Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Brinkley

Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

Billy Godwin

I'm not a big self-promoter. I'd prefer to emphasize our club. I don't think that billboard is going to get us any wins come February.

Robert Murray

The message to marketers should be clear, and the implications obvious. If your site is not found on the first page or within the first three pages of search results you might as well be putting up a billboard in the woods.

Brad Dean

The N.C. visitors are a loyal and strong draw for this market. We would hope a few billboards wouldn't change that.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.

Rachel Ward

Oh, God! To have a billboard in Hollywood - you've made it.

David Beard

And then Lamar -- it's a billboard company. It's all in small markets. Their business has been turning and coming back and it's trading at 15 times free cash flow, ... We think it's worth $20 (per share) and can get taken up between $60 and $70 a share ... You're starting to see the rebound in advertising. The billboard business, for them, continues to be pretty steady and it's rebounding. So, it's more specific for Lamar but the industry is performing better.

James Rosenquist

I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'

John Ashcroft

This is reading what people put into the public domain, ... If you hire a billboard, and you write what you're saying on the billboard, I don't think it's an invasion of privacy for the FBI driving by to look at the billboard and read it.

Mike McCue

Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Carlos Delgado

I take a lot of pride in getting big hits and driving in big runs.

Brian Jenkins

He said he was driving on U.S. 250 and said someone ran in front of him.

Russ Rader

It is important that parents enforce strict rules about driving: no nighttime driving, no driving around with friends in the car. These are the riskiest situations.

Jonathan Pritchard

There is ample evidence that selection has been a major driving point in our evolution during the last 10,000 years, and there is no reason to suppose that it has stopped.

Robert Wood

We mentor the merchant on how to successfully sell online, and we think we have the formula for driving local shoppers to local businesses.

Linda Doyle

We may not go as frequently as we do now. But the food is extremely worth driving for.

Russ Rader

We look at this from the standpoint that the more parental involvement the better because too many teens end up driving in risky situations, even with graduated driving laws in many states.

Bill Proffitt

He was driving up and down 34th Street trying to find his hotel.

Charles Grassley

The FBI would have preferred to get rid of the messenger

Ed Rendell

then the FBI owes that explanation not only to the mayor, but to the people of Philadelphia.

Ronald Kessler

One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him. But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.

Hillary Clinton

I provided all my emails that could possibly be work related [to FBI].

Vincent Schiraldi

The American public is not going to want the FBI profiling their kids.

Alvin Sykes

Our whole objective was to have the FBI come in and lead an investigation. We will know the truth.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

Erik Christiansen

We have been in touch with Homeland Security and the FBI about this issue.

Dave Nonis

I'm not going to talk about individual people. I want to make sure that when we hire somebody, that it's someone that we're comfortable with as a person.

Ron Meyer

It's just natural for him to hire me.

Herb Trimpe

I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Kenneth Langone

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Les Dasch

We hire the taxi service out, and he's got like a minivan that holds nine to 12 people.

John Whisenant

There's nothing like throwing it in the basket, ... I mean, that's why she's our hired gun.

Geoff Smith

We just had to hire 100 more people this year and integrate them in. We're probably pushing 600 people now.

Sam Altman

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

Tim Maloney

Getting hired under 18 is somewhat of a privilege.

Richard Lopez

To me, it's unethical. I think it's an invasion of privacy and never really needed to use it.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Carmen Electra

The paparazzi have got worse for everyone over the years. It has just become such a big deal. No-one in this business really has much privacy.

Kate Millett

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

Cory Doctorow

Like all security, privacy is hard.

Rosie Perez

You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

Steve Kanaly

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

Susanna Kaysen

Freedom was the price of privacy.

Stefan Kanfer

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

Shaun White

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Frank Mitchell

I want the public to know I'm still in it.

William Daley

They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way.

Alex Honnold

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

Lauren Bacall

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

Mick Cornett

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Samuel Rogers

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

Rhys Ifans

But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].

Rebecca Eaton

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

Richard Ford

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

Richard Ford

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

Richard Ford

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

Robert Duvall

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

Roald Dahl

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

Greg Rucka

When they're saying 'it's too dark,' they're saying, 'I'm scared.'

Giulio Tremonti

I have been saying for three years that Fazio is not suitable for this job.

Judy Turner

If you go out of your way to say it's non-platonic, then you're saying it's sexual. . . . They're trying to spin this and it can't be spun.

Johnathon Schaech

I'm loving saying 'I'm not a big movie star, but I play one on television.'

David Williams

I have no recollection of saying that to Dr. Whitehurst.

Mark Emalfarb

I keep saying this, but nobody's doing anything.

Heather Hibner

I'm not saying this to be political, but it really was a team effort.

Allen Settle

This is like saying I could not vote on sewer or water projects,

Elizabeth May

It's unfortunate. I sort of feel like saying