Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Shay

A positive outcome of a hurricane season like this is that we've been able to learn more about the Loop Current and its associated warm-water eddies, which are basically hurricane intensity engines.

Hunter Adams

The situation was great, because it is not far from where I grew up. And it was a program that I would be proud to be associated with.

Angela Belcher

Now it's simply a matter of designing the other components, and we'll be able to form batteries by simply pouring all the ingredients together and letting them self-assemble. Plus we can make them at room temperature in very safe conditions, instead of the high temperatures and dangers usually associated with battery production.

James Taranto

Is Hillary Clinton as brilliant a politician as she's cracked up to be? Here's a bit of evidence for the negative: 'Clinton Says Lawyers Must Make Their Voices Heard in Washington' reads the headline of an Associated Press dispatch about a speech New York's junior senator gave at the American Bar Association convention in Chicago. Lawyers need to speak up more: Now there's a message sure to strike a chord with the public.

Bob Cook

I've been so proud to be associated with them all year, just the character and determination of the team,

Jeremy Corbyn

I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.

Alan Byrd

I've been doing this a long time. And I'm as proud of this bunch as any I've been associated with.

Mario Monti

I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.

Jason Teh

Things are getting tougher in New Zealand. While the rest of the world hasn't really priced in the risks associated with higher interest rates and slower growth, New Zealand's market has started to do so.

Steven Thompson

As a unit we have to try and find ways to make things come together. We try to have fundraisers and whatever money we raise, we save because every penny counts. We seem to always be scrapping the bottom of the barrel but the bottom line is that we want to make sure that we represent the country well, competing internationally.

Gordon Lee

Avanti's bar medium is a fantastic way to bring our brand values to life, gain peer group endorsement and drive consumers in store. This reinforces our traditional viral campaign strategy by creating a buzz in the bar environment and gaining more immediate talkability.

Carlo Ancelotti

Barcelona played well. But the match was always in the balance.

Richard Rogers

Barcelona has the best urban regeneration in Europe. They've changed 3.75 miles of rusting port and foul sand into the most beautiful beach where you can practically dive in from your hotel bedroom.

Ted Olson

Barbara would have insisted that I live my life and that I go on and do the best possible job I could as solicitor general of the United States.

Karen Meredith

Barbara is definitely the heart and soul of this school.

Shaun Woodward

Bar and restaurant owners do not have to wait until 2007 to do the responsible thing. Right now they can put up signs saying no smoking.

Philippe Lopez

As long as he keeps making his car continually fast, continues to win races, he raises the bar that the rest of us have to go chase.

John O'Brien

Productivity did set the tone, and now oil's moved back up slightly, but it doesn't seem to be spiking. As a group, consumers and traders, we're getting used to the idea of $60 a barrel oil.

John Johnson

As for going on the show, I would not have minded one bit to meet him face to face and look him in the eye, ... But I feel the deck is stacked on that one and the show is Dr. Phil, not Jerry Springer. The title is ?Falsely Accused,? not?Guilty as Sin.?

Jason Pominville

As a player you're kind of nervous all the time. You don't really know what's going on, especially this being my first time around this situation. It is a little bit nerve-racking. But as a fan, it's a fun thing to look forward to.

Ricky Ponting

As an individual, if you are not playing as well as you like, you are always putting a bit more pressure on yourself,

Jake Plummer

As a businessman, it's a chance to go out and explore a little bit and to keep my word with Chicago,

Barry Bonds

As a fan, sure, you might be a little bit disappointed. I owe my teammates first, but, I will give you the common courtesy and respect of showing up.

Rand Paul

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

Robert Sean Leonard

As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus.

Courtney Paris

As a kid, that's really what it's about, big tournaments. I'm excited and a little bit overwhelmed.

Victor Shum

The bulls are back in the market with just a little bit of cold weather.

Russ Feingold

The Bush administration did a brilliant job, which has continued until today, not in getting us into the war and handling it correctly, but they did a brilliant job of intimidating us into somehow thinking that if we didn't vote for this, we weren't supporting the troops and we were soft on terror,

Tim Guter

That was a brilliant shot. He pulled up and blasted it. I want more of that from our guys. We've got to test the keeper from outside.

Steve Harris

Reaction to the tour so far has been brilliant and we're looking forward to putting a great show together for the fans and getting back out on the road to play the new materiel live.

Ewan McGregor

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

Rena Golden

CNN Productions has done a brilliant job in unveiling many long-standing mysteries surrounding Jesus.

Jack Reed

After a brilliant offensive campaign to destroy the Iraqi military forces, we have settled into a very dismal and dangerous occupation.

