Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Mike Sabock

After signing Ryan Diem (now a starting lineman with the Indianapolis Colts), I asked him about the mail he had received, and his mom said he got one letter or more a day from Kentucky and they never came to his school and never called him. It just shows he was on their list, but they never followed up on it. It's crazy.

Steve Morton

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Mike Easley

Once the high winds come, we cannot get in and get you out. We cannot get there by boat or helicopter or by plane. There are 61 shelters open. There is no reason for someone not to evacuate if they have been asked to do so.

Julian Fellowes

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'

Jon Fleischman

Dozens of jurisdictions have reached out to us and asked us for copies of this policy. Like with any instrument that provides a resource to find criminals, departments are looking at this to see if this will help fight crime.

Reggie Theus

Defensively, down the stretch of the game, you couldn't have asked for more athleticism and smarts. I put a challenge out to our guards to defend off the dribble and they did.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Cheryl Lynn

Delbert knew me from the choir. He had started a group and he wanted me to be a part of it, so he called me one day and asked me to audition.

Helane Becker

The shares are down obviously on the New York Times article. That's the only news that came out before the stock began to fall,

Bobby May

That's not a very good start, I'm afraid. This is a big day for me, an important day, one that when I started thinking about doing this and actually making this appearance, I began to get a little nervous about what's actually happening. Just maintaining your composure is not easy for me, but I'm going to forge forward.

Edward M. Lerner

I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.

Eric Kandel

Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia.

John Eaton

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

Aasif Mandvi

The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.

Ted Chiang

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.

Joy Harjo

When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.

Terry Semel

When I began working in Yahoo, my family moved with me. Despite our efforts, our kids wanted to study in Los Angeles, and I was forced to see my family and friends only on weekends. In the beginning I even enjoyed it, but knew that at some stage I'd want to go back home.

Brad Shaw

Sometimes it's better to take 30 minutes out of your day and talk about something other than hockey.

Paul Whitworth

And we're 35 minutes away from Silicon Valley,

Amy Poehler

The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

Anne Robinson

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Sara Lewis

Unfortunately that wasn't done until 20 minutes into the call.

Stephenie Meyer

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Stephen Chbosky

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Ron White

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

Jennifer Garner

Approaching the treadmill I tell myself, 'Okay, it's just 10 minutes, after that you can get off the thing'. That's no time at all.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Auguste Rodin

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.