Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Crapo

Individuals and businesses must participate in a national discussion about a simpler tax system, one that collects sufficient revenue to meet appropriate federal responsibilities, but one resting on a broader, fairer tax base without penalizing saving and investing, the backbone of a strong, decentralized and thriving economy.

Robert Bunyi

Oil will continue to be the backbone due to its sheer scale plus the rate of expansion envisaged. I'm not sure if this is enough evidence of diversification or conversely is it just evidence of the benefits of a booming oil sector.

Keith Wright

Slavery is the backbone on which this country was built, ... We haven't even touched the tip of the iceberg in terms of studying it ... I have two children and I don't think they have studied the issue thoroughly.

Scott Ellis

Any director who comes into a revival owes a great deal to the original director. If I know the backbone works, it gives me, as a director, much more freedom to bring something new to it or try something different.

Don Lowe

Eric has been the backbone of this team. He has been hot for the last month and a half. He is making key saves at the right time. The key to going far in this tournament is goaltending. If you have a hot goalie, then there's a good chance your team will go far. Eric has been playing great for us. He is one of the best goalies around.

Bruce Peterson

Brandi Hungerford is the backbone of the state's case. She is the star witness, ... Brandi Hungerford is a consummate liar.

Jason Schultz

Let's say you get a patent on something like a pop-up window. Of course, you could, in theory, go after everyone on the Internet, but you don't. What you end up doing is picking off the weak members of the herd, companies that don't have the money to defend themselves or independent Web sites, or occasionally big companies that you think will not have very much backbone and will quickly settle.

Bill Smith

Seasonal is the first thing. And then seasonal Southern. The backbone of it is traditional Southern cooking.

Jim Bailey

He was a tremendous individual. I met him when I was elected as a fellow commissioner, and we spent many hours together working to solve problems. He was the backbone -- we wouldn't be where we are today if it hadn't been for his efforts,

Donald McDonald

He is what amounts to another union representative rather than representing the people who elected him.

Elliott Abrams

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Their voices have been heard. They elected me to be governor, and they sent me up here to do the job, ... That's what I'm here to do, and so that's why I'm concentrating on this right now.

Sandra Buckler

There's a natural pursuit of elected officials which I think is healthy and normal.

David Harsanyi

Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.

Rob Woodall

Do you think states' rights would have disappeared if state legislatures still elected our United States senators? Do you think our United States senators would be difficult to contact if they were named by our state legislatures?

Donald Powell

I've talked to people in all walks of life, from elected officials ... to the guy who repaired my shoes.

Jeffrey Chiesa

I've never sought elected office since I was a senior class president in high school.

Lee Kuan Yew

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Jane Harman

He's a likable fellow who has helped restore some bipartisanship to the committee.

Jewish Proverb

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

John Hernandez

That kind of disturbs me. The money was not the point of this whole thing; it was the way he treated his fellow man, with no compassion.

Tom Lehrer

It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier

Kin Hubbard

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

Jose Antonio Vargas

As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do with me? What do you want to do with us? How do you define American?

Charles M. Schwab

A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.

Jean Fontaine

This fellow did not see further than his own nose.

Vijay Mallya

They take pride in the success of fellow Indians as well.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

John Tracy

Well, you should be, ... You've been saying 'Yes' for three hours straight.

Maxwell Anderson

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

Mark Tyndale

I don't know what hours he likes to go, but whatever hours he comes up with, I'm willing to work for him.

Michael McKinney

I could sit and talk to them for three hours if I have the time,

William Bolar

He loves for it as I do. We can talk on the phone for hours about it.

Warren Beaulah

We may just have to let him wear No. 44. I told him before the season that I have a lot of expectations for him. He hasn't quite met them.

Keith Richards

I haven't met him yet, I can't wait. I'm a Stones fan.

M. Powell

The object of the patrol method is not so much having the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Lemmy Kilmister

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Pete Sampras

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

Hideo Kojima

It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

Sophia Bush

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

Billy Beane

It's a necessity. We've got to get it done. It's not something that's going to solve itself.

Megan Smith

It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.

Steve Roberts

They are doing nothing, nothing to solve this case.

Nestor Kirchner

We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.

Craig Benson

Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.

Ashwin Sanghi

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

Bryan Whitman

There is no ?silver bullet' to solve this problem.

Tony Dungy

Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

Buzz Hargrove

We have to solve that or it's a showstopper for sure.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

David Lowery

Whoever did this spent a long time igniting anything they could find.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Kalin Lucas

I think about him every day. Today I woke up and I didn't even feel like going to school. It was rough.

Lee Nelson

I'm 63 today but I feel like I'm 18.

Brad Faxon

The first thing Dory did today was look up at me and say, ?We?re going to Kapulua,?

Neale Donald Walsch

Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today

Miguel de Icaza

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Marat Safin

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

Louise Hay

My younger years were filled with fear; my todays are filled with confidence.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Kelley Armstrong

If you say ‘we’re in this together,’ I’m going to hurl.

James Joyce

We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.

James Gunn

Every movie I've ever made has just kind of come together.

Laurence Sterne

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Liane Moriarty

There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words “teeny weeny.

Libba Bray

I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.

Friedrich Engels

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

Jon Foreman

Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?

Dan Bennett

Dale Hansen is a tremendous talent, and we wish him the very best.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.