Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Sharp

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

Jess Bosque

He couldn't run, so he did other things like swimming and the elliptical machine just to keep him in shape. We gave him rest and it basically went away.

Mike James

He couldn't be stopped tonight. He basically beat us by himself.

Ray Lewis

He didn't mean any disrespect. He was just basically saying he wasn't happy. Some people aren't happy with their job or their wife, they say it. That's all it was, him voicing his opinion. He has a right to do that.

H. Hart

He denied fighting birds here or being involved in fighting birds, ... but he basically stopped talking about it once we showed him what we had found.

Marcus Trufant

He just said basically that he expects a lot out of me and he wants me to play like it.

Nick Fazekas

He just ran into me and that was basically it. The ref saw something that wasn't right and threw him out.

Michael Greene

He knew when to put the pedal to the metal if some defendant needed a harsh penalty but his first inclination was always to make someone better. He was basically a wonderful, kind man whose chambers were always open. In the 18 years that I've been here, I think the system is a better place because of judges like him.

Bradlee Pelt

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

Philip Purcell

John and I have never disagreed about the businesses.

John Gartland

John always has a vision, with great, broad-stroked kinds of goals.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

Michael Meehan

John Kerry has a record in the military that he's running on, not from. Everything the U.S. Navy sent to Sen. Kerry, we'll post on the Web site.

Nicholas Burns

John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.

Bobby Cox

Roger should have won in the low 20s this year and John should have won 18, 19 or 20.

Caroline Leavitt

I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving.

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

Robert Byrne

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Blake

I know a lot about you, and what I don't know I can lie about,

Bible Bible

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Dan Fezzuoglio

I'm very pleased with this group. We'll lie low in the weeds.

John Rzeznik

All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.

Nancy Cartwright

All he does is lie there like an unemployed whale.

Jason Dourisseau

It's going to be tough on Wednesday, I'm not going to lie. But I think we'll be ready to go.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Jeb Putzier

It comes out to $310 million more for the players.

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Stephen Breyer

He says, 'I've seen 50 million paintings, I know magenta,'

Walter Hagen

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

Simon McBurney

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.

Tom Williams

because it was the right thing to do for our 1.5 million employees. We feel that they need to be treated with respect and feel valued--no exceptions.

Casey Neistat

If New Yorkers reduced portion size to 16 ounces from 20 ounces for one sugary drink every two weeks, it would collectively save approximately 2.3 million pounds over one year.

Jim Patrick

I never though this team would go out like that. Not in a million years.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Willie Nelson

You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say.

William Osler

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Brian Giles

If you're in October, not at all. I don't care. It's a new season in October. Throw your records out the door, and it's about winning series.

Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Joe Lando

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Stephanie Miller

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.

Megyn Kelly

Reagan Republicans do not criticize the other Republicans

King Krule

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

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Michael Heisley

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

David Lowery

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