Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Orlean

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

David Attenborough

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Daniel Webster

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Ann Richards

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

Robert Bork

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

Robert Bork

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.

Thomas More

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

Thomas Paine

Government is a necessary evil

Kathy Sierra

Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

Henry Cavill

I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

Nuno Bettencourt

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

Susan Adams

They just don't need stuff like what we've got.

Neill Blomkamp

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

Nicole Sullivan

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

Mitch Hedberg

I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.

Martin Landau

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop

Mark Bittman

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.