Famous Quotes & Sayings

X. J. Kennedy

The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.

Isabella Bird

I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.

Ismail Kadare

I consider I've had a good day when, among the lines I've written, I've produced from my innermost core what I call 'the appearance of the pearl.' That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.

Giraldus Cambrensis

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Yuri Milner

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

Virginia Postrel

Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.

Virginia Postrel

Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.

Abraham Lincoln

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Ezra Taft Benson

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

Virginia Postrel

Internet pharmacies return to consumers the choice promised by supporters of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. That law established federal requirements for drug safety and labeling but exempted prescription medicines from the labeling rules.

Ninon Lenclos

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them

Carl Rogers

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

Bethenny Frankel

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

Charles R. Swindoll

Convictions are a matter of choice, not force.

Randy Martin

The 6 percent option is the wiser choice. (Asking for) 10 percent is like going double or nothing ? 6 percent seems like it would be a lot easier to sell. It seems to be the reasonable choice to me.

Richard Notebaert

The American people have called for choice (in long-distance services), ... Ameritech is stepping forward to make it happen.

Jim Tressel

That wouldn't have been my first choice. But I can't have it back.

Ian Mckellen

We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.

Gail Kelly

You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

Chelsea Clinton

My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.

Bruce Afran

The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party.

Natasha Trethewey

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

Rick Perlstein

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Nick Carter

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

John Brady

We can't just use the weekly points to choose the team because if a team has one or two dominant players others in that side won't get any votes.

Linda Massey

We have two fine men to choose from.

Yahya Jammeh

Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.

Colin Morgan

From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.

Ian Shepherdson

The pattern in claims in recent months is strikingly similar to 1990 -- a long slow climb and then a sudden acceleration as layoffs accelerated,

David Walton

Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.

Mike Cloherty

That weakness on the claims front is offsetting the durable impact.

Kyle Dippery

We have a mechanism in place to do what a union claims it can do for us.

Anthony Chan

We can't ignore the trend -- jobless claims have been coming down. We're at least close to turning the corner on the labor market front.

Park Seung

The polarization between households and the corporate sector is a phenomenon seen in the course of the economic restructuring process.

Mary Rich

That was the first time that any of us knew that our plan was no longer protected. I think the corporate people knew but were keeping it quiet.

Eric Kuby

We've gotten good reports from a variety of companies, supporting the thesis that corporate earnings are going to increase in the double digits this year.

Bob Parker

We've lost a third of our corporate contributions.

Chuck D.

Valuations are getting stretched, especially in the technology sector. There may be some recovery in the economy, but the notion that it will translate into a big jump in corporate profits - the jury is still out on that.

E. Hurley

Most of the corporate money in Newcastle goes to the Knights.

Paul Browne

Members of our corporate security network informed the police department of the e-mails' existence days prior to any announcement of the threat.

Don Hays

You'll see most of the corporate earnings out of the way,

Gordon Graham

will include a significant reduction in Bell's corporate support structure.

John Boyne

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

Mithali Raj

We have women umpires in India, but if there are male umpires employed we don't have any problems if we are getting fair decisions.

Jerry Mathers

I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.

Dennis Campbell

I have been employed at Mounds Schools for the past 23 years as a high school principal, coach, and superintendent and have some great memories of what has been accomplished.

Donna Roberts

The people that are still employed are petrified.

Michael Bryant

Freedom-of-information legislation would have to be employed to reveal just how often I read it. I love it. Seth is one of the most insanely hilarious people I know. He's the guy who can have people doubled over in laughter at a funeral.

Nathan Fillion

I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?

Kenneth Cranham

If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.

Benjamin Franklin

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

Rick Moranis

By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.

Beau Bridges

When Spielberg was talking with the other executives about making this movie, he said he was only interested if they were going to tell the truth about the westward crossing, which means how the Native Americans were disrespected.

Mike Cooke

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,

Larry Lucchino

Henry said. ''He may, however, go to Palm Springs to talk with possible candidates, if there are any executives he has been given permission to talk with.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Sue Shipman

What I have found working with entrepreneurs and executives is what they really want is their life back.

Dick Wolf

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

Kenneth Edmonds

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Bill Bryson

A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.

Greg Blue

I wouldn't mind playing with the rest of my Georgia guys up there.

Steve Spurrier

We've got to slow him down some. He looks like those linebackers that play at Georgia and Tennessee.

Tom Jackson

He wanted to see could we do it under Georgia law.

Bobby Cremins

I feel strongly about Georgia Tech. I love Georgia Tech and I'm pretty good at communicating that. If they want me, I'd be honored.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

Dave Chappelle

What a great young man and a great representative of Georgia Tech,

R. Ingram

We play Okaloosa Walton Friday. Then we'll play Wallace State-Dothan Saturday and Middle Georgia Sunday.

Alec Baldwin

I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

David Hogan

Habitat protection for the toad translates into water quality protection for the people.

Diane Ackerman

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

Jean Krejca

We don't know how long they live, what kind of habitat they prefer, how many offspring they have, or how sensitive they are to human disturbance. There's still so much to learn.

