Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Finkelstein

The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.

Barry Hyman

It's not the quarter-percentage point increase that is worrying people. We are all waiting to see if the commentary will point to one, two or more interest-rate increases.

David Hogan

It's an unfortunate commentary on the willingness of this administration to undermine the Endangered Species Act. Despite its small size this toad needs a lot of land to complete its life cycle.

Raul Gonzalez

It's a sad commentary on what the process has become.

Tom Jackson

Rush told us the social commentary for which he is so well known would not cross over to our show,

James R. Leininger

It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal.

PJ McNealy

We heard commentary from several retailers that is consistent with what we have heard from industry contacts over the past six weeks: Inventory is expected to flow better in late February, and by late March inventory levels should be consistently filled.

Ian Shepherdson

Doubtless these numbers will be followed by a rash of commentary to the effect that rumors of the death of the housing market are greatly exaggerated. This would be the wrong conclusion to draw. It is not possible for sales to trend down and starts to trend up.

Ned Riley

Be prepared for a continuation of negative commentary by companies as they warn about the second quarter.

Chad Adams

We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and what's not. This plan will be completed in March and we'll continue to prepare for a future growth.

Mike Albring

We started a little slow, but then we had a big third quarter. This was a big win for us. I guess we were all hopeful, but we are a little surprised (to be 6-0). We also know there's a lot of season left and we have to complete the second half.

Liane Balaban

I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far.

Kevin Connors

We want to provide as complete a solution as possible to photographers.

Andy Pettitte

What the starters have done over there, with all those complete games, it's amazing. I've pitched in so many games and I don't think I've ever had a complete game. It's going to be a great series, some great pitching, low scoring games. It's going to be a lot of fun.

Jeremy Shockey

There is no person on this team that deserves it more than Amani Toomer. He's been a complete team player and an outstanding teammate to play with. He made great plays all through the game and really won the game for us.

Brent Williams

Until the investigation is complete there will be nothing that is final at this point.

Mick Leary

Until our investigation is complete there is nothing more I can say.

Neneh Cherry

When I'm singing or on stage, I become complete all of a sudden. I'm whole. I don't think I've really had that in so many other things in my life.

Ted Baker

We are pleased to report strong first-half results despite a tough UK retail environment,

Trey Songz

My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.

Craig Kennedy

We found that, despite major efforts to repair relations, there is still a rift in how we view each other and the world.

Ken Perkins

We're getting some very good results today despite the very difficult 6.7 percent February same-store sales comparisons from last year.

John Tippett

About 100 firefighters every year die in the line of duty and another 100,000 suffer lost-time injuries. Despite better equipment and training, that overall rate doesn't seem to drop.

Jake Winslow

They needed that, because they've been banged up this year. They're getting better, despite injuries and sickness.

Jake Brace

Third quarter results are strong, despite a $405 million impact from higher fuel prices year-over-year,

Trilby Lundberg

This is a manifestation of what has occurred in the world oil market, despite OPEC production cuts,

Andrew McDonald

This is a drug that, despite a warning, was still a phenomenal seller,

Terry Maple

They're highly endangered in the wild and there's only a small population in captivity,

Alex Meraz

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

Christopher Hitchens

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Larry Craig

This is the exception, not the rule to the Endangered Species Act.

John Young

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.

Margaret Thomas

We are trying to get people to think it's not just the rain forest and endangered species. It is not just the physical environment.

Paul Watson

To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.

Mary Borevitz

The fact that there are endangered plants at the site makes it pretty special. The site has tremendous resources for our students to learn about.

Brian Schweitzer

makes no sense to harm other endangered species in the process.

Charles Spurgeon

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

Edward Hirsch

The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.

Ed Begley, Jr.

It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.

David Ricardo

The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

David Ricardo

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

David Ricardo

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

David Ricardo

If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Al Sharpton

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Al Pacino

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Chris Bauer

You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.

Chris Brown

I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be,

China Machado

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

Edward Hopper

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

Edith Stein

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.

Jane Goodall

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

Charles R. Swindoll

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

Delta Burke

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

James Hogan

At our size it makes sense to be one fleet.

Guy Lajeunesse

At one of the mosques, two rocks, about the size of two baseballs, were tossed through a window which was shattered.

Donald Miller

Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.

Don Nickles

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

Angelina Jolie

I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Nikki Sixx

When we were younger, you know, small stuff was small stuff. But we turned it into big stuff. It's just part of being young.

Boris Diaw

We're small. That hasn't changed. We've been small all year.

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Ai Weiwei

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

With us being really thin at small forward, it's not good. But this time of year, that's usually when it happens.

Sandy Wilson

It's a small town remembering what it's like to be an American.

Bill Nye

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Jasmine Guy

We are a complex species to observe

Barry Schuler

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Bill Bryson

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

Chris Servheen

There are so many species that need help,

Michael Crichton

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Lynn Margulis

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

Bryan Pfeiffer

There are many gull species in the world. This one is noticeably different from any gull we have in Vermont.

Nora Roberts

He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.

Christine Feehan

You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake

Jaime Lerner

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

Karl Pilkington

Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back.

Rudyard Kipling

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

Adam Ereli

It undermines the right of Kenyans to information.