Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?

Jim Martin

There are so many parts of this project that are intertwined that they have to be staged and set up in a particular order, and they would like to get this particular ramp done first so other ramps can follow.

Lino Spiteri

What would politics be without its own particular peculiar sense of humour, even if it is not quite funny, ha ha.

Don Stewart

I think that the staff are all very well versed in the process and in this particular nominee, but so are the senators. I think you will see, and already have seen, quite a lot of support out of the senators.

Kelly Pleasants

We have to be particular about what we can take.

William Golding

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

Guy Ritchie

I like to think it's not violence for the sake of violence and in this particular film, it's actually violence for the annihilation of violence.

Dave Chappelle

I like that particular kind of attention. People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

David Lee

All these things were on her mind, stewing and stewing. And all these things boiled to the surface in one particular moment.

Will Rogers

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

Marsha Mason

The idea of being a single woman in Hollywood is a very peculiar thing.

Luc de Clapiers

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Louise Brown

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Greg Moore

This is a very peculiar year for flu.

Troy Fisher

It's unique because of that. It's a peculiar sound.

John Bankhead

It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.

Joseph Hume

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

Lewis H. Lapham

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Rob Lowe

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Moira Kelly

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Richard M. Nixon

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Richard M. Nixon

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Mike Schmitt

He didn't quite make it back to the house.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

James Williams

I was completely speechless. I really had no idea at all, and it was quite a wonderful surprise.

Helen Clark

I think this is going to take quite some time to work through simply because the writs (final results) won't be until two Fridays' time,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.

Mike Marqusee

He was quite serious about his own music. He let it speak for itself.

Vernell Crittendon

He was quite relieved to find that he was not going to be executed. He smiled, he nodded, he thanked me.

Rory McCann

I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.