Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.

Imelda May

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

Ian Mckellen

Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

Igor Ivanov

Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.

Zac Goldsmith

Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

Wentworth Miller

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

William Kirby

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

Wendy Kopp

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

Vivek Wadhwa

If anyone tells you that you're too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don't listen to them. Go with your gut instincts and pursue your passions.

John Caudwell

When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.

Carl Sandburg

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

Laurence Parisot

We must do everything to quickly end this crisis, which is costing our country dearly. It is time to end this colossal disruption, which harms not only our image but our very social fabric.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

Anatoly Chubais

colossal mistake, not only in relationship to us but to itself and the world at large.

Tony Kornheiser

What Bode accomplished was making himself one of the more colossal losers in recent sports history.

O. J. Simpson

It's difficult to reconcile these colossal profits with the fact that some of the most vulnerable people in society can't heat their homes and industry is struggling to keep going.

Aftab Sherpao

It may still go up. It is a colossal tragedy,

Mark Gottdiener

In short, there's been colossal lack of preparedness and leadership.

David H. Murdock

If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.

Chuck Schumer

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.

Regina Brett

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

Carl Sagan

You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.

Jeff Smith

We were sold this idea because it would save money. Now we're spending a million dollars just so no one's feelings get hurt.

Peggy Venable

Using tax dollars to lobby for more tax dollars constitutes a vicious cycle, and it is fiscally, morally and ethically wrong.

Steve Thomas

With the drop in state aid, the dollars have not been there.

Chakib Khelil

Most of our trading is done with Europe. We get revenues in dollars and spend in euros.

Ronald Reagan

Who says, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want

Alan Levine

That would not have gotten people out of harm's way. His position was that it's expensive to even move people to other homes he owned. But when it comes to patient safety, it's nonnegotiable.

John Biggs

We have a group of very expensive lawyers working on this investigation, including through weekends. Given that, I don't know what more we can do.

Rajat Jain

Valuations are not cheap, that's what worries me. But it probably will get more expensive before it gets cheaper.

Barney Frank

I think they're making a mistake, not just because it's expensive but because a hotel just isn't a good place to live,

Grover Norquist

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.

Christie Brinkley

You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.

H. Hart

We don't have such a policy. It is very expensive to increase reserves for the sake of it. The money can be better spent on other social needs.

Doug MacLean

He is an expensive player, but we feel good about it.

J. J. Johnson

I feel stupid. I was stupid. It was an expensive lesson but I learned my lesson.

Yahya Jammeh

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.

Iggy Azalea

As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.

Ian Mckellen

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

Garry Wills

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

Glenn Ford

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

George Allen

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.

Donald Trump

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.

William John Wills

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

Billy Graham

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Kevin Concannon

I would say it was immoral and unethical.

Tom Allen

There is no more immoral set of priorities.

Vincent Van Gogh

A life without love is a sinful and immoral thing.

Sharon Stoll

If you say your mission is to win, I can't work with you. You can be vastly immoral and win.

Jack London

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

Victoria Strauss

If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.

Dave Kingham

We're really moving on to the practical questions now to see how we can implement some of these recommendations.

Richard Costigan

We can go to the PUC and implement the policy of SB 1, and that is where we will be going.

David Wray

We took a poll of our members. Seventeen percent of our members said they intended to implement the Roth 401(k) in 2006. Eighty-three percent were going to wait and see or were not going to do it at all.

Candace Smith

We take their suggestions very seriously. We do all we can to implement what they say.

Surapong Suebwonglee

If they still insist on using the Royal Plaza but lack any sensible reason for doing so, we will have to strictly implement the related law.

Don Sherwood

I do not think this makes a lot of sense, and I think we should rely on the Park Service to implement the regulations that they have in place with the restrictions so that people can enjoy our parks.

Mark Seery

When you're using quality of service to implement a priority-based system, someone is always losing.

Joe Main

Work was in progress to implement some of these protections.

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Devin Nunes

To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

Buzz Aldrin

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

Ben Wilcox

I don't see why she couldn't make a contribution out of her own pocket. I don't know why she has to use taxpayer money.

Scott Walker

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

Martin Buxbaum

Did you ever think what the word 'vote' means? To me it means: 'Voice of Taxpayers Everywhere'.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

John Thune

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Ray Adams

I think it's a waste of more time.

Frank Hippel

If they get the high-level waste back, what do they gain?

Dexter Scott King

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

Chaim Potok

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Barbara de Angelis

when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn't date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?

Brad Lidge

It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

Benjamin Franklin

The only time not wasted is wasted time.