Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherwood Schwartz

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

Greg Thompson

He'll say some pretty funny stuff at the expense of a lot of people in the audience, but then he'll come back and redeem himself five minutes later.

Mark Schonfeld

In the world of unregulated hedge funds, it can be hard to tell fact from fiction. This one was pure fiction. The defendants led lifestyles of the rich and famous at the expense of their investors.

Toye Taylor

I'm looking for quality of life, non-recurring expenses for these funds.

Howard Levine

Their (the students') goal was to get some money for the sisters to have, outside of the special trust that's been set up for them. The Key Club's goal was to give them some general expense money.

David Bridges

The food and the plating will be pretty meticulous, ... It's one of those things where no expense is spared.

Friso Abbing

The new regulation does not say: New immigrants can come to the EU, or you don't have to work and we'll give you more rights, even if you're living at the expense of our tax payers.

Ernesto Herrera

It is this negligence and indifference by the two departments that has precisely emboldened the oil firms to freely increase their prices, often in concert, as if they were operating like a cartel, at the expense of consumers.

Tom Schoewe

This impacted our operating profit by $30 million and our total utility expense rose by $100 million in the quarter,

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Michelle Reinig

Just the fact that you're on land, and you know there's somebody out there and you can't do anything.

Rejean Beauchemin

Just the fact that we?re playing this well right now with what we have, it?s really exciting. Hopefully we keep getting better and keep riding it into the playoffs.

Jane Harman

Just the fact that the Iranian government is making a lot of noise doesn't prove their capabilities.

Elizabeth Shadigian

Just the fact someone is a girl, or female, that they have two X chromosomes, there's a reason to suspect sexual abuse.

Barry Alvarez

I think it is as simple, just a simple fact that they're pretty good and always have (been). I think if you take a look at every other team in the league, there has been some slipping. Some teams have slipped and had years when they've had down years, but I can't remember a year when Michigan has been down. Their down years are pretty good years.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting, ... Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

Johnathon Schaech

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.

James Graham

I'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword.

Tom Izzo

I'm only embarrassed that in front of our two most famous alums, we didn't play with that same kind of tenacity.

Dan Wheldon

I'm very proud of this team. They worked so hard all night long. There are some famous names that have won this race, and to now be on that list is very, very special.

Ronald Harwood

I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

Liz Smith

I mean he did this over and over again. He, he helped make me famous.

Brian Littrell

I'm not famous, I'm just in the spotlight more than you.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Lexa Doig

I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.

Moon Bloodgood

I love science fiction.

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Khaled Hosseini

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Ron Polk

He used to be a power pitcher, but after shoulder surgery he's had some hard luck.

Joey Cora

He didn't pitch that bad. He threw strikes, and that's the key for him. He didn't get hit hard at all. He just wasn't lucky.

Ben Braun

He can take a lot of pride knowing he is playing for a championship now as he leaves Cal. He has worked so hard over the years.

Hal Chiodo

He keeps it simple and pushes the kids hard and teaches to take pride in your responsibilities.

Gary Pinkel

He just worked hard and got back in, so he's ready to go.

Doug Boxell

He just has that work mentality that he's going to work hard and put it all on the line, and I don't think those people think much about the pressure part of it. They just go in there and do their job.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Wil Nichol

In the second period we turned the tide. We started doing the little things that make us successful. And that led to the big things, which is goals.

R. Robinson

Thirteen and three. He's a 13-3 quarterback. You're going to just sit him down? That man led us to 13-3, so why would you sit him down?

Jeff Jodon

It was a solid team effort, led by the throwers. They were just steadfast.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Hideyuki Suzuki

A rally in US shares (overnight) led the market here.

Joker Phillips

I've never seen Tony Dixon work like he has this past off-season. He led all the drills. He was in the weight room. He was even there when he wasn't scheduled to be.

Alan Stern

This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Ovid

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

David Rakoff

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

Niall Ferguson

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

Epicurus

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

Denis Healey

It will squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Noam Chomsky

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.

Naomi Klein

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

Lainie Kazan

I have a rich, full, textured life.

Kid Rock

I don't steal things. I'm rich.

Margaret Thatcher

There are too few rich and too few profits.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?