Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Clarke

The allegations were that he would use some sort of either nitrous oxide or gas and the victim was made so that she was unaware or unconscious and then he would sexually assault her while she was in the chair there.

Paul Hawkins

I think it would be highly unlikely that we would go through the resources of extraditing an individual from the United States for a summary conviction assault misdemeanor.

Marsha Blackburn

You look at the violence that is there in entertainment, in video games, and don't just go say, 'We're going to do an assault weapons ban, and that's going to solve the problem,' because it is not going to get to the root of the problem.

Noam Chomsky

Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.

Jodi Kantor

Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.

Ann Cooper

Togolese authorities must investigate this assault fully and prosecute those responsible, ... This kind of brazen attack cannot go unpunished.

Elizabeth Dole

I'm a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, but I do not feel you need an Uzi or an assault weapon to defend your family. What use is there for an assault weapon? For cop-killer bullets?

Jay Stewart

What you're seeing is a frontal assault on business as usual - the politics of insiders using the system to benefit themselves and their friends.

Richard Patton

What you have here is an assault on Willie Copeland.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Evel Knievel

I don't know what in the world happened. I don't know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just - the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me... All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!

Ben Macintyre

'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

Big Sean

Kanye didn't sign me to hold my hand and walk me through my career. He signed me because he believed in me as an artist and gave me a co-sign. I didn't see that at first. I saw it as him about to hold my hand, and I'm about to be the biggest artist because he's the biggest artist, you know?

David Kay

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Gil Gerard

I've just got into the convention circuit in the last couple of years and it's great to see all these people who are still interested in the show. It's so gratifying to hear that so many people enjoyed the work that Erin and I have done.

Andy Pazder

The penalty for using the home circuit exception and not satisfying the requirements is immediate forfeiture of membership the following year, and for five years, he can play only 10 tournaments as a non-member.

Brian Swanson

That will prevent circuits from overloading when power is restored.

Christina Gilgor

We're waiting for the court essentially at this point to see if they will unite the two cases. The governor has 20 days to respond. So we have 20 days until something happens. And my guess is after that the circuit will determine what will happen next.

Criss Angel

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

Jahangir Khan

Nicol has great potential and there is a huge gap between her and the rest of the juniors. She needs to concentrate full time on the professional circuit from now on and it is the only way for her to realize her potential.

Jonathan Lipnicki

I work free-weights and do circuit training with my trainer 4-5 times a week. I also train in Brazilian Ju Jitsu several times a week.

Charles Schumer

What does that say about someone's racial sensitivity, especially in the 5th Circuit of Mississippi? Can't we do better?

John Lloyd

I can't see Tim Henman as the sort of player who hangs around the tennis circuit ranked 30 or 40 in the world,

Peter Roskam

Job creators should be able to focus on their work - not on Washington's busy-work.

Granth Sahib

Who can kill that person, whom the Lord has saved? The Creator Lord Himself delivers him

Simone Beauvoir

It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

Akira Kurosawa

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relationg to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can dring to Him who is complete in himself.

Lisa Gansky

Those projects most successful on Kickstarter - those that receive funding completely and quickly - do so largely because the creator has a strong social network and invites people to be engaged.

Lex Luger

I thought surrendering was a weakness; instead it's the strongest thing a man or a woman can ever do, to acknowledge our Creator who's in control of all things.

Kage Baker

What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.

Mary Quant

The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.

James Brewer

We're really lucky we have John Wright playing the father, and he's wonderful.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

Vance Moss

We'd wake up in the morning and there'd be a line of mothers, fathers, grandchildren waiting for us. We knew that we were there to save lives.

Todd Kolson

The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

Ashley Hanewich

He (her father) figured out I'm not going to see anything on the inside and if I did, I could still turn on it. It seems like that's just what teams do because they figure you are weaker hitting the outside pitch.

Dylan Thomas

Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.

Dave Barry

The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting on a bed of folded tissue, was the pair of his undershorts that somebody threw away six months ago (without asking Dad) because they had reached the stage where they were 3 percent undershorts and 97 percent holes. Dad misses those undershorts. They were his Faithful Undershorts Companion.

Dave Barry

Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.

Tim Pawlenty

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

Doug Elmendorf

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Ethan Harris

Usually the federal government takes a much more limited role in natural disasters.

William Millar

It is fitting that the TTI study on traffic congestion is being released the same day that the federal surface transportation program known as TEA 21 expires.

Bob Johannessen

We are obligated under federal law to return that money. That is what we did.

Andrei Kostin

We are now working with the Federal Property Ministry, Finance Ministry, and the government apparatus. I think our proposals will be ready in April.

Grover Norquist

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.

Ric Williamson

We followed the rules and regulations of the federal government. The process that has been followed in the last year was as open and as transparent as the law and the regulations permit.

Bill Rogers

We have a very good shield law in South Carolina, but we don't have a federal one.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

Zachary Abuza

suffered terribly in terms of arrests - more than 300 around the region - including its founding leadership.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest.

Nicolas Sarkozy

We no longer want an immigration that is inflicted (on us) but an immigration that is chosen, this is the founding principle of the new immigration policy I advocate.

Michael Ignatieff

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

that the warheads will not be targeted at the states which have signed the (NATO-Russia) Founding Act.

Ram Shriram

Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com.

Monica Crowley

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

Keith Brooking

The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort.

Beeban Kidron

I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.

Bill Hader

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

David Crosby

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

Rick Warren

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Mary Pipa

That was a tough one. (Montoursville) just took over the net. When they won the second set (7-5) I think it gave them a boost.

Johnny Podres

That was the key of the game. It gave us a big lift.

Terry Wilczek

That was a key play. That gave us a big lift and some momentum going into halftime. We needed to keep them out of the end zone.

William Lashner

People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it's too long and boring.

Arlen Specter

Wait a minute. They may be misleading, but they are his answers, ... You may finish, Judge Roberts.

Mindy Grossman

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

Mike Hall

We judge ourselves on defense, not how we shoot the ball.

Dean Barkley

You just keep doing what they're doing and people can judge for themselves who is the true independent.

Stacey Koerner

I think Judge Judy is, like Oprah, sort of the star of her genre.

Kate Reed

I thought I pulled it together for the the last jump, it was the most pressure I've ever felt. Unfortunately the judges didn't see it that way.

Rodney Lovell

Judge yourself fairly. Sentence yourself lightly. Pardon yourself often.

David Frum

Judges in the mould of Scalia and Thomas were the 'no new taxes' pledge of this presidency.

Cecil Beaton

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

Robert Full

It doesn't look like any real animal, but all of the principles are there.

David Korten

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

David Korten

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

David Tudor

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

Eric Blake

We're not ruling out anything at this point. It's just something to watch.

Zingisa Mkabile

He is an embarrassment to the ruling party.

Ari Fleischer

Obviously, he's not ruling it out... he's saying whatever it took.

Ralph Miller

At this point, we're not ruling anything out,