Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Haley

Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Jacques Chirac

Tempers need to cool, ... We can't have a law-free zone in the Republic. A lack of dialogue and an escalation of disrespectful behavior will lead to a dangerous situation.

Thomas Jones

We've seen a greater change in consumer behavior with this tax increase than we expected.

John Nash

We will not tolerate this type of behavior from any player. We will continue to demand a higher level of professionalism and personal responsibility from all of our players or we will continue to take appropriate action.

Scott Westerfeld

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

Sidney Poitier

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

Nolan Bushnell

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

Margaret Mead

Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

Bob Barr

obstructed a law enforcement investigation and otherwise engaged in behavior in violation of the Rules of the House.

Brad Thompson

I've kind of been more erratic than I'd like to be, but I'm all right. The more times I get out there, the better I feel. I feel like I can make some adjustments and make some better pitches.

Elizabeth Morgan

I've seen a sprinkling of it over the years, but it's out front this year.

Ricky Davis

You saw it right here on the stand, ... Right in front of you.

Carlos Castaneda

There are worlds upon worlds, right here in front of us. And they are nothing to laugh at.

B. R. Hayden

We have a rule for that, but I don't have it in front of me,

George Chapman

As soon as you're here in front of those race cars, ... everything else kind of goes away.

Phil Cline

There's really only one way out and one way in. Once he's inside and by that front door, he's got them cornered.

Jorge Posada

There's nothing he could do. I'm right in front of the plate.

John Swiatek

We were learning what we were doing while we were doing it! We put a front office staff together, and we put a marketing plan together, and we just went for it.

Gene Simmons

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

Thom Browne

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Gordon Fischer

I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House.

MacGyver MacGyver

Desperation tends to make one sort of flexible.

Andrew Harrington

This is the time of year when stockpiles should be rising. We're in that sort of in-between period. Winter is sort of over and summer hasn't really started.

Candace Parker

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Alan Greenspan

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

Kerry Washington

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.

Tom Taylor

Everyone's watching (to see) how Stern does for Sirius. For satellite, it could be transformational.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Elizabeth Strout

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.