Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She's ambitious and manipulative, but she's honest. I'm biased, but I don't think a woman who has said 'no' to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.

Matthew Caws

When we were 14, it was Cost of Living. Then later, it was Because Because Because. That band was real ambitious and networking, looking for a deal. And that sucked, so we broke up. Nada Surf was formed for fun.

Rob Portman

To move Doha to a successful and ambitious conclusion, we must all make contributions that includes services, manufacturing, agriculture and other areas of the round. We need contributions from developed countries like the United States, but also developing countries. Every country must do its part.

Paul Hanus

We're looking for ambitious guys who also want to get around the 'frat boy' image.

Barbra Streisand

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

Jordana Spiro

It's just a given that women are working and are ambitious and have things they want to accomplish, and that stymies the amount of time they have to look around for a perfect guy.

B. R. Hayden

Ambitious youngsters are not going to let $600 influence their career choices.

Danny Sullivan

It's very ambitious to say you're going to go into another area and immediately change it. Radio isn't very measurable right now, not because of a lack of interest, but because it's just a tough thing to do.

James Cotton

This policy represents a major modification of the ambitious Bush axis doctrine. From being implacably opposed two years ago to any form of concession or reward to a recidivist violator of agreements, the US is now prepared to contemplate compensation and diplomatic recognition. North Korea is even free to reprocess further plutonium at its Yongbyon facilities, at least until the next six-party talks in November.

Doug Schoen

We are at a defining point in the Bush presidency, and all indications are that we are headed for a calamitous result and most likely failure.

David Cross

Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people were for electing him.

Muriel Siebert

We're going to see what Bush says tonight, and we're going to see what Greenspan says tomorrow -- now that's a real one-two punch.

Cindy Sheehan

We're going to get the troops back, and we're going to get George Bush impeached this year.

Cindy Sheehan

We're going to do what we do all the time: gather together in peace. We're going to call for George Bush and the neo-cons not to invade Iran. That would be a mistake even worse than Iraq. Our children are sitting ducks in the Middle East; the people of Iran and Iraq would be sitting ducks. And I'm not even sure that this invasion won't lead to World War III. So it's something that we have to stop before it starts.

Robert Matsui

What have President Bush and Congressional Republicans proposed to do about these problems? The elimination of taxes on corporate dividends. Yes, that's their response,

Roger Pilon

What has come out of this episode is how really out of touch Mr. Bush is with the intellectual foundations of the movement that he purports to represent.

Martha Burk

Women will risk a lifetime of grave complications from faulty breast implants because the Bush administration and their appointees value short-term profits over women's long-term health.

Anthony Crescenzi

Unless the Bush administration can successfully counter recent criticism, Bush and consumer confidence might continue to flounder. If so, the markets will justifiably worry about Bush's chances of re-election.

Dave Shaw

We're going to put $300,000 into the concession stands just to revamp them.

Kyle Dippery

It's a slight concession by the administration to acknowledge that they heard our cries. It's not really going to pacify the people who are really angry, but it's a step in the right direction.

Stephen Shorb

They have the food concession for campus. I think they will be much easier to work with than an outside vendor.

Craig Reedie

Do you think the IOC will make this concession for baseball?

Gordon Patterson

We just don't have enough volunteers, ... It's tough enough to get volunteers to do the field maintenance, concession stands, picking up the garbage ... and killing hornets.

Ian Paisley

This was designed to be a further concession to Sinn Fein,

Dean Rusk

I wouldn't make the slightest concession for moral leadership. It's much overrated.

Olindo Mare

Obviously you would like to win it in regulation, but I tried to keep everybody on their toes and keep the concession stands open.

Emily Landau

I think this was a concession to Egypt so Egypt would vote together with the U.S. and Western states: If you're going to put pressure on Iran, you're going to have to have something that will relate to Israel.

Helen Clark

would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.

Judith Kipper

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

Daniel Shea

This diplomatic move has stopped the suit right in its early stages.

Hasan Askari

This breakthrough is a diplomatic plus for Pakistan.

Gerhard Schroeder

There will be diplomatic relations to North Korea,

Nicholas Burns

It is our judgment there is life left in the diplomatic process.

Joseph Cirincione

As always, the different factions (in Washington) will use it to justify their existing positions. The vice president and his hawks will use it to show that the Iranian program can't be stopped through diplomatic means and, therefore, their preferred option of a military strike is the only option.

Pamela Falk

The more defiant Iran becomes, the more the spotlight is on the U.N. to try to find a diplomatic solution.

Kofi Annan

stress the desirability of a peaceful and diplomatic solution, but events on the ground may be running away from us.

Matthias Platzeck

We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly.

Michel Onfray

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We are protesting a new form of dictatorship and authoritarianism.

Alex Ferguson

We're in great form at the moment and looking forward to every match.

Method Man

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

Nicolas Roeg

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

Heikki Kovalainen

I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1.

Kurt Vonnegut

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

Ayad Allawi

Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Edward Gibbon

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Bryan Hassler

We want to take it a step further and start promoting some of the solutions to not only the short-term issues but also the long-term solutions.

Jacques Rogge

We are preparing for the joint team, which is going much further than just two teams parading together.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by the reporting that Mark and Lance did throughout this story and in all the stories that were published in the paper. And if and when Mr. Conte speaks further about this, I'm sure we'll report about that as well.

