris Edwards

The next generation of young workers will be crushed by gigantic and rising payroll taxes to pay for all of this,

Kyle Busch

It's weird that this is where my first win would come. I was crushed by that 2001 ruling. But this makes up for it.

William S. Burroughs

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Ronald Reagan

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

W. Somerset Maugham

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

Wyclef Jean

My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

Wyclef Jean

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

William Penn

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

Zinedine Zidane

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.

Tom Fletcher

Playing My Generation and having Roger Daltrey singing with us was unbelievable.

Roberto Suro

Regardless of what happens to immigration flows, there is a huge second generation of Latinos.

Matthias Platzeck

I will do everything to pay back this gigantic offering of confidence.

Mike Judge

I've got a huge, gigantic deal. We're talking about huge deals.

Sharon Stone

We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in their cheeks, and little Chicklets for teeth. Are they really prettier?

David Friedman

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

William Ernest Henley

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

Tom Riley

What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.

Bill Clarke

You didn't realize how gigantic these things were. Wow!

Hugh Laurie

The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby.

Andrew Motion

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

A. Hodge

Going from one shirt to the next indicates states of transition, of change, not being able to have everything at once, states of concealment.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Alan Trammell

His next start would be Friday. Right now, that's up in the air.

Ken Knutson

He's going to pitch next Tuesday in Seattle (against San Diego).

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Bill Dudley

I think you have to be somewhat skeptical about the payroll number.

Paul Begala

Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?

David Dewhurst

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

Howard Warren Buffett

I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent of the total taxes on individuals. We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends. They take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

William Beveridge

There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.

Robert Owen

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

Terence McKenna

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Genius is a rising stock market.

Les Dawson

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Elvis Presley

I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.

Louis Sullivan

The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.

Hilaire Belloc

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Winston Churchill

There's no such thing as a good tax.

Mike Huckabee

Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes.

Newt Gingrich

EITC is an invitation to fraud.

Milton Friedman

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

Kellyanne Conway

We all want to know what taxes we would pay under [Donald Trump] tax plan. That's a question.

Piers Anthony

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Dean Fryer

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.