Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Calhoun

Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never conferred, or stretches those conferred beyond the proper limits, so surely will the fruits of its usurpation pass into the hands of the Executive. In seeking to become master, it but makes a master in the person of the President.

Frank Quattrone

I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.

Joe Gibbs

That was a tough assignment there. That kind of tells you the reason why people fight so hard for home-field advantage. That was a tough environment today, and that's the way it's supposed to be.

Gene Stahl

We have an extremely high demand. We have over 800 wells in which we cannot currently assign rigs to which would be in the order of four times larger than anything this time of year.

Rusty Schweickart

No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.

Eddie Jordan

Today there was a collective effort. We are riding the momentum that we started three games ago. Caron did a really good job defensively. He is really embracing the role that we assigned him as the defensive captain, and we are just riding a wave right now.

Geoff Hoon

We've made it clear that this is not the start of a major conflict, but certainly our forces are ready, they are prepared and they will take on the tasks that assigned to them,

Buddy Green

We have to play better fundamentally. We have to play assignment football and play with proper leverage. We had too many missed tackles and too many missed assignments. We need to find a way to make plays.

Ken Cutlip

Michael does a lot of things that people don't notice. He leads our team in rebounds and steals, ranks second in scoring and usually draws a tough assignment on defense.

Yani Tseng

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

Tina Fey

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Thomas Friedman

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

Ian Watson

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Gabriel Mann

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

Glenn Tipton

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Will Rothhaar

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

Scott Thornton

We've had games in hand all season it seems like. It's nice to have games in hand, but it's tough to evaluate where you are.

Lindy Ruff

You have to evaluate as the tempo goes up, the combative stuff that we're doing. If there are no repercussions from that, then you gotta make decisions. How do you utilize him? How do you get him in?

Joe Girardi

You kind of have to try to evaluate each guy, what's happening. Some of them are pressing. Some of them are nervous about what's going to happen if they don't get a hit in the at-bat. That's part of being a younger player.

William Parsons

We haven't been able to evaluate that damage. We're trying to safe the facility.

Sarah Williams

We haven't gotten any request for reimbursements, so I can't evaluate or speculate.

Jagadeesh Gokhale

We need these measures because we need to be able to evaluate the trade-offs involved and the alternative methods of solving the problem, ... To do that, we have to take the full fiscal imbalance into account.

J. Taylor

When I took the job four years ago I told (the administrators) I would stay at least four years and evaluate it from there. I've been in it 30 years. Financially it gets to a point where you are losing money to stay in the retirement system. Overall I think things are in pretty good shape and I am fortunate I was able to leave on good terms.

Mark Clifford

We have to research, evaluate to figure out why we are getting these penalties. Is it because of our aggressiveness; is it because of our physical nature?

Rae Tyson

We evaluate a particular problem and set a standard,

Cecelia Ahern

I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.

Cecelia Ahern

You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped monochrome, leaping behind postboxes as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Wally? forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

Carrie Brownstein

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

Carrie Brownstein

I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.

Carrie Fisher

I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.

Carrie Fisher

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Carrie Fisher

Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

Carrie Fisher

I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.

Carl Sagan

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Art Alexakis

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

Austin Corson

We have a lot of support from our families.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it will have the support of the American people, and it will be sustained and we will be successful.

Robin Butler

I'm still undecided about who I'm supporting for governor, but I'm a person who supports the anti-Nussle campaign.

Hank Aaron

I'm here to support the commissioner and tougher drug penalties.

Jack Bass

I won't support it, ... I don't want anything to do with (Shirley).

Jeff Moore

I was there for (Gwen) but I couldn't do anything for her. You can't do anything. They're all on their own, and you got to support them.

Sally Pacheco

To go this long and have all that stress, we have to have support from somewhere.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

John Carey

That was a time when they weren't really sure if things were going to come together, ... And they sure did!

Starhawk Starhawk

That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Steve Jobs

We're working on that too, but I'm not so sure it will be successful.

Scooter Smith

We just want to make sure we're all together and to have a little fun.

Todd Abernethy

Winning at the end would be big. I don't think it wipes everything out ... that's a lot of games. But it sure would help. It would give us a winning season, and that's better than I've ever done here.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

Pervez Musharraf

Wherever or whoever wants to do that, let's do it.

Kristy Gaudiose

It is exciting. It is something everyone wants to be a part of.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Shaun Alexander

We're all just kind of in the groove. And no one wants to get off anything right now.

Gary Payton

I don't think Shaq really worries about it. I think he wants to play well, but he doesn't really worry about it. ... It's over.

Victor Rodriguez

For whoever wants to come, we're going to be here for them.

Brian Billick

He's got to look at what he wants to do.

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.