Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Joe Jamail

We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

Kevin Garnett

We have our hand on the neck of the golden goose and we're squeezing hard.

Peter Jackson

We've thrown away a golden opportunity. It's bitterly disappointing. Now we have to hope others around us slip up. You can just imagine how the players are feeling. We played well in the first half but we didn't get that second goal.

Stuart Appleby

We don't have that golden child. It's tricky at the moment because they're all waiting for someone to step out of the darkness.

Christopher Guest

I have a half Lab and half golden retriever named Henry and then the other one, Lucy, is half Akita and half something else.

Danny Aiello

(for which he won numerous critics' prizes and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe.

John Bliss

Golden Valley is a very tough team and they always play us very tough. We're going to have to step it up.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Stan Hyman

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Charlie Pierce

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

Bill Gurley

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Brian Lee

Rising prices are not just greedy people lining their pockets,

Michael MacCambridge

The owners, as cantankerous as some of them are, and as singled-minded as some of them are and as greedy as some of them are, ultimately have respect for who Tagliabue is and what he has accomplished.

Carl Nellis

So it's a legacy issue. What legacy do we want to leave? Are we greedy or are we worried about the future?

Steve Jaksa

We won the first two in this series, so now we want to get greedy and get the sweep.

Swiss Proverb

The poor lack much, but the greedy more

Larry Wall

I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.

Kelly Morgan

They were space hogs in the portfolio. They just weren't that attractive.

Javier Lopez

That's just our hogs stepping up the occasion.

Earl Allen

They have become the really hot projects. Hogs and sheep are not increasing as dramatically as the rabbits and goats, but they are going up too.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Carrie Brownstein

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

Carl Sagan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

Author unknown

You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

Colin Andrews

The parachute was purchased by Stephen and he was very safety conscious,

Henry Mintzberg

Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.

Ice T

When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

Sebastian Thrun

That was a turning point in the race.

Dwane Casey

That was a turning point in our season. I think it took a little starch out of us.

Nick Burgess

That was a turning point in his career. He had the ultimatum to quit or work harder. You can see which one he picked.

Bruce Bochy

That was the turning point of the game.

Jeff Lebo

We could never really get it to that point where we made it interesting.

Joseph Garcia

We could have had 50 points in the first half.

Curtis Shaw

We have a lot of Marriott points that we'll never be able to use.

Pat Metheny

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

Thomas Wilson

These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable,

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

David Wallace

and take risks whenever you think it is right.

Peter Shaffer

Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.

Aldous Huxley

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Bill Owens

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

Leonardo da Vinci

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

John Milton

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

Henri Poincare

Experiment is the sole source of truth.

Zadie Smith

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Andrew Coburn

You can go 20 years without a hurricane. All it takes is one.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

James Woods

Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

John Erwin

We'll do whatever we can do to assist,

William E. Conway, Jr.

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Gary Brown

Whatever we can do for the kids, it's worth it.

Richard Lies

Whatever they want to do has yet to be worked out.

Chico Lynch

Whatever they did there, it has worked out well.

Robert Broadfoot

Whatever they achieve, the word that's going to be used will be cooperation, coordination.

Andre Cohen

Whatever she went through, I went through. We never separate.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.