Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian K. Vaughan

Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.

Russell Tovey

Alan Bennett is a starmaker; he's the Simon Cowell of the theatre world! He's a beautiful, beautiful man: completely humble and so accessible.

Ed Orgeron

We've let Alan Abrams back on the team. There will be certain circumstances he must follow.

Richard Foreman

Usually the Fed keeps raising rates until something goes wrong in the economy or the market. Even Alan Greenspan has never gotten it right.

Tony Crescenzi

With the Fed's statement, Chairman Alan Greenspan's famed gradualism is surfacing again, as the chairman appears to be signaling a slow pace of interest rate hikes in the future,

Peter Mancuso

I think the stimulation that (Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan has given to the economy is starting to take hold. It's going to take us a little while, by the third quarter, maybe even into the fourth quarter, we may see things do better.

Frank Cappiello

The only risk out there is that Alan Greenspan will go one step too far and put us in a recession, ... And it's hard to see what he's doing now as putting us in a recession.

Freddy Shepherd

We are delighted that St James' Park will play host to Alan's testimonial game to celebrate his unparalleled career both at club and international level. It will be a fantastic night. The atmosphere will match the occasion and Alan will be given the perfect send-off.

Robin Lewis

It doesn't surprise me that Alan Lacy was squeezed down due to the questionable performance of Sears over the years.

Giovanni Agnelli

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

B. R. Hayden

The overall trend is downward. There are fewer toxic chemicals going into the environment, but we want to see that amount go down even more.

Wole Soyinka

If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene.

Nathaniel Branden

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Alan Murray

That was the first time in recent memory that their estimation tools have not captured what is the current amount of risk in these businesses.

John Griffin

We have an excessive amount of paperwork and clutter.

George Schmidt

We have an equivalent amount of energy in just one gram or about a raisin-size worth of antimatter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We have an enormous amount of great teachers out there, terrific teachers ... but we cannot get rid of the bad teachers. They're called the lemons. Each school has those lemons. And they call it the dance of the lemons, where they kick them from school to school but you can't get them out, ... What I say is, 'Let's kick them right out and let's dance them out the door rather than dancing them from school to school.'

Patrick Ryan

We have a minimum amount of risk for a really substantial reward,

Constance Marie

I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.

Chet Faker

Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.

Travis Strack

The American Red Cross is a nonprofit organization, and we greatly appreciate all of the financial assistance we can get from the community. But it must continue so that we can maintain the level of assistance that we are able to provide.

Carlos Slim

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

Conrad Brooks

That was too goddamn long. They just gabbed and gabbed. There are so many bad movies out there. They're trash. They're garbage. When you see a good B movie, you appreciate it!

Marcellus Sommerville

That was the coaches' idea for us to go up and thank them. It was a great feeling to let them know we appreciate their coming all this way, staying with us during the season.

Norm Stamper

That won a standing ovation from the police. It made me appreciate that I'm going into a number of venues where I'll be talking to police officers.

Dexter Scott King

We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened.

Ernest Walton

The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.

Elaine Elliott

That would be our best-case scenario. It would be historic. It would be another step forward. (The selection committee is) at least going to have to give us a serious look.

Linwood Norman

That will be evaluated by the mayor's education committee and by the mayor, moving forward.

Sander Levin

The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.

Pat Summitt

We have to learn to handle better. We have to do it by committee when we don't have a point guard on the floor.

Milos Forman

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Pam Richardson

Members of our committee felt some things needed to be updated.

George F. Will

It is committee meetings, called huddles, separated by outbursts of violence.

Charles Schumer

I think, if you were to hold the vote today, she would not get a majority, either in the Judiciary Committee or on the floor,

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.

Howard Dean

Use your network to send progressive delegates to the convention in Boston. ... We are not going away, we are staying together, unified, all of us.

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.

Pat Walsh

I was still working on my last entry on Wednesday night before the convention opened on Thursday. So, it was a long, hard struggle to get where I was.

Tom Ridge

to date, there is no specific intelligence that tells us or indicates to us that the convention itself would be subject to an attack.

Andy Long

I think it's a great move putting another person in there on the convention side.

