Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Baudrillard

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers -- and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.

Arlen Specter

It is my hope that partisanship will stop at the columns of the Senate.

Ruth Rendell

I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters.

Orrin Hatch

The marble columns will stand tall like silent sentinels and the busts of the great Americans which line the upper wall will study our every move-sometimes approvingly, more often than not with raised eyebrows. As always.

Brad Ausmus

Do it. You don't let the facts get in the way of one of your columns anyway.

Glenn Reynolds

It seems to me that it's a fairly narrow market that's going to pay for the privilege of reading columns by Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman and such,

John Swenson

There were railroad spurs. You can see remnants of the boiler, compressor is still there, a giant lathe where they turned the columns on,

Mike Williams

We gutted the entire building, ... The only things left were the exterior walls, the columns and the floors.

Yumei Wang

To any engineer looking at this, you would have immediate concerns because the columns are skinny and spaced far apart.

David Blitzer

I think it's a fairly narrow change. I don't think it's anything to worry about.

Jim Boeheim

He just had a fluke injury in practice, and we're hoping he'll be back soon. We're hopeful he would be able to play fairly soon, but we don't know.

Stephen J. Cannell

Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I'd say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average.

Mike Mueller

He's a fairly reclusive fellow, and our interview is pretty fun.

Jeff Gundy

He's a fairly intelligent player. He's undersized. He's got pretty good feet. At the lower levels, he's proven he can rebound.

Richard Kennedy

For men we can sometimes overcome the problem fairly easily. For women, we can't. I don't think men should get overly anxious.

Mike Holder

He's got some fairly serious injuries. He needs to get healthy. That's what we said in the press release.

Carl Duke

Historically, we rate fairly high on our services. I would hope that this would continue.

Paul Griffiths

Historically, cocaine was a fairly rare drug in Europe.

Stuart Rose

I would think that we're probably taking back some market share back off (key rival) Next (NXTNXT) as well,

Patty Thayer

I would say it's one of our most important marketing pieces. It is a response to every phone call, to every reader, that we get.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

George Davis

I think in terms of tone it was a little more dovish than what the market was expecting.

Eric Lascelles

There are some weak spots in the report and that's what the market is responding to.

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Kate Fisher

Maureen and I started weeping when we saw the Rodrigo boots. We're the criers in the bunch, and pretty soon everyone had tears in her eyes.

Danielle Brooks

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

Alan Curbishley

Once they have got preliminary discussions out of the way they will narrow it down because they want to do it before the World Cup.

Andrew Maynard

Product development will always outstrip our understanding of risk, but there is a lot we can do to narrow that gap.

James Baker

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Madeline Albright

There are gaps. We're trying to narrow those gaps,

Waris Ahluwalia

My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

Ernest Hemingway

Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Willie Randolph

I don't think you can look at one leader, ... You narrow yourself and get into trouble when it's only one guy. Because if he isn't always there, what are you going to do?

Patrick Cunningham

It is a very narrow population and this is pretty much unique,

Lee Majors

I also had a wonderful relationship with Paul Newman, and with Steve McQueen. He was one of my all-time favorites, but I never got to work with him.

Greg Cipes

I got to work with Paul Walker. He's an angel. He was so sweet.

Scott Skiles

Paul pretty much had his way with us the whole night.

Jim Johnson

Paul didn't play that much (Sunday), but we'll get him ready and he's going to have to play more this week.

Helio Castroneves

Paul Dana, you're in our hearts. You're family.

Danny Ainge

I have no plans to trade Paul Pierce.

Eugene Levy

And I'm doing a pilot for TV Land, called 'I Did Not Know That.' It's co-produced by Paul Reiser.

Mike Scioscia

You could toss a coin, ... on whether Paul went around.

David Tennant

Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'

Shawne Merriman

I wouldn't be paying what I'm going to end up paying just for LaVar's number.

Eric Swanson

I think in the long run, it'll pay off,

Harry Anderson

What you get when you come here is you pay way too much for my stuff, but you get it signed by me, demonstrated by me,

Josh Thomas

He really works with you and pays attention.

Darren Clarke

He said, 'You do know which TV tower I was talking about, don't you? I said, 'Yeah, the one on the right.' And he said, 'No, it was the one on the left.' It was all my fault. I didn't really pay that much attention.

Bryan Colangelo

He's a thug, and I want him out. He's always been a thug. I'll do everything in my power to see that he pays for it.

Wayne Jones

I think it's a poor policy. You pay for something, you should get it. Somebody who does that should be prosecuted.

Bill Dudley

I think you have to be somewhat skeptical about the payroll number.

Tom Ahola

We took a piece of property that was getting $800 a year in (real estate) taxes. Now we're paying $17,000 a year. We think it's ridiculous, but what are you going to do?

Tom Wilkinson

It has been a tremendous privilege to work with Jennifer,

Marcellus Sommerville

He erases a lot of mistakes. It's a privilege to have him back there to do that. He comes up with big rebounds when we need them.

Richard Hofstadter

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

Truman Capote

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

William J. Clinton

Education is not a privilege, it is a right!

Sarah Palin

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

Tori Amos

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

William Beveridge

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

Tony Ward

What would worry me more is the snippets I've been reading from Gavin about the residential rule,

Harold Bloom

I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read,

Robert Creeley

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Rob Reiner

I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.

Richard Dawkins

It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife.

Richard Dawkins

Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought a Nobel Laureate ought to be. If you have ever wondered why scientists like Popper, try Medawar's exposition. Actually most Popperian scientists have probably never tried reading anything but Medawar's exposition.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Wyckoff

Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.

Bob Curran

He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.

Dennis Kuhlman

He is on track. Everything seems to be on track.

Tony Oller

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Mike Sherman

He seems to understand that this is a big year for him. And I think he wants to do something about that.

Rick Comley

He seems to be right on top of things and very alert. We've always had trouble with him.

Larry Pleau

He seems to be progressing, but there's still no timetable.

Kevin Burton

He's had team success, but it seems like he's always come up a little short.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

Ashley Jensen

L.A. hasn't changed me that much - I've not forgotten where I'm from, you know. And I need to find a haggis, but no-one seems to sell them over here.