Steve Wagner

Some of it has to do with habitat loss, urban sprawl taking away places where people used to hunt. And people just don't have time.

Kurt Vonnegut

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.

Lance Robinson

As long as you have appropriate habitat and water quality, they will be back.

Kathy Fletcher

The way to save the whales is to stop doing the things that hurt them and also to start putting the system back together again. We need to restore the habitat and protect it.

Daniel Patterson

You can't just go out and plow lizard habitat into the ground.

Andrew Steele

Ice-filled volcanic vents, such as these, are likely to occur on Mars and may be a potential habitat for life there.

Clive Thompson

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

Peter Kellogg

The only real blemish in the quarter has been the royalty situation, which will improve over the rest of the year,

Marcelo Porto

The political scene has improved in a big way.

Gerry Murphy

The academies have tremendously improved training for young players.

Karl Hobbs

That we had improved from last year. The program is improving every year, and that was an indication that we had improved it. This year, we improved our status.

Jim Hofher

We need to improve on offense. We're 0 for the season right now in terms of scoring.

John Bryan

We have traditionally had inspectors who really know a lot about the business. They seem to be getting the job done. And while we've seen some improvement in permits, we're still a long way from where we should be.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.

Mark Morehouse

Tyler is an all-around kind of guy. This year we are just going to try and improve on what we did last year and get some kids to state.

Damian Lewis

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

Robert Aventajado

If they insist on their original demand, that would be a deal-breaker.

Eric Cantor

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Robert M. La Follette

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Frances Mayes

When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

Laura Anne Gilman

I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

Kai Bird

The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Charles Grassley

No Senator has the right to insist on his or her own issue-by-issue philosophy, or seek commitments from nominees on specific litmus test questions likely to come before that court.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Peter Jackson

There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.'

Madeleine Stowe

Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.

Mark Fitzgerald

We have not pinpointed the location of the others.

Christopher Smith

Police responded to that location -- found, or sighted, the vehicle that was used in the robbery.

David Strow

Because of the location of this property, there will not be any unobstructed, safe views for members of the public.

Pat Camden

just pulled up to people and started shooting at various victims and went from one location to the other.

Sandy Jones

Frankly, we look for a new location each time this happens.

David Schwimmer

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

Arthur Phillips

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

Adrian Wydeven

Wisconsin has had its management plan in place since 1999, so we're ready for this.

Steve Sampson

Management has never told me that, but regardless of what management's expectations are, my expectations are to win the trophy,

Richard Windsor

Management has been very slow to recognize there's a problem and do anything about it.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Lawrence Miller

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Richard Ratner

Management is going to have to take it. I'm sure it will go through. People will think it's mean, but the alternative would be pretty ghastly.

Jeff Tittel

Without a proper management plan, there should not be a hunt.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

Steve Sell

We have the potential to be terrific. But how can you predict?

John Shelton

We have the potential for some big problems, but we think right now it's just potential.

Rick Bohlander

We've got potential to play with any of them. We've just got to play a whole lot better than we did the other night.

John Montgomery

I think this has the potential to be one of the sexiest projects we have seen in years.

Mike Keenan

We've talked so much about the potential of our young players, ... This will make the team a better team.

Viktor Vekselberg

We have a very interesting and very serious potential international partner.

Mickey Williams

We have a ton of potential, but we also have a ton of injuries.

James Armstrong

I feel we were proactive to prevent any potential problems, ... In 10 years, I've never seen anything like this.

Lori Enright

Her scoring potential would be a lot higher.

Josh Beekman

We don't get preferred housing, I wish that we did.

Bernard Laporte

We preferred to let him recuperate and release him on Thursday.

Charlie White

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

Laurie Graham

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

Chris Roberts

Obviously, we would have preferred that it wouldn't have been taken to this stage.

Greg Chappell

It did not remain confidential though I would have preferred it to have remained so. What else can I say at this stage?

Tori Spelling

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!

Angelina Jolie

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Warren Beatty

I've always preferred not to run for public office, and I still do, ... Run, Warren, run!

Patrice Leconte

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

Gene Robinson

We have been very successful in several of these searches.

Alex Knott

Those are several times more than the average. It shows you that this is going to be a very costly election.

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

William McKinney

We have stalled in several different fashions. We just camouflage it a bit. A lot of times, we look like we are about to go, and we are not trying to go.

Hanoi Hannah

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Ruth Winstrom

We're going to be there for several days.

Bruce Raynor

On several occasions, we intervened with the mayor. We had several conversations with Roger.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Yahya Jammeh

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Patrice Motsepe

South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.

Jose Ibarra

I think it's great. We need something on the south side.

Ron Howard

We're not going to think about that at all because we've got Southern Utah to worry about.

Dominique McElligott

I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Fred Coan

We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

Rose Davis

I don't think we've ever had the urban involvement that we've had with this year's hurricanes.

David Guterson

I'm not an urban person.

Camille Paglia

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

Bruce Sterling

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

Aubrey O'Day

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

Armand Assante

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

Aldous Huxley

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

Adam Savage

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

Jeremy Corbyn

To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.