Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dicker

have a chilling effect on the willingness of competent lawyers to vigorously defend the accused in these cases.

Andrew Patel

He's hasn't been allowed to defend himself. That's what we do in America. We give people -- no matter what they're accused of -- we give them their day in court.

Anthony Valencia

Historically, you have lot of great content minds at Disney and Viacom and all the media conglomerates. But there's also been a big hesitation to try new things, and there's been a lot of inertia at the big media companies. One thing I don't think anyone has accused Steve Jobs of is inertia.

Sharon Lee

I think the Fed would prefer that they be predictable. I know they are accused of being secretive, but they really are not. They would actually like to be more transparent, but they can't always do that.

Lee Tien

I think the bottom line is that anybody that does disclosures of security vulnerabilities has to be very careful (so as to) not be accused of being a hacker. The computer trespass laws are very, very tricky.

Ken Connor

It is clear that many top GOP leaders cannot bring themselves to offer a spirited defense of marriage for fear of being accused of bigotry by Democrats and their allies among homosexual activists,

Sidney Jones

Laskar Jundullah has also been accused of providing arms in Poso. It's a breakdown of law and order. And I think the fact that you've got a large unaccountable militia should be of concern not only to the Indonesian government but of deep concern to governments outside as well.

John Moynihan

I think it was in bad taste. There's a sacredness to the event that should be observed, but it seems like an awful dumb thing for the bishop to do to ask for applause for someone who's just been accused of a heinous crime.

Dave Houle

I think this is ridiculous. I think (certain district officials) just want to get rid of me. . . . It's horrifying that this can happen. I've never, never, never been accused of anything like this. Never.

Somnath Chatterjee

He wants to invoke the threat of polls (new elections), which the allies do not obviously want at this stage.

Dick Cheney

He will, as he said he would, consult widely with our Congress, with our friends and allies around the world.

Raphael Sonenshein

He had a very close relationship with Miguel Contreras and a very, very close relationship with Ludlow. He's very much a labor guy, but he's going to need labor allies on each of these issues.

Chuck D.

He has set aside the charade of Kyoto and he is saying we can do it in a better way, a more responsible way, ... We will come up with an alternative. We want to work with our allies on this and our friends around the world, and we will.

Wang Jianlin

Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

Jim Baker

Our biggest allies are the local development offices and councils. They're the people who get the flak from the business people who are attracted to Kent because it's more rural and less stressful than the city, but if they can't get metropolitan-quality communications, they're going to think about it.

Jeffrey Montgomery

Our call to people of goodwill and justice, and especially to all gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people, and those who support and love us ---our allies in the fight for liberty and justice for all--- is to take action.

C. Robert Kehler

Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

Edward Kennedy

President Bush must do more than give speeches, ... He must demonstrate leadership by saying no to his right-wing allies who want to close our borders and yes to the business community, labor unions and Hispanic Americans who want realistic and comprehensive immigration reform.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager.

John Bunting

Kevin has done an outstanding job in improving our football field. Our field is among the best in the ACC.

John Bunting

Kevin has done an outstanding job in improving our football field, ... Our field is among the best in the ACC.

Tom Amstutz

I would say it's among the most challenging schedules a Toledo team has ever played. We have two Big 12 teams and a team from the Big East. It's a challenge and a real stretch for our program.

Michael Sheldon

Just under 30 percent of the S&P 500 report results this week. Among the different industry groups, we'll get a heavy dose of economically sensitive names, including several from the oil and gas, rail, coal and steel industries.

Lee Myung-bak

Just to take a couple steps back historically, Korea, as you can see, is located among what we call big countries. And historically we've always been the victim of numerous invasions and whatnot.

Michael Fields

KANA is well positioned to dominate the customer service market and I am excited to take on this new role as CEO and lead KANA to the next level, ... KANA's applications are among the best and there is tremendous opportunity for the company as we deliver on service resolution management.

Calista Flockhart

Just the whole idea of what drives people to violence and if we know about it maybe we can prevent it. It's interesting. And these people live among us.

