Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. J. Simpson

I will not charge admission to the bathroom

Michael McGovern

We have, through his lawyer, Gotti's admission that he was the boss of the Gambino family, standing in his father's shoes,

Thomas Hemingway

I don't consider it an admission that the system was flawed. I've maintained consistently that we would try to make those improvements that were necessary to the process as we moved along.

John Williams

It's significant that they have nothing whatsoever to say about the case itself. I take that as a tacit admission of the allegations.

Philip Roth

It's an admission of the books into perpetuity.

Bill Gardner

It's an admission of guilt. That's what makes me happy. The money had nothing to do with it,

Lori Wallach

None of Congressman Fitzpatrick's statements about why he voted to support CAFTA make sense. His constituents deserve a straight answer even if it is an admission that he does not have the backbone to stand up to what everyone knows was extreme pressure by the Republican leadership to do as they ordered rather than what Fitzpatrick believed or promised.

Lakshmi Mittal

I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.

Teruhisa Tsuji

Snow's admission of central banks diversifying from dollars could be used as dollar-selling material.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.

Terry Bradshaw

James Davison took me out to show me where Karl is living right now and where he's going to build. Karl wasn't at home. He was out there somewhere in the woods riding on some Caterpillar or some kind of tractor. But I figured we'd at least knock on the door to see if he was there. His wife answered the door. So we got to meet Kay before Karl.

Pat Bowlin

Jake had some of the most powerful runs I've seen him do. Early, he wasn't hitting the hole and I pulled him aside. The next play, he made a huge run n the kid was challenged and answered it.

Michael Goodwin

Kavanaugh gets the answer she wants. She has asked a question that makes Sheehan a victim of the press, and Sheehan answers that very way.

Kevin Furtado

Keep your mind and palate open. Your palate is a Rolodex of tastes you have encountered before hand. There is no right answer when tasting wine.

Stuart Pearce

Joey Barton is a Manchester City player. I hope he'll stay. The way footballers answer anybody is by performing on the pitch and I thought he played extremely well.

John Burness

Joe wanted to reach out to students who felt they'd like support and provide answers for anything they felt they needed to know.

Brad Brownell

John is as tough as it comes. At one point during the game, I asked him if he wanted to switch off and guard somebody else for a while. He glared back and me, so I knew what his answer was.

Evan Bayh

I think I should hear what the man has to say before making up my mind, ... Whoever is chosen for this spot could be on our nation's highest court for 30 years perhaps, and deal with some of the most fundamental liberties that we have in this country. So I think it's important we take our time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and then reach a considered judgment.

Peter Harrold

He is the backbone of the team. Hopefully we can just do a little better in front of him.

Rob Simmons

We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses.

Mike Crapo

Individuals and businesses must participate in a national discussion about a simpler tax system, one that collects sufficient revenue to meet appropriate federal responsibilities, but one resting on a broader, fairer tax base without penalizing saving and investing, the backbone of a strong, decentralized and thriving economy.

John Wilkinson

The CT scanner is the backbone of the PAC system, the new digital (imaging) system that is part of the future of this alliance,

John Edwards

These judges, some of these judges, that come out of the White House, they will take your rights away. It is no more complicated than that. And if we as Democrats don't have the backbone to stand up and fight this fight, we don't stand for anything.

Willie Nelson

Eating organic, family-grown food is important to a lot of us, so that's why it's important to take care of the family farmers. They're the backbone of the country.

Rodney Eade

These two young gentlemen have exceeded all expectations as players and are really going to form part of the backbone for the future and I think it's a great credit to them.

Michael Finley

It's something we don't bank on having to have in order to win games. We always think defense is the backbone of all our victories. But if we continue to shoot the ball like that, we'll be tough to beat.

Aaron Nida

They are kind of the backbone for our throwers.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Iain McKie

I was in the police for 36 years. I always believed fingerprints didn't lie. Now ... I know different.

Hosni Mubarak

King Hussein was a great leader and brother and a dear friend ... he believed in justice and peace,

Michael Ramsey

Ken did make optimistic statements. What do you expect the CEO to do in a situation like this? He was not lying. He was telling the truth as he saw it. He believed ... and he was fighting a battle.

Marcia Angell

Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.

Tony Bennett

I always believed that we were going to be here. I never gave up.

Zahir Raheem

I always believed in myself when nobody else would, ... I worked hard. It wasn't a gift. I earned it.

Mark Adams

I think the key word here was persistency. We just kept putting pressure on them, believed in our system and sooner or later, we would get the breaks to win the game.

Robert Burns

I think that he believed there was some extramarital thing going on.

Graeme Souness

Kieron says he feels better now than at any time and that's encouraging. He has been extremely determined and shown strength of character, considering all the stories about him. It must have been, and is, a worrying time for him until he gets games under his belt. He deserves credit.

Byron Scott

Kirk (Snyder) deserves a shot. Kirk works his butt off every day. He's still out here. Matter of fact, do you see J.R.? (Smith had left.) That pretty much tells it. It's work ethic -- he has to work harder.

Bobby Engram

(Jackson) is always going to be the primary guy, and he deserves that because he makes a lot of plays. I'm just trying to do my part and help us win some games.

Ryan Freel

I think it's a great signing. He has all the respect of the players and I think he's done a heck of a job since he's been here and I think he deserves this position.

Lisa Jackson

I think it does deserve reconsideration. It will be one of my priorities.

Franco Carraro

Italy is seeded because it deserved it. It was a logical choice.

Franco Carraro

Italy has been seeded because it deserves to be.

