Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Perrin

We're getting better at hitting behind runners and advancing runners. We had more balls hit to the right side today, so I felt better about that, and I'd like to see it more often.

Colleen Hanabusa

As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work.

Greg Baroni

As we have for 30 years, Unisys supports NASA in its dedication to advancing aeronautics research and space exploration. Modeling and simulation are critical to aerospace research and we are proud to put our expertise in those areas to work for NASA.

Leslie Preston

A strong payrolls gain was largely telegraphed by the jobless claims decline and shouldn't be a big shock to markets if wages aren't too threatening. Wages are advancing a fairly tame pace.

Jack Krebs

They (state school board members) are allowing the intelligent-design minority to bypass the scientific community. While not specifically mentioning religious concepts, it's advancing a sectarian religious view. They're treading on some constitutional grounds here.

Bill Turnage

They felt they were in the presence of someone who wasn't interested in advancing himself, who wasn't interested in getting elected to something -- someone who simply loved America and loved the American wilderness.

Todd Vesely

This meet is all about advancing to the next round. We have such a strong district that I think that every team is going to be able to make the qualifying mark.

Jim Schoenfeld

They're both very bright, energetic and efficient. They're advancing in leaps and bounds, and I think it's great to see not only the area of growth, but the speed they've taken to coaching. It's like they've been doing it for a long time.

Peter Jackson

I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up.

Benazir Bhutto

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Mathew Staver

We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country.

Ivica Dacic

We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if the opposition wants that, so be it. We are ready.

Joost Hiltermann

There are clerics who are very moderate and who understand what the current situation demands, and there are clerics who have political agendas and who marshal forces for their own gain. Those are the dangerous ones.

Nia Long

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.

Dennis Hastert

We're starting to work to put together ideas, that's the first step. We need to put the ideas so we can frame the debate, so we can move forward for what the agenda is for the American people,

Christopher Dodd

We've got a very busy agenda at the U.N., it's going to be very difficult to get the job done. Let's get behind him, let him do his work I certainly want to see him succeed but I'm going to watch him carefully.

Newt Gingrich

Unless the commission has a dramatically different agenda and a dramatically different approach than the same tired, old, big-government liberalism, it'll be like the commissions we've had for 30 years.

Tommy Thompson

As we all know, the issues that were prominent on President-elect Bush's campaign agenda are the issues that, predominantly, the Department of the Health and Human Services will help him tackle over the next four years. I appreciate the confidence that he is showing in me today,

Benh Zeitlin

Local casting is just something I love doing.

Kaya Scodelario

'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn't go to drama school.

Cary Fukunaga

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.

Henrik Ibsen

As you can see, I'm a button-moulder. / You must go into my casting ladle.

Ibrahim Hooper

It's entirely inappropriate for the military to do such a cursory investigation of something that is really casting a very negative light on our nation's military and can only serve to further damage America's image and interests throughout the Islamic world.

Roger Wagner

There was discussion at our meeting about casting our net wider. I understand St. Clair County is interested and there could be others.

Craig Foster

There's been many a smiling angler casting a line.

Robert Altman

It's a variety show. We wrote it as we went along. As we were casting people, he was rewriting constantly. This guy's a genius. We deferred to each other. He's been in charge of himself and his show for 30 years and so have I. So we suddenly had a monster with two heads.

Jackie Collins

It was so funny to realize that all the cliches about Hollywood were true, ... There was the casting couch. There were these dirty old men who would say, 'Can you lift your skirt up a little higher, darling? We'd like to see your legs. How about dinner tonight?' That's what I started to write about.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

Antonio Tabucchi

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Jacques Barzun

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

William Shakespeare

The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know some nurture.

Mark Helprin

I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.

Bill Nye

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

Bertrand Russell

To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.

Edith Sitwell

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

David Brainerd

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

Audre Lorde

What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?

Derek Jarman

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

Carlos Castaneda

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

Charlotte Bronte

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

Charles M. Schulz

I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

Bernard of Clairvaux

Death is the gate of life.

Atharva Veda

THERE is none to question Me if I do not act; there is nothing I would lose if I do not engage in activity. Nor have I any great urge to be active. But yet, you see Me very active. The reason is, I must be doing something all the time, for your sake, as an example, as an inspiration, as a piece of training.

Michael Deaver

When we were engaged in the intensive parts of the investigation or trial preparation, I did not have time for anything else.

Richard Peddie

What we're missing out on is the single game sales and when you start the season 1-15, that doesn't get the heart racing. People aren't engaged yet.

John Barton

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.

Mark Shapiro

We're still engaged in conversations with a few clubs. By the end of the week, we should have some resolution to that.

Karen Hughes

.. As we seek to engage the wider Muslim world, I thought it was first of all very important to listen and try to understand and work with the voices of our own American Muslim community.