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Reagan Silber

Kevin brings a level of expertise and credibility that perfectly matches the status and style of the destination we are creating here in Las Vegas.

Jim Leyland

Kenny Rogers made the All-Star team this year. He's 50-some games over .500 lifetime. He brings a lot to this party. I think we got a tremendous deal here.

Roy Williams

Kevin's our third guy right now, and he brings veteran leadership to this group. But we do make fun of him because he's so small. He looks like he's 5-7 out there next to us. But he does make plays.

Apolo Ohno

I wouldn't say that I always wear this particular shirt, but I do ALWAYS bring it with me to trips and competitions.

Angela Mejia

I would say that if the kids could bring out a thousand students, then there's no reason for us not to bring out 20, 30 or 40,000 people.

Gabrielle Aplin

I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

Al Sharpton

I wrestled with this, even over the last few days, as I sat and stood and walked in Louisiana, where I saw people ravaged, lives torn. I thought about the fact that we need a man that's strong enough to bring us through 9/11 but compassionate enough that if Katrina hits, will make sure that poor people are not the scapegoats of a natural disaster.

Pat Robertson

I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, ... It'll bring about terrorist bombs. It'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor.

J. Nicholson

Ken Holland brings a wealth of experience in preparing a team and he has had great success in selecting championship teams.

Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Alan Murray

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team injury-free,

Rauf Denktash

Just to come to the negotiating table I cannot say that my state does not exist. I demand the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is either recognized or taken into account.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Just think of a man who wants to sit but cannot sit because he says, I have legs -- how can I sit? Or, think of a man who wants to keep quiet and silent and cannot keep quiet and silent because he says, I have a mind. It is the same.

James Caan

Joseph Russo is a dear friend of mine and I cannot express enough how pleased I am that your office has taken interest and is in pursuit of correcting this problem.

John Smoltz

I take the mound with the focus that is we cannot lose. I've had that feeling for a long time. That's the feeling you want to have as a pitcher. Find a way, any way, battle.

Noonie Boldon

It can be a challenge working with volunteers. I cannot fire them when they drive me crazy. But on the other hand, they give me and the shop so much! When my parents died within three months of each other, the Gift Shop?s volunteers gave so much of themselves in love and support. They took great care of me. Volunteers are special people.

Pramod Mahajan

It cannot tantamount to holding a public meeting, this cannot be called campaigning.

Glenn Anderson

It cannot be used for student housing, ... A lot of landlords aren't interested.

Colin Trevorrow

Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Don Brash

John Key has made it very clear to me and others that he is not challenging for the leadership currently and doesn't envisage doing so... end of story.

Butch Williams

I think it's a clear violation. If you've got a lawyer and (police have) been notified, they're supposed to contact your lawyer.

John Walters

I think it's a clear tool not to play hide-and-seek with this problem.

Algis Shalna

I think it's a clear message that we're not joking around.

Clayton Randall

I think it means that everybody is even. I don't think there was a clear favorite when we started and you can see that now. No one is a clear-cut favorite and no one's really out of it, yet. The last two years you weren't able to win the Lake Region with a loss. This year I don't necessarily think that will be true.

Bill Cheney

I think it is clear that, whatever the economic outlook was on Monday, the outlook is shakier now, and there are stronger arguments for cutting rates.

Judd Gregg

I think it is clear some things we were going to do this fall won't be done. ... Social Security is one, immigration reform would be another,

Tiki Barber

I think it'll tell a lot about our team and our offense in particular and how good we really are. They've been playing great defense and it's a monumental test for us to go on the road and do what we've done at home.

Steve Ralston

Italy is a very defensive team, very well organized, they look to counter-attack. Their defense is rock solid.

Bobby Bowden

I always felt like a dominating defense has to start out front, and they are a good front. Typical Joe.

Mike Cahill

He used to steal a lot of bases. A good hitter, good defense.

Ron Pollack

He didn't even try to make a defense for how well it's working or how it's going to improve. He was silent about it, and that spoke volumes about how the failure is being perceived in the White House.

