Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Matthews

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Clint Eastwood

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Franco Modigliani

With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Bertrand Russell

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

Eric Frankel

We have more programming in our warehouse than we can monetize on traditional TV,

Bill Burns

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

William Shakespeare

Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.

Baz Luhrmann

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

Patricia Schroeder

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

Bill Burr

I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.

Bill Burr

I was scared to death because for the comics of my generation, HBO specials are like the pinnacle. I'm thinking of all these unbelievable comedians I've seen on HBO: Chris Rock, George Carlin, Damon Wayans, Richard Pryor and Billy Crystal. I started having a panic attack seeing my name in that list of people. It was pretty overwhelming.

Bill Burr

I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

Bill Burr

For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.

Bill Burr

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

Bill Burr

I keep doing specials because I think there are a lot of people who make movies and TV who are fans of comedy - if they start to like you, they'll get a project going and call you in.

Bill Burr

It's a great time to be a comedian because you've got so much more control. You can say what you want to. I think in the old days with the studio system the performer was a bit of an afterthought. You can be a wildcard on the internet. But if you put something on the internet once it's out there it's out there for life.

Bill Hicks

When you're...stepping over a guy on the sidewalk...does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?'

Bill Hicks

And on the seventh day, god stepped back and said and said, "This is my creation, perfect in every way... oh, dammit I left all this pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it... Now I have to create Republicans."

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Ashton Kutcher

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Art Bell

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

Bill Vaughan

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.

David Albright

You are actually talking to Obeidi? ... Where is he? What did he say?

Jim Tsenes

I think they're focused. I've been talking to them every day and telling them not be satisfied.