Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Kozol

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

Joyce Maynard

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

Jean Stafford

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

Raymond Chandler

He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

James Duff

I realized there was something I didn't quite like in myself that I didn't want to hear about.

Jean Stafford

I know this, and the knowledge eats me like an inward animal: there is nothing worse for a woman than to be deprived of her womanliness.

Washington Irving

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Barbara de Angelis

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

David Jones

And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions.

Bible Bible

I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

Ben Wallace

He didn't cut it, did he? Good. I like that hair. I'm rolling with him.

Erik Thomson

He can see something and in a quick and unemotional way he can cut the fat off. You trust him implicitly because of his track record.

Glen Davis

He cuts a lot of slack off me and the rest of the team. We just hope he gets well and we can get all the way to the top.

Greg Gardner

He just didn't have the money to pay for the photo processing, so he tried to cut expenses.

Adlai E. Stevenson

He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

James Leavitt

He is probably physically incapable of doing the sort of thing they are suggesting he was doing. It takes a lot of work to cut through a limb. He maintains his innocence completely.

Mack Brown

He laughs and cuts up with them and picks at 'em,

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan's speech puts an exclamation point on the market's notion that the Fed will eventually have to cut rates in response to the rapid deceleration in the economy,

Scott Erickson

What we wanted to do was just put to rest the question of, 'Hey, are they going to be around now that (Apple is) making a major switch to Intel?

Jon Cryer

His name is Blane? That's a major appliance, that's not a name!

Dr. Armstrong

I think it's a major step forward. There's no question about it.

David Becker

I think it's a major step forward, I don't think it signals any retreat from vigorous enforcement.

Rhodri Morgan

It is all part of a major Welsh revival. We are raising our game, and not just on the rugby field.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Sylvana Foa

I think (that) the major conclusions are that there are a lot of very rich people who are getting very, very rich, and there are a lot of very, very poor people who are getting even poorer.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Rick Warren

If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.

Chamlong Srimuang

Our rally will persist until the prime minister quits.

Bill Clinton

In view of the American position, I don't see how your prime minister can be anything but really publicly very tough on this. I don't think he's got an option,

Mike Aberlich

Investigations like this open every day. I'm not trying to minimize it, just trying to put in to context.

Peter Jaszi

Inevitably, whenever a minimum of rights is set, the other side pushes for those rights to be the maximum.

Tom Kiley

If you raise the minimum wage, it will go into the pockets of people who will go out and spend it.

Michel Lu

If necessary we will make proposals to the minister or even the president.

Henry Rollins

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

Dick Gephardt

I think the priority has to be Social Security and Medicare,

Jakaya Kikwete

I will make sure research and development is a top priority in agricultural development.

Mark Shapiro

Our No. 1 priority now is a closer.

Sara Gonzalez

The first priority is to start working, then know the language.

Gary Snyder

The first priority is just to get them registered,

Susan Cerbone

It's been a top priority for everyone to move, but this is the first time everyone's on board.

Edgerrin James

They just signed a new guy, so they are working to get better. As long as it is a priority ten it is all right.

Ron Zook

They know they have to go to class. Their first priority is to get an education. You're here to play football, but you're also here to get an education. You have got to go to class.

Tim Stanley

It was on the top of my priority list.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

Sgt. Reynolds

His statement was that it was a very small amount.

Darryl Frank

There is a strong (talent) pool, but a very small pool.

Ian Fleming

To come and see them live at a small track has appeal.

Hines Ward

He had a small window to get it there and he got it in that window.

Kevin Jones

He doesn't play as small as he is.

Sander Levin

What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

Vincent Van Gogh

I'll start with small things.

Tory Burch

Never underestimate the impact of a small act.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Greg Martin

It can be time consuming. It took off a lot of pressure.

Iain Dowie

He did brilliantly for us in the time he was here,

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Brad Miller

The intersections will be constructed at their ultimate width.

Sandra Forman

It's the ultimate high. It couldn't get better than this.

Neil Stern

It's the ultimate credibility to say, 'Go see who we are,'

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

John Eccles

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.