Margaret Chan

Until we see further evidence, we are still at Phase 3 of the pandemic alert,

Alia Faraj

We're going to study the matter further and review all the information that will be provided to our office.

Todd Lewis

When we conducted a further investigation of his so-called hospitalization over the weekend, the indication was they didn't think anything was wrong with him and they were trying to get him out the door.

Source Unknown

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Drew Mitchell

We're in the sweet 16. We've gone a lot further than we thought we would.

Charles Smulders

With Vista further out in the future, sales are less likely to slow down now.

Bill Maher

North Korea has the same ability to launch a nuclear strike against America as I do. It's like walking through a parking lot and getting barked at by a chihuahua locked in a car.

Bill Maher

The president had a press conference about this this week and he said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea. And then he added, 'Like having no plan ever stopped me before.'. He has something even more deadly in store for them - we're going to bring them democracy.

Edward Luck

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

Charles Krauthammer

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

Natalie Portman

There was one reporter from South Korea that thought the movie was about the oppressive North Korea regime.

Chuck Feeney

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

Kenichiro Sasae

North Korea should wipe out suspicions it is playing for time,

Eason Jordan

North Korean officials have told me that those visits are OK with them. They are ready for them to happen,

Mike Greene

North Korea needs to get out, completely out, of the nuclear business.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Bill Bavasi

We'll see if we can fine-tune it. Those are important spots, but we have no major trades (in the works).

Joni Finney

At first it will be business, then it will be other high-cost majors like nursing and engineering. We're really discouraging people from going into high-demand fields.

Al Rauch

It seems like it's not really a major association,

David Flum

This is a major operation in a high-risk population.

John Thorn

This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

Al Becker

It's tough to know how we're going to respond. This is an extraordinarily competitive industry. If something occurs at a major competitor, we'll have to take a look at that.

Tim Sloane

It's not like we haven't seen this before from every major vendor with every major product. I don't think it's going to make all that much of a difference.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Carolyn Wells

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Cherie Lunghi

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

Jeff Perreault

They're undefeated and the #1 ranked team in North Dakota. Their program is very strong.

Ramon Ramirez

They used to migrate to here. Now they migrate from here. They may go to work in Florida, North Carolina, New York. But they come back here.

Rick Moody

They tell them to just keep walking north and don't look back. We've tried to apprehend some of these bandits.

David Cook

There's a lot of flatland in Texas and in the northern part of the state.

Tom Greene

It's all Northern Telecom. It was U.S. selling; they just started selling it and it took a lot of the other tech stocks with it.

Hugh Willoughby

This is the nailbiting time for forecasters, ... We're waiting for Bertha to make her turn to the northeast but there's some uncertainty about when it will happen.

Craig Gibson

They play well, they play hard, they don't make mistakes. I don't think they're going to pitch as well as North Florida, but they're very similar. They're well-coached and they play hard.

Vladimir Putin

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Nicolas Cage

It is satire, but it remains in the realm of the real, as opposed to something like 'Dr. Strangelove,'

Sarah Reeves

They're self-portraits of the way that I feel about myself physically as opposed to the way society makes me feel about myself.

Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

Larry Baer

As opposed to the word 'celebration,' I would say it's really more of a tribute.

Malcolm Gladwell

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

Chris Burke

The style of play will be to our advantage. They'll have to make the adjustments to us, as opposed to vice versa these two games.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

Bill Gates

The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it.

David Quammen

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

Kate Bush

Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung,

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Bogan Durr

They need to put the receptacles back in until the university is ready to back up the policy with some enforcement.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton's policies obviously didn't work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Donald Rumsfeld

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

Donald Rumsfeld

From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Raymond T. Odierno

All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.

Samir Inamdar

We are prepared to play Zimbabwe in March.

James Hogan

We are prepared to go all-Boeing or all-Airbus,

Brian Bogosian

We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.

Bob Castle

We're going to take our time and be careful. We are prepared for problems.

Alexander Downer

They have indicated they are prepared to resume talks and before too long, within a reasonable time frame,

PJ Crowley

They talked about where they were and what they should be prepared to consider.

Amanda Brown

They ran the play well. Props for them making it, but we should have been more prepared for that.

Regg Simon

There was one team prepared to play tonight and one team that wasn't. The team that was up 2-0 was prepared.

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Joanna Rose

We're not going to reward the union for striking.

Irma Gomez

We want for San Antonio to help! If you see my sister, if you see her, let us know! There is a reward out there for her.

Ricky Craven

It's a sport that will reward you for being selfish.

Seth Tobias

No one was being rewarded for taking risk.

John Buckingham

You ride out the downturn and you're usually rewarded in the end,

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

C. S. Lewis

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Carroll O'Connor

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Daniel H. Pink

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Steve Alford

We've already kind of had all the talks that we were going to have.

M.I.A.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Liu Jianchao

The timetable for resuming the talks is unpredictable.

Billy Bush

She talks about two people. From your experience, is that right?

Michael Huff

Jimmy's different. He kind of talks all the time. But it's all in fun.

Roman Harper

He talks more out there than he does all week.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much.

Rachel Weisz

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Dennis Wharton

Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.

Tommy Lapid

until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Scott Wolf

Although, I didn't really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.

Michael Mussa

They don't need to do it tomorrow, but they can't wait until the end of the year,

Liz Shimek

It's not over until it's over. We're fighters.