Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Farrell

We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

Oscar Wilde

There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Dan McLagan

The politically safe thing to would be to do nothing, and then blame the hurricane for any subsequent problems. But that's not leadership.

David H. Murdock

I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.

Luca Cumani

The Americans are at home and we are away. He's had a change of scenery and a change in racing conditions. There's less pressure if he runs in the Classic. If you run him in the Mile, he has to win. If he runs in the Classic and doesn't win, we can blame it on the dirt. All in all, it's very difficult, but it can be done.

Norman Ornstein

That would have been a big plus for the president. You get the blame when you're the top dog. And in this case, I think there is no doubt that we had inadequate preparation and we've had inadequate response.

Sebastian Telfair

We need to keep coming out and give an effort and try to get a win. You can blame our (15) turnovers, defense, and you can blame Ray also. He hit shots like I can't even explain.

Pat Brown

We just didn't play with the kind of effort we've been playing with. If we didn't feel like we were prepared, then I'll take the blame for that.

Karson Klass

We played our hearts out in the game before that and we didn't have anything left. I blamed myself (for the loss).

Thor Heyerdahl

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

Billy Graham

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Christian Bale

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

Mitch McConnell

The politics of tobacco have changed, and changed dramatically for the worse for our tobacco farmers," ()

Brad Coker

The overall leads and sizes of the leads haven't changed all that much, which tells me that, other than real-interested, more-tuned-in voters, the large majority of voters haven't paid all that much attention.

Andrew Gibson

The outsourcing model has changed pretty profoundly over the last three years. Outsourcing today is now viewed in a far more strategic light.

Brooke Smith

My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.

Bee Wilson

I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.

Bruce Jackson

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Irving Ravetch

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

Gary Bauer

The polls mean virtually nothing, ... We're not tottering on the edge. Each week we're picking up momentum.

John Anastos

The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Gail Carriger

Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

CC Sabathia

It's a great feeling to have the stadium rocking and chanting my name.

Carrie Vaughn

What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?

Carl Perkins

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

Carl Reiner

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

Bette Davis

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Berenice Marlohe

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

Ashton Kutcher

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

Mortimer Adler

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

Carrie Underwood

I consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that likes [doing] things on stage.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

Ashley Tisdale

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

David Wluka

The accelerated sales pace of recent years has all but ended, and we're returning to a more normal market.

Brent Frank

We have always welcomed opportunities to partner with other jurisdictions and other organizations to have a presence in other parts of the Commonwealth. We would never turn down the opportunity to talk about how we can partner with somebody to have a presence in any jurisdiction from Southwest all the way to Northern Virginia.

Horst Keller

We can see there is a swirl here that is similar to the one we know from the north pole.

Menachem Begin

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

Preston Brooks

They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.

Idina Menzel

The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'

Peter Jackson

Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.

Bill Shorten

We're not slaves if we're workers, we're not owned by our employers.

Ron Darling

One thing about that team is they owned this town.

Daniel Petrocelli

I would have never owned those ugly-ass shoes.

Frank Hamblen

If I owned a team or was in charge, I'd want Phil Jackson, also.

John Conley

From 1992 to 2000, Motorola owned the project.

Italian Proverb

Years and sins are always more than owned

Robert Cahill

It has a lot of history. My grandparents owned this and my son is planning on taking it over. I'm not going to quit now? I'll keep going.

Sarah Kay

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

Jim Crace

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

Michael Gove

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

Nancy Verderber

It is not completely solved yet be we are still working on it but I think it will be.