Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Grasso

informed of the comments and the intentions of the New York State attorney general concerning his nomination.

Henry Eng

We aren't making any public comments because of pending litigation and are waiting to hear from our attorneys about what we can and can't do.

Ramon Sanchez

We have called off the protest for the moment, following the comments by the attorney general.

Roy Blunt

I explained to the president that I've been pleased with my conversations with the Attorney General and Civil Rights Division regarding their helpful understanding that they aren't taking over this investigation, but are conducting a parallel review of the events that led to Michael Brown's death.

Pam Bondi

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

Preet Bharara

Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise.

Bob Beasley

First and foremost, it's the law in Ohio and that is our job as attorney general, to enforce the laws of Ohio, period.

Al Sharpton

The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most.

Ralph Neas

We opposed Alberto Gonzales when he was nominated to be attorney general.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure. People do, when you do some of the stuff that happened to me.

Mike Mastroianni

Yeah, but a lot of work went into this and this hasn't happened here in a while.

Clay Condit

Yeah, and this just happened to be the 666th. This was the number that was given.

Jim Hodges

There is a synchronicity: you start thinking about something and all of a sudden it's everywhere. It happened to me with the mirrors.

Frank Davis

This would not have happened if there were gates.

Fred Siegel

The question is, what happened between 10 o'clock this morning and 12:30? The statesmanlike option was there last night.

Laurent Gbagbo

We have always wanted sanctions after what has happened in Cote d'Ivoire,

Rebecca MacKinnon

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Amy Poehler

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.

Allen Iverson

You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go.

Alistair Cooke

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

Allan Bloom

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

Alicia Sacramone

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

Alicia Sacramone

I try not to deprive myself of anything. I don't do the low-carb thing or anything like that.

Albert Einstein

It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.

Alfred Molina

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.

Alex Ferguson

We have to try to beat Everyone.

Morris Gleitzman

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

Walter Dean Myers

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

Willie Nelson

Just can't wait to get on the road again

Kevin Spacey

Clean, sustainable energy is crucial and cannot wait.

Jon Crosby

Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.

Gordon Parks

I want to go home. They're waiting for me there.

Frank Gannon

It's like we're all waiting for something to start.

Alan Cohen

Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?

Noam Chomsky

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Henry Bessemer

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery

Helmut Newton

I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.

Helmut Newton

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Don Marquis

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Dweezil Zappa

Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

Dalai Lama

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work...

Dolly Parton

Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.

Dolly Parton

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

Anderson Cooper

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

Andrew Carnegie

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

Andrew Carnegie

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.