Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

Arne Jacobsen

Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment

Megan Snow

They said they were going to do the right thing, going to see if our furniture was still available. If not, they were going to try to get us a refund.

Heidi Fieselmann

On Tuesday, our job was to move furniture out of this one house. There was mold on the carpet, mold on the wall, mold on the ceiling. It was just disgusting.

Merrill Oster

So we had furniture before we had houses to put it in.

Billy Casper

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

Mike Nugent

Every day I thank God that we did that, ... That furniture is not worth much, but it means a lot to him.

Sharon Reid

We are supposed to get some furniture but we have not heard anything from the ministry as yet.

David Chalmers

Those things in a way didn't need to evolve. They were part of the fundamental furniture of the world all along.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Bob Barr

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

Bill Maher

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

Bill Gates

what are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Brett Favre

Until power is hooked back up, until there are places where you can go get gas and you can go get something to eat, I'm better off being here.

Jeff Bell

We've always planned on gasoline being over $65 a barrel,

Brad Dean

We're not anticipating any sustained impact on tourism as long as gas prices come down to a reasonable level.

Francis Gaskins

They have high-quality natural gas there, and it's just in the right place at the right time.

John Lichtblau

They (drivers) are not going to substantially reduce gasoline consumption.

Tom Snyder

They should stay the same. Gas prices go up and down. There are no long-term projections.

Harold Vogel

They've come through this higher gas price period quite well. They had a very strong marketing program for Disneyland's 50th anniversary. This will be a good indication that as long as gas prices don't go up too much more, that things will be OK over there.

Bill Richards

They say this station has pumped gasoline for over 50 years. I hope we never stop.

Jerry Taylor

It's not really a compensation for higher gas prices. It's simply a please-vote-for-me-in-November payment.