Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Fichtner

Here's the bottom line: I can't play someone if I can't figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares about something, even a rough character. It defines where we step in life. As soon as you find out what somebody cares about, then it all gets real.

Don Warren

The pedigree on the bottom is good for 1 1/8 miles or a mile and a quarter.

John Sullivan

The pastors have to rise to the occasion. That's the bottom line.

Big Sean

I got this tiger head ring that's similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit make it similar to the Cartier ring, but gold and diamonded-out. That's my Detroit tiger. It's made with two different golds - the bottom is yellow and the top is gold.

David Pratt

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

Richard Rogers

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

Gore Vidal

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

John Edward

The American people need to get to the bottom of this,

Ron Brant

We could have even a stronger program team than '04. We're trying not to let the bottom fall.

Gallagher

Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

Zinedine Zidane

My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.

William Cullen Bryant

A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.

Zubin Mehta

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

Chris Bohjalian

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

Walter Kirn

The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.

Francis G. Slay

I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams.

Robert Sullivan

The alternative is to take what are frankly some of the neediest people in the city and turn them out into the street.

Steve Owens

That will save the city hundred of thousands of dollars over the life of the loan, plus the closing costs.

Yakov Smirnoff

I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

Young Jeezy

I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.

Thomas Dekker

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Todd Rundgren

In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for.

Warren Bennis

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Willa Fitzgerald

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

William Daniels

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

Evel Knievel

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

Ellen Key

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

Timothy Noah

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

Clay Shirky

The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the political ramifications have to do with that one word having so many meanings. So, it's democratic in that it quite literally delivers power to the people; it, it essentially opens up participation in the public's mind.

Samantha Power

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

Mimi Kennedy

Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama.

Chris Seeger

Metro should study the democratic process before they study a way to get around it.

Dick Gephardt

We in the Democratic Party feel strongly that the people in the middle, the people stuck on the bottom, are the people we need to be giving the majority of this tax cut.

Kevin Hassett

Pork is the inevitable feature of the democratic process.

Jason Willett

On the Democratic side, we've had somebody looking at it for a long time. From the party's perspective, when you've not had the governor's office in 10 years you're ready for a race like this for quite some time.

Fernando Ferrer

forward to campaigning with him, and a united Democratic party ... to take on Mike Bloomberg as we head into November.

Carrie Snodgress

I don't see myself being an actress forever.

Bernard Arnault

A good product can last forever.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

Bill Vaughan

There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

James Jones

Theaters like (the Landmark), I hope they will forever be salvaged. Long live this theater!

Jussie Smollett

I would love to do a song with Janet Jackson. Janet was, is, forever will be, the ultimate. She's the ultimate dream girl for every guy - and for every girl.

Mario Lemieux

I'm still optimistic this team will be here forever but, again, we need a new facility, ... I don't know how many times I need to say it, but this is the last time I'm going to.

Becca Fitzpatrick

This was it. Together. Forever. As we left it all behind, the sun warmed my back, lighting the way before us. I knew of no better omen.

B. B. King

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Jennifer Morrison

For us it's a visible reminder of the season.

Anthony Biondo

For three state titles. It was kind of a reminder for me.

Deb Caletti

Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.

Alessia Cara

Every time I sing, it it's a reminder to myself that I have to be confident.

Todd Harris

It's a huge, scary in-your-face reminder of how out of touch the Legislature is,

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And most surely it is a reminder for you and your people, and you shall soon be questioned.

Paul Theroux

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

Victor Davis Hanson

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

Rick Riordan

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.

Charlie Gilson

We're working on a Web site right now.

William Heine

We're really trying to make it more useful. We want to make the Web site a window to Monmouth County.

Watson Okubo

Unfortunately, our Web site is not where we want it to be.

Robert Austin

One of the first and most important steps that a student can do is visit the Web site of the university.

Chris Bartlett

I'd be called to one site, 'Oh, Chris, we need you,' and then the other site would need me too.

Tom Rathbun

Work at that site has just come to a standstill.

Sarah Hall

Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.

Andy Goldsworthy

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.

Teresa Medeiros

Our Web sites and our e-mail lists are the two things that we control.

Evel Knievel

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Rosamund Pike

Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.

Peter Cardillo

We'll probably see some sort of a pullback.

John Byrd

We're waiting to see what happens. It's still sort of experimental.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Pablo Schreiber

I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.

Peter Jackson

'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Glen Mathison

I think it would be irresponsible to speculate at all that this was some sort of attack.