Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Remnick

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

Craig Dubow

The absence of these events combined with softer ad demand in the auto category unfavorably impacted our broadcasting segment results.

Francois Bayrou

The absence of the president of the republic is extraordinary given what we are going through.

Francois Bayrou

The absence of the president is remarkable in this period we're going through.

Sherri Coale

The absence of Marsha on the Texas Tech sideline is a blow to the university, it's a blow to our conference, and it's a blow to women's basketball.

Cheng Siwei

The absence of legal PE fund has undoubtedly hindered the development of VC industry in China.

Margaret Spellings

The absence of good, sound data makes it difficult to set policy at the federal, state and institutional levels, ... It's time to examine how we can maximize our investment in higher education.

Carlo Ancelotti

The absence of goals is a false problem for him.

Mohit Ghose

The absence of federal standards could result in isolated islands, and connecting those islands is key.

Thomas Hardy

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Geoff Garin

The polls are pretty clear that voters want limits on the government's power. This is really an argument not about fighting terrorism but about checks and balances and unbridled government authority.

Barack Obama

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

Carl Sagan

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

John Roberts

The argument of 'We're bigger' is becoming less credible as the open-source movement takes hold. Using your financial might as the basis for justifying your value proposition is not going to withstand this shift.

Pat Riley

The argument is they know what they're supposed to do. At least they tell you, 'We know what we're supposed to do.' So you back off a little bit on the real big muscle work that could cause them injury.

Richard Yamarone

The argument is that Venezuela is not willing or they're not going to be able to (comply with the cuts). Here it is eight, nine days later and they're already backing out. We knew it wasn't going to last, but this is a little on the ridiculous side.

Ralph Catalano

The argument is that in most species, males will compete with each other for females, and females prefer robust males.

Kevin Landis

The argument for optimism is stronger today than it was a year ago. I'm happy having most of my money invested in tech.

Yani Tseng

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

Tina Fey

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Thomas Friedman

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

Ian Watson

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Gabriel Mann

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

Glenn Tipton

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Will Rothhaar

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

James Lindsay

The overlap was startling, really. There was a great deal of consensus on where to intervene,

Raymond Kelly

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

Patrick Michaels

Michael's position is in the minority. The consensus is the scientific debate is all but over.

Mitch Daniels

I think this is a matter for local decision-making and local consensus and that seems to be what is happening,

Gary Samore

Whether it is by consensus or by vote, either way it ends up in New York.

Herb Kohl

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

Phil Hansen

Basically, the consensus is Stayton and Cascade will be at the top. ... But I think we've improved enough to be in the playoffs. It's just how focused we can be in the next (eight) games.

Jonathan Joseph

Given the weaker outlook, we expect the 2001 consensus estimate of $1.76 to come down substantially.

John Silvia

I would say the consensus is that the Fed goes to a neutral position on inflation.

Peter R. Grant

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

David Hopkins

We have occasional hot spots, but that does not constitute a trend, ... The crime rate would be good for a week or two, then gone.

Zoran Djindjic

wherever the will of the people has won, and enable the opposition to constitute local government because it is in the interest of the stabilization of Serbia and also of Yugoslavia.

Adam Ereli

What we want to see, what the Russians want to see, what the EU-3 wants to see and what the IAEA wants to see is an Iranian cooperation. Does this statement by this one person constitute that? At this point, it's hard to say. We will have to see.

Joe Friedberg

He confessed to nibbling on the breast of a lady. Does that not constitute a sex act?

George Allen

If they can constitute a free and just society with this constitution that they're working on right now, I think that that will be something, a real measurement, a real benchmark,

Janet Reno

I have conducted an initial inquiry to determine whether I have received information sufficient to constitute grounds to investigate,

Jeff Neal

We are looking into whether this lawsuit may constitute a SLAPP suit.

Charles Kennedy

Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.

Bruce Coville

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Bill Hader

I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.

Christine Keeler

I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

Shane Kieler

That was such a tough loss for us last time. We were up by 10 late in the fourth quarter and lost the game. It left us with a sick taste in our mouths.

Ebenezer Ekuban

We can't let this go into overtime. In the fourth quarter it seemed like they had momentum going and ... if we'd gone to overtime I don't think it would have been good for us, so we knew that was a play we had to make.

Tommie Harris

We just didn't play until the end of the fourth quarter, until the whistle blew, ... and we're paying for it right now.

