Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Novak

Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this,

Vicki Crompton

One night we caught him hiding in the bushes at 10:30, watching our house,

Seymour Hersh

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

Edward Lazarus

I think if, Kerry wins there's a reasonable chance that you might see Justice Stevens step down, ... And if Bush wins, I think there's a reasonable chance you'd see the chief step down. I think we're getting close to it.

George H. W. Bush

I think he's uncomfortable when the topic is something he's not prepared for or when it's a very hot topic. And when Bush is uncomfortable, he purses his lips and he gets this sour look. 'Don't want to talk about this.' He picks up his tempo, sharpens his tongue. He gets into pointing a finger when he gets defensive.

David Gergen

I think he still has time to recover politically, and I think it's likely he will. He's good at this. You'll see a better Bush during the next few days, in charge and compassionate. But if he doesn't, there's going to be a serious political price to pay.

Lindsey Graham

I think history will say that George W. Bush knocked it out of the park when he selected John Roberts to be chief justice of the United States.

Dick Cheney

I think Governor Bush was very effective at countering this notion that this tax plan is skewed to the rich.

William Marshall

I think George Bush cares about one thing more than anything else, and that's executive power.

Chris Cornell

Nick and Vicky were raised in a restaurant family and they have a very familial Greek way of doing things. Nicholas was the one in charge at first, but bounced ideas off other people, particularly Vicky and I and my mother-in-law.

Andrew Lansley

NICE should be in charge of implementing any guidelines, not the government.

Marwan Kabalan

Nobody listens, nobody reads. You have a very small circle of decision-makers in charge of decisions in the country. What do you expect?

William Brewster

I am responsible for making sure that all of the church members live a godly life, and if they do not, I am in charge of their discipline.

Timothy Edgar

But they do have the power to enforce federal criminal laws. So if you make unlawful presence a crime, they'll be able to enforce civil immigration law. They could charge immigrants or just transfer them to DHS, who could deport them.

Like I

I'm at a considerable disadvantage here since I'm constrained by the facts. Meanwhile, the liberals here can make any charge they want without providing a scintilla of evidence.

Eddie Greenspan

No one is smarter or better than this guy, and if this man says there's no evidence to substantiate the charge, then I feel the charge should be withdrawn.

David Chase

One would think that when we've been talking about a referendum for over a year, you'd think that we'd have a clear direction by this time. After all, the superintendent has been in charge for about eight months.

Tom Hewitt

My great uncle died on the third charge up Missionary Ridge in Tennessee,

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Patricia Wysocki

When I look back, it was like putting a Band-Aid over it. It cheered him up for a few minutes.

Bill Belichick

Doug had kicked a lot of good ones in practice. We'd done it a few times and he banged it right through there, so he didn't have time to think about it today.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready.

Eivind Reiten

Credibility takes years to build, but a few hours to destroy.

Steve Wilson

And we'll pause, just for a few moments, ... to let Sam and his dad, Scott, watch their last crop-dusters together.

Tracy Egeland

Evan was very sharp. Come the third period, we were able to step up and score a few goals.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

India does not have a problem of people grabbing share from a fixed pie. India is one of the few nations where the pie is getting bigger.

David Eger

I've always said there are a handful of stars out here, but there are also 70 or so very good players who could always win. If you're good enough to play out here, you're good enough to win.

Dusty Baker

I've always said it's harder to get a good leadoff man than anything,

Frances Jones

I've always wanted to volunteer to do something significant. Today's a very good time for me to do it.

Vinny Castilla

I've always (wanted) to play in San Diego. It's a great city, and I have a lot of friends there. I always hit good in San Diego, too.

Mike Trgovac

I've always thought that if you do a good job people will notice you. I don't self promote myself or all that.

Michael Redhill

I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.

Lovie Smith

I've always liked him. I think he'll be a very good player in the league someday.

Robyn Hitchcock

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

Warren Fields

I've always been good with numbers and good at getting numbers to where people could understand them. I never thought I would make a good (certified public accountant) though.

Peter Marcus

By 6:30 p.m., the number likely rose to 2 million.

Anthony Chan

The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.

Ellen Glasgow

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

Dusty Baker

We sent him out to see if he can find more consistency. One time he's real good, the next time bad.

Brian Johnson

We actually have turned work away on ethanol. Right now, we have a workload that takes us out to next summer . . . and that's just with ethanol.

Taquan Dean

It's not for me, it's for years to come. This is a springboard for next year.

Rick Parry

It's not a no or a yes - there has been plenty of speculation and we will see next week. It's always encouraging when a player says he wants to come to Liverpool.

Gail Bronson

Everyone recognizes that wireless platforms are the next rev (step) of the Internet.

Bob Cook

Students will be as safe as ever and once again, this is just for one week. Next week we will be back to normal.

Dan Wiener

These three-year numbers that are going to be popping up in the media, and in advertisements over the next week or two, are going to be astounding.

John LeClair

I want to play again. I have another year on my contract, and we'll take it from there. As of (Wednesday) I'm planning on playing next year.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Friedrich Engels

Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.

Ellen Malcolm

At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.

Newt Gingrich

I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.

Joe Scarborough

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Al Gore

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

J. J. Abrams

I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Howard Nemerov

Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

James Branch Cabell

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

James Gleick

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had....