Bill Masse

He was awesome. He?s been great all year. He throws strikes. Guys just don?t get good swings off him. He deserved a better fate. He deserved to win that game. He?s got a great mentality and he loves to compete.

Phil Garner

He deserves that. Not only does he deserve it, that's the right thing for us to do in that situation. And that's what we've done.

Matt Grow

Just like everyone, we are growing. And we are growing extremely fast.

Stan Ross

Kaiser does a great job with communicating to his defense, really showing experience. Kyle sees the outside shot extremely well and has come in from day one and competed for time.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Georgi Parvanov

I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Rich Phillips

He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.

Jacques Rogge

He is sleeping extremely well and I am sleeping extremely well.

Ned Yost

He knows what he's doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will play every day.

Robert Gordon

His record suggests an extremely strong pro-government bias.

Pete Boone

He wanted to be here. He knows that he can be a success here. He's been a success before. He knows what it takes.

Chris Moore

He can split through two guys, and nobody knows how he got through,

Craig Smith

He knows the biotech world very well. We need someone like that at this stage.

Larry Coker

He knows that there is that window of opportunity and he has to respond,

Freddy Adu

He knows me, so he'll probably know what I'm up to, but I've matured a lot since I went pro,

Felipe Alou

He knows we need him real bad. Even if he's not up to par.

Derek Walcott

He's just dominant. He knows how to play.

Marianne Madsen

He's a very loud coach, but I like that. He's strong and knows what he's talking about. He'll make us a very tough, competitive team.

Anthony Becht

He's a very calm, veteran player and he knows the system well. He's very experienced. He knows where to go with the ball.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

James Thurber

I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.

Oscar Lua

I think it was inevitable. The kickoff team is struggling a bit, so they need some sort of leadership out there.

Abbott L. Lowell

I must follow them. I am their leader.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

Sean Collins

I had no idea there was any speculation whatsoever. None of the Wisconsin players complained afterward, so I didn't know what they were talking about. I had no idea it was off.

Charlie Strong

I'm real concerned. No one has stepped up. We have the guys. But none of them has taken the job.

Julien Pain

We sent letters, we tried to phone them. And none of them ever replied to us.

Adam Rayner

I've done shows that aired on American TV, but none of them proved to be successful, so yes, no one here knows who I am.

Joseph Cook

None of them had anything new to say,

Daniel Johnston

None of the alternatives, ... are even close.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Robert Winston

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

Robert Towne

Colin, Salma, me - none of us took salaries in order to make this movie, in order to get it on film. So it was a movie made on spec.

Sabrina Harris

We ordered it, and it took a year to get here.

Nicholas Burns

We are going to ratchet up the pressure step-by-step.

Chuck D.

We try to not put too much pressure on the kids. We treat it like a regular day.

Brian Giles

We've got to put pressure on them, ... They're still three down. I like our chances.

Retief Goosen

We made the putts at the right time. The pressure was always on them.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

William Vickrey

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

Wolfgang Schauble

In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.

Christopher Murray

The connotation is you're getting some kind of sexual gratification, or wanting sexual gratification, or are putting pressure on for some kind of sexual gratification, when a 6-year-old doesn't have that capacity.

Morgan Freeman

I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.

Azzam Tamimi

I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.

Luigi Speranza

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Kelly Slater

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

Lois Capps

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,

Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Rudy Giuliani

There are very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities they would cheat as much as Democrats.

Malcolm X

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

Lauren Bacall

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

John Kasich

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats.

Lewis Black

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

Joe Lando

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Mike Purcell

He really wouldn't stand out in the crowd.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Glen Taylor

I do not see that as a possibility. As I stand here, I just don't see a possibility that makes sense.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Wavy Gravy

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Walter Scott

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

Mona Singh

I have never made statements like, 'I'm quitting TV' or 'I'm quitting Bollywood.' I have always wanted to strike a balance between the two.

Christopher Seekins

They are totally different statements and are dishonest.

Niklaus Wirth

Go To statement considered harmful.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Ron Ziegler

This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

Yuuki Sakurai

I'm speechless. What can you say when you can't trust a company's statements or the exchange's trading system.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Anne Bishop

I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details.

Sienna Miller

I'm going straight to my mum's place. There's nothing going on between me and Daniel. We were in a movie together two years ago.

Nate Parker

When you're in a relationship with someone you have to be in control of that relationship and you have to be as open as you can about everything, straight up, out the gate.

Mike Connors

It went pretty much straight into the ground.

Ron Polk

A lot of things need to go right to win 14 straight times. But I think a lot of it isn't because we've been lucky. A lot of it has been because we've been pretty good.

Paul Duca

For April, it's as big as it's going to get. You have to dethrone those guys. They're the team to beat. They've been there 13, 14 straight years now. So this is big. Take them any way you can get them.

John Goebel

There?s been a lot of misinformation and we want to get a straight story to people.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Ahmed Hussein

Khartoum supports the Chadian rebels, financially, politically and militarily.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Jessica Wolf

He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.

Sam Richards

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

Joe Pemberton

Her support was important to me, ... I could sense her smiling.

David Newhan

He's a teammate. You're supportive of your teammates.

Gary Larsen

We feel it's safe, we feel it's a viable technology and we're supportive of it,

Joseph Lieberman

We support a woman's right to choose, ... The other ticket does not.

CeeLo Green

I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.

Paul Lowe

This is where I voted from, this is where I live, this is it.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Michelle Anderson

I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.

Bob Crowder

I voted the way I thought we had to.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

Ahmed Ali

We voted for the one who can make a change,