Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Portis

I always go backwards when I am backing up.

Jim Padilla

I think we'll see some degree of moderation, but I don't see any backing off to a large degree.

James Wolfensohn

If you were in a job where it was unclear what the purpose of that job was and what the backing that you had was and who had the responsibility...you would probably wonder...if that was the thing you wanted to do.

Barry White

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Paul Simon

Yesterday, it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed My life's a mess But I'm Having A Good Time...

Ann Brashares

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

Susan Smith

Today we send a special wish which comes with love to you, to wish you a day of love and laughter in all you do.

Eminem

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

W. H. Auden

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Dusty Rhodes

He would sing 'Happy Birthday,' and he would sing in the loudest, most obnoxious, off-key tone. For him, every day was a birth day.

John Street

I've been an elected official now for 24 years, and I value my integrity very highly, ... And this speculation about whether or not I'm a target of any federal investigation has caused some concern.

Thomas Moore

Right now, we really don't even know what happened as to the cause of the accident.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.

Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Pat Lewis

Even though we didn't pull it off, it was a thrill to be involved with so many great athletes. This game is for a great cause and I think we put on a great show.

Carrie Catt

When a just cause reaches its flood tide - whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power

Anselm of Canterbury

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

Peggy Noonan

Let's cause some senators distress.

Billy Joel

If I need a cause for celebrationOr a comfort I can use to ease my mindI rely on my imaginationAnd I dream of an imaginary time.

Jim Leach

A delay does not serve well the North Korean people,

Marvin Kalb

Is it the leadership of the House? Is it Hastert? Is it DeLay?

John Conley

We know it's a dynamic situation, but it's totally premature to talk about delays or postponement. Runners need to be prepared and dress for the weather.

Christopher Hill

So for every four weeks they delay, they lose 80 million dollars, and you can do the math from here.

Buddy Bell

I think the two rain delays didn't help matters.

Douglas Aiken

Well, we're telling people to expect at least a half-hour delay if you're going to try to use the Homestead Grays bridge.

Jake Sanches

We put hard work into this. Given the situation, we'll see if they can pick up the tab. Due to the delay in publication, we feel it's fair.

Graham Greene

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

Greg Nickels

A delay does not solve the revenue problem,

John Gorman

We turned that down. We thought the evidence was that this was a felony.

Bill Belichick

I didn't think there was enough evidence to warrant the challenge.

Ahmed Nazif

I don't think that we have enough evidence to prove the second assumption, ... So for now we are taking things as they really look and looking at the people living there.

Mark Potok

I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes.

Wendy Murphy

I don't think this is one of those sort of rage killings that happened on the spur of the moment. (And) there's a lot of evidence of premeditation in case, getting the weapon, the cover-up, the fact that he was returning the gun to the place he took it, from Rachel's stepfather.

Jack Boatwright

There are still places where you can see evidence of the 1906 earthquake. You just have to know where to look.

William Brennan

There is a lack of evidence in this case.

Jerry Jones

I looked at it as an opportunity to present the evidence to a jury of twelve people and prove my innocence.

Mark Vaile

The Cole Inquiry is part heard. There is more evidence to come before it.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Dalai Lama

I am just one human being.

Alan Dershowitz

What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?

Michael Scheuer

If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I guess there is room for accomplishment everywhere.

Christopher Hitchens

There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

Hillary Clinton

We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

Jeff Reinebold

This is where I want to be. I love this program, and I love working for June Jones.

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Ben Shapiro

President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.

Renee Fleming

I'm not a reactionary.

Bob Johnson

(Brady) really wanted to play a slow tempo. But we got some steals and were able to up the tempo (after the first quarter).

Pablo Picasso

If there is something to steal, I steal it.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.