Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Madden

It appears that age-related cognitive changes are the result of combined influences on the gray matter and the white matter.

George Baker

It always surprises me, and pleases me, that they still come because they enjoy it. At this age, it takes a physical effort.

Rob Maxwell

He carries himself well despite his age. We played him up a couple times last year, and he did a good job. He shows good presence in the huddle and on the field.

Z. Sheppard

He keeps getting better with age. He's an inspiration for all of us.

Andy Kerley

He just doesn't get rattled. He wrestles much more mature than his age. He stays calm and consistent. That's a big positive.

Jose Ramos

(Harris) is an awesome kid for her age, and she's worked for it. She has tremendous dedication and work ethic.

Gianni Versace

What women need today is classic things with an age, with fantasy, with a quality. Dresses you can live with. Sometimes it's the fabrics who win, sometimes it's the shape, but I always rework on themes that make Versace a classic name with serenity.

Dale Guthrie

What we find in the fossil record doesn't always represent what was going on. Prior to the pottery age, women in all societies are working in things that don't preserve very well, such as skins and braiding fiber.

Andy Williams

Here I am, at this age, and girls are coming to see me, jumping up and down.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager.

John Bunting

Kevin has done an outstanding job in improving our football field. Our field is among the best in the ACC.

John Bunting

Kevin has done an outstanding job in improving our football field, ... Our field is among the best in the ACC.

Tom Amstutz

I would say it's among the most challenging schedules a Toledo team has ever played. We have two Big 12 teams and a team from the Big East. It's a challenge and a real stretch for our program.

Calista Flockhart

Just the whole idea of what drives people to violence and if we know about it maybe we can prevent it. It's interesting. And these people live among us.

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Jesse Miller

John Clay is among the best backs I've ever seen, and I saw Maurice Clarett play in high school. But those two guys could start for any team in the state.

Charles Payne

I think investors may be seeing some of the things they want to see. Certainly people paying for the sins of the past are among those things.

Harvey Bernstein

Green home building is at a tipping point among the builder population. The data we recently collected indicates 2006 to 2007 is the time frame from which the builder population moves from a majority less involved to more involved with green building.

Wayne Dyer

The antidote to fear is faith.

Wayne Dyer

The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me."

Michael Winter

If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.

Raquel Welch

I'm the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like it's open season on her.

Bob Hall

That's the best antidote for this whole thing.

Thomas Jefferson

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.

Curtis Sliwa

For every good person that comes from Brooklyn or the Bronx, there are some bad people who bring their more criminal-intensive ways to small communities. We think we can be an antidote to that.

Pat Dorsey

It's only a partial solution, ... It's like they're saying, 'We'll still sell you poison, but we'll give you an antidote too.'

Steve Swanson

The NAFTA panel decision issued today is gravely flawed, and signifies a potential end to an important antidote in the U.S. lumber industry's efforts to counter the poison that is Canadian lumber industry practices. The U.S. Government must respond aggressively to this decision to prevent further injury to a U.S. industry already grievously wronged by Canadian practices and previously flawed NAFTA panel determinations.

Marty Heires

Know that we are fully cooperating with the authorities. You can be sure of that.

Tim Reese

He was able to find that median where he was an authority figure but cool enough that he would hang out with his students.

Zlatko Kranjcar

He decided himself to leave the squad. If we called him back, we would lose authority without any guarantees that he would not repeat such an act.

Jane Moore

He is old school. He's not a friend to the students, he's an authority figure. He is type of faculty member that students come to when they have problems. If they need a swift kick, he'd do that.

Jennifer Stephens

has no authority over the statements of that organization.

Paolo Iorio

Hamdi will have a fair and transparent trial. Public opinion is one thing, judicial authority is another.

Yasser Arafat

has to invest more of his authority, of his control. But there is a beginning of hope that I wouldn't put aside.

Lane Crothers

I think it's less about coming up with a list of what is or is not allowed, and it's more about making sure people understand the classroom is supposed to be a place where learning can go on, and if it's disruptive, people have the authority to eliminate disruption.

Scott Lindy

I think it shows that we should be bringing all the port authority control and management under U.S. government or U.S. companies.

Keith Ashdown

The only thing I think can happen is that (Congress enacts) a very large, across-the-board cut, ... and nobody is talking about that. Every major program has an 800-pound gorilla protecting it.

