Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Hart

You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

Willard Scott

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.

Bonnie Tyler

I suppose I don't have to work, but I do love working. I class myself as a working-class girl, and I've never stopped working. When I'm offered shows here, there and the other, I do an awful lot because I feel other people would love to be offered what I'm offered; who am I to say no? I'm definitely working class, and I always will be.

Christine Keeler

They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.

Bill Cosby

I watch an awful lot of television, and I get a little tired of what I see... We have about six television sets in our house, and it's less expensive for me to do a television series than it is for me to throw them all out.

Carl Rogers

It's an awful risky thing to live

Martin Campbell

The 3D thing has been abused slightly, I think. There is no question about that. 'Avatar' did it magnificently, and then, of course, there was the old 'leaping on the bandwagon' thing where there have been one or two films which, let's face it, all know look bloody awful with the 3D.

Charles Elson

That would go an awful long way to restoring confidence,

Brett Norris

We have an awful lot to be proud of. We came out strong to finish the season. At one point it didn't look like it was in the cards for us.

Jim Ramstad

The 9/11 Commission Report underscores the need for an all-out, comprehensive and bipartisan effort to defeat terrorism and improve homeland security.

Marsha Blackburn

The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems.

Charles Schumer

The president called for a bipartisan commission on Social Security in his State of the Union address, which I recommended he do last year -- but if he were serious about it, he would have left Social Security privatization out of his budget.

Gary Ruskin

The problem with congressional perks is that both parties love them. The congressional perk caucus is bipartisan and strong.

Richard Gephardt

We are in a situation where we need strong bipartisan support in the United States to try to deal with these problems, ... Our highest priority is to make sure a weapon of mass destruction is not used here or anywhere.

Carla Blanton

I think if you use last year as a guidepost, the governor was successful in overcoming issues and working in a bipartisan manner with both chambers.

Asa Hutchinson

We are ready to lead and govern in a bipartisan way. We should work together in a positive way.

Dale Groutage

I work hard, I do my homework, and my strong point is to bring teams of people together in a bipartisan manner.

Joseph Biden

I look forward to working with Gen. Powell and President-elect Bush in a bipartisan manner to ensure that America's foreign policy objectives are met.

Yael Grobglas

Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

Yanni

I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

Tim Burton

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Imelda May

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

Idina Menzel

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

Ian Mckellen

Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

will.i.am

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Chris Bohjalian

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

Idris Elba

I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

William Shockley

The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.

Brian Kernighan

No matter how non-technical your life and work, you're going to have to interact with technology and technical people. If you know something about how devices and systems operate, it's a big advantage.

Daniel Kahneman

We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Donald Norman

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.

Charles Golvin

Microsoft in the long term wants the kind of strong position in mobile devices that it has in PCs,

Robert Kiyosaki

Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

Michael Gartenberg

The problem was that the devices weren't very good, the screens were terrible, the prices were too high and there was a terrible selection of content.

Mark Murray

It doesn't do us any good to hide our head in the sand with regard to what is hazardous. The manufacturers of these devices need to take responsibility for phasing out the use of toxic materials and for taking back their devices.

Chuck Zito

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Daniel Kahneman

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

Bill Vaughan

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

Shirley Egner

That win (at Oshkosh) was huge. It couldn't have helped with our preparation any better. We were able to gain some momentum and confidence. We're welcoming the challenge.

Peter Cardillo

We've made some nice gains for the year, and now we're consolidating near the highs,

Yitzhak Rabin

We have to pass one year in our relationship with the United States by walking on tiptoes. If we pass successfully the year 1975 and we will reach 1976, we will gain not one year but two.

Gary Mickelson

We're still trying to gain a better understanding of what happened.

David Tucker

You can be 90 years old and you'd still gain muscle mass.

Cecelia Ahern

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Bernard Berenson

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Benjamin Rush

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Bill Vaughan

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Bill Bryson

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

Bill Burr

If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Donald Trump

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

Jim Bowden

We could not prove medically that they weren't able to play.

Samuel Butler

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Primus Wheeler

Like the Medical Mall, this would be like no other.

Joseph Volpe

I think it's an opportunity for him to really take the time now, that he has the time, to look at all of his medical needs.

Fred Gordon

He had a variety of other medical problems, so part of the problem is we've been sorting through those medical issues.

John Olerud

I didn't need seven years of medical school to know what was next.

Monica Crowley

For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments.

Eric Kandel

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

David A. Siegel

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

Bob Beauprez

When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.

Bob Beauprez

After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

Brit Hume

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured,

Dennis Miller

Obama better hope a kicked ass is covered by Obamacare.

Dennis Miller

Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.

Arlen Specter

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

Ann Coulter

Obamacare would never have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds - they changed the voters.

Ann Coulter

When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who won't pay income taxes but will need a lot of government services, remember: Obamacare was supposed to save money, too.

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.

Burton

Most of the restaurants and taverns, especially the ones downtown, support the proposal I've introduced,

Tony Blair

We don't have a specific proposal on the table yet, ... But I understand and share the American concerns, as I've said many times before.

Antonio Banderas

I think it actually will be an interesting play. I think it is a very smart proposal for theater.

Erskine Bowles

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.

Wayne Peters

We're here. We're ready. We have proposals on the table that haven't been responded to.

Ann Coulter

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

Sergei Kiriyenko

Our proposal remains in force, but only as part of a comprehensive approach.

John Izzo

My proposal is a starting point. It isn't an absolute.

Ken Karl

Under my proposal there?s only one wire to move.

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Tom Daschle

As we speak, the Senate is in session,

George Stephanopoulos

It only works in the Senate if everyone agrees,

Mitch McConnell

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

Henry Hyde

The Senate shouldn't tell us how to try our case,

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Dick Gephardt

one of the most important votes we will take in this Congress.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.

Sam Craig

Once it's in play (a nomination), you want to try to go out there and get as many votes as you can.

Charles Kennedy

Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.

Jerry Bell

We're overwhelmed by it. It was more votes than we expected.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Al Scates

They're very solid. They had a lot of first-place votes this week. We know they are for real.

Pete Wilson

We'll have to see who has the votes if it comes to that.