Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Thomas

The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Bethany McLean

The story took on an importance later that it did not deserve originally. Whether I wrote that story or not, Enron would have gone bankrupt, investors would have lost billions of dollars and thousands of people would have lost their jobs. I just picked up on an underlying skepticism. If you had told me then that the company would go under by the end of the year, I would have never believed it. I was as naive as the rest of us.

Melody Davidson

The team believed and trusted in each other. There were no negatives on the bench. Everyone knew we had a lot of game left.

Alan Bates

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.

Molly Antopol

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.

Shilpa Shetty

I've never believed in dieting, but there are people out there who have problems. My advice would be don't ever stop yourself to a point where you start craving something, because you end up bingeing. I think the key word is moderation.

Alice McDermott

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

Dave Wannstedt

I've always believed this: The game comes down to the players executing,

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Tom Rosenstiel

Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner,

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Alan Young

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.

Perry Farrell

Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Siri Hustvedt

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

Bill Cox

Of course, we don't know exactly all the facts and circumstances. But apparently, there had been a disagreement. We weren't there. We don't what all went on. But we know how it culminated. We know how it ended. It was tragic and horrible.

Jim Sheehan

No one was ejected and the reason explained to me is that the officials couldn't identify exactly what happened. That to me is disappointing.

Christopher Sands

So the sense of where the problem is has shifted as people become more sophisticated about what exactly is going on,

Steve Cooper

No two viewers perceive a play exactly the same. In addition, each moment on stage is a new experience for an actor, too.

Michael Allen

Sonny was a no-frills kind of guy. He shot straight from the shoulder. You knew exactly where you stood with him.

Peter Jackson

Sometimes the shooting of it is extremely arduous, because it's not an exact science.

Doug Griffin

Seeding isn't an exact science. If it was, they'd be no reason to play the games.

Tom McClintock

Proposition 54 simply says that our government has got to stop classifying us by race, ... It doesn't matter what race you are. The government should treat everyone exactly the same." ()

Charles Schumer

Any talk of dismantling it would be inappropriate given its unique expertise and resources.

Lee Scott

That's when they become the experts and can help teach the other kids. It's the highlight of my day.

Ben Nicholson

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Edward Norton

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

John Ortberg

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

Michael Palin

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

Katherine Green

Tony is one of a kind, a great communicator with a great personality who just happens to be an expert in hurricanes and humor. We are thrilled that he is rejoining our award-winning team at Fox 5 News,

Albert Einstein

The place of the expert is on tap not on top.

Stephen Cambone

The experts have been through it, and they have not found another plausible use for it.

Alan Lightman

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

Arthur C. Clarke

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Laurie Levenson

The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!

Abraham Verghese

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

Doris Lessing

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Allen Ginsberg

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Hamish Bowles

My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.

Jimmy Bennett

I formed some great friendships. I miss some of them. They're passed away and gone now,

Abdul Hakim

The next government will be formed from consensus. There are no red lines.

Dan Watson

The object is only a million years old. If the planet formed within the million years that it took between star formation and when we're seeing it now, that probably makes it the youngest planet we have ever seen.

Tom Brokaw

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

John Ortberg

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

William Aldis

It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it happened.

Larry Sabato

Is it possible that he can come back? Sure. There have been some tremendous and significant rebounds in American history and this would be one of them.

Cal Jillson

is going to plague him not only in his second term but in history even in Texas.

Megan Smith

I've been working on the lost history of technical women.

Josh Cammack

I've been told the most wins in school history is 13.

Lin Ezell

I've been one of those lucky people to have been involved with history for my whole career, ... Not many history majors get to do that.

Confucius

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that are past it is needless to blame.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The wine world is so big. Yes, there are styles of wines I don't like. Orange wine, natural wines and low-alcohol wines. Truth is on my side, and history will prove I am right.

Martin Freeman

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

Josie Bissett

Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don't want to miss any of my time with them.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime.

Bruce Tonjes

The staff may be talented enough to do the job. They may need different materials . . .

David Hare

The silence between us was profound. I thought it was his job to say something. Only now do I understand it was mine.

Jeff Greene

I've been a job creator. I've worked in the economy myself.

Owen McClain

I use to look for a perfect job. Now I look for any job and make it perfect for me.

Natalie Cole

I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

Pat Ryan

I wanted someone who, that was their job, and they'd be reliable.

Will Kemp

As an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Rachel Lawson

The thing about our sport is you have to turn around and it's a new game. You can't live in the past, you have to learn from your mistakes and keep moving.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Ricky Ford

Practicing politics is like professional football. You have to be smart enough to understand the rules and stupid enough to think what you are doing is important.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Barbara Mertz

Money was the manure of politics ...

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Susan Estrich

Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.

Dan Brown

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Ernest Hemingway

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

Henry Miller

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Doug Wojcik

He is kind of a replica of an Anthony Price.

Ed Perry

We will never be able to replicate what WJDA did, but we will try to do our best.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

Barbara Jordan

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Ayn Rand

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

Ayn Rand

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Ayn Rand

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Benito Mussolini

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

Brian Sandoval

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

Brian Tracy

The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

Brian Tracy

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Mahmoud Abbas

The most important step after the withdrawal will be how we protect, rebuild.

Mickael Pietrus

It was tough for us tonight and we're really going to try to step up on Wednesday and try to get a W before the break. It's very important to get a win on Wednesday.

Bill Worsham

This is a really significant and unexpected step in our development.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Janet Napolitano

This is a step in the right direction, but we really need more resources.

Todd Bertuzzi

That's my buddy. When I think he's getting overworked, I have to step in.

Glen Sather

You never know which one of them will step up, though.