Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Trot Nixon

We started off sluggish. But we fed off our fans.

Diane Swonk

We have seen a softer tone in their write-ups. I think there is a real sense that the Fed is going to stay on the sidelines.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Trevor Hoffman

When your horse is out there and pitches his butt off, my job is to nail it down, ... We would've liked to have fed off Jake's energy. The kid threw the heck out of the ball.

Mark Vitner

There is no operating manual that says what a neutral fed funds rate is, but the Fed knows that it's higher than 3 percent,

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

Dean Acheson

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Audre Lorde

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Eric Katzman

When you think of Kraft's portfolio, it's plain vanilla right up the middle.

Brian Nelson

They are the boss, plain and simple and we know that. We didn't do anything wrong, we just didn't have their approval.

Darin Erstad

It's all part of the game. It's just the way it is. We lost, plain and simple. It's over. We play again. . . . I don't know what day it is. I know we get to sleep a day.

Mike Mintenko

There's been no distractions. It's plain and simple why we're swimming real fast.

Katrina Kelner

It was really extraordinary to think the hormone had been sitting there in plain sight.

Gary Bennett

The second half, we collapsed. Plain and simple.

Renee Ellmers

The terrorists haven't won, and we should tell them in plain English, 'No, there will never be a mosque at Ground Zero.'

Bible Bible

See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.

Laurie Colwin

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

Esther Hicks

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

Mike Eaves

He's like a surrogate grandfather. He represents a reference you can always go back to.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.

Tom Matzzie

I'm only 30. I don't really understand the reference that much.

Peter Capaldi

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

Lauren Graham

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

Brooke Shields

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Bear Grylls

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Bernard Hinault

I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

John Manion

We're going to ride (the running game) as long as we can.

Lloyd Williams

As well, he has to ride tomorrow (at Caulfield),

Louis Hinnant

As ridiculous as this sounds, you want to keep him under 40.

George Whalin

They need to be rid of (Rampage) as soon as possible.

David Obey

They get rid of the symbol but still keep the pork.

Ken Knowles

They'd like to get rid of kegs altogether. This has been going on for some time.

Dennis Lillee

They should get rid of him as soon as possible.

Aaron Gray

We want to send Carl out on top.

Mark Lawrenson

I've turned into a technological wizard. I can send emails now, which for me is unbelievable. They don't make any sense, but I can send them. I call it e-mithering.

Jerry Gonzalez

We're making sure that we're sending the right message.

Paddy Gallagher

We'll send him away from there and see how it sets up. There is a lot of speed in the race, but, going long, I think he's one-dimensional and has to be up there.

Andi Anderson

It's enough to send shivers down your spine.

Joe Lockhart

It's a barbaric way to send a message, if that's what it is.

Robert J. Garagiola

Professional politicians are busy looking out for their jobs. Send me to Congress so I can look out for your job.

The Bride

Do you want me to send you back to where you were - unemployed in Greenland?!

Michael Harris

Anything we send over there is better than what they have: nothing.

Bill Bavasi

This does not signal the end for Michael.

Jack Kilby

They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

Orlando Ayala

It's trying to signal how important we think this is.

David Gill

They're called signal lights. They are kind of provocative because they are always telling you something.

Jennifer Robinson

The signals should smooth out the traffic around the (King of Prussia) mall.

Fred Droes

We do not turn signals off and on.

William Dunkelberg

The index signals a solid start to 2006.

Thomas Steg

This is a humanitarian signal and we welcome it.

Rachel Cohn

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

Brad Hintz

They're making a statement about where they think trading is going to go.

John Cole

That was a big statement by our team.

Madeline Zima

Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

Jamal Crawford

that's my statement and I'm done with it.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Miley Cyrus

I don’t respect your statement because of the anger that came with it

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Ian Shepherdson

There is nothing in the statement to suggest they're done.

Charles Dickens

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Charles Caleb Colton

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.

Jason Bateman

I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.

Al Roker

My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box.

Mark Adelson

From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate.

Katie Holmes

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day.

Larry David

I'll have a vanilla... one of those vanilla bullshit things. You know, whatever you want, some vanilla bullshit latte cappa thing. Whatever you got.

Chris Stapleton

I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.