Eric Tyson

Some people think they've got to have a brilliant business idea, but they don't. There are new tax preparers and dry cleaners going into business all the time,

Amanda Hale

No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

Julie Gonzalo

It would be a dream to do a film with Pedro Almodovar and that whole crew of Spaniards. There's this Argentinian actor who's one of my favorite actors in the whole wide world. His name is Ricardo Darin, and he's a brilliant actor. He does a lot of Argentinian films, and I know he does a lot of European films, as a Spanish actor.

Stevie Jackson

Actually, it's just the opposite. Stuart is still the main guy, obviously, but he now draws more from the group than ever. In the old days, people would come in with their finished songs. Now, everyone in the group contributes ideas ? a chord sequence or a riff or a rhythm or anything.

Jeff Tweedy

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

Benjamin Disraeli

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Tommy Bolin

I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.

Tom Scholz

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Janelle Monae

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

Tony Goldwyn

I've done a lot of movies other than Ghost. It's amazing. I get sick of it. I mean, I'm grateful for it. But I think it's one of those movies that struck a chord in the consciousness of people and they watch it over and over again. It's weird - I haven't seen the movie in 10 years!

Sid Vicious

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

Tommy Chong

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.

Dick Cheney

(President) Clinton has said that he will hold on to power until the last hour of the last day.

Madeline Albright

As I have said, as President Clinton has said, he is prepared to have such a summit, but we have to make sure that the conditions are right, ... extraordinarily complex.

Fran Bradley

During the later years of the Clinton administration some of the restrictions were lifted, which meant that people could get to Cuba to help.

Ken Starr

Either Monica Lewinsky lied to the grand jury, or President Clinton lied ... under any rational view of the evidence, the president lied,

John Cornyn

Did President Clinton lie when he discussed the intelligence that led him to support the forced ouster of Saddam Hussein?

Lee Miringoff

There's no doubt that Republican efforts to soften up Hillary Clinton in 2006 for 2008 haven't gone well. Anti-Clinton sentiment isn't raising the money that some had hoped for.

Beth Anderson

is that no one manages to get to the Clinton years, much less 2001.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the United States.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton talks a good game. But she doesn't do anything.

Casey Stengel

I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why.

Aaron McLear

We had such a successful convention in 2000, we knew Philadelphia could handle it.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

Ralph Brennan

We need to be able to increase our efforts and the efforts of the CVB to sell the Convention Center. This is a huge investment for the state, and we need to make sure it pays off.

Rush Limbaugh

I reject most conventional wisdom.

Justin Trudeau

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

Michael Long

If our party's convention was held next week, I think Spencer would be the choice.

Joan Didion

I lead a very conventional life.

Barack Obama

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

Chris Simon

We finally cracked it. It's an honor to reach that level of musicianship.

Gary Waters

JR is in great spirits it's just something that we're just going to have to let heal. It happened where he just planted the wrong way and it just cracked on him.

Agnes Mille

...then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open

David Ader

The legacy of this week will be of a market that's cracked even before it gets the weight of supply and anticipated strong January data.

Michael Hendricks

Progress was slow at first, but the evidence is mounting that restoration is working.

James Heckman

The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.

Ryan Ward

I've spent a lot of time doing the fitness stuff, taking it to the next level. I guess that I'm kind of evidence that if you stick to a game plan and work hard, that good things can happen and maybe you can have the opportunity to do something that you love, which I've been fortunate enough to do.

Marcia Clark

I've never seen so much evidence even on the first day, as I did in that case.

Glenn Tilton

These solid results are evidence of real progress in our work to make United competitive and resilient.

Chuck D.

These settlements are evidence of systemic, industry-wide problems that need to be addressed.

Don Peters

These returns are pretty strong evidence that tax-efficient investing does work.

Charles Schumer

is good evidence that Mr. Fitzgerald is, indeed, following this investigation to its logical conclusion, even if it reaches the highest levels of our government.

Maria Cheng

It would not be surprising if it had spread from Turkey, but at the same time, we have no evidence yet that it has.

Roger Clemens

So they gave me some medication and I'm going to treat it and that's all I can tell you from there.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Andy Reid

There are plenty of things to work on, but they gave a great effort.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Flip Saunders

The only negative was I wanted to play Carlos (Delfino) and I didn't. I think he could have probably helped us. We went with Mo, and Mo gave us energy.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Stephen Hadley

I don't think you're going to see headline breakthroughs.

Gordon Strachan

If I say anything at all there will be headlines all over the place.

Matt Hammitt

Just to find the time to think about everything, just trying to wrap our heads around everything that was going on, and to try to go out and headline a show every night was really hard.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Larry Walker

I've never heard 43,000 people shut up so fast. The only thing you could hear was our bench.

Larry Walker

I've never heard 43,000 people shut up just like that.

