Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Mike Tice

The story got in the paper, then it got on the web, then it went worldwide, ... Then our phones started ringing and people started asking about Moss so we had a meeting and said, 'Since these calls are coming, what is the value of Moss?' We said it was three No. 1s because we knew no one in his right mind would ever give up three No. 1s.

Majel Barrett

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

Travis Leffew

I sent a few text messages, but I couldn't call a lot of people because I was still getting calls from people asking me about signing as a free agent. When it gets in the paper, that's when everybody will know.

Elena Cuevas

This is the first time that it is nationwide and you can see it. People are asking for some respect.

Brodie Croyle

That offensive line y'all have been asking questions about, they showed up. They'd been criticized all camp, saying they're kind of our weak link.

Michael Morris

You should wake up everyday, as a person traveling in the region, asking what can I do to reduce my fuel consumption and what can I do to reduce my emissions in the region.

Peter Persaud

You're going to see a lot of terrible, terrible evidence. A lot of terrible, terrible photos. What I'm asking you to do is wait until you hear everything. To see things maybe in a different way.

Bob Hartley

You never like to see any of your players or teammates go down. There was blood on the ice and everything and when you see players and the referees asking for help it's not a pretty good feeling because you're helpless.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Keating Holland

So the pressure is on Kerry to meet expectations. And let's not forget the good news for the White House in this poll: Bush is still seen as a stronger leader who would better deal with Iraq and terrorism,

Tom Brokaw

This race is all but over, ... President Bush is our projected winner in the state of Ohio.

S. Hughes

We had a vote on Tuesday that showed Governor Bush won Florida, ... We had a recount that showed Governor Bush has won Florida.

Karen Finney

As the saying goes, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Unfortunately for the American people all President Bush did today was make it clear that they should expect nothing more than the same failed policies they have come to know all too well.

Bill Daley

upset with mistakes Bush made, upset with his behavior.

Jonathan Alter

The Times will not comment on the meeting, but one can only imagine the president?s desperation. The problem was not that the disclosures would compromise national security, as Bush claimed at his press conference. ...No, Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story?which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year?because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker.

Nigel Hamilton

What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - was not how to lead a nation, but how, with sufficient toughness, to cheat the democratic system to get elected.

Arlen Specter

What assurances can you give the Senate and the American people that you will be independent, if confirmed, and not give President Bush any special deference on any matter involving him which might come before the court?

Peter May

What Bush is talking about is a massive economic development effort which speaks as much to the issues of declining industry and declining populations. That raises a whole different set of questions.

Fauzi Ichsan

Premature rate cuts could trigger inflationary expectations that could reduce, if not reverse, the capital inflows.

Kenny Tang

The risk of a further slump of Hong Kong stocks is not great, as there is no evidence there are capital outflows in the region. Strong support remains at the mid-February low of 15,241.

John McWhorter

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

Roger Altman

We live in an era where the global capital markets are the super power in the world, and when they move against you as they've moved against Russia, as we've all seen in the ruble, there's nothing that can stop that.

Jim Mills

Currency trading has been one of the fastest-growing segments of the electronic trading universe in recent years. As a pioneer in this market, Gain Capital has helped drive the growth of the market and has become a highly profitable company.

Bill Gurley

I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

Christopher Wood

The problem has been building, ... Given the history of capital flight in Indonesia, it's more important to be decisive.

Tim Hutchinson

The death tax is growing increasingly unpopular with the American people, and it's for obvious reasons. They know double taxation when they see it. They know that if they pay income tax, they pay capital gains tax, they pay sales tax, that it's absolutely, fundamentally, inherently wrong to make death another taxable event.

Hans Vestberg

Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.

Donald Powell

I've talked to people in all walks of life, from elected officials ... to the guy who repaired my shoes.

Uri Dromi

There is a school of thought here that says we are too quick to undermine our elected leaders.

Michael Brady

elected to make tough decisions, and this was one of them.

