Famous Quotes & Sayings

Des Browne

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

Barack Obama

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Sebastian Faulks

I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don't think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I'm a trained health machine.

Peter Zumthor

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Peter Singer

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

Steve Shannon

Use the Internet to read press releases and other information about the company so that you can take at least three pieces of positive information about them into the interview. You can integrate that information into some of your answers, and it will prepare you to respond well if the interviewer asks what you know about the company.

Bruce Simon

When the court asks to know just how rich pilots can get, her impartiality can be questioned.

Earl Calloway

We need to push the tempo, get it inside, play hard on defense, and do what coach asks us to do. We have to play good defense first. Defense wins championships and offense wins games.

Michel Gauthier

We intend to support the government if what it asks us to do respects our basic principles and the interests of Quebec. If the government respects those conditions, we will try to let it function for a good while.

Mitchell Baker

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

Kofi Annan

only normal that governments now want to be involved in Internet governance.

Rod Lache

I think it's a smart move because it's less deceptive. People who are going on the Internet can get the right news up front.

Bill Clinton

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

Eddie Izzard

I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

David Duchovny

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Madeleine Albright

I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

Charles Rule

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key,

Star Trek

word got out on the internet that Trip was not dead, but what can you do?

Irving Stone

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Kati Haycock

That we have such problems is clear. The way to better results is less clear.

Porter Goss

We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing.

Tia Mowry

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Thierry Henry

I am always honest, and I am not the sort of player to say, 'Oh, I love Arsenal' and then sign for someone else. I think if I was unhappy, I would say that, but I'm not. I do love Arsenal.

Imelda May

I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

Idina Menzel

I would love to work with Matt Damon.

Ian Mckellen

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

Irwin Thomas

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

Indiana Evans

When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.

Gale Gordon

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Gaines Adams

I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.

Anthony Zinni

I think, clearly, he is trying to lure us into a possible shoot-down situation, and we are taking every measure to prevent that.

Ashley Howard

People have noticed what has been achieved, and will try to lure Chris. We will try to keep him.

Mitch Glenn

Look at that lure in the water. See that tail go up and down?

Steve Howard

It's the lure of the Old West. We've thought for years that this would be something to promote that.

David Black

If I can lure him away from academia, I'd be delighted.

Jack Abramoff

The lure of post-public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated.

Rudyard Kipling

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

Gina Bellman

I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.

Nev Schulman

The idea of finding your soul mate, whether it's online or not, is what people want.

Amy Heckerling

There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.

Kacey Musgraves

I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Chris Moneymaker

Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

Trent Reznor

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

Geoff Johns

The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.

Allan Palmer

The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.

Rohit Sharma

You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Nancy Thompson

You can do just about anything outside that you would do inside.

Stephen Tanner

We really push the envelope. We think outside the box.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time,

Lynn Coady

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.

Jovan Vavic

J.W. is very versatile can play many positions. He can set and guard, be an outside shooter and he's very fast.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Carl Rogers

I prize the privilege of being alone.

William Shakespeare

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

Charles Dudley Warner

Isolation breeds conceit.

Charles de Gaulle

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Charles Baudelaire

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Edith Wharton

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

William Shakespeare

I myself am best When least in company.

William Shakespeare

I had as lief have been myself alone.

Brandon Sanderson

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Andy Pettitte

We haven't spent time together like we did in New York.

David Lowery

Whoever did this spent a long time igniting anything they could find.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

Jay Weatherill

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.

George Borjas

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Cecelia Ahern

The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

Carl Sagan

Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.

Carl Sagan

Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

Bette Davis

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

Bill Burr

I do enjoy them. I get to meet the next generation of comics and help them out. Big comics doing small shows was something that used to happen a lot more back in the day. I wish there was more of that.

Bertrand Russell

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Bertrand Russell

The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.

Bertrand Russell

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others.

Bertrand Russell

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.