Larry Walker

I've never heard 43,000 people just shut up like that. The noise just ... wasn't there.

James Franklin

I've only heard he likes to smash it -- he's a young Darren Lehmann.

Kristen Staab

It was the worst thing I ever heard in my life.

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Cherie Blair

No, I don't want to be like Hillary Clinton.

Mary Wilson

I think these are things Hillary has exhibited forever.

Rob Carter

The second one and third one were important to me, but for completely different reasons. It was very important my junior and senior years to prove it wasn't a fluke.

Jimmy Garoppolo

I started playing quarterback my junior year of high school.

Brian Baird

The first year in the Junior Olympics was just wonderful,

Kevin Zachek

Overall it's been a surprise, so far. We went 2-1 at a Clovis tournament with some players out of position, junior varsity players who have stepped up and most of our pitching still playing basketball.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Chuck D.

On a number of occasions, he sliced people down. The tribe's lawyers were not able to shake my testimony.

Tom Waits

and I have lawyers over there investigating my options.

Randy Mayes

When I first started, I said 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, the lawyers say, 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, we're even older than most of the judges.

Larry Sabato

The sixth year of a two-term president's administration is typically an opportunity for voters to send a message. It's not going to be a pretty message for Bush, if his popularity stays this low.

Christine Berg

The take-home message is to never start smoking, and if you do smoke, to quit.

Michael Gartenberg

The survey reinforces Microsoft's message to enterprises that Windows is a safe bet.

Mason Tvert

The whole thing on 4/20 is actually something we're against. I don't really see how smoking marijuana in public does anything positive. It sends the wrong message about the work that we (SAFER) are doing.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Adam Ereli

The United States ... reiterates this message in the strongest possible terms.

Mitch McConnell

That's not the message we want to send." ()

Damien Newton

You're sending a message about what the state's transportation priorities are.

Adalius Thomas

Brian, this message is for you: Go work out. Stop playing racquetball and run some half-gassers.

Jasmine Guinness

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't like politicians who vacillate.

Donald Trump

These 10 steps, if rigorously followed and enforced, will accomplish more in a matter of months than our politicians have accomplished on this issue in the last 50 years. It's going to happen.

Sean Connery

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

William Hague

Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.

Margaret Thatcher

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Steve Robinson

That's what we want to do. We want to put some pressure on and just run, run, run.

David Eckstein

That's what we try to do, put pressure on the other pitcher.

Paul Brinkman

This puts a lot of pressure on us. It is unfortunate, but that is the way it is. It could be pretty rough for students.

Carnie Wilson

If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jamie Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Ari Graynor

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

Billie Jean King

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Ted Strickland

What that says to me is they know the other two and they don't like what they know.

Jerry Reinsdorf

We win the World Series and Ozzie retires, who says I'm not going to retire?

Carrie Fisher

No one says that to you any more really,

Ryan Garko

If someone says something, you know who said it.

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Mark Grudzielanek

We try to get him to go out and he says 'No, I've got a show Tivoed at home. I don't know about this guy.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Carson McCullers

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Craig Ferguson

That's here on CBS, where the 'C' stands for 'Classy' and the 'BS' speaks for itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Elie Wiesel

John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

Carine Roitfeld

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

Bela Lugosi

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Alfred North Whitehead

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

Dwayne Andreas

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

Colleen McCullough

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

Confucius

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

William Shakespeare

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

William Shakespeare

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Jean Fontaine

Well, my friend, get me out of danger. You can make your speech afterwards.

Richard Maloney

This is a strike that should not have happened.

Dave Vestal

We showed we could strike through the air. We showed we could come back.

Jonathan Genant

If he had taken another strike at me, I wouldn't be here today.

Vance Wilson

If you look at the way he was continually getting strike one down in the zone ... if he does that, he can do whatever he wants.

Toby Hall

I'm safe, and it was strike three. So there it is.

Steve Friswell

They can't come to work when they feel like it and strike when they feel like it.

Shannon Staub

Englewood wants sidewalks. So do a lot of other people. I am not sure what happened.

Dan Estrin

Everything is written, and we're about three-quarters of the way through the recording. We're not sure yet when it's going to come out.

Rosamund Pike

You are not sure what to make of her, whether she is responsible for all this or she's innocent.

Ted Manning

To make sure you don't have any restrictions in your tail pipe.

Selwyn Pearson

Discussions are amicable but we want to make sure everything is right.

Larry Coker

Could there be some restructuring? Sure there could be.

Rene Preval

We are sure of having won in the first round.

Zygi Wilf

We wanna be out there making sure that the person we want, we get.

Angela King

We have about 40 volunteers who come help. We want to make sure they are safe.

Mike Judge

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

Axl Rose

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.