Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Charles Powell

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

Dennis Lillee

Australia was ambushed by England because way too many people right across the board were living in a comfort zone. The first priority is to appoint a captain who can lead from the front.

Robbie Hood

Rain over water affects the climate of the whole planet. It releases energy into the atmosphere. What happens in the tropics is extremely important to the climate of the whole Earth. If you can't measure rain over the ocean, you're missing a lot of activity and you'll never truly understand what is happening to the weather across the world.

Russ Pate

Randy Covington (at WIS) leaned across the table and basically told them that this is an important news event in Columbia, South Carolina, that we're here to cover the news and we're going to cover the news. (Olympic officials) decided they had better play ball or lose control of the whole thing.

John Tanner

Rather than the constituents electing the members of the legislatures across the land and the Congress, the members of the Congress and legislatures elect their constituents,

Ed Moyle

Rather than setting a universally high security bar across all systems in the enterprise, an enterprise might segregate systems into different 'zones,'

Don DeLillo

Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.

Jerome Kern

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Sam Riley

I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

Alan Ladd

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

Russian Proverb

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far place.

Katie Nordhaus

People tend to forget around the New Year. I think it's just because it's winter-time, and it's cold out, and people are sedentary. Who wants to be outside in the cold walking a dog?

Scott Smith

So much of natural gas prices is weather related. If it's colder people tend to use more energy. And because it's a nationwide market, if it's cooler in New England it's going to drive up the price for us as well.

William Cullen Bryant

The words of fire that from his penWere flung upon the fervid page,Still move, still shake the hearts of men,Amid a cold and coward age.

James Baker

This is going to be a cold winter. Be ready for more.

John Cunningham

The weather is bad, so we are sending in cold weather kit.

Scott Shane

I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about.

Lewis J. Bates

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

Troy Brown

During the (National Rifle Association) convention, Charlton Heston held a musket over his head and declared, 'From my cold dead hands,'

John Challenger

Tech cuts have been trending downward year after year as firms continue to regain their strength after the devastating dot-com collapse in 2000 and 2001.

Richard Baldwin

These WTO rounds always look like they're going to collapse just before they get done. That's just the nature of the game.

Jen Warden

We tried to collapse on her and push out of the paint.

Sandy Brown

What I worry about is that someone's going to collapse on the way over there, or get hit.

Alan Gin

What I don't see is a collapse in pricing. To get a collapse ... there would have to be a big job loss where people are forced to put their houses on the market for distress sales.

John Fund

No party has a monopoly on honesty, but with the collapse of old-style GOP machines in places like Indiana and Long Island, New York, it's Democrats who have a greater opportunity to cheat.

Bill Evans

Negative factors for consumers must include the 4.2 percent collapse in the share market in the days leading up to the survey. Consumers may also be somewhat frustrated the petrol prices have not come back further.

Paul Allison

If we fail in in our levy attempt, we will lose our progress. We will likely slide into a near total collapse of this school system.

Jamelle McMillan

I saw three guys collapse and I put it up there.

Christine Lagarde

There will not be consensus and there will not be major progress (in Hong Kong),

Tony Blair

That's why it's important, I think, that as long as it takes -- and maybe it's not possible to reach consensus at the moment -- that there is a reform of the Security Council at some stage.

David George

Don't run the consensus up, especially not in the first quarter.

Jeoff Hall

Anecdotes, including purchasing manager surveys and regional and national Fed indices, do little to support the consensus view of a 210,000 gain. Moreover, the market has a tendency to overestimate November payrolls.

Money Magazine

Earnings are supposed to be up 10 percent by the second quarter of 2002 if you look at the consensus numbers, ... But our guess is that they'll be down about 10 percent by the second quarter of 2002.

Bill Hornbarger

Everyone wants to get through the Fed with the affirmation. The consensus in the marketplace is no move out of the Fed and I do think that's been priced into the market.

Ron James

(Ferraro) has a model of what he wants, and either I fit into that model or I don't. When the season ends, we'll come to a consensus if we're heading in the right direction or the wrong direction.

Michael Shifter

There's no consensus on how to move forward.

Allan Meltzer

There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there was in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

Frank Burgess

No woman answereth an important question in less than eleven score words

Elizabeth Butler

We hope to involve all eleven schools from the Big Ten eventually.

Randy Snelling

Eleven girls scored, so it was pretty well-rounded on offense. We got a lot of girls involved and passed very well as a team.

Jesse Harris

Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.

Rosecrans Baldwin

If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Linda Sherry

Be prepared for some runaround when trying to find out the fees for foreign transactions. A lot of representatives don't have a clue, so you have to be persistent.

Madeline Albright

But we have to do it in some way that does not harm our overall foreign policy interests,

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

Shaukat Sultan

We had information about the presence of foreign militants. It was a sting operation and the target was knocked out.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Porter Goss

foreign policy team was all on the same page.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

Wayne Coyne

People think its more high-tech than it really is with all the video and all that. It's still held together with duct tape.

Ian Stacker

The team has to be held accountable for wresting back the momentum.

Chris Witty

Once you're a medalist, you always want to be a medalist. Regardless of how you're feeling, you want to put it altogether. I think I held together pretty well. But physically, it just wasn't there.

Teresa Sheehey

Right now we don't have a meeting room in the building, so some of our programs have to be held off site. For example, our summer reading programs have to be held at the Hilltop Center.

Mark Twain

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Brian Cashman

Quite frankly, he can do some things more than the individual who held that position the previous years.

Will Whitticker

I've still got a lot of things I've got to improve. For the most part I held up.

Lupita Nyong'o

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.

Lynn Cothren

I see why people think it should be held at Ebenezer. But one thing Mrs. King was about was change. She was not so drenched in history that she could not change.

Carson McCullers

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

Alan Davies

I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Austin Carlile

Happiness isn't a destination; its a journey.

Brian Cox

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

Bruce Dickinson

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

Barry Levinson

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.

Edmund Burke

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Bruce Chatwin

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

Bruce Chatwin

For life is a journey through a wilderness

Steven Tyler

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

Gerard Kennedy

This is a serious problem that should not be left unchecked,

Brad Johnson

The only player left was Matt Birk, ... He was a rookie in '98. Now he's hurt.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

David Moorcroft

Essentially, what she left on the table at the TSX, they're making up for it here.

Steven Aftergood

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

Sarah Kendall

Did he have weapons with him when he left the house?

Gary Smith

Corporations left and right are dumping their obligations and promises.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Alain Badiou

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

Al Gore

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Baltasar Gracian

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

Billy Bragg

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Francis Ford Coppola

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

Ed Bradley

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Art Buchwald

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

Mike Carter

Nowadays, they don't care. They do whatever they can to be popular. It's really sad.

Trent Dilfer

Whatever RAC (Crennel's initials) wants, that's what I'll do.

Carmen Electra

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

Chad Gaudin

It's not new for me. Whatever they want me to do is fine.

Doug Preston

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.

Mike Reid

We'll work with whatever they need us to do.