Bob Dole

Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility: the constituent has a problem, ... We're supposed to write back and say, 'Well I can't do anything?' That's not what they elect you for.

Jerry Reed

He's able to talk to anybody, whether it's a grass roots advocate, a member of Congress or of the (Bush) administration, ... And he not only talks but he acts.

Phil Smith

I think what Sen. Specter has introduced is a very good step in the right direction and we're looking forward to Congress passing legislation to improve the safety of miners.

Greg Valliere

I think sometimes after we have this type of party, there is a hangover -- and this comes in '05, ... The new Congress in '05 will make efforts to restrain growth. They may not rescind the tax cuts, but there will be spending restraint. But between now and then, it's just a party.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I don't know what goes on on ships, ... I can tell you exactly what goes on on the streets of New York City. You are safe. People are nice. It is exciting. It is easy to get around. We have rooms reserved for every member of Congress and for every delegate.

John Pike

If you're not going to have a lunar landing until 2018, how are you going to keep people and Congress interested?

Claire McCaskill

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

Susan Bro

In response to inquiries, including from Congress, we are clarifying our position on the science.

Kia Wright

We take that as motivation. We've been criticized all year, but we've proven them all wrong.

Anatoly Chubais

I'm criticized by the guys who tried to understand privatization as the economic process. They were wrong from the very beginning.

Rick Santorum

I'm probably known most by the work I do in Washington on the big issues of the day and I'm criticized sometimes for taking on the big issues of the day like Social Security,

John Catsimatidis

I'm not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we've got to inspire our kids that we shouldn't be ashamed to be successful.

Marilyn Davis

Any time your work can be criticized by the public you get a little nervous.

Barbara Sher

Whenever we dream out loud, were criticized for being foolish by people who really have no idea how special we are. As a result, we crush our dreams without giving them half a chance.

Matt Daniels

I've already been criticized by some on the right and that's okay,

Nick Clooney

I understand what it is like to have one's son criticized in a very public way. It's very painful and it's very difficult.

Dick Cheney

I've been criticized because I've had the temerity to speak out and done a couple of interviews since I left office. I don't find anything surprising about that.

Karen Aroesty

Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.

Jalal Talabani

I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Woody Allen

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

William J. Clinton

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

Samuel P. Huntington

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Walter Lippmann

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

Ruhollah Khomeini

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

Jeff Chester

Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.

Michelle Branch

I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy.

John Burns

I have talked to them at length about it in my office.

Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Dr. Seuss

Shorth is better than length.

Matt Dunn

All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength.

Judy Hayles

She's a predator and she wants her prey. And that prey is my grandson. She'll go to any length to get him.

Evan Esar

Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

Fred Couples

But yeah, it could be around a long, long time, especially the length that (the course) is now.

J. J. Johnson

Long-expected one and twenty, / Lingering year at length is flown.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

David Hudson

If you look at the national numbers, we're doing very well in our economy.

Al Nash

If you like wide-open spaces and a sense of the Old West and pioneering spirit, there's Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Arthur Eddington

Who will observe the observers?

Soren Kierkegaard

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

Mark Nation

His organs are in the process of being harvested.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Sarah Fisher

Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention,

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Dana Smith

He is returning to the private sector. Any announcement about his replacement will be made in Washington.

Shannon Flaherty

His tight schedule deemed these private travel arrangements necessary.

Nick Velasquez

I think that raises questions about what he has done in the private sector. What's he trying to hide?

Carlton Forrester

It has everything to do with governing. It has nothing to do with private life.

John Logan

I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.

Tom Hank

I remember the first time he saw 'Saving Private Ryan,' ... That was special to him because of his name.

Rob Thomas

In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn't have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids.

Kate Mara

Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.

Logan Mankins

I like to keep most of my private life private.

Mike Mower

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

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

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.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Gary Peck

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

George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Mahatma Gandhi

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

Will Brown

They're going to play regardless of what the score is, and they'll probably play early.

Daryl Manning

There's a violation to have any sign in any homeowner's yard, regardless of what it says.

Richard Whately

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

William Morris

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Samuel Smiles

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Richard Ford

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

Robin Leach

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Walter Lippmann

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

William Hazlitt

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Leo Tolstoy

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Jimmy Page

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.