Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Lindsey Graham

The transportation and the energy bill would have been a good place to go back and revisit for some of the spending that occurred there.

Saxby Chambliss

Let me be clear -- the Congress will be writing the next farm bill in 2007 and I am deeply concerned the (Bush) administration is using the current negotiations to reshape farm policy without the full input of Congress and grassroots support,

Octavio Dotel

One thing Billy taught me is to know how to handle the situation. I learned how to handle the situation, ... It's hard to know how to handle it.

Dick Morris

Is Bill Clinton serving as a lobbyist and public-relations guru to the government of Dubai? It sure looks like it.

J. K. Rowling

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

Ken Hall

People love the soup kitchen because it brings everyone out to share a meal and good conversation while donating to a worthy cause. And of course, as the soup pot is emptied, the donation pot grows.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Patrick Flood

We'll do the survey and we'll get them (PNS) certified and they'll be part of the system. We've been straightforward with them since they first contacted us, and we're going to continue to be straightforward with them.

Daniel Rich

Those girls have started every game and hardly ever come off the field. Hopefully they can continue their defensive stand throughout the playoffs.

Jennifer Evans

Those girls have just done so well to continue to better their own personal performances and then create an outstanding relay team.

Michael Cuggino

You have the hangover of the Federal Reserve meeting next week, where it's generally expected that short-term rates will continue to go up. The market's digesting all of this.

Rosevelt Colvin

Lucky we're in the bye week, ... because if we continue to play like that, we'd be 3-4 next week. It's ridiculous to go out there and play like that.

Angela Clark

Mac's Place was packed after the concert. That was awesome. People just wanted to continue to listen to great music.

Bob Walters

Low long-term rates and a strong jobs market will continue to provide substantial support to the housing market.

David Hurd

Looks like they're transforming themselves into an E&P company. But refining should continue to be a big problem in the second quarter.

Mark Campbell

Thirty-three percent from 3-point is just as good as 50 percent from the field. And we live by those numbers.

Bill Burton

This is a much larger field than it's been in the past. We have folks in that group who aren't necessarily with the national party on every single issue but do reflect the makeup of the congressional district.

Greg Hampton

They run a spread and they look to pass about 65 percent of the time. They have a good wide receiver. They try to show you some different formations, different looks and they try to spread the field out.

Joe Cappiello

They're Walking On Our Field Like The Own It.

Jeff Clarke

It's not just a drop. It's a high performance big wave. The weather, the waves, a field of surfers pushing it like never before. It just couldn't have been any better.

Steve Sampson

For all of us, getting out on the field is therapy. When we leave the field, when we leave the training environment, when we have quiet moments, that's when we think about Doug and everything that he has meant to us, and that's when it's difficult.

Jorge Cantu

It started to get tight on me when I got out in the field.

Antwan Peek

You don't want to get complacent, because then you start to look lazy on the field and look like you don't care. I don't think that's something we have, but you never know.

Jim Haslett

You can't kick field goals in this league and win games. It's just not going to happen.

Zach Malvik

This shows us what we need to improve on and what we need to get better at. That game's over. We have to be ready for (today).

Albert Lin

But they need to improve their relationship with Motorola for this product to succeed.

Saxby Chambliss

The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Colin Hanks

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Mario Monti

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

Paulo Coelho

One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.

Quentin Tarantino

A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there would be no problem. It was - but it was - English wasn't the language for them to read poetry in. And there is a - there's a poetic quality to my dialogue.

Quentin Tarantino

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

Plutarch

Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

Phoebe Cates

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.

Mike Johanns

Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Erykah Badu

I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

Fannie Flagg

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

Faith Hill

I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.

George Meredith

The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.

George Orwell

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

Jeremy Sumpter

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

Gracie Allen

I often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling water,I simply defrost it.

Cecil Beaton

What is elegance? Soap and water!