Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

I just wanted to have fun for myself-I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.

Norman Cousins

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Thomas Griffith

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

William White

Consistency is only a paste jewel that cheap men cherish.

Norman Cousins

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

William Allen White

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

William Allen White

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

George Dennison Prentice

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

George Dennison Prentice

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am going to run for governor of the state of California,

Bob Woodward

He has to operate under the rules that govern the rest of the staff -- even if he's rich and famous,

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Gerald Johnson

I think we'll pull through this, ... Real Men Pray Everyday.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Allan Carr

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Ben Kay

I was worried I might end up on a pizza advert.

Fred Couples

Unless we get rain to soften it up, if it's windy then 2 or 3 under might not win.

Siri Hustvedt

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

Mike Hargrove

He might as well have been wearing a sandwich board, with 'Eat At Joe's' on one side, ... and 'I'm bunting' on the other.

Richard Paul Evans

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

Richard Dawkins

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

Samuel Beckett

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Salman Khan

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.