Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Siegel

I was looking back on when Nixon resigned and actually the market held up very well around those days. It began to tank actually after Ford came in as president and the economic news began to dim.

Abbe Lowell

Hasn't everyone now seen that the job search began by others than the president long before the Jones case issue arose?

Timothy Conder

Harley-Davidson began producing motorcycles in 1903 and has been the only continuous surviving domestic producer of heavyweight motorcycles since that period. The company's shares continue to represent our best large-cap idea in the leisure area.

Drew Gilpin Faust

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

Bill Dreher

Historically, Wal-Mart has only been concerned about the consumer. But 12 years ago, Wal-Mart began to woo the investor and sponsored fieldtrips to their headquarters. These were tremendously successful,

George Vecsey

Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.

Luis Palau

I thought, what's skateboarding? I mean, I'm a grandpa, what do I know? ... And then, suddenly, the crowds were there and they began to double, then triple, now 10 times what we used to have before.

Barry Hyman

I think you walk away this week feeling much more secure than you began the week.

Jody Kielbasa

I can honestly say this is far and away the strongest lineup of films we've ever had, and our new dates help. This year's festival offers something for everyone with over 185 from all over the world.

Tasnim Aslam

He has said he would visit Pakistan following the earthquake. When he would come, I can't say immediately as the dates are being firmed up.

Lily Tomlin

I generally do four or five dates a month, ... This is a stand-alone date I took because I was expecting to be in New York and thought this would be a good side trip.

Marla Rae

In Oregon, our police and firefighters are using communications equipment that dates back 30-plus years.

Mahesh Rangarajan

Clearly, the BJP doesn't want to give much time to the opposition parties to regroup. But I think ... the earliest dates could be late April.

Kristin Davis

I love theater. I have another play here I might do this summer. I don't have my dates (for 'The Exonerated') because they revolve casts, but it is opening this week... and I think it runs until June, so some time between now and then I'll be there.

Dave Buhler

I'll wait for the other shoe to drop in demolition and ground-breaking. I think they're done giving dates until they're more certain.

Seth Shostak

The idea of close encounters of the zero'th kind - which is to say, not a close encounter at all, but simply uncovering evidence that someone's out there - dates back to the Victorian era.

Bryan Clifton

The different dates show how far under water your memorial was that day.

Eddie Greenspan

I want to know whether or not Dr. Dukes is still on their list of experts.

Edwin Edwards

The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets.

Prince Philip

You managed not to get eaten then?

Sean William Scott

I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

William Price

We've always had a sense of humor about ourselves, ... Heck, we need it when things like 'The Dukes of Hazzard' come around.

Dierks Bentley

I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.

Jason LaRue

Dukes of Hazzard. I watch it every night.

Alec Baldwin

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

Ruth Brown

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

Kelly Osbourne

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Graham Nelson

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

Thomas Sydenham

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

Thomas Malory

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

Muriel Spark

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Donna Shalala

Having plain English information, with uniform labels, is very important for over-the-counter drugs,

Andrew Wiles

Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand and I knew from that moment that I would never let it go. I had to solve it.

William Kelly

Going by the test results it's showing that it's not doing the job. We knew math was lacking so we addressed that. We'd like to see to English now.

Joss Stone

For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.

Joe Glenn

A person's word and a man's handshake ought to mean something. Maybe you're better for not having them in the long run because they not men of their word. We want people who are loyal, stand-up people and men of their word.

Shirley Sippel

To Zeal, an honest handshake was worth everything. If Zeal told you something and he shook on it with you, it was a deal.

Niall Ferguson

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

Rick Perlstein

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

Joaquin Phoenix

I was an actor because the work was rewarding. I never imagined that it would all lead to this moment.

Karen Knight

This was not something that was expected. We never imagined we'd be working with this population.

Romesh Gunesekera

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Aaron Small

I never could have imagined having a night like this in my career.

Scott Rodes

I had never run more than three miles in a day and I never imagined I could run a marathon.

Luis Suarez

I never imagined playing in El Clasico. I used to watch the games and look at photos, and I used to say how incredible to play in it was.

Michelle Langsford

I never imagined it would be this bad.

E. B. White

I never imagined a phone would have such an impact on my business.

S. Hughes

The microbes are challenging us in ways we wouldn't have imagined 10 years ago and for which we're not prepared.

Brandon Sanderson

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

Frank Stella

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Andy Schulz

Kids were making plays all over the place. They refused to lose. We refused to lose. Time just ran out. Fortunately, we were ahead.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Mark Goodwin

Kids see this too much on TV and think it's OK to do this. They see taunting at the professional level and it trickles down.

Lisa Murray

Kids saw their town from a different perspective, through the lens of a camera.

Madeline Carroll

Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.

John Lawrence

Kids need to try different things. They're making us do this and we shouldn't be doing this. There is no reason.

Wilburn Snyder

I've preached at a lot of these fellows' funerals.

Conor Oberst

I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to.

Terry Lanni

It has to be distinctive and it has to be more urban and it has to feel contemporary.

Narendra Modi

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.

Helmut Jahn

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

Mahatma Gandhi

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Eric Kripke

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

David Butler

It's a new idea of supplying non-drinking water in an urban environment.

Armand Assante

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

Bruce Sterling

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

Li Keqiang

Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Wallace Stevens

It is never the thing but the version of the thing.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.

Mark Lewis

The new CMC version removes the need for an administrator to visit each site.

Phil McGraw

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.