Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Rhys-Davies

The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer.

Clay Richards

For a governor who signed the despised legislative pay raise and saw his plan to use gambling money to lower property taxes go down in flames, Ed Rendell ought to be called Teflon Ed.

Samuel Butler

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is not the statesman, the warrior, or the monarch that survives, but the despised poet, whom they may have fed with their crumbs, and to whom they owe that they are now or have a name

Edmund White

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.

Charles Spurgeon

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Dick Davies

The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish.

William Shakespeare

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

Charles Lamb

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Lamb

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

Charles Baudelaire

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Edward Looney

We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems.

Merle Olberding

There wasn't any gambling about it because the game was on the line, and they weren't going to do us any good sitting on the bench.

Brendan Conway

There were numerous intercepts that he was running a gambling operation. There was one 28-day period in Nov. 2005 when he placed more than $3 million in bets.

Joe Manchin

We're still sitting down in Houston. He (Perry) wants us to try to take these people, ... Every governor is getting frustrated, We will help if they'll just let us.

Doug Scofield

Throughout his first term, the governor has won key victories for working people.

Mark Hansen

A tax increase is a tax increase. We do not want the governor to include any of them in the budget.

Rick Thigpen

At a time when the governor will be promoting austerity, it would be inappropriate for him politically to, at the same time, spend a lot of money.

David Bowles

It is truly astonishing that the governor is trying to put the state into the insurance business.

Keith Miller

It's not his responsibility to get these people off the list. That's Mental Health and the governor and the Legislature.

Anthony Coley

The remarks are insensitive and intemperate. The governor has spoken to Mayor James, and he is reviewing the situation.

Scott McCallum

This is the state of Wisconsin. It is very important to our reputation, what we are trying to project, and yet our governor is silent.

Tom Savini

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'!

Noreena Hertz

Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Michael Brown

We're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.

Debbie Stabenow

At a time when so many Americans struggle to pay for the prescription drugs they need, we must look for ways to lower the price of those drugs.

Trilby Lundberg

All point to lower prices at the pump,

Shawn McCambridge

This indicates lower use for the first quarter of this year.

Michael Evans

They're paying a lot lower and they can make their services for a lot lower.

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Greenspan

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

John Maynard

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Eleanor Cook

They ought to be ashamed. They're the ones who let a pedophile go.

Christopher Dodd

This ought not to be a controversial proposal,

Ben Nelson

I told him (Bush) he really ought to suggest a compromise, ... I don't think their plan to get 51 votes for his plan is out there.

Brent Thompson

It ought to be done in a content-neutral fashion.

John Starnes

They're going to be short, but they ought to be pretty powerful.

Andrew Young

There's another side of the story that ought to be told.

Thomas Kean

People ought to stay out of our business.

Alan Green

I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

Edith Piaf

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Eartha Kitt

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

Barry Commoner

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

Audre Lorde

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

Arne Duncan

No one is mandating merit pay.

Les Brown

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.

Benjamin Graham

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

David Rockefeller

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Bill Hogan

We still plan on sending out a notice,

Lori Murray

We started out planting 400 trees. They just seemed to do very, very well. We subsequently planted another 200 and then another 300 the third year.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Janice Moore

It's just unacceptable. Our property values will decline.

David McIntosh

They'd say, 'I like what you're doing about property taxes, but let's do something about gas,'

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Steven Jeffrey

This is very important, especially since we have had to give up (much) of the property tax.

W. Hull

They have no right to own property in the United States because they have no right to be here in the first place.

Randy Hall

at least we know how much the property is worth ... it's worth $2.3 million.

Samuel Richardson

As long as my property taxes are high, I have to raise rents or make adjustments.

Cy Thannikary

Property tax rebates are a Band-Aid on the problem.

Janet Yellen

This suggests a presumption that the rate (now at 3.75 percent) will need to be raised further,

Ian Schafer

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.

Tom Rogers

What happens? We just, in turn, raise our prices.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Andy Xie

They need consolidation. If they can't raise prices, they will die.

Greg Hawkins

They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it takes a village to put on a triathlon.

Dale Thomas

The yen will weaken some more. There is no need to raise rates.

Richard Genthe

This is the sixth consecutive year we've raised over $6 million.

S. Walker

This is the only way I think we can get this done without having to raise taxes.

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Charlie Crist

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

Bill Watterson

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

Michael Keaton

I saw 'Wild,' and I thought, 'Wow, this is a lot of things, but one of the things is it's a therapist's dream and a climate-change denier's nightmare.'

Stephen Taylor

We're finalizing a settlement. It should be signed soon.

Thomas Carroll

I signed him up, but I didn't make him do it,

Cathy Austin

Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts.

Tom Cole

We signed on 101 new members, and they were all from Hopkinsville.

Tim Hevly

We have not signed him and there's no announcement pending.

Mark Jones

My granddad always said, 'Until you have a signed deal, you don't have a deal.'

Johnny Rivers

One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.

Thomas Carroll

She signed me up and said, 'You have to do this,'

Asa Hutchinson

She delivers the signed affidavit to Mr. Jordan,

Alan Sugar

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

Charles Dickens

It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

Charles Adams

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

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Donald Trump

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

Donald Trump

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

Donald Trump

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.