Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Burn Gorman

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Ellen DeGeneres

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan opened the door to 50-basis-point rate hikes,

Lara Pulver

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

Paul Ballew

We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year.

Michael Toudouze

We're finally putting San Antonio on the map. Nobody gets recruited down here because I guess we're too far south. But there's a lot of talent down here that people are finding out about now.

Peter Gallagher

I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

James Madison

The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and, that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands.

James Madison

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

James Madison

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.

James Madison

It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result not of theory, but "of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable" . . . the equal vote allowed to each state, is at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of sovereignty remaining in the individual states, and an instrument for preserving that residuary sovereignty.

James Madison

[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.

James Madison

You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.

James Long

I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Ben Horowitz

You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

Todd Winter

We just have to regroup and be ready to play next week. That's all we can do.

Kevin Harvick

We just have to put 10 more weeks together and get it going for next year.

Jeff Marlow

We weren't attacking. We had lanes to pass, and the next thing we know they are being aggressive. They were getting some steals.