Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Woolsey

A week ago Saturday we saw five moose on the trail. These ladies from California were asking if we ordered them up special for them.

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Max Mosley

ask the public what they want -- probably through the television companies, but that's a matter for Bernie. I think he would prefer to change but I think he's quite easy about it.

Nelson Mandela

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we arepowerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?Actually, who are you not to be? ...an excerpt from "A Return To Love", a book by motivational speaker and author Marianne Williamson

Tom Jefferson

People should ask whether it's worth investing these trillions of dollars and euros in these vaccines.

Jess Walter

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.

David Ebershoff

People sometimes ask me why I wrote this as a novel instead of as a nonfiction book, ... It's because the terrain that I'm exploring, the emotions, aren't documented, as is the case in most marriages. The private thoughts aren't known and that's what I wanted to pursue here. I took it to my imagination and to the skills of fiction writing in order to write about this marriage.

Mark Leyner

People tend to know so little about their bodies as compared to their cars or their laptops, ... When I worked in a pharmacy in Washington, D.C., people would ask me medical questions all the time. I was just a 22-year-old cashier at Rite Aid.

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Xiao Yang

As of July 1, 2006, all the second-instance trials of death sentence cases shall be heard in open court.

Gary Williams

Osteoporosis in men is extremely unrecognized. Too many fail to realize that 20 percent of osteoporosis cases in this country are men.

Stan Twardy

Any case that goes to a jury, you don't know what is going to happen until they come back.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.

Henry Willmore

The thing that jumps out is the downward revisions on the data, which were pretty substantial and give you a much weaker picture than expected. I think these revisions reinforce the case for a (half-percentage) point cut at (Tuesday's Fed) meeting.

Jeb Bush

I've made that case to Washington one more time,

Warren Sapp

I've always said I'll take the ugly win to the Picasso loss any day of the week. It's within our grasap. If we were being out-physicaled or just weren't good enough, that would be the discouraging part. But that's not the case with this ballclub. We're just having lapses at crucial times.

Jacob Frenkel

I've always felt that he had a very strong case on appeal, ... if there's any case that's likely to be reversed, this is it.

Mark Whipple

I wanted it to be the case -- and he ended up having a pretty good first season,

Brian Jacques

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

Jane Campion

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

Cesar Milstein

I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest."

Catherine Ponder

It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.

Kate Micucci

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

Arthur C. Clarke

... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

Blaise Pascal

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

Elinor Wylie

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Stephen Jay Gould

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Mother Maribel

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Al Lang

It was unacceptable play on our part. When we get down there, we have to score six points instead of three.

James Garner

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

Simon McBurney

I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth.

Mike Morse

I've been through a lot worse. I need to get at-bats, play every day, instead of being up there just sitting around. I look at it in a positive way. I need to show them I belong.

Troy Sunderland

That's why we really felt, if the other two kids could get to nationals, we could surprise some people and as a team do some things. Now, instead of going with 10, we'll have to do it with eight.

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Andy Warhol

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Author unknown

I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

Robert McCloskey

That neighborhood has never been known for racial tensions." ()

Jermaine Jackson

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Essence Carson

We like to play like what we're known for.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

As the planet warms, evolution speeds. We've known this for a long time.

Herman Edwards

Warrick was with us in Tampa so I've known him since he was a rookie,

Rita Ora

To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?

Tom Badger

This was in a slope we've known to be a problem.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Antisthenes

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Jane Hamilton

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Anthony Trollope

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

Connie Sellecca

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

Susan B. Anthony

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan B. Anthony

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Tracy McMillan

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

Laura Hillenbrand

My work was entirely nonfiction.

Barbara Pym

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Jane Smiley

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

George Sand

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

Ashwin Sanghi

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

Baruch Spinoza

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Auguste Comte

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Azar Nafisi

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Ayn Rand

He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.

Brian Tracy

Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.

Jane Jacobs

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Doug Holland

People say, 'Just shut the borders,' but they don't understand what that'll do to the agriculture in this country.

Michael Boyd

People say it will be like FedEx for people,

Chuck Palahniuk

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

Carine Roitfeld

People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

Kevin Davis

People say I do a lot, but I'm just doing what I enjoy.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Frank Melton

I think if it's a private investment, it's a private investment,

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wil S. Hylton

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

John Twelve Hawks

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

Keith Richard

If he can go in the first round, I want him to go. If he can't, he should pursue some of this other stuff. Honestly, it's unbelievable when you see it every day.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Daniel Goleman

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Daniel Goleman

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brittany Daniel

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Ron Hill

See? We've watched; we took that little insurance. You didn't like it, but we took it back away.

David Pyper

It was a little disappointing that it took that long.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Julie Taylor

We got shots, but we took them too quick. We didn't take our time.

Romain Massaro

Everything was very different then. But when Owen took over the team, I really had a much better year.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Bob Kendrick

He took it a whole lot better than I did; I'm still mad.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.