Pat Riley

We just didn't make enough stops in the fourth quarter.

Rachel Roberts

It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

Sue Loeffler

We've gotten fourth place the last two years. It would be nice to take it up a step.

Yo-Yo Ma

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

Keitaro Matsuda

The overcrowding problem is likely to get worse.

Anthony Chan

The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.

David Hewson

I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'

Peter Singer

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.

Mark McKinnon

If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.

Peter Jackson

Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.

Danny Ferry

Most likely we'll have two second-round picks next year.

Kevin McCarthy

Most likely it was the snow on the power lines, or a tree on the power line.

Randol Schoenberg

The arbitrators wanted us to keep it confidential, but the news leaked.

Loesje

Will the person who stole my bike...deliver the newspapers as well tomorrow morning?

Tom Daschle

We are dismayed and we are angered at the news of WorldCom today,

William Sullivan

It doesn't seem to be news-related, it seems to be more technical.

Kelli Durham

Possibly it could be copycat, because it's getting a lot of news coverage.

Stephen Hess

Polls are a reflection of the headlines. When the news is bad, the president's numbers go down, and when the news is good, they go up,

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Tony Ridder

For those 12 newspapers that are being sold, the uncertainty is not over, and I regret that very much.

Christian Maher

The outlook is worse than we had hoped.

Stuart Murray

The outlook for the remainder of the year is positive.

Mark Leyner

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.

Thomas O'Brien

He has a young outlook on life. He's just a wonderful, wonderful role model. He's just young at heart.

Betty White

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Alan Greenspan

More uncertainty, however, surrounds the outlook for inflation,

Anna Mouglalis

My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artist. He started to do acupuncture when it wasn't so accepted. His spirit and outlook inspire me.

Aubrey Plaza

I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.

Jim Haslett

I think this team will rally around something like this. I really do.

Rasheed Wallace

We were already up big, so I'm thinking that's why he did it, to get his teammates to stand up and rally off of that. It didn't work.

Betty Buckley

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

Brian K. Vaughan

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.

Suriyasai Katasila

The rally will go on and we won't stop unless we win.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

R. Inge

After the rally that we've had, there's always that retesting of the lows, and that's what we have to do.

Jarvis Williams

That's a thousand times better than any pep rally we've had since I've been here. My sophomore year, they booed us. No lie.

Lucius Thomas

But rallying the troops turned it around for me to some extent.

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Kathleen Blanco

There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight,

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

Ron Nelson

It's just getting them showers, someplace to get some relief from the heat, because they got nothing down here.

Monica Seles

What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

John Corcoran

We can put two and two together. That's not suggesting that there was any nefarious doings. But the stock has been under pressure.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Peter Greene

My suspicion is the stock is not doing much now, it's not earth-shattering.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Brunello Cucinelli

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Carrie Chapman Catt

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

Carrie Brownstein

No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live.

Carrie Fisher

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

Carl Safina

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

Carl Rogers

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

Bethenny Frankel

Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day.

Bethany Hamilton

My belief is where I get my strength. When I'm struggling with something, I can go to God for help and I'm excited to share that.

Benjamin Rush

Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."

Ashton Kutcher

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

Carl Sagan

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Art Alexakis

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

Austin Corson

We have a lot of support from our families.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it will have the support of the American people, and it will be sustained and we will be successful.

Robin Butler

I'm still undecided about who I'm supporting for governor, but I'm a person who supports the anti-Nussle campaign.

Hank Aaron

I'm here to support the commissioner and tougher drug penalties.

Jack Bass

I won't support it, ... I don't want anything to do with (Shirley).

Jeff Moore

I was there for (Gwen) but I couldn't do anything for her. You can't do anything. They're all on their own, and you got to support them.

Sally Pacheco

To go this long and have all that stress, we have to have support from somewhere.

Barack Obama

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Riquena Farmer

Why would someone do this to him? I don't understand why.

Karen Clay

Why would she take off? ... I don't understand that.

Vince Young

Just interview. I don't feel like I have to show a lot. I think they understand me, have been watching me for a long time.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I like being upbeat, positive, happy, enjoying family.

Corbin Bleu

I really wanted to make something that was exciting for everybody, that everybody could enjoy, that was upbeat and positive and that everybody can dance to.

Tommy Shaw

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.