Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard C. Armitage

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.

David Giles

This new-look side is HIS side, they are all HIS signings and as such, HE must take absolute responsibility if things go down the pan,

Joey Eischen

We should have an owner, period. There's 10 people waiting in line to spend an absolute disgusting amount of money and to sit around and waver, there's no excuse.

Jim Carter

We are going to be more efficient per unit of production, but if you try to cut back on an absolute basis, it means you don't grow the industry.

Van Horn

We had preordered and also had cheese quiche with potato crust. It was absolutely wonderful,

Jose Ferreira

What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.

Lamberto Dini

What is happening is absolutely unacceptable, not only from the point of view of (Sharon's) action, but also (from the point of view of) the reaction,

Newt Gingrich

We find ourselves where with a Democratic president and a Republican congress and we have an absolute moral obligation to make this system work.

Sergei Lavrov

We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine's borders.

Carol Rees

She's been calling her mother periodically to let her know she's OK, but she doesn't answer the phone when we try to call her. We don't think she's in any danger. She's been telling her mother she's all right, but she just doesn't want to come home.

E. Hicks

She seems to have an answer for just about any question that arises pertaining to the city.

Jim Tracy

Oh, yeah, he can make the club. Is he going to make it? I don't know the answer to that question today, but can he make the club? You'd better believe he can.

Jay Sekulow

Should parents be notified if a minor's going to have an abortion? Of course our answer is that they should be notified.

Holly Cartner

Shipping people back to Morocco is not an answer to this crisis. Protecting these extremely vulnerable people should be the Spanish government's priority.

Patrick Fleming

Simply locking people up is not going to solve the problem. Treatment really is the answer to what we do.

Phillip Levine

She had a husband in the Aleutians, and sent him a telegram telling him how to answer the questions, ... They brought him home.

Joe Wiegand

She chose to leave that forum and not answer questions at the same time her colleagues were answering questions. Judy chose to open herself up like that.

Sylvia Warner

She has always been perfectly shameless about reading letters not meant for her, and, as she said, she was ideally suited for the work by never having much inclination to answer letters back.

Paul Tagliabue

At this point you have to proceed on the assumption ... that they may be unable to play in New Orleans at all for the entire season,

Doug Miller

Being young, sometimes you don't know how to control your emotions. He'll mature. I'd take him on my team any time.

Robby Reasonover

We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.

Dong Tao

Will the government really hit the brakes? I doubt it. Much of the investment is following government instructions. It's in second- and third-tier cities. This is what the government wants. They've regained solid control over inflation.

Jim Furyk

Winning two years in a row, pretty much being in control of this tournament most of the way, he's the guy to beat.

John Cislo

Winning two road games puts us in position to control our destiny in getting a home playoff game. It would be good to get one at home.

Mitch Moore

Winning the district championship outright is up to us. It's always good to control your own destiny, and it'll be good to be at home for two games over spring break.

Jim Bolla

We can't control anything like that. A lot is going to depend on what happens with our RPI number and what happens with other teams.

Larry Coker

We were very efficient with our ones. I was happy with that. The game was under control in the first quarter. I would've liked to finish better. We played a lot with our second and third team. When they get an opportunity, they have to perform. They're one play away from being starters. It wasn't a real joyous dressing room.

Ray Chen

We were able to get our new silicon modulator to control the transmission of laser light, while using 10× less power than normally needed for silicon modulators.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Bernie Sanders

This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.

Bernie Sanders

I know media is not necessarily focused on these things. But what a campaign is about is not Hillary Clinton, it's not Donald Trump. It is the people of this country, people who are working longer hours for lower wages, people who do not have health care or are underinsured.

David Sandor

We want to get the message out that they can go to any Home Depot in the country and get a job.

Jackie Payne

Women all over the country are being turned away from obtaining valid and legal prescriptions. These kinds of laws would only make the situation worse. It's shameful.

Lance Ripley

The other facilities around the country have been fantastic. We couldn't have hoped for a better response. But we've been working with some of these people for decades, so it was not really surprising they would offer their assistance.

Dan McCarney

We had to be one of the most improved teams in the country from week one to week two if we were going to have a chance. That's the way we played today.

Jorge Cantu

This was for Mexico, so everyone can know in our country -- everyone can know what we're doing here so we can leave here with our heads held high.

Frank Adams

This whole country runs on fuel, but our industry for sure,

Brian Kenny

I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Anthony Eden

All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

Clayton Christensen

Government mandates, incidentally, are likely to distort rather than solve the problem of finding a market. I would, therefore, force my organization to live by its wits rather than to rely on capricious subsidies or non-economic-based regulation to fuel my business.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

Daniel J. Boorstin

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

Cullen Hightower

If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.

Cullen Hightower

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

Clare Short

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

Will Rogers

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

Bobby Cox

Every once in a while he tries to overthrow out there. He throws 100 (mph) instead of pitching.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

Thomas Huxley

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

Thomas Eakins

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

Thomas de Quincey

Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration.

Timothy Garton Ash

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

Timothy Leary

You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.

Thomas Sowell

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.

Robert McKee

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.

Robert McKee

Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

Robert Lanza

For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin.