Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

Heywood Sanders

We're talking about a market where convention centers are giving their space away. There clearly will be winners and losers.

Ronald Neumann

When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.

Paul Bauer

We have never been 5-0. One thing I can say about this team is we have been in some close games, but find a way to win. I am real proud of the kids tonight because we played without (senior running back Nate) Robinson for most of the fourth quarter. A lot of our offense centers around him, but the kids stepped up.

H. Hart

What this administration has done ... is to say that until someone tells us that 19 men are going to hijack four airplanes and fly them into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon at 9 a.m. on September 11, we are not accountable, ... In the Money.

Michael Barry

We're seeing continued development in New Jersey's urban centers in response to an ever-increasing demand for luxury residences near mass transportation. Mixed-use development is the byword People want retail shops and services at their doorstep; they'd like to be able to walk rather than drive.

Frank Turner

What Lincoln wants to do is to create a mixed-use urban center. One of the questions the plan commission needs to consider is how many and how big and where should urban centers be the most appropriately located.

Tod Marks

With these candies, it's all about the fillings. The centers just exploded with flavor, and unusual flavors like tropical fruit and key lime pie.

Robert Redford

As San Francisco holds a special place in my heart and is one of the nation's great centers of independent film, I am particularly excited to have found such a perfect home for Sundance in this city.

Jerry Angelo

It's a tough position. It's a supply-and-demand business, and the colleges just aren't generating enough of them.

Claire Ellis

They have a lot of colleges and universities (in Michigan), ... but they don't have a lot of jobs.

Verlene Powell

They say some of these are the same problems with our schools today. It's similar to what's going on with the colleges right now.

Jason Robinson

There was some talk of him coming back this year, but he decided to stay down there because some colleges were looking at him,

Rob Moore

It's a highly competitive environment. There are about 3,400 universities in the U.S. alone, that's not counting community colleges or online providers.

Mark Lyons

It's all about having fun. You want exposure, you want the colleges to see you, and if you're having fun, it's because you're doing things right.

David Stahl

It was fantastic. Earl took fight songs from various colleges and universities and made it a terrific, joyous time.

Michael Johnson

We play a schedule of 30 to 35 games, and we've been told we're comparable to some small colleges and community colleges. We have to make cuts because so many players turn out. All of our guys have solid backgrounds in high school or community college ball.

John Schultz

Thanks to the wonderful generosity of the Katzenberg family, we can return to the forefront of colleges whose equipment and facilities are on the industry's cutting edge. The facilities upgrade will have an impact for many years to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

Charles Spurgeon

There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.

Alan Bennett

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.

Edmond Rostand

Sans doute Je peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute. Without doubt I can teach crowing: for I gobble.

David Hume

The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

Derek Fisher

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

June Daugherty

We started out the year and people doubted us.

Clay Johnson

Workers should be treated as individual professional public servants, not as bureaucrats. We tend to give everyone the same raise whether they're a fantastic worker or a mediocre worker.

Torrie Wheat

It's killing us having to wait so much because that was a very disappointing game. It was a combination of them playing some fantastic hockey and us not playing our best. You never like to lose, but it's made us more focused for the home opener.

Aaron Baddeley

It's fantastic winning here and it's great to keep it in Australia.

Stephen Robinson

It's fantastic to be back in the frame again,

David Ellis

It's fantastic that this top horse is going to be staying in New Zealand, owned by New Zealanders and trained by Mark Walker, our top man.

Jacqueline Gold

It's fantastic that people are adventurous - but they need to be careful.

Susan Sontag

It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow them very real to you.

Bryan Smolinski

They played a fantastic road game. We kind of ad-libbed and got away from our game and you saw the result.

Bob Faduski

The young kids did a fantastic job, especially on defense.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

David Brooks

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

Barry Diller

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

Barney Frank

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

Barney Frank

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Chris Carmack

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

Chingy

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

Chita Rivera

It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.

Chip Conley

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

Eddie Murphy

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

Eddie Murphy

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

Dean Cain

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

Daymond John

I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy

Catherine Bell

We usually work 14-hour days, and sometimes 16 to 18 days, which doesn't leave much time for anything else - most Sundays are spent recovering.

John Dickerson

It's just a matter of time now before he leaves the race.

Michael Hogan

It's just one of those things that leave you in a state of disbelief. It's just a devastating loss.

Gene Strusz

It's kind of a sad day when they all leave after 14 days.

Peter Smid

A man would tell her how much (marijuana) to leave in the room,

Johnny Damon

They know it's a business. They know I wasn't the first to leave and I'm not going to be the last.

William Novelli

They don't want to leave traditional Medicare and go into new private sector programs.

Rabbi Zell

They took leave of us doing what they loved. They took leave of us traveling.

Linda Barrabee

For ESPN, it means trying to get people to leave another carrier, and the way to do it is with something different. The market is primed for differentiation.

Calvin Coolidge

There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We need our radicals.

Christian Stracke

Even if he doesn't win, he could be a radical voice for the left.

Alexander Lebed

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Daniel D. Palmer

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

Ambrose Bierce

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Robert Bork

Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.

Renata Adler

The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.

Rush Limbaugh

Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Bill Moyers

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Charlaine Harris

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

Charles Rangel

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

Charles Schumer

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.

Gwynne Shotwell

I never felt any issues whatsoever about being a woman in Tech.