Kathy Hall

It's a sexual proclivity they engage in from time to time.

Donald Rumsfeld

They have engaged in a number of such raids and have been successful in at least nine that I know of, ... They intend to proceed in an orderly way.

Gale Kaufman

It's not hard to get bonds, if you do it in a systematic fashion and you actually engage people for more than ten minutes.

Charles Dickens

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Sergey Lavrov

We are awaiting final confirmation from the American side,

Thomas Hanke

We have no indication at the moment that anything went wrong during the production of the agent. Only an examination of the production process and the substance itself which was injected will provide final certainty.

Lamar Butler

Whenever we talk about the Final Four, you have to mention us making it to the Final Four. This is history.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Pat Riley

We were a minute and a half away from the Finals -- big deal, ... It's about winning a championship.

Stuart Fraser

There is no pressure on Clara. Maybe she thinks the Nasdaq offer is not the final offer, and she's waiting for a higher bid.

Ron Gettelfinger

Whether or not we can stabilize a situation that's deteriorating, I'm not sure, ... We'll just have to wait and see until what the final analyses are.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Bible Bible

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Michelle Smurl

It was flattering to get them in Brevard.

Megan Jasper

As flattering as it is to be the only label on that map, we're not alone,

Dan Brooks

Tell me a private school that won?t take somebody outside their parish. Jealousy is the greatest form of flattery and that?s about it. Maybe this is being paranoid, but we?re a small town, and what irritates me is if (Mayo and Walker) went to a bigger, private school, we?d be seeing headlines about how great this is.

Twiggy

Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

Jamie Richardson

We're very flattered by all this attention. By going into Lord & Taylor, we've really gone full circle,

Chuck Palahniuk

The only frontier left is the world of intangibles. Everything else is sewn up too tight.

Albert Camus

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

David Hernandez

Frontier is trying to work with us and they have been very responsive to our situation.

John Conte

Our system of justice is not and should not be a system of frontier justice,

Bob Olson

The new frontier is back-office processing done offshore.

Jeff Hill

It's a new frontier for us, and it's good for us to know. Everything's connected. We need to protect what was given to us by our creator.

Dan Shechtman

The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

Paul Koretz

the last frontier of bigotry and discrimination, and it's time we put an end to it.

Charles Kettering

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

Abner Louima

They said it was a homosexual thing. The cover-up started there.

Abby Wambach

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

E. O. Wilson

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

Doug Stanhope

I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

Amber Rose

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

Alveda King

In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.

Stockwell Day

Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.

Todd Akin

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

Bill Maher

Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

Stephen Harper

a substantial strengthening of the Liberal Party of Quebec.

Rudy Giuliani

a vote for the most liberal member of the United States Senate.

Gillian Armstrong

Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.

Maajid Nawaz

The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.

Jose Lagos

Yes, national security, that's all fine. But there's over 11 million here now, and they are not terrorists, so what do we do with them? I think we have to take away the extremes, the liberal and the conservative views, and get something done that we can realistically enforce.

Ambrose Bierce

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.

Alex Pareene

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

Charles Dickens

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Chris Carter

are out of step with modern conservation approaches.

Neil Strauss

The modern player is totally under the radar.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Karen Tandy

E-traffickers are just a modern way of saying drug dealers,

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Albert Einstein

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

E. F. Schumacher

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

Andrew Marr

The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Baha'u'llah

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Benjamin Disraeli

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Desiderius Erasmus

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Aristotle

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Kirstie Alley

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

Audre Lorde

Revolution is not a one time event.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.

Charles Dudley Warner

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

Bill Ayers

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

Bill Ayers

Education is the motor-force of revolution.

Bob Marley

It takes a revolution, to create a solution

Ron Pernick

We're seeing a revolution where solar is disappearing into the building.

Che Guevara

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

Che Guevara

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

Earl Warren

Citizenship is the right to have rights.

Earl Warren

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

David Ricardo

The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does it appear to me, to the cause of good government, that the rights of property should be held sacred, that I would agree to deprive those of the elective franchise against whom it could justly be alleged that they considered it their interest to invade them.

David Henry Hwang

. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even influenced my decision to become a playwright in the first place.

Atifete Jahjaga

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

Antonio Tabucchi

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

David Price

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Frederic Bastiat

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?

Frederic Bastiat

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure them from injury. It is not true that the mission of the law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our will, our education, our sentiments, our works, our exchanges, our gifts, our enjoyments. Its mission is to prevent the rights of one from interfering with those of another, in any one of these things.

Alan Grayson

Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

Charles Lamb

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

Charles Lamb

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Charlaine Harris

Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.

Charlie Kaufman

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.

Bob Saget

I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.

Bernard Malamud

We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was

Cary Fukunaga

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.