Frank Fahrenkopf

He was somewhat surprised to learn that most of the convention space was also destroyed,

Kimberly Devlin

He will not be participating in the convention at all.

Walt Baker

I can't see a lot of development without that convention center.

Evangeline Lilly

I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely inside out, and I can put the whole thing inside itself.

David Selby

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

Nancy Gibbs

It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

Edmund Phelps

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

Bob Wickman

We have a lot to be proud of so far this season. It's not just about being right there with teams like the Yankees and A's. It's about what we've developed into.

Roger McGuinn

No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.

Martha Beck

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Ken Holland

We've had great success, and Europeans have been a big part of that. When Scotty put together the Russian Five, that was really the start of the Red Wings we see today. I think it even had an impact on how we developed our drafting philosophy and scouting philosophy.

Max Heindel

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

William Peter Blatty

I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.

Richard Daley

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

Michael Riedel

Theater has always been something that I've had an interest in, but I was never a devoted fanatic theater-goer.

Keith Louder

We hadn't had much production in our first two games, so we devoted one entire practice to just hitting. We just looked more comfortable at the plate.

Sandi Gibbons

We have a whole division devoted to filing these types of cases,

Rudi Giuliani

I'm a human being; I have my limitations, ... I tried very hard to do this job 100 percent. I devoted myself to it.

Jacob Rothschild

I don't think I've ever had a minute off in Israel. I've been completely and utterly devoted to what Hanadiv does. I'm not saying I'm a good guy for that. It's just the way the dice have fallen.

Sathya Baba

Have faith in His Grace and lead a virtuous life, a life devoted to the service of the weak; a life spent in the thought about the might and glory of God.

Coral Conner

He's a family guy, and his family has all moved out of the area. He's very devoted to his grandchildren.

Feist

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

C. S. Lewis

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

Michael Chertoff

That would be hugely, hugely difficult, and require an enormous expenditure of resources.

Peter O'Toole

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

Ruth Ozeki

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.

Stella Young

Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs and careers.

Arthur Stein

We have the largest non-teaching hospital in the state, ... Whether you like or not, it is an enormous asset, and we often treat it like a stepchild.

Preston Sturges

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.

Jack Quinn

That would greatly surprise me. I can't image that happening, ... Meet The Press.

Jimmy Smits

John was a true pillar of a man, he set the stage for kindness and generosity. His humor and smile were infectious, he will be greatly missed.

Larry King

If asked, I would be greatly honored to stay on,

Michel Alaby

He said he greatly appreciated having had the opportunity of visiting the Chamber.

William Gilbert

He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!

Koichiro Matsuura

From prehistoric times until today, humanity's dealings with water have greatly influenced the sustainability of societies.

Adam Ereli

We respect the Swiss justice system, but we would have greatly preferred that he be extradited here.

Becky Bailey

Over the years, we have greatly tightened our quality control, and this is a highly unusual occurrence.

David Baxter

Our production has greatly increased. Everything we do is local. No one can do what we do.

Ralph W. Sockman

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Bernard Beckett

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Bertrand Russell

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Bertrand Russell

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

Bertrand Russell

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Andrew Carnegie

the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.

David Turangal

We have the knowledge and want to help. As soon as you walk in the door, we'll get to know you.

Henry David Thoreau

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Carrie Chapman Catt

the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.

Bergen Evans

Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.

Bill Budge

On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

Josh Beekman

You are a reflection of the school. You're not just representing BC, but also yourself.

Peter Orszag

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

Martin Sheen

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

P. Herbert

I don't smoke, and I'm trying to get home. Everything I do is going to reflect that.

Louis Cataldie

I don't think it's any reflection on that hospital. They did all the right things. They ultimately got their own helicopters to come in.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Louise Shivers

We have volunteers in 65 to 70 of those departments.

Benjamin Walker

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

Cecile Richards

We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

Celia Imrie

There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.

Barbara Bush

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

Eden Sher

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

Rita Carlson

We pretty much have our same volunteers that come back.

Adnan Pachachi

There are other volunteers who take turns, up to 50 of us here.

Alexander Pope

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.