Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

Alan Alda

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

Antony Gormley

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Denis McDonough

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Denis Leary

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

Bill Maher

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Julien Pain

We want them to see that they helped the Chinese police to jail people, human beings.

Chris Christie

If the Chinese commit cyberwarfare against us, they are going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before.

Chris Christie

Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?

Liang Guanglie

We appreciates the Jordanian side's concern with the Chinese people.

Zhu Bangzao

Where is the responsibility? I think it's very clear. The pronouncements of the United States are unacceptable to the Chinese people.

Martin Jacques

The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference and increasingly global in reach. But the Chinese government has shown that the Internet can be successfully filtered and controlled.

Mark Kennedy

Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.

Charles Schumer

We have to get the feeling that they are on a path, in a reasonable period of time, to stop manipulating the currency, to let it float freely. It's a delicate game, it's a delicate gambit, because the Chinese are very sensitive about being pressured into things.

Charlie Munger

At Berkshire Hathaway we do not like to compete against Chinese manufacturers.

Edward Gibbon

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

Andrew Grossman

Unprecedented in its size and scope, Higher Expectations Week unifies concerned citizens to highlight the myriad of problems Wal-Mart creates, ... Together, this national movement is moving toward making the retailing giant a better employer, neighbor and corporate citizen.

Martina Horvathova

We want respect. We don't feel equal citizens of the Czech Republic. We don't feel free. We fear for our children.

James Nash

We want our citizens of Houston and our citizens from New Orleans to know that we've got to come together as one and we do that by communicating, by sharing.

J. J. Johnson

We were trying so hard not to do something that would upset this man and get one of our citizens killed. ... Everything had to be read from a script.

Bob McDonnell

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

Kim Campbell

Whether you come from Port Alberni on the West Coast as I do, or from Port-Cartier on the shores of the St. Lawrence, we all share the rare privilege of being citizens of one of the greatest countries in the world.

Maria Rodriguez

We're getting used to people on the street. Now it's time to get residents to become citizens and citizens to vote.

Dick Durbin

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.

Lauren Miller

Girls will go see anything. They're open and excited to go to the movies and laugh.

Mike Thomas

We're so excited and want to thank everyone who voted for us. It's a humbling experience.

Gerard Way

We're so excited about playing the new record that we just want to play the whole thing.

Paul Chavez

We're going to throw him in the fire right away. He's going to be participating on the golf team immediately. We're excited to have him on board.

Paul Dergarabedian

We're going to need some huge performances by these movies, or this will be the third down year in a row. One or two movies is not enough; moviegoers need to be excited about going back to the theaters.

Jeff Dellis

What a great team effort. I'm excited for the kids and the program.

Dean Smith

What he wants to show more than anything else is the fact that they won the game. I think he's really excited about being part of a real good team like the Nets are this year.

Ethan Mentzer

With this, it was, yes, we were excited about it but it was something new that we hadn't done before being on national TV. You get one shot, one song and that's it. And you're in a room full of screaming girls and we played acoustically and couldn't hear ourselves.

Tasha Humphrey

We're still excited to play aggressively. We've handled it well for the most part.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Stanley

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

Charles Spurgeon

I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

Alan Paton

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

Alan Rickman

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

Alan Moore

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.

Alan Moore

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Katrina Szish

It's not just that everyone looks very good, but very safe. They all go for the same look. Rachel Zoe is incredibly talented, but she styles 12 people who could all swap clothes.

Gil Bellows

It's the role of a lifetime and she's incredibly good.

Oliver Kahn

It was so incredibly lucrative that I really had to think about it for a long time.

Douglas Conant

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

Sophia Amoruso

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.

Sara Rue

What woman doesn't want to feel comfortable in a swimsuit? It's incredibly empowering.

Beth Tocci

Our serve receive was huge. Our kids passed incredibly well.

Peter Phelps

(Spence) is vastly different in that he's very cavalier but incredibly professional,

Cisco Systems

Technology in optical networking space is moving incredibly quickly,

Erwin Chemerinsky

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

John Entwistle

Wow, I sure do miss John hey, groupies!

Tony Agnone

We feel at this point that John isn't going to be back in New York.

John Hughes

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

Les Claypool

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

Donna Harper

It seems kind of selfish now, when I think about why I started this event. Ten years ago my son, Jacob, was a sophomore here. He had written a paper about John Steinbeck. He wanted to present this paper at one of the conferences I went to, but I told him they didn't let students do that.

Joe Gottfried

They met with John (Wednesday), but other than that, there's no changes. He didn't say a whole lot about (the interview). We talked some about it, but it's just he and I talking (about it).

John Chamberlain

This is a film of John Chamberlain and his friends on acid,

David Garrow

For 30 years, ever since John Paul Stevens, there has been an unbroken pattern of naming sitting appellate judges,

Bob Stoops

We're going right now with Rhett, but we've still always got Paul ready to go.

Paula Cole

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

Barbara Harris

The reward for success in St. Paul is eviction.

Thom Gunn

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Jeff Howard

Mrs. Scheele, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Paul got together and thought it up.

Chris Squire

Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

Dario Franchitti

I'm still in shock about the whole thing. I didn't know Paul very well, but I've been through this before. I just feel for his family. It's such a tragedy.

Margaret O'Brien

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

Randy Weber

I am not Dr. Ron Paul. I am not Dr. Ron Paul, Jr. I am not Dr. Ron Paul Lite.

Bob Odenkirk

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Gilbert Levine

There's a tremendous statement there about the universality of man. It's who the pope is.

Pat Schaumann

Every pope has had his own chef, so there are volumes of recipes in the Vatican's records.

Dino De Laurentiis

The pope dies, you get another pope.

Terry McAuliffe

I would like to be Pope if I could.

Martin Luther

Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.

Frances Kissling

He will go down as a fifth-century pope in terms of who women are.

Pope John XXIII

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

Robert Fitzgerald

One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.

Bill Nighy

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

Carolyn Porco

Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

Charlaine Harris

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

Charlaine Harris

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Billy Strayhorn

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Chauncey Depew

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

Billy Joel

Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?

William Shakespeare

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Bible Bible

Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

Wayne Gandy

That wasn't the Saints of old out there,

Reggie Bush

I want the Saints to be one of those teams where when other teams see us on the schedule, they know they're in for one hell of a game.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Tancredo Neves

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

John F. Kennedy

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.