Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Wynne

That, perhaps, is an explanation, but it's not an excuse?and it's not a license to lie.

Ira Glass

Any journalist who doesn't stick to the day's news is sort of part journalist, part anthropologist. Once the excuse for the story stops being - it happened today - then you're square right in the other territory of journalism, which is just straight up documenting of how we live, and what we think of each other.

Brian Schiavo

a poor excuse of a priest, I'll tell you that.

Alexander Pope

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

Jonathan Spira

After 15 years, there is simply no excuse to not having this kind of technology available.

Aaron Nieckula

Submariner like that, you don't see those kinds of guys too often. But that's really no excuse.

Jonathan Epstein

Now it's an excuse so that people can be late. I think it's become a crutch.

Scott Hartnell

Now I have an excuse to grow a beard.

Eddy Curry

Sometimes they will look away from me. When I do get the ball, I try to make something happen so they don't have an excuse not to throw me the ball.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Jay Youngblood

Some people probably thought it would be the same thing that happened when we played them in January.

Rory Kinnear

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

Tod Lauer

Seeing these stars is like watching a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. You know it happened but you don't know how it happened.

Ken Hill

Quite often when I write a song, I think back to a moment in my life. I use what has happened in my life as an inspiration to make music.

Matthew Goode

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

W. H. Murray

I've spoken with (Martin) about this and I understand what happened here,

Chris Shelton

I've never tried to hit a home run. Every time I hit one, I just say to myself, 'There's no way that just happened again.' It's mind-blowing.

Billy Flahive

I've never seen silver limit down. It hasn't happened since the 1980s.

Brigitte Boisselier

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

Gerard Depardieu

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

Warren Buffett

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

Adnan Dulaimi

The journalist was trying to meet me when she was kidnapped.

Tammy Cox

You say you are not going to watch the news but you do. You want to know what is going on there.

Jane Fonda

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Arianna Huffington

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Brit Hume

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

Ben Harper

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Vijayraj Bhatt

Controversies can make news but can't produce results.

Art Hogan

Arguably, Nokia's news isn't good, ... If we were rallying on Nokia, it was a little questionable on its reasoning.

Patricia Edwards

There?s not a lot out there that?s new.

and City

the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.

Paul Stoddart

And we were only seeing, at best, the sort of mid-30s.

Bruce Sevy

We all kind of get to go to Italy. Sometimes you just need a break, and that's sort of what this play is about.

Before Veeder

When it did, it really hurt, and that's when I started getting trouble. It was like $280,000 we lost. I sort of got stupid.

Robert Manne

You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Thom Browne

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Ben Okri

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

Digger Phelps

The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.

Elbert Hubbard

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

O. Henry

Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble!

Douglas Hofstadter

Irrationality is the square root of all evil

Confucius

I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.

Robert Anton Wilson

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Stephen Hadley

Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.

Tom Clancy

Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Scott Westerfeld

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Zoe McLellan

I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

Jayme Wilson

We know it?s going to be a challenge. We?re going to try to stick to what we do and give them a game.

Thomas S. Monson

Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few.

Tina St. John

Holy Moses on a pogo stick!!

Steffi Graf

I am a person who sticks to her word.

Stephen Covey

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

Saina Nehwal

I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

Ella Wilcox

Do you wish the world were better?Let me tell you what to do.Set a watch upon your actions,Keep them always straight and true.

Anne Bishop

I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details.

Mike Connors

It went pretty much straight into the ground.

Thomas Huxley

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

Scott Weiland

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

Michael Crichton

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

Anton LaVey

When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

Salmon P. Chase

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

Pat Buchanan

Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

Leos Carax

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.