Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. J. Rose

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

Niels Bohr

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

John Waters

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is ""God is crying."" And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is ""Probably because of something you did.

Indra Nooyi

I wouldn't ask anyone to do anything I wouldn't do myself.

Nicolas Sarkozy

One asks himself why a certain number of young French people are in Pakistan in religious schools, ... It's not normal that an individual who lives in our neighborhoods leaves all of a sudden for four months in Afghanistan, three months in Syria. We want to know who is going where, for how long, and when they come back.

Terry Davis

We're desperate for people. It asks for commitment because the clubs are held twice a week but we need to have two people there at all times.

John Page

Just about everybody who comes through the door asks what kind of incentive programs are available.

Michel Gauthier

We intend to support the government if what it asks us to do respects our basic principles and the interests of Quebec. If the government respects those conditions, we will try to let it function for a good while.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

Mike Redmond

I've played through it, but it just got to the point where that was it. I couldn't basically run. I feel good about doing everything I could. I battled through a majority of the season, especially the last two weeks.

Eric Schwartz

These basic rights are spelled out in the UN's Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

Michael Callahan

The Shi Tao case raises profound and troubling questions about basic human rights, Ultimately American companies in China face a choice: comply with Chinese law, or leave.

Sam Zarifi

These events give the lie to the king's repeated statements about his firm belief in democracy. If he wants his public commitments to fundamental liberties to be taken seriously, he has to show that his forces will respect basic human rights standards.

Kit Williams

The state law has basically no effect on city ordinances, which remain in effect as long as they are more strict than the state law. A city ordinance doesn't overrule state law. A city ordinance can't make things less strict than state law.

Brian Kernighan

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

Bruce Hyde

We need to make it a more functional area.

Marc Grunert

Long before they ever get to the point they need to be taken out from the standpoint of a structural deficiency, they end up being replaced because of a functional deficiency.

J. L. Austin

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?

Myles Munroe

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

John Sicher

These products are sold on function more than taste.

Rob Smith

It's a function of the number of students that come in, and we need to plan for the housing of those students.

Lauren Gelman

It's a functional test: Is what you are doing journalism?

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

John Rhys-Davies

Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up!

Dan Dakich

The more Indiana ties you can get, the better. You've got to recruit Indiana and there's enough good young kids in the state that you've got to recruit it hard.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Jane Jacobs

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Jamie Dimon

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Howard Stringer

Sony BMG did not intend to punish the consumer.

Phil Gramm

Quite frankly, I'd rather go to the dentist. But I intend to go,

Gary Condit

I've been married for 34 years, and I intend to stay married to that woman as long as she'll have me.

Joseph Fuiten

This isn't something we intend to just let slide. In the view of a lot of evangelicals, they have overstepped their bounds. It's muscle time.

Edward Brooke

I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.

Alan Pardew

That's what I intend to do as soon as possible.

Ken Leavitt

We intend to meet our obligations, one way or another.

Alex Villalobos

I do intend to get my votes back.

Michael Garcia

He knowingly, willingly participated in this crime, ... He wanted to kill, he intended to kill, and he did kill.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

S. Walker

You have to go in and find out what their interests are, and take it from there.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

David Miliband

Al Qaeda has no place in Pakistan. It's a threat to Pakistan. And there should be a convergence of interests between the Pakistani state and the West on security issues, but also on wider economic and social issues.

Martha Stewart

This is what truly interests us, why we all come to work every day ... our passion is and always should be to make life better,

Alan Lightman

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Clay Shirky

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

D. H. Lawrence

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

David Steel

I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.

David Lloyd George

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

Ambrose Bierce

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

Andy Stanley

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

Rene Descartes

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

Brian Sandoval

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Arthur Bloch

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

Sam Keen

Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.

Sonny Rollins

I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.

Richie Sambora

I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by.