Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Biden

Judge, if I looked only at what you've said and written in the past, I'd feel compelled to vote no.

George William Norris

In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.

Jonas Mekas

It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.

Mitch Daniels

I am compelled to note that Father Jenkins is off to a somewhat shaky start. He has violated the first rule of all great leaders, which is to never follow a superstar.

Pete Stark

CMS felt compelled to release some details about plan offerings today because tomorrow plans will start bombarding beneficiaries with marketing materials,

George H. W. Bush

I hereby authorize the Washington Redskins to use any means necessary to wiretap and eavesdrop on any Giants' conversations, meetings, and/or game planning sessions. And if they feel compelled to torture an equipment manager or secretary to obtain the necessary information, then they have my blessing.

Garry Trudeau

I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.

Marissa Moss

Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.

Ronald Schmelzer

It looks like the market and customers have compelled IBM to release its own ESB-branded product as a way of offsetting the increasing noise and competition in the space for those sorts of products,

Bruce Larner

Joe's a good player, but he's only a sophomore. His father used to teach at Okemos, so I had a feeling he'd have a big game for us.

Randy Price

He was a father figure to all of us.

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

Keith Gilbertson

He comes from lineage of tough people. His grandfather was a great football player at Idaho. His father was a great player at Boise State. He comes by this naturally. He's the next generation of tough guys.

Galeazzo Ciano

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Steve Wallace

Her father managed the officers' mess and Gloria was the cashier.

Yiddish Proverb

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Michael Brown

His whole life was his family. It's a tragic situation for everyone involved. These two young children, they have no mother, no father and no grandma.

Todd Kolson

The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Boris Vian

Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes it and the sol which follows it.

Kenneth Chenault

Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

Hebrew Proverb

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great

Marcus Williams

I thought we were going to win. We were in the same situation to Friday night. We just didn't follow through.

Christopher Brown

I think the judge followed the law. I know it hurt Mr. Parker, but the judge did what was fair.

Joe Tiller

I think the NFL is in Brandon's heart, and he should follow his heart.

Floyd Reese

Whatever the rules are, we'll follow them. I personally think it's healthier for the league to have a cap, but that's my opinion.

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.

Michael Santos

John always had his heart in this village. Sometimes he thought he was the village. He was a great ambassador. He put Brewster on the map on several occasions.

Ronaldo

I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.

Rick Riordan

I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Rian Johnson

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

Willa Cather

The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.

Walter Benjamin

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Yukio Mishima

Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.

Willie Nelson

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

Nandan Nilekani

I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Guru Singh

He has no rival, no attacker, no enemy. His rule is unchanging and eternal, He does not come or go.

Charlie Brown

If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Tom Daschle

I haven't ruled anything out or anything in at this point.

Larry Jones

You used to spend a lot of your time with a ruler in your hand.

Antony Starr

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

Patrick Leahy

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

Peter Ueberroth

The rules have changed, ... The old thing of 'getting in line,' that's gone.

John Tory

Even the rules that are in place are not being followed.

Jack Kilby

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

Don Lindburg

It really is turning out to be somewhat of a hardship.