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.

Chris Lasoya

People ask me what makes a professional player and I don't know. I guess I was really marketable.

Lester Piggott

People ask me why I ride with my bottom in the air. Well, I've got to put it somewhere.

Francois Hollande

After what happened yesterday -- notably at the Sorbonne -- with these images of brutality, I ask the government to end its obstinacy and stubbornness and open talks toward withdrawing this law.

Steve Morton

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Todd Holmes

An official business will never ask you for your information. They already have it, and people have to be careful, because everything looks so legitimate.

Baruch Fischhoff

Are we prepared to lose a major city every year? ... It's cowardice not to ask the question and cowardice on the public's part not to get engaged in the answer.

James McCann

The senators will want to ask about views on presidential powers, women's rights and minorities, because Roberts expressed views during Reagan's term that need to be cleared up,

Jonathan Todd

This date has now been pushed back to Feb 15.

Shaun Alexander

To me, I'm not one of those guys that do things just for the fun of it. If we're going to date ? there's a potential for marriage. And that's how I am.

Tom Daschle

second-guess what has been done to date ... the jury is still out on future success.

Daily Express

I would give pool tournaments in the USA priority over those smaller events if there was a dates clash,

Simon Clarke

She is likely to have a hearing date probably in the middle of next year.

Henry Willmore

If inflation were to slow down some more, that would put off the date of any further tightening. But if it's stable or rising, the Fed will focus more on job numbers. We think the labor market indicators will be fairly strong.

Eva Longoria

I find it a turnoff whenever men arent into some kind of sport. And, no, video games dont count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.

Anton Corbijn

My first pictures are from 1972, and my first proper camera dates back to 1973. During the first year I used my father's camera. It had a flash on it, which I don't like, but I didn't know anything about photography back then, so it was just what I did.

Dan Brown

will be unavailable for interviews or appearances until the release of his next novel. No release date is yet scheduled.

Wendy Wong

The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more,

Elliot Regenstein

This is some of the most effective spending the government does.

Kent Hendershot

That's what we wanted to do, we wanted to go out and jump on them. I thought our pressure was pretty effective tonight. We threw a lot of stuff at them and I don't think they ever got in any kind of rhythm.

Peter Power

That turns out to be an effective way to make the region more competitive vis-a-vis China.

Bill Doran

You would have to evacuate at about 72 hours from landfall to have an effective evacuation.

Gil Jamieson

You've really gotten off to a great start. There's a lot of self-sufficiency on the part of the folks over there who are, on their own initiative, taking up and starting the planning process, getting on with the rebuilding period. I think you're going to have a pretty swift and effective recovery over there in Texas.

Terri Sewell

I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less.

Jerrold Nadler

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

Andy Borowitz

I am resigning effective immediately. Bo Derek will become the new vice president.

Douglas Adams

But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

Randy Pausch

Develop a good filing system.

Scott Bauer

But this filing will give us the freedom to operate the office as we wish, such as taking limited deposits, until it makes strategic sense to open a full-service branch.

Steve Brown

The petitions were reviewed, and there were a number of defective signatures. But it looks like they filed just over the minimum. There was no point in filing objections.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Ice Cube

I don't consider myself ever joining. But I have affiliations, for sure.

Stephen Kinzer

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.

Samuel Alito

A judge can't have any agenda. A judge can't have a preferred outcome in any particular case.

Edmund Spenser

Be judge ye heavens, that all things right esteeme, / How I him loved, and love with all my might, / So thought I eke of him, and thinke I thought aright.

David Bloom

You judge things by comparables. They are comparable.

Russian Proverbs

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.

Daniel Moore

There's no reason that I can't. No judge has issued any kind of injunction that prevents me from doing that, and that's what this whole lawsuit is about.

Jeanine Pirro

Well look, I've been a prosecutor, a judge and the DA for 30 years. This is my life. This is who I am.

Edward Kennedy

You do agree, don't you, Judge Roberts, that the right to vote is a fundamental constitutional right?

John Wagner

If a violator does not feel they are guilty, they will wait for a judge to set up trial date.

Allan Houston

I don't think it's realistic to judge it off of training camp, honestly. Once we get back and we're not practicing twice a day and I give it some time to recover, then I'll have a better (assessment).

J. J. Johnson

There's lawsuits threatened on everything we do. You got to vote what you think is right for the kids. If somebody wants to sue you, let them sue.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Reggie Sanders

What we're trying to do, ... is be as fine-tuned and honed-in on the small things as we can possibly be.

Howard Clark

My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.

Michael Young

I think he's doing all he can possibly do, probably.

Dan Hawkins

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

F. Stone

There was quite possibly one other person shooting, ... We do have witness statements.

Greg Norman

Would there possibly be another woman? Absolutely. Time will tell who that will be.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Sathya Baba

You are all separate beads strung together on that one thread, God.

Corrine Brown

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

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.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Jack Nicholson

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jane Asher

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.

Azzedine Alaia

In an ordinary suit and tie, I'd look like a little macho. I'd be ridiculous.

Rosa Bonheur

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

Mamata Banerjee

Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.

James Galway

They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.

Richard Dawkins

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

Brian Anderson

I'll go back out, yeah. I just need a new (wet) suit and a new board.

Alan Shepard

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

Bob Uecker

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

Barbara Mikulski

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Deepak Chopra

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Deepak Chopra

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Dustin Hoffman

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Thomas Huxley

Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of Development, of Comparative Anatomy, of Geographical Distribution, and of Palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and I, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions.

Sylvester Stallone

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.