Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Vance

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

Ron Chernow

The mutual fund industry has been very successful at promoting itself in this glamorous way. Mutual funds are actually vast, impersonal bureaucratic structures, and yet they were clever enough to give a human face to the mutual funds.

Kenneth Anger

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

Dick Bruna

A few years ago, I had an exhibition at a museum in Holland where, for the very first time, I saw how much Miffy had changed over the years.

Robert Fitzgerald

After leaving college and while working on a newspaper and then on a magazine in New York, I wanted not to lose what Greek I had acquired.

Sarah Zettel

So, The Quiet Invasion is about the attempt to coexist peacefully with people who have radically different ideas and backgrounds than your own.

Nora Roberts

Now, I'll say this. I've never taking a course on writing. I've never read a book on writing. This isn't something that would work for me.

Sarah Vowell

So much of broadcasting hasn't really noticed that Watergate happened, that no one takes the voice of authority seriously anymore.

Vincent Bugliosi

Sometimes when someone is asking you a question you can become Socratic, and ask them a question, and have them answer their own question for them.

Mark Buehrle

Actually, I got out in the woods and kind of cleared my mind,

Scott Walden

It would be important to get roofs cleared off quickly.

Rod Griffin

The problem with identity fraud is that you can get it all cleared up, but there's somebody out there with your information.

Ugueth Urbina

Everything will be cleared up soon and people will know the truth.

Pete Johnson

This was an old, old piece of land that had been cleared in the 1940s through a CCC program.

Maj. Raines

We went in the house and cleared it, and found nothing. It was a prank.

Glen Campbell

So John Wayne ... rolled in the saddle as his nag ran at a gallop in the snow toward the chest-high fence. The horse stretched, Duke rose, and the two cleared the fence with plenty of room.

Christian Williams

From what I gather it was because a lady's oxygen tank ran out at the facility she worked at in Michigan. It was investigated and she was suspended from work for three days. Everyone was cleared and she went back to work.

Dave Calloway

He was cleared to go and I was getting ready to put him in and his knee was just too stiff.

David Walker

As a matter of course we review our cost structure and staffing needs and levels.

Dave Esquer

Our defense has made seven errors in the last three games. I don't think we've made seven errors all year. (Ross) had a stomach flu the night before, so we were lucky that he could even pitch. It was a good effort on his part and we made a couple mistakes that cost him.

Dontell Jefferson

Of course we don't want to cost the school any money, but as a player you want to have interaction like that.

Sophie McShera

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

Bobby Cox

Normally we don't make errors, but today we made two of them and it cost us four runs.

Roger Tamraz

Normally the prices should come down, but I don't see that because I think the cost of exploration is much higher than we expected,

John Hunter

During preliminary planning we wanted to find something that represented the species itself. It will cost $30,000, and the island residents are really taking this project on.

Rachel Carson

an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make money, at whatever cost to others, is seldom challenged.

Don Scaro

An office visit will cost whatever the insurance dictates. If the insurance dictates a co-pay then that is what they can expect to pay.

Jeff Pendergraph

It would be nice if there was another big man at the post. Double teams on me wouldn't be as evident.

Robby Ginepri

It was a little different, especially out of 128 guys, that you got to play your doubles partner second round,

Ken Hydinger

I slept about four hours Sunday night. I was extremely disappointed about that match. We need to finish people off and not let them get back into it, and I think we need all six singles and all three doubles really in sync.

Alan Trammel

We did get a few hits, but then he was able to get that sinker going and then we'd hit into a double play. Give him credit.

Keith McCrimmon

There are double stop signs there, just for double security protection for people to stop. I don't see no skid marks there do you? None." ()

Stuart Ross

We hope to completely remove the need for double staffing later today and return to a more normal service as soon as possible.

Malcolm Scatliffe

Doubles comes down to big points and who can win them.

Justin Gatlin

Double gold. I think I've sealed my fate right now as the king of sprints.

Mark Hurd

double down in markets where we want to lead.

Alan Dershowitz

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

Richard Dieter

Every lawyer worth his salt is putting in a lethal injection challenge.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Alexandre Dumas

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

Chuck D.

On a number of occasions, he sliced people down. The tribe's lawyers were not able to shake my testimony.

Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Wilson Mizner

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Jim Norman

Do you know how much money that saves people?

Tim Ghriskey

Delphi is weighing on the whole automotive industry. More people want to move money out of that sector, and the situation is not going to get better any time soon.

Darrell Bryan

A number of us are very upset about this slogan. By having too little money you come up with poor ideas.

DeEtta Culbertson

The state doesn't provide any money to private schools. They're deemed private businesses, private entities.

James Bland

The taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for a low-performing job. I would like to see that money go to the teachers.

Raghu Sharma

The taxpayers money is being spent on them.

Bob Hartwig

The third option is the better use of money in the long run.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Matt Jordan

The song was unreleased -- rejected. There should be a voice for music that doesn't get heard.

Adam Krier

I've always done music, since I was 13. I really don't know what I'd be doing if I wasn't doing music.

Gin Wigmore

I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.

Leila Cobo

The music they are making is wonderful. There is so much talent there.

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Christian Scott

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

Marjane Satrapi

The music that I hate the most is R&B.

Michael Schenker

The music is a personal expression, like art.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Alan Dershowitz

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

Alan Dershowitz

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

Al Franken

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

bell hooks

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Dr. House

How does someone just start drooling? Chase? Were you wearing your short shorts?

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.