Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Sarpolus

People in Michigan, by a 2-to-1 margin, blame President Bush rather than the governor for Michigan's economic problems. While her job approval ratings are up from being below 50 percent in August through October, they are not at the 60 percent level she once had.

Chuck Todd

If he gets his approval ratings up to the mid-40s, then at least Republicans can fight on their own.

Bruce Myers

I think the contract started out at maybe $500,000, and they had a change order to get it to $700,000, but they ended up paying like $1 million, and there was no evidence of any other change orders or any other board approval for that last change.

Marvin J. Ashton

A friend in the true sense is not a person who passively nods approval of our conduct or ignores improper behavior. A friend is a person who cares.

Fritz Elmendorf

The larger banks are seeing a lot of market share in this area, but the larger credit unions and the ones being run by ex-bankers are setting up arrangements where a non-member can finance a car right at the dealership just by signing up to be a member.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

English 16th Century Proverbs

You cannot have your cake and eat it.

Ernst Toller

I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not much of a cake person.

Anna Sui

What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.

Michele Bachmann

The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president.

Meg Whitman

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

Paula Deen

You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.

John Updike

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Ray Kroc

When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?

Tony Curtis

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

Tony Evans

Don't wait until you are a big shot to do big shot things.

Steve Martin

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

Steve Carell

If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

Sally Field

The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you.

Susan Faludi

The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.