Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Kantor

I spent a lot of time in the White House in the public areas where reporters are allowed to go, but I spoke to people about the private quarters as well. Some of the things I learned were small, novelistic details. For example, the fact that there were still pet stains on the carpets from the Bush cats when the Obamas moved in.

Cynthia Lorenzo

They are allowed to use some techniques to confine the youths.

Ruth Luban

The wilderness is derived by not being allowed to know what's next until you do your homework. The people who stop and do this are so much better off because they really clarify their values and priorities,

Ed Wicelinski

They allowed us to catch the ball inside, then they played five men down there.

Brian Meehan

They allowed it to be physical, and that's just the way it is.

Linda Halsey

The rights that are allowed through marriage I think should be allowed for all families like ours and all people that love each other.

Russ McKinney

There will not be anyone or any vehicle allowed in between those blocks.

Glenn Audenaert

This is how she came into contact with the organization which allowed her to become a fighter.

David Porter

That's where people saw his diplomatic skills. He allowed space for perspectives to emerge and created a context for mutual understanding.

Tim Long

Despite the likelihood of a conservative outlook, we believe better momentum in the company's growth areas could start to change the 'lack of growth' sentiment that has weighed on the stock.

Patrick Leahy

a flexible plan that includes pulling our troops back from the densely populated areas where they are suffering the worst casualties and to bring them home.

Chad Anderson

Rural areas are not an attractive market for a lot of the big companies.

Gary Compton

There will be school tomorrow, but there are some areas we can?t do bus pickups. Some areas, if we had to drive to now, would be pretty shaky.

Jon Gruden

The schedule doesn't get any easier, ... Our job is to do everything we can to help him. His job is obviously to make plays and move this football team and help us score and win games, and eliminate turnovers, negative plays, sacks. Those are areas that must be cleaned up in a hurry. And he'll be the quarterback this week again. Hopefully he can do that.

Scott Davis

These are the two major areas where we see potential (for acquisitions). We see great opportunities in particular for freight forwarding moving forward.

R. A. Salvatore

These are the two areas where you don't want to make a mistake. These are the two areas that are costly.

Al Goldman

These are the personalities of a market getting in the areas of a bottom.

Alfred McEwen

These are random targets, and they don't hit what we know are the greatest areas of interest on Mars.

Keating Holland

So the pressure is on Kerry to meet expectations. And let's not forget the good news for the White House in this poll: Bush is still seen as a stronger leader who would better deal with Iraq and terrorism,

Tom Brokaw

This race is all but over, ... President Bush is our projected winner in the state of Ohio.

S. Hughes

We had a vote on Tuesday that showed Governor Bush won Florida, ... We had a recount that showed Governor Bush has won Florida.

Larry Wachtel

Even if Bush were to win, there's no mandate to do any radical legislation.

Osama Laden

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.

Marshall Wittmann

Even a sitting president who has a vice president running for office doesn't have a great impact on the way the administration behaves. The goal of the next three years is to repair the president's popularity and resolve the situation in Iraq to some decent outcome. ... If Bush leaves office in January 2009 with Iraq in chaos, nothing else will matter.

Cindy Sheehan

Every time Bush talks he should be removed from office,

Adam McKay

If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?

Bernie Sanders

At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.

Tony Vecchio

Big cats are so popular, not only with our visitors, but with our staff and volunteers as well, that everyone gets extremely attached. Her loss will be felt not just here locally, but worldwide due to the critically endangered status of this species.

Brian Carter

We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams like cats to favorite armchairs.

Linda Taylor

At the least, most will tear up, even the most stoic. You know, a lot of times they've had these dogs and cats into their teenage years from when they were babies.

Jane Anderson

We will soon have some cats housed at the shelter, though.

Till Backhaus

The presence of an H5N1 infection in a second mammalian species is not surprising. Cats and martens have a comparable prey spectrum.

Liz Applegate

Cats need it; we don't. But it poses no harm, either.

S. Calverley

Cats may have had their goose / Cooked by tobacco-juice; / Still why deny its use / Thoughtfully taken?

Marilyn Smith

If we failed, the worst thing that would have happened is that we spayed and neutered a lot of cats and dogs. We're going to do everything in our means to make it work.

Jo Guertin

Since we've been doing it there have been less complaints about cats. Mainly what we do (is remove) previously owned cats that show up at somebody's house.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Preston Clark

The spectator traffic wasn't even a factor today. With this weather, they all headed for the hills.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

Sean Hannity

So you think it's race-related (which Watters had not said)? You think race is the factor that the New Orleans mayor didn't use the buses?

Arnold Glasow

Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Pam Schnurr

Seeing so many is very encouraging. And the fact that we saw so many means that there are a lot more out there.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Bradlee Pelt

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

John Connell

Obviously, we're playing a high-quality team. It's not something you can practice for. We learned a lot today.

James Tobin

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Daniela Ruah

I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.

Mirwaiz Umar

I was moved by the scene on the borderline.

Jim Tildsley

We really played well in the first half. We shot well, passed well and moved well without the ball.

Julianne Hough

Well, I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain 'Come on Over' CD and that's about it.

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?'

Peggy Baker

People see what's there and think that's what was always there. But it wasn't. Before 1921 it was very different.

Kenyon Martin

People see what I did: walk off the court. I snatched my back brace off and threw it. I'm frustrated. We're losing. I'm frustrated. Whatever it is, people are going to assume. ... It is what it is.

Eric Greene

People see those signs and they kind of wonder.

Abbey Clancy

People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.

Gerd Langguth

People see Merkel as an alternative out of their desperation. She may not be, but that's how they see her now.

Rick Riordan

Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her.

May Sarton

When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.

Nick Kroll

It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

Mignon McLaughlin

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

Garry Davidson

Peter has said he wants to go on, which is great.

Mike Kramer

I didn't find out (that Holt had left) until Peter called me.

Michael Stipe

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

Liane Moriarty

They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

Frank Beamer

You think you're part of a special breed. You think that you're his pet Pekinese.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Frank Melton

I think if it's a private investment, it's a private investment,

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wil S. Hylton

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

John Twelve Hawks

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Jim Bailey

public safety reasons and for your own safety.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Darryl Strawberry

didn't want to make a public thing out of it.

Bob Elliott

We want a more comprehensive look at public safety.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

David Cook

We're taking every step we can think of to take. It seems so unjust that someone who has been such a careful, unbiased, sensitive reporter could be murdered for that kind of public service.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Dwayne Andreas

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

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.

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.

David Lowery

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

King Krule

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

Hunter Hayes

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Matthew Cooper

Before I spoke to Mr. Rove I didn't know about Wilson having a wife. And he was the one who suggested to me that she worked at the agency,

Stephen Hess

Besides, he's already spoken extensively about the hurricanes.

Horace

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

Jeff Gundy

I just spoke to him about him as a player,

Emily Dickinson

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Charles Evers

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Allen West

Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I would like to have a big white wedding and eventually have a family.

Albert Einstein

There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. And, I do not intend to be quiet about it.