Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Safire

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

Paul Eldridge

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

Martin Gardner

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Pietro Aretino

Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Samuel Johnson

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Value the relationship more than making your quota.

Ludwig von Mises

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.

Wallace Stegner

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

Roberto Cavalli

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist,

William Empson

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

Lamar S. Smith

I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.

Luc de Clapiers

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

Neil Cavuto

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

Avril Lavigne

And suddenly you're all i need the reason why I smile<3

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Nancy Pelosi

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Northrop Frye

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

P. T. Barnum

I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess...

Patty Murray

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

Milton Friedman

The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than it would have been by bad monetary policy.