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.

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.

Dr. Tullman

Of course, youve also got to follow up and make sure that the changes youre asking for get made. Excuses or apologies which arent accompanied by changes in behavior (and real results) are just insults.

Cliff Floyd

Day games here are definitely different than night games. The ball travels a little bit more. He ran out real quick. You're asking a guy who is very, very talented - very athletic - but who doesn't play as much to get a good read on the ball over his head off the wall. Your normal center fielder has a slightly better chance because he's out there every day.

Mike Tice

The story got in the paper, then it got on the web, then it went worldwide, ... Then our phones started ringing and people started asking about Moss so we had a meeting and said, 'Since these calls are coming, what is the value of Moss?' We said it was three No. 1s because we knew no one in his right mind would ever give up three No. 1s.

Scott Erwin

The students had a 'textbook definition' understanding of democracy, but nothing in regards to practical application. I was asking what democracy meant to them.

Dawud Walid

The tactics that the abductors are using -- showing her with a veil on, crying, asking for the release of the Iraqi prisoners -- is an unacceptable tactic. Even if the abductors believe the Iraqi women are being imprisoned unjustly, Islam does not condone two wrongs making a right.

Jeffrey Mount

The system can't do what we're asking it to do. That system was designed to protect mostly agricultural land.

Rich Harden

The thought never crossed my mind about not starting the season until a few reporters started asking me about it. In my mind, I'll be there. I'll be ready.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Elaine Turner

As a registered nurse and community health educator, I believe that we need to do more of these types of events for people of all ages. With the technology of today, it's easy to forget the importance that exercise and healthy living play in our lives.

Jim Crace

As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.

John McFarland

Arson is a felony, and we are working hard to solve this case. We believe that we have information on a suspect that will lead to an arrest.

Mark Rush

As all of you know, and I believe Channel 4 reported, it is very expensive to defend oneself when the federal government investigates you.

Laura Bush

As a librarian and a lover of literature I believe it's important for Americans to visit the homes of our most loved and renowned writers.

Rob Thomas

The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

Benjamin Schachter

The bottom line is that, despite some longer-term issues, we think weak industry sentiment combined with some valid company-specific concerns have pushed the stock lower than is justified. We believe that the near-term positives outweigh the near-term risks.

Jalal Talabani

For the Iraqi state, it is very difficult,

Michael Rubin

The Iraqis have consistently surprised us at every milestone.

Patrick Burns

The Iraqi people are out of luck, the way it stands right now.

George H. W. Bush

This is a very positive day for the Iraqi people and as well for world peace, ... Democracies are peaceful countries.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

John Norris

You have enough men, ... We will work together. We will not let the Iraqi people down.

Dominique de Villepin

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Donald Trump

I would say, we have had a lot of problems with radical Islamic terrorism, that's what I'd say.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts, this Center, this place of worship, is just as welcome as could be a similar edifice of any other religion. Indeed, America would fight with her whole strength for your right to have here your own church and worship according to your own conscience. This concept is indeed a part of America, and without that concept we would be something else than what we are.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or Mohammed.

David Petraeus

The Islamic State fighters in Mosul are dead men walking and I think they increasingly know it.

David Hackworth

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

Andre Malraux

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Chuck Todd

Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.

Ryan Madson

After a while, it's too much to handle. You've got to release some stuff. Or you just take it. That's what makes you stronger. I'm just going to go out there and be myself and give everything I've got.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Tom Martin

We didn't just want to release a me-too product.

Anita Allen

I can't release that information. We can't give out anything about salaries or bonuses.

Colin Trevorrow

Marketing for a film is tricky because you release stuff without context.

Alberto Lopez

Whatever is in the release is what we're saying officially.

Zola Jesus

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

Odalis Perez

It's no good. I started throwing, and when I go down, when I release the ball, it pinches me.

Matt Groening

Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons." --Mr. Burns

Bob Baffert

He just had little pesky injuries. He's showing his stuff now.

John Cena

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

Chris Marshall

It's showing our talent off to the scouts.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Simone Weil

Necessity is God's veil.

Rumi

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

Martin Luther

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

C. S. Lewis

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

Francis Thompson

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.

Alexander Smith

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Auguste Comte

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Juvenal

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Barry Watson

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.