Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

John Pomfret

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Sushil Koirala

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

Ken Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Lou Mazzucchelli

This was a strong report. Product demand is strong, the management is good. I'm very pleased with this report.

Artur Schnabel

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

Diana Vreeland

All creations demand greenery of spirt. 

Subir Raha

We have received this demand and we are shocked.

Donald Knuth

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.

Lindy Ruff

It would be tough to stand here and explain to you guys how they had our number if we had lost tonight.

Alfred Rock

It was a once-in-a-lifetime moment. I really can't explain it. It was crazy.

Day One

Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I guess I will have to find another hospital.

Janet Reno

I explained I was leaving the matter in Mr. Ashcroft's hands.

John Burns

God forbid if something were to happen to one of them, it's going to be him washing his hands of the blood, not me. He can go explain to the family why he didn't sign this bill.

Bill Watterson

If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 minutes, than it's probably not worth knowing anyways.

Josh Wright

If someone can explain that, I want to hear it. We lost by 39 to DePaul, so this shows how much heart this team has. We could have buckled and shut it down for the rest of the season.

Russ Ortiz

I wish I could explain what happened. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it and it was after Holliday's at-bat that it seemed to change.

Anthony Jeselnik

My girlfriend makes me want to be a better person... so I can get a better girlfriend.

Dave Attell

I don't have a girlfriend but sometimes I like to pretend I do. I just stand in my apartment screaming No, that's not what I said!

Robert Harris

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

Rick Riordan

Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints.

Tom Cullen

When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.

Michael Rapaport

In any relationship that comes to an end, there's never just a baseline reason why. You say, 'Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.' Someone says, 'Why?' You say, 'Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you've got to talk to her.

Jens Lehmann

I do not have a 24-year-old girlfriend. I have another life altogether.

Jeff Perry

I get cast gay a fair amount throughout my life. It's not the first time. Matt [Letscher] was kind of like, 'Jeff, um, I'm gonna pretend this is real easy and not a problem, but I've never done this at all.' And so you know, we were awkward for a while. And then he said, 'Let's go for it. Come on. I'm gonna pretend you're my girlfriend, my wife. Here we go.' And we had a lot of fun.

Jason Spezza

I was 13 or 14 and I met Donald Trump at a bar mitzvah of a good friend of ours, who's friends with him. He had his girlfriend at the time with him, that Melania with him. He said, 'Hey guys, if you work hard and be successful, you'll get one of these.' I'll never forget that. And now he's married to her.

Sue Townsend

In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any kind of anything, any hint, any tip of how to make it easy.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Burt Ward

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Carnie Wilson

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

Elizabeth Scott

Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Boy George

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

Brigham Young

It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

Edward Snowden

If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Paris Hilton

People think I'm stupid. But I'm smarter than most people.

Andrea McLean

People think I'm Snow White... the most boring person in the world!

Keith Smith

People think if you made that much money, then you're getting over on the system.

Richard Owen

People think Berlusconi is just clutching at straws.

Jeremy Kendle

People think because he's tall that he can't shoot the ball, but he can get on.

Jen Kirkman

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

Rush Limbaugh

I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.

Todd McFarlane

About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

Seth Godin

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

Skylar Astin

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.

Margaret Heffernan

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

Megan Fox

We live in this world where loosing our phones are more dramatic than loosing our virginity.

Megan Fox

We live in a world where losing your phone is more dramatic than losing your virginity

Maureen Johnson

Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note - kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face.

Matt LeBlanc

The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.