Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eliot Spitzer

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

Paul McHale

DoD felt a sense of urgency and acted upon it.

Bill Thompson

The resolution on Jesus was tabled and never acted upon,

Orlando Bloom

My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that my legal guardian was my real dad. He kind of acted like my dad, anyway. But he wasn't with my mother living at home with us. It's an unusual kind of story, but it was cool because I had two dads for a while, and it was useful in creating the character in the movie.

Antonio Davis

I witnessed my wife being threatened by a man that I learned later to be intoxicated. I saw him touch her, and I know I should not have acted the way I did, but I would have felt terrible if I didn't react. There was no time to call security. It happened too quickly.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I was told that they probably would not recognize each other, but they did. Shirley went right up to him and started to lick his ears and she's never acted like that with other dogs.

Jerry Leiber

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square.

Ted Mayer

We do not have a reasonable basis for establishing a liability reserve. Our story stays the same from case to case. ... The company acted in the interest of patient safety.

Joe Simon

Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

Abby Bellows

The 17 students sitting in Madison Hall are not sitting for arrest. We're demanding a living wage; we're not demanding to get arrested.

Tipper Gore

This is a national tragedy and a public health problem demanding national leadership.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled.

Ayn Rand

If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.

Ayn Rand

If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Ayn Rand

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Theresa Carroll

All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.

David Blunkett

I've had a guide dog since 1969. Not the same one, of course: I've had five.

Bill Smith

It's always been in the air, since the day it opened.

Bob Dylan

I can't stand to see myself on television.

Dirk Benedict

Movies are movies, television is television.

Criss Angel

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

Adam Savage

There is no dignity in television.

Adam Savage

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

Andy Cohen

I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.

Dorothy Malone

Television wasn't prestigious.

Cullen Hightower

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

David Caruso

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.