Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Robinson

The burden of this crisis cannot be borne by workers and retirees alone.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Jane Goodall

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Alanis Morissette

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

Tom Shales

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

America Ferrera

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

Lord Byron

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Jose Manuel Barroso

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

William Petersen

The name change isn't for those of us here in New England. The name change is for those folks entering the region.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Jim Haslett

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.

Greg Olson

Spam' is the number-one issue for ISP's. It's killing them, ... This is definitely going to change the Internet.

Joe Zappala

Now is as good a time as any to change it.

Marianne Williamson

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Jehane Noujaim

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Ruel Lasala

Autopsies conducted by the NBI on some of the victims did not show that they died of electrocution.

Roger Warren

Baltus Roll, the gentleman who owned the land and died on the land, is where the name comes from.

Josh Cincinnati

Our end goal -- I'll stop the show and die a happy man -- is if we could get Larry J. Sabato and Jon Stewart on the show simultaneously.

Yvonne Hester

The theory is that her owner was either a truck driver or owns a diesel car.

Richard Brooks

I've lost loved ones and friends that have died out there for unknown respiratory problems.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

A day less or more/ At sea or ashore,/ We die - does it matter when?

Chris Bates

San Diego is out of step with the rest of Southern California. It is the worst performer.

Ritch Price

San Diego is a team that, like some of those others on the West Coast, always was good and had a good reputation locally, but people didn't know a lot about nationally. (Hill's) been doing a good job out there for a while.

Mark Bittman

The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Daniel H. Pink

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

Daniel H. Pink

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

Daniel H. Pink

We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

Edward Snowden

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

Vanna White

I'm really just a normal person.

Val Kilmer

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

Rupert Grint

I've tried to have a really normal life, and I have because my family treats me normal, and my friends treat me just the same.

Steve Wozniak

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.

Sigourney Weaver

Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

Shawn Johnson

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary...

Samuel Adams

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

Thomas Jefferson

A little revolution is a good thing.

Thomas Merton

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.

Ron Paul

A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

Ron Paul

Let the revolution begin.

Storm Jameson

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

Stephen Spender

Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.

Raymond Aron

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

David Daniels

This is the first time I've ever seen this called. I hadn't seen it all year. There hadn't been any warnings issued all year in any of our games.

Tyler Hansbrough

Every team I play is real physical. They have some big bodies, but it's nothing I've never seen before, and it's nothing I can't handle.

Michael Wong

We want this film to be seen all over the U.S. and we need your support to make this happen.

Rachel Remen

What if? What if things were different than the way you have seen them in the past?

Jim Calhoun

We have not seen each other as a group, I didn't watch any of the games. I just kind of stayed away, did things with my wife, shopping.

Andrew Kreisberg

On 'Flash,' you've never seen the last of anybody, no matter what happens to them.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Stephen Hawking

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

Tony Robbins

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

Robert Boyle

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.