Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

John Roberts

I have no agenda but I do have a commitment. If I am confirmed, I will confront every case with an open mind.

Max Minghella

I have no agenda at all. I just want to do stuff I like. It can cost $200 million or $200 thousand.

David Andersen

I'm very happy to see the campus and everybody in the Georgia Tech community come together to make this a priority. People have put off agenda items and Labor Day plans to service those in need.

Rodrigo Rato

I'm very glad to see that the biggest shareholder of the Fund has already expressed publicly its support for this agenda and other significant countries have done so to.

Ken King

I'm thrilled that he's here. I think it's great that he would take some time out what is an incredibly important and significant beginning to his prime ministerial agenda and include us. I'm just as happy as a clam.

Adam Mendelsohn

In just a few days, he met with the secretary of Homeland Security, the chief of staff to the White House and the most influential congressional members on this particular issue. He continued pushing the agenda and leading on this very critical issue.

Jim Haslett

I know what their agenda was: They would like us to play in our home state, ... And our players like that, too, to be honest with you. It's just more of a travel issue and a family issue. But I'm sure our families and their families and friends will go to Baton Rouge to see the game and be with them.

Sean Spicer

I'm not going to predict anything, but we've had a very successful operation in getting our agenda passed and we're confident we'll be successful a second time around.

Tatsushi Shikano

Comments on monetary policy and the outlook for consumer prices continued coming out and concern is spreading among investors.

Susan Estrich

Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.

Tom Wright

We see enormous growth potential in India, China, South-East Asia and eastern Europe, and in particular among younger potential visitors coming to Britain.

Jorge Mariscal

We see a lot of confusion among immigrant parents, and recruiters are preying on that confusion.

Adlai Stevenson

Via ovicpitum dura est", or, for the benefit of the engineers among you: "The way of the egghead is hard

John Hopkins

Visually significant cataract appears to be high among U.S. Hispanic individuals of Mexican descent, as evidenced by rate of cataract and rate of surgery,

Pat McDonough

We feel that among the buyers and sellers they will be using all three streams of data and using all three for different purposes.

P.S. Ruckman

You do what you can to improve those ratings, sign a lot of legislation between now and then and get out among the public and make your case...and use the perks of office to increase your visibility.

Jill Pendley

Flying high, the memory of you takes me down, but for you I don't mind falling.Your love raised me to such a lofty height,that even as I reach my lowest point, I am still among the clouds.

Rashad Williams

I could've made less mistakes and attacked him more.

Billy Donovan

I'm just happy for everybody. I'm very blessed and very thankful for the opportunity to coach these kids. I thought whoever attacked the other team's defense better was going to have the best chance of winning the game.

Joe Blanton

We're going out and giving it all we have. It's just a matter of a couple breaks here and there.

Scott Cameron

There's not much to say, really. We gave them four quick goals. You can't give a good team breaks like that. They'll jump all over you. That's why they're in first place.

Bruce Marthaller

We made some mistakes, obviously, but I thought we competed well the whole time. They had some big breaks go their way.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Stanley Asumnu

We had the lead, and we just didn't make plays down the stretch. We wanted to continue this ride, continue this great season that we had. We were right there. They executed more than we did down the stretch.

Fred Mumford

The pumping in Rolling Hills (Condominiums) may have to be a permanent solution. We may have to issue permits so they can continue to do that.

George Estrada

The Public Works Department is culminating its cleanup, now 90 percent complete. Over the next couple of days, we will continue plowing to remove slush and snow.

Bill Womack

We're excited to start our season and we want to continue the (winning) trend that's been happening at Montrose this year.

Vince Morris

We've been working with the CFO's office during this whole process and we will continue to do so. If he was not briefed before the change, it was an oversight. He's an important partner in this.

Lorie Smith

When women grow up surrounded by these values and surrounded by the thought that they can achieve, I think we will continue to be producing more and more female leaders in our country because of that.

Andrew Brooks

We want to continue to support them in whatever way we can through the rest of the school year, maybe even doing another drive.

Stan Heath

We want to continue to play well and hopefully win on the road. From now on, there are no more home games and all games are on the road.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Tom Griffin

When you reach out for help and it's just not there, it's like signing a death sentence. The more they cut beds, they are killing people on the streets.

Clara Barton

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

D. H. Lawrence

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

D. H. Lawrence

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

Dan Castellaneta

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

David Mamet

A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go over here for a moment. I can say what I think the guy was thinking or what the day looked like or what the bird was doing. If you do that as a playwright, you're dead.

David Frum

You've worked hard all your life. You've paid Medicare taxes for almost 30 years. But under the Republican plan, Medicare won't be there for you. Instead of Medicare as it exists now, under the Republican plan you'll get a voucher that will pay as little as half your Medicare costs when you turn 65—and as little as a quarter in your 80s. And all so that millionaires and billionaires can have a huge tax cut.

David Foster Wallace

I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.

Eddy Cue

We're extremely happy with the results, ... a huge success.

Deborah White

OPEC has been extremely accommodative in its policy in the last one and a half years.

Ann Aguirre

People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.'

Gary Galloway

Our plan was to open one lane so ambulance and fire trucks could get through. We had a lot of people out there during the storm, when it was extremely dangerous, making sure this happened.

Greg Josefowicz

Our performance was extremely strong reporting record sales for the fourth-quarter and fiscal year.

Chris Drury

Our schedule is extremely condensed, but I think a lot of it is just keeping your focus, especially if you get on a good roll. You've just got to focus each and every game and get prepared mentally and physically for the next outing, because there's not much time between games.

Brian Durocher

Overall I think we played extremely hard. We had plenty of offensive opportunities. I think Northeastern, while they played a solid game, they had some good fortune.

Kurt Vonnegut

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

Carolyn King

We are handling only extreme emergencies. If you need a stay of execution, we'll do that.

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.

Ted Allen

Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

Shirin Ebadi

I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are.

Marc Faber

In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.

Myriam Miedzian

Mixing oil and testosterone can be dangerous.

James Lovelock

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

John Hoeven

The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.

Peter Jackson

There's a lot more oil out there still to find.

Gene Gillespie

We're sort of in an oil price bubble.

Dear Abbey

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Donald Miller

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

Dusty Springfield

Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.

Claudio Hummes

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

Dalai Lama

In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

Dalai Lama

There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up.

Diogenes

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders.

Dick Gephardt

When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

Desmond Tutu

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through.

Colbie Caillat

I don't like being vulnerable. I feel uncomfortable in it.

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Yves Montand

God, why didn't you make Woman first - when you were fresh?

Yves Saint Laurent

I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.

William Allen White

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Washington Irving

As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils and bind up its shattered boughs, so is it beautifully ordered by Providence that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity, winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart.

Voltaire

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

William Feather

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.