Henry Stern

Bloomberg could not have been elected with the Independence Party,

Barney Oliver

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

Dave Taylor

We think Mathieu is at the point where we think he's ready for the No. 1 role, ... We've liked him in the Montreal organization and traded for him. He elected to play in Manchester (AHL) during the lockout and had a great year.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Their voices have been heard. They elected me to be governor, and they sent me up here to do the job, ... That's what I'm here to do, and so that's why I'm concentrating on this right now.

Gore Vidal

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

Gabrielle Giffords

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

Howard Marks

The state of Florida would have never required her to take her veil off if 9-11 had not occurred.

Craig Fugate

Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.

Edwidge Danticat

I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.

Bruce Pearl

Florida looks to me like they're the team to beat.

Jack Beven

There's no part of Florida that's truly hurricane-invulnerable.

Mary Wesley

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

Andre Holland

I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

Allan Bense

I will tell you, in the Florida House, I will lead the movement to take a look at revisiting the class-size amendment,

Mark Richt

We can't be thinking about what's going to happen down the road. You look at what happened to Florida last year, going in there and getting beat, and then you just watch the tape. ... They're much better at doing what they do than they were a year ago.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Tim Kaine

Often, money is taken out of that fund for other projects. I'll make sure that stops.

Joe Jones

The Second Injury Fund seems to be advantageous to a very small number of people.

Richard Mann

Scholarship funding doesn't come from the state, it doesn't come from university coffers.

James Sarni

It wouldn't surprise me if we get to 4 3/4 percent, but it would surprise me to see the funds rate go higher than that.

David Rose

You're going to see a lot more mutual funds owning international securities.

Darius McDermott

We rate all Japanese funds as a nine or 10 out of 10 on the risk scale, but for those investors looking for a less volatile option than the Legg Mason fund, JP Morgan is our fund manager of choice.

Russ Williams

We had no money, no funding from the university. We were literally starting from scratch. We had no office. We had no vehicle.

Gary Bauer

There is so much work to do with George and so little time to do it,

Michael Showalter

George Pataki is a Baxter, no question. But Mario Cuomo is not a Baxter.

Bruton Smith

I was around George about a half hour once and I knew right then I could do what he did and with less expense. the only thing that is holding me back is a signing bonus.

Harry Belafonte

I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Casey Affleck

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.

Frances Farmer

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Mike Sanders

The stock numbers and political problems around the world aren't helping pull this market back at all. We've reached last year's peak summer highs and it's only April. That's somewhat scary.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Fred Couples

You're on the International side, and you're helping me out?

Booker T. Washington

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Elie Wiesel

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

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.

Arthur Koestler

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

Calvin Coolidge

If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

Bryant H. McGill

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Charlene Li

Companies need connections to their markets to create long-term loyalty.

Charles Evans Hughes

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

Elbert Hubbard

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Aristotle

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

Arthur Koestler

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

Calvin Coolidge

If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

Bryant H. McGill

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Charlene Li

Companies need connections to their markets to create long-term loyalty.

Charles Evans Hughes

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

Elbert Hubbard

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Aristotle

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

Brett Favre

There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

Argus Hamilton

President Obama hosted a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. The president and the British are getting along a lot better lately. They love to compare notes on ways the Tea Party's always trying to overthrow their rule in America.

Barbara Jordan

We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

Barbara Jordan

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Bashar al-Assad

The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.

Bashar al-Assad

If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.

Benito Mussolini

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

Jamie Foxx

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

Calvin Coolidge

We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Dinesh D'Souza

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Stephanie Miller

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.

Megyn Kelly

Reagan Republicans do not criticize the other Republicans

Joe Lando

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Al Gore

that they may be returned to us safely and soon.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Don Nickles

I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector,

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

David Livingstone

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

Allison Pearson

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Thomas More

He travels best that knows when to return.

Raymond Carver

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

Roland Barthes

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Graeme Smith

Today will go a long way for me confidence-wise.

Ann Voskamp

Manna today or I starve.

Rickey Henderson

Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Eric Maskin

The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.

Charles Kettering

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.