Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Mike Tice

The story got in the paper, then it got on the web, then it went worldwide, ... Then our phones started ringing and people started asking about Moss so we had a meeting and said, 'Since these calls are coming, what is the value of Moss?' We said it was three No. 1s because we knew no one in his right mind would ever give up three No. 1s.

Majel Barrett

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

Travis Leffew

I sent a few text messages, but I couldn't call a lot of people because I was still getting calls from people asking me about signing as a free agent. When it gets in the paper, that's when everybody will know.

Elena Cuevas

This is the first time that it is nationwide and you can see it. People are asking for some respect.

Brodie Croyle

That offensive line y'all have been asking questions about, they showed up. They'd been criticized all camp, saying they're kind of our weak link.

Lee Raymond

You should be down asking your representatives in Congress how did they let this happen? They had been told for two years this was going to happen.

Janis Karpinski

You take a request down - literally, you take a request to the Finance Office. If the Pay Officer recognized your face and you were asking for $450,000 to pay a contractor for work, they would pay you in cash: $450,000. Out of control.

Chip Cherry

You sometimes need help navigating through that process. And this way, when you call, you're calling a person rather than just asking if there's somebody who can help you.

Bruce Nelson

Do people contribute to that implementation plan and do those waters become attaining, or do we just have a lot of nice studies and implementation plans gathering dust? You spend all that money and you're left 10, 15 or 20 years later with some improvement, but still an impaired water body.

John Bracewell

I back myself to be part of the team and contribute to it.

Jody Grove

We must have our freshmen step up and contribute to the team right away. We must keep working everyday to get better.

Robert Plant

I'm very, very pleased to contribute in some form or another,

Jalen Rose

Everybody wants to contribute and help the team get a win, and obviously I'm no different,

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more.

Jan Eustis

We have a high number of elder people. If you look at factors that contribute to suicide, you have isolation and depression. With older people, there tends to be more isolation and depression. They have often lost a spouse or family members.

Iliana Holguin

We have a lot of people who work very hard and contribute to the tax system for many years but they live in an underground society, always being exploited. Our economy thrives on these workers.

Mike Shanahan

When you have your second, third or fourth back that knows the system, you can throw him in there every day. That is why it's tough to pick a guy up during the season, because you actually want that guy to contribute to the team.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Craig Chilton

The summertime and late spring are the greatest times of production for this industry because dealers sell more of these vehicles at this time of year, ... How to Get Paid $30,000 a Year to Travel: Without Selling Anything.

Jeremy Yablonski

Things weren't working out the greatest in Milwaukee and Nashville.

Greg Oden

This is one of my greatest moments. I'm very happy to win this award, and I'm very grateful.

Nick Miller

Dr. Who is my greatest passion in life.

Bhagavad Gita

Established in Self-Realization, one is not moved even by the greatest calamity.

Ray Elliott

I've never seen an individual request more time,

Ron Messick

They all had their own individual abilities, but I could tell they were special players.

Masaaki Kanno

This is a new trend in Japanese politics. People are increasingly voting on the policies of individual parties. Now the manifestos of the different parties have become very clear.

Leonard Leo

that they were very interested in making sure that the president nominated a second individual who shared the philosophy of judicial restraint.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Geno Auriemma

We don't score on sheer individual talent. Sometimes we run stuff just to run stuff without an idea what we're going to get from it.

Robert Kiyosaki

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Rahul Dravid

We will not target individual players. We will play Pakistan as a team.

Andy Garcia

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Troy Johnson

It would mainly be for people who already live and work in the Mankato area.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Bob Harper

This isn't going to be some three-year study, the main idea is, 'Let's get something done,'

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Mike Bibby

We got stops when we needed to and that's the main thing. Our stops turned into transition points.

Mike May

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

Steve Albini

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

Thomas Reed

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

John Paul Stevens

Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

Matt Smith

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

Philip Larkin

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

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?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

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

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Mitch Albom

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

Harvey Pitt

We'll come down with a sledgehammer on any improper relationships, any improper conflicts.

Jason Kilar

The one thing that's important to know is Hulu's not looking for traffic to be sent to hulu.com from its relationships with Yahoo and Fancast and MSN.

Jane Birkin

I can't be the only person in the world to have three different husbands, and yet those relationships are never talked about.

Al Gore

that they may be returned to us safely and soon.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Don Nickles

I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector,

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

David Livingstone

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

Allison Pearson

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Thomas More

He travels best that knows when to return.

Raymond Carver

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

Roland Barthes

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.

Antony Starr

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

Patrick Leahy

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

Peter Ueberroth

The rules have changed, ... The old thing of 'getting in line,' that's gone.

John Tory

Even the rules that are in place are not being followed.

Jim Gallagher

give everyone a sense of equilibrium and ... of where the rule is going to wind up.

Rachael Ray

She said the first rule is to be myself.

Conrad Burns

I say it's the law. Write the rule and let it go forward,

Kenneth Fisher

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

Marty Smith

That was two too many. The first rule was you must shower every day.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Angela Merkel

There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

V. S. Pritchett

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Matthieu Ricard

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Tony Robbins

It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story.

Michael Cohen

In many ways, this is a bet-the-company strategy for AMD.

Greg McBride

It's really a wise strategy to do that -- to throw whatever you can at the balance.

Fred Wilson

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

Brian Sandoval

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Tiger Woods

I probably will have to become more political down the road when my playing days are done, because I'm going to have to have the support of others to grow my foundation.

Samantha Morton

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

Sigmund Freud

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Shakti Gawain

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

Susan Jeffers

For some reason, when you become a support to others, you become bigger than you are.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Craig Ferguson

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

Brian Chesky

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

Brody Jenner

If a guy's talking to you at a club and you're having a long conversation, and then one of your friends comes up and he automatically devotes his attention to her, that's always a sign to look for. They're not always just doing it 'cause they're being 'friendly.' They want to look for somebody new.

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Robert Hathaway

It's traveling very, very fast. It can penetrate you pretty good.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Jim Bishop

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jesse Helms

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.