Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

John Ryding

There's no doubt there's political pressure on the Fed to do nothing on September 20th. The Fed will allow economics to overrule the politics of the situation.

Lindsey Buckingham

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

Sally Haulman

We are delighted to announce a month of special opportunities in January 2006, culminating with an Open House event on Saturday, January 14 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. that will allow the public to get a sampling of the many features Slim and Tone has to offer.

David Fay

Let's say she were to do well enough in women's events she's going to be playing this winter and spring that if she were a member, her earnings would be such that she would be exempt. I think you'd be hard-pressed to explain why you wouldn't allow her to play.

David Bowman

Letters, photos, emails, and phone calls are all great. But they can't let you play with your kids. Persistent worlds like Horizons allow people to get together and DO something together, even when separated by thousands of miles. They are the next great form of communication and interaction.

Michael Crowe

Lower tax rates would allow our businesses to grow at a much faster rate. It allows us to hire more people, to pay a higher wage, to invest more and to increase the pace, of course, at which our businesses can grow if we're not hampered by higher taxes.

Jacques Chirac

Secularity is one of the republic's great achievements, ... It plays a crucial role in social harmony and national cohesion. We must not allow it to be weakened.

Estelle Parsons

So I am hoping there will be more roles for women that allow the actors to expand to be truly great - an all around talented, gifted woman.

Vicki Crompton

One night we caught him hiding in the bushes at 10:30, watching our house,

Jamie Rappaport

Americans have made a significant commitment to recovering the wolf over the past 30 years. Unfortunately, the Bush administration is planning to turn back the clock on wolf recovery by prematurely passing management responsibility to states such as Idaho that has expressed a clear intention of immediately exterminating all of the wolves in the state.

Marianne Wolk

I find it illogical to make a case that it's better to be diversified when search is growing so much faster online.

Arthur Gray

because obviously of all this volatility, it certainly behooves one to be prudent. This is certainly not a time to be fully invested. You want to have some reserves in case it goes the other way.

Thomas Kurth

Charleroi will go to court on March 20th and we are confident in our case. We have however submitted that the case be referred to the European Court of Justice as with the Lyon case.

Dennis Hastert

In the meantime, that case has to be made to the American people as well, and it will be part of the Congress' role to do that as well,

Kevin Ryan

In 20 years of law enforcement, I don't think there has been a higher impact case that I have seen or been involved in,

Andrew Levy

If you fail on either of these two counts, your case will disappear in front of your eyes.

Gary Sheffield

If you look at the type of swings I've been taking the last couple of days, I'm right where I need to me. If I'm healthy, I'll be fine. That has always been the case with me.

Andrew Hudson

In this case it was a no-brainer. We had empty seats (so I said), 'Let's do it,'

Javier Solana

(In) the European Union we feel a profound respect yesterday, today and tomorrow and we never had wanted in any case to offend their feelings.

Richard Greenfield

Clearly the question is how to participate in young people's fascination with video games. But the jury is still out as to whether a company needs to own a video game business.

Sir Stringer

Clearly the perception out there is that we shouldn't be doing too much of that copy protection stuff.

Lauren Smith

Clearly the perception, in my view, is that the company is the next acquisition target.

Alan Williamson

Clearly the outlook for the currency markets, and in particular the U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate will be critical to the outlook for the gold market,

James A. Leach

Clearly the North Korean desire is for a light-water reactor, and the North Korean desire is to retain a peaceful nuclear program,

Joshua Freeman

Clearly the MTA was not willing to concede that prior to the strike.

John Heimlich

Clearly the more we get the sooner the better.

Fred Eckhart

Clearly the more military muscle you have the more credibility you have and the greater deterrent effect you have. That's what we are seeking,

Robert Manning

Clearly the missile program has value to the North Koreans,

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Claire McCaskill

I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

Clint Eastwood

Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I'll kill you. I mean it.

Dylan Moran

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

Dylan Moran

It's such a bullshit move. Transparently so. It's obviously supposed to give succor to people who feel pissed off because someone from another country got a job that they feel should've been given to them. But that's what people voted against here. They voted against the movement of labor - that kind of fluidity - because they want a Britain that no longer exists, and they can't get it.

e. e. cummings

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems

E. B. White

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

E. B. White

The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.

E. B. White

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.