Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pamelyn Ferdin

Here is a government, a feckless federal government, who spent millions of taxpayer dollars to wage an assault on all our constitutional rights.

Judith Miller

There is a full-scale assault by the federal government now on journalists in order to get at people who disclose classified information.

Sheila Nix

I think that might be a lot of people's reaction to hearing that a rolling pin could be an assault weapon.

William J. Clinton

A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

Steven Englander

This is most serious assault on the dollar since January. This feels different.

Alex Czajkowski

Everybody loves to bet on baseball and to weigh in on the big issues and stories of the day, and there's no bigger story right now than Bonds' assault on the home run record. There's no sitting on the fence when it comes to Bonds. People either think he's a great player and deserves to break the record or they think he's a cheater and want him suspended from the sport, there's no middle ground.

Michael Moriarty

The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.

Paul Themba

The new constitution represents a serious assault on citizens' basic rights and freedoms.

Jerome Kassirer

Data on assault weapon risks are not needed because they have no redeeming social value.

Tom Gordon

I was looking to be a closer again. That was the biggest thing.

Marcus Williams

I was always around. I ended up talking to him a lot and got really cool with him. But the biggest thing with me was, I wanted to get away from home and grow and build myself up somewhere else.

Karl Hobbs

I would think most teams will try to go inside from an offensive standpoint because we will be down an inside defender. I think that will be the biggest challenge.

Matt Mathes

Katrina is undoubtedly the biggest problem for the country right now. We had to look at national priorities.

Mark Martin

Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.

Annika Sorenstam

Just the scoring part, which is the biggest part. I mean, I'm working on everything and at least the last week I've been hitting it really well. I'm hoping that it's all turning around. I really am.

Yasser Arafat

is very important for the international peace all over the world, which means it is very important for the biggest power all over the world -- America.

Simon Fuller

I understand popular entertainment better than anyone. I want to have the world's No. 1 tennis player, the hottest movie, the biggest artist.

Simon Spurr

The biggest thing I'm seeing - and I have to be careful what I say here - is that people are tired of the old guard and the familiar brands. They're looking for more individuality and creativity, and that's coming out of this whole new wave of younger brands: Thom Browne, Michael Bastian, Robert Geller, myself.

Stephen Hess

Had this been handled expeditiously, quickly, it might have been a story on the style page, or limited to the late night comedians and the cartoonists. There's simply no question they fumbled this one.

Jon Stewart

As I was watching Dave talking about Johnny Carson, the way he feels about Carson is the way we, the comedians of our generation, feel about him,

Carly Craig

A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

Nica Burns

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent. In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

Nica Burns

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent, ... In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

Maria Bamford

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

Norm MacDonald

I'd say Jon Stewart has remained funny the entire time. Jon always makes it funny first. And he's just, he's talking about serious things, but in a funny way. Other comedians will talk about serious things in a serious way, and then you don't know what's going on.

Tracy Morgan

So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.

Mike Birbiglia

When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.

Terry Ryan

He did some damage to us. That was the type of scenario where you could envision him doing that for us. No doubt that will be fresh in many people's minds.

Peter Pan

He damaged whatever legacy he has. When people think of him now, they think of molestation.

Phil Esposito

Hockey has to repair the damage that has been done.

Elizabeth Harris

I think we're unlikely to sustain a lot of damage from Hurricane Nate,

Mark Elliott

It has been awesome. It is like a pretty poison. It is doing enormous damage but at the same time it is pretty.

John Zogby

I don't know yet whether he's turning a corner. He's a pretty resilient fellow, so now I think he gets it. But I think a lot of damage has been done to people's view of government and that's not the greatest thing to have presided over.

Wassily Kandinsky

Objects damage pictures.

William Landay

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

Veronica Roth

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

Michael Barnett

Having just turned 23, and with over 250 games under his belt, we look forward to the experience of helping David take his game to another level for us.

Jamaal Magloire

I thought David West played really well. He's proven himself, making shots all year. I'm happy for him.

Shane Warne

I thought David Fulton actually understood the game, but he must dislike us totally to go and hand someone the championship like that,

Larry Brown

I'd like to put Stu Jackson and David Stern and some of those guys in that same situation and see how they would have reacted. He helped get things under control.

Avery Johnson

He's a young David Robinson with a better jump shot.

Tamar Jacoby

In spirit, the whole idea of the reform is for people like David Mendez, who are in essence hard-working Americans with roots in this country, so they can get on the right side of the law.

Tony Russa

I just talked to Scott about his first at-bat, and he's not just going to take. If David gets on second base, he'll go to right field.

Adrian McKinty

The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.

Greg Davis

You couldn't tell unless you were looking for it. But there was no yanking of his body, no drastic movements. He just went over to the other side to (tight end) David Thomas.

Peter Schultz

Jaco signed a three-year deal with NEC and it's unlikely they'll release him.

Dave Musgrove

Jack the Ripper remains an iconic figure today, and perhaps is seen as the forerunner of the serial killers that society has had to deal with since.

Richard D. James

I would say the Borg presented us with a great deal of imagination.

Tom Renney

Just something we have to deal with internally as a team when it comes to penalties.

Lee Mazzilli

Joe is the master in terms of dealing with people. But that has come with experience. He has a way about him now he may not have had before.

Larry Dixon

I think it's a little different when you're in the middle of the points deal for the championship going into Pomona with everything going on,

Garrett Jones

He dealt with the entire process better than most would. But you can tell that he's just so glad to be back to playing again. He always wants to be out there on the field hitting. He's smiling more and just having fun.

Joe Torre

He deals with the stress and pressure very well,

Steve Atkins

He deals with it well, and it makes things run that much more smoothly. He's also very forthright. He knows how he feels and tells you how he feels and that makes the process of governance that much easier.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Frank Baumholtz

Kaiser has played pretty well this year; they have great potential.

Jimmy Kimmel

On Letterman and Leno, it always bothers me when they go outside the studio and it's daytime.

Joe Hart

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.

John Maynard Keynes

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

Brian Regan

I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!

Albert Einstein

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

Thomas Jefferson

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

John Podhoretz

Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.

Felix Klein

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Bertrand Russell

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

Stephen Hawking

Marilyn. Newton seems to have been an unpleasant character.

William Hague

Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Jose Padilha

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

Kevin Spacey

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

Henry Rollins

What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

Orson Welles

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.

Mike Pence

Donald Trump's not a polished politician like Hillary Clinton.

Mo Ibrahim

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Rob Bell

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Pope Francis

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

Rachel Corrie

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Rob Mullens

It is very much a threat at this point.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Julia Dixon

The threat exists. We're trying to extinguish that threat.

Hironari Nozaki

Aeon isn't going to be a threat to the big banks.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Dan Hitchings

You're going to have what you had (before Katrina), and that's all you're going to get. The threat is the same.