Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aretha Franklin

Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

Charles Peacock

Even kids that look very thin are not fit. When they do have a little physical exercise, they're worn out. The most exercise they get is walking from class to class.

James Levine

Birgit was unique! Her voice, her artistry, her sense of humor and her friendship were in a class of their own. I was so fortunate to hear her sing many times over the years, and eventually to work with her on several memorable occasions with Wagner and Strauss.

Anne Hathaway

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.

Adam McKay

Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.

Brooke Nevin

I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown.

Bobby Schilling

Incumbent Congresswoman Bustos has proven during her time in Washington that she doesn't understand or feel the pain of middle class families. We need a true representative fighting for us in Washington, and incumbent Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has refused to act.

Bobby Schilling

One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.

J. R. Martinez

Obviously, I don't like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For me, it's just more special to use it for good.

Mark Buehrle

Actually, I got out in the woods and kind of cleared my mind,

Carl Hiaasen

These are all kids who are going to be growing up to vote. They have a much clearer idea of the kind of world they want to live in, ... I like to think sanity will prevail.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Steve Clarke

It was a huge run. She got cut in half at the top of the straight and she's never had a clear run in her life.

John Byrom

I shall prove it - as clear as a whistle.

John Murphy

I've been very clear that that I intend on running by myself.

Dick Cheney

I understand how tough it is. You make it abundantly clear how tough it is. I hear it from our troops. I read the reports every night.

Greg Valliere

The wording of the statement will be very significant ? does it make it clear that the Fed is prepared to do more. It will be an important clue about what we might get going forward.

Scot Roskelley

These are very serious students who have a clear direction and know what they want to do and where they want to go in their lives. They get the concept of growing personally and professionally. Not every school produces people who really get it.

Robbie Robinson

We're waiting on a few final documents before it's ready.

Li Keqiang

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

Greg Gallaspy

What we want to do is ensure there's a balance. That's the key.

Adam Ereli

The needs are great, and there are ways to do this, to ensure that those needs are met.

Christopher Hill

We are looking for full compliance. We'd like to see full compliance. I don't want to predict when exactly we'll see it, but we are working very hard to ensure it.

Dennis Hastert

It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.

Marquis de Lafayette

The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.

Craig Fields

We have the necessity of government intervention to ensure the free exchange of ideas.

John Snow

Treasury set out principles this summer to ensure that the risk to taxpayers was reduced in any extension of the Act,

Dale Crisp

Treading lightly with the water we've got and waiting for more will ensure that there's plenty when summer comes.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Joyce Harris

That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

John Piper

God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.

Bob Dylan

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

Blaise Pascal

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

Drew Curtis

I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Billy Crystal

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

Bobby Fischer

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Ludwig von Mises

If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Cameron Diaz

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.

Carol Bartz

Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.

Duke Ellington

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Sam Allardyce

Ricardo (Gardner) won't be available. He's got a knee problem which the specialist will have to see.

Brian Hendricks

I also had to get used to going down on my knee again, but that didn't take long to get totally comfortable with again.

Satchel Paige

Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.

Zakk Wylde

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

Denzel Washington

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.

Hannibal Buress

Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.

Billy Graham

No nation is ever taller than when on its knees...

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Janet Reno

Everyone working together has made a difference, but you can't say, 'Okay, now let's move on to something else,' ... We can never relax our vigilance about crime, about enforcement, about prevention ... there's going to be some new problem down the road.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Jack Roberts

The timing has to be just right. There has to be someone ready to move in at that level.

John Sexton

The time has come to move this tournament to a new level,

Andrea Dworkin

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Timothy Treadwell

I came, I saved, I protected and I studied,

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

Louise Hay

Love surrounds me and protects me.

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Tom Browning

I've never seen a reaction like it, it's just incredible.

Renee Fleming

I'm not a reactionary.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Suzanne Vega

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Tommy Shaw

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

Spider Robinson

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

Steven Pinker

The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.

Susan L. Taylor

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

Richard Stallman

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George H. W. Bush

one of the worst humanitarian tragedies of our time.