Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

Christopher Young

As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.

Kurt Opsahl

The California Court of Appeals has a long history of protecting freedom of the press. We're hopeful they'll continue to do so.

Allyson Schaaf

As I travel to Brussels, my daughter, who our family welcomed into our hearts in October of 2002, is my priority. It has now been over three years that Natasha has not been able to join us. I will appeal to the EU and Romanian officials to help find the support Romania needs to resume international adoptions so that Natasha and hundreds of other children can finally come home.

John Robinson

Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.

Jamie Johnson

Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.

Benon Sevan

Our appeal is to all parties. There can be no cease-fire with one side,

Casey Wilson

The more money you spend, the more you need to make back, and the more pressure there is to appeal to everyone - which to the studio means that the specificity and uniqueness must be watered down. But I think mass audiences like things that are more specific and tend to have a voice, like 'Napoleon Dynamite' or 'Superbad.'

Mariella Frostrup

The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.

Monica Crowley

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates, Mr. Obama was 'light-skinned' and lacked a 'Negro dialect.'

Jim Messina

This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you.

Donald Trump

Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.

Michelle Obama

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard - especially when it's hard.

Michele Bachmann

I never questioned Barack Obama's patriotism.

Chuck Schumer

Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked.

Anthony Marra

I stopped by Politics & Prose to sign a few copies of 'Constellation.' A couple days later, I learned that Barack Obama also stopped by and left with one of them.

Jeff Greenfield

Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.

Jim Hunt

In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.

Gary Campbell

Coaches are usually defensive minded anyway. I've always built the defense starting with the middle linebacker.

Richard Shaffer

Compaq built its business on resellers and it was very successful for them but now that model has been challenged by direct distribution, with companies like Dell.

Jerry Martin

Companies sending goods to California, we want them to use trucks built to U.S. standards. We think it would be relatively easy to enforce, since we already inspect them at the border.

Connie Mack

A number of years later the new hospital was built and the name was changed to the Milford Memorial Hospital. The original plaque inscribed ... now hangs in the emergency room.

Chris Hadfield

And then when we assembled it, the mechanism, which was built in Russia, just worked exactly like everybody said, so it was letter perfect.

Lazarus Long

An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

Tony Crescenzi

A quarter point move is already built in to the market. It wouldn't have any impact.

Jeff Dousharm

Anything you can think of that's made out of wood, we've probably built it.

Bible Bible

And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.

Jose Maria

As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

Mike Baker

Our effort and desire were there throughout the game. We just weren't very smart with some things we did.

Alphonso Jackson

Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective.

Joe Browne

Some people, you can tell if they want it bad. He always was a kid who wanted to be a good player. He had that will and desire to play. Everyone around the pool room saw that.

Baha'u'llah

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

Bertrand Russell

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Juvenal

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

William Aldis

It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it happened.

Larry Sabato

Is it possible that he can come back? Sure. There have been some tremendous and significant rebounds in American history and this would be one of them.

Cal Jillson

is going to plague him not only in his second term but in history even in Texas.

Megan Smith

I've been working on the lost history of technical women.

Josh Cammack

I've been told the most wins in school history is 13.

Lin Ezell

I've been one of those lucky people to have been involved with history for my whole career, ... Not many history majors get to do that.

Confucius

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that are past it is needless to blame.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The wine world is so big. Yes, there are styles of wines I don't like. Orange wine, natural wines and low-alcohol wines. Truth is on my side, and history will prove I am right.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Ted Cruz

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Kevin McCarthy

The facts are clear. Obamacare is failing the American people.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the better, and the sooner, the better, making it impossible to take it away. Meaning, making it impossible to repeal Obamacare.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.

Rush Limbaugh

The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House.

Rush Limbaugh

Obamacare can't work, folks. It just cannot.

Tim Pawlenty

President Obama said that he designed ObamaCare after RomneyCare, and basically made it ObamneyCare.

Rafael Cruz

I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

Brandon Roy

It would have been really special if he had come here. We would have been really good.

Christian Maraker

They all feel great. This one is special in its own way.

Charlie Warner

This is a special group. They never quit.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before. We don't know how much we'll be getting or how it will be dispersed.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before,

Melanie Sloan

That, to me, would be special treatment that he doesn't really deserve.

Jan Karon

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

Bon Scott

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.