Ron Gardenhire

He didn't live and die with every play and every at-bat. He kind of learned to take it as it was. Go out and play defense, separate the two and he did very well at that. He played offense and he played defense and he was more confident.

Steve Sampson

He can tend to make a defense fall asleep, so when he does make his run for it, it tends to be very productive.

Danny Ainge

He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago.

R. Inge

He just knows how to pound the zone once he gets ahead. He just lets his defense work for him. He's a smart pitcher. He knows what he's doing.

Marshall Wittmann

He could then say with some credibility that progress is being made and paint the Democrats as the party of defeat.

Howard Dean

I think the Democrats are going to have to think long and hard, as the hearings progress, about whether we should support him.

Tom Matzzie

When he's with you, he fights hard, and that's why he's able to gather people and be a leader of Democrats nationally. In terms of the Senate, he's a master.

John Edward

He has to go negative on Kerry because Democrats don't see any reason not to vote for Kerry. They're perfectly happy with him,

Stan Jones

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.

Jim Stuart

Republicans have not been doing their share of registering voters. The Democrats should be congratulated.

Dennis Hastert

I pledge to work with those Democrats who want to work with me.

Craig Smith

In the national struggle between Democrats and Republicans, Ohio is ground zero.

Bill Ritter

I'm talking to Democrats about this issue, and the response is very positive.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Brendan Shanahan

He just knows how to play the game. Most times, I'm the one standing in front but if I'm not there, he has no fear of going in there and doing that job. The goal isn't scored unless Steve's screening the goalie.

Steven Gerrard

He just goes out there as if he's going for a knockabout with his friends, ... He has no fear.

Sugata Mitra

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

Mike Ramsey

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror.

James Douglas

Here lies he who neither feared nor flattered any flesh

Vicky Groat

Harbor Springs is a very scrappy team. There's no fear in them. They are a quality volleyball team.

Paul Peterson

This is strong GOP country. This is the hotbed of Republicanism, the most conservative state in the nation.

Elliott Abrams

There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.

Eliot Spitzer

To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out.

Jeb Bush

The GOP should be the GSP: the Grand Solutions Party. It should be about solutions, not talking points.

John Podhoretz

Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.

Abner Louima

They said it was a homosexual thing. The cover-up started there.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

E. O. Wilson

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

Doug Stanhope

I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

Todd Akin

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

Rupert Everett

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

Rafael Cruz

When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the destruction of the traditional family. It has nothing to do with homosexuals.

Mark Neumann

If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.

Michael Reagan

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

J. J. Johnson

I think (the leaders) are there. It's whether or not they know how to do that yet is what we've got to find. I'm not sure they know who they are yet, so we'll see.

Andrew Barrett

What you're seeing is these old leaders, which don't have much more downside, come back in favor.

James Thurber

I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.

Oscar Lua

I think it was inevitable. The kickoff team is struggling a bit, so they need some sort of leadership out there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is not the experience, it is leadership that counts,

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Woody Allen

Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Woody Allen

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

William Wycherley

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

William McFee

The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.

William Galston

You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.

Will Cuppy

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

Will Ferrell

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

GM Howson

We submitted another offer and we'll see where it goes.

Jon Brayshaw

I will offer no preconceived solutions. The worst thing in the world is for the first selectman to tell them what to do.

Lute Olson

He's doing fine. He called to offer us his congratulations. He's upbeat.

Bill Tolford

We may never get another offer like that.

Wayne Wilson

He was offered scholarships by Colgate and Niagara, but he wants to be an engineer, so he picked us.

Lady Gaga

I'm very free-spirited.

Tom Atkins

We have a lot of spirited discussions. We need to be able to have these discussions, and after that we need to get along.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Robert Townsend

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

William Henry Harrison

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

Tyra Banks

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Jeremy Mayfield

If you're not careful, this thing can get to you, trying to get in the top 10 for the chase.

Chris Barclay

I just told him to top that, if he could.