Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Shutt

He wanted to tell all of the fans and everyone across the state that he appreciates their thoughts and prayers.

Cheryl Peyerk

He comes to me when I call him. One day I was by the mailbox and I called for him, and he came running across the lawn to me. It was so funny.

Bill Clinton

There are tens of thousands of these small NGOs across the globe that are changing lives in phenomenal ways everyday,

Newt Gingrich

What you are building, if you build it right, if you dedicate yourself to perfection, will allow the people across the planet to be free for the next half century, will allow America to lead the world,

Ed Skyler

Having shared a lot of meals with him over the years, I can assure owners of Chinese restaurants across the city that this is a mayor who has and will continue to deeply love Chinese food.

Kevin Kolb

He's a big target, which is the biggest thing for me. We have a lot of little speed guys, so when he comes across the middle, as big as he is, all I can say is, 'Whoa!' I like it. We had problems scoring in the red zone last year and a little bit this year, so he's going to help out a lot with that.

Unknown

Here's to you and yours and to mine and ours, And if mine and ours ever come across you and yours, I hope you and yours will do as much for mine and ours, As mine and ours have done for you and yours!

Alex Auld

His shot is hard enough when you can see it. So when it comes across on a one-timer like that, with a screen in front, that's even tougher.

Randy Edsall

It comes across pretty well (on tape). You think there's a hole and you see them play Auburn and North Carolina and you think the guy might get 15 yards but he only gets about eight. They run to the ball very well. But that doesn't mean we can't move the ball.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Amy Walter

Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that.

Colleen Atwood

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Marge Schott

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

Jim Rice

Knowledge is power. Your education is the most important thing you can do.

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

John Adams

Keeping an army in America has been nothing but a public nuisance

Fred Gaudelli

Just those words, 'Monday Night Football,' and America knows what you're talking about.

Maria Salas

Just the fact the movie is out there has a positive effect and presents an element of diversity to Americans. The exposure of sexual orientation and diversity in America is important to all elements of our society.

Paul Light

I think Bush takes a big hit. He's vulnerable on it, even if it's not totally fair.

Tom Daschle

President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

John Sifton

It's time for the Bush administration to shut the secret prisons and stop holding people illegally.

Joseph Wu

It will make people around the world doubt the consistency of U.S. policy if Bush makes remarks that are harmful to a democratic country or critical of a popularly elected leader.

Joan Claybrook

They certainly raise questions about how far Bush went to help Enron and what other favors he might have done.

Karen Finney

The truth of the matter is that Bush policies hurt African-Americans.

Wendy Long

The vote was 10-8 the day President Bush nominated him, the vote was 10-8 when the hearings began, the vote was 10-8 yesterday, and the vote is 10-8 today.

Karen Hughes

The vote count on Tuesday night showed Governor Bush won Florida's election and a recount has now confirmed his victory. We hope Vice President Gore and his campaign will reconsider their threats of lawsuits or still more recounts which could undermine the constitutional process of selecting a president and have no foreseeable end.

Wu Jianmin

the U.S. government and President Bush for making the effort to get me back . . . Without (their) help I would not be free right now.

Derek Halpenny

A consensus reading is not going to continue to support the dollar.

Christine Lagarde

There will not be consensus and there will not be major progress (in Hong Kong),

Tony Blair

That's why it's important, I think, that as long as it takes -- and maybe it's not possible to reach consensus at the moment -- that there is a reform of the Security Council at some stage.

David George

Don't run the consensus up, especially not in the first quarter.

Jeoff Hall

Anecdotes, including purchasing manager surveys and regional and national Fed indices, do little to support the consensus view of a 210,000 gain. Moreover, the market has a tendency to overestimate November payrolls.

Money Magazine

Earnings are supposed to be up 10 percent by the second quarter of 2002 if you look at the consensus numbers, ... But our guess is that they'll be down about 10 percent by the second quarter of 2002.

Bill Hornbarger

Everyone wants to get through the Fed with the affirmation. The consensus in the marketplace is no move out of the Fed and I do think that's been priced into the market.

Ron James

(Ferraro) has a model of what he wants, and either I fit into that model or I don't. When the season ends, we'll come to a consensus if we're heading in the right direction or the wrong direction.

Michael Shifter

There's no consensus on how to move forward.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Tony Greig

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

John Cornyn

What worries me more than anything else is this mind-set that once people go to Mexico there's nothing law enforcement in this country can do.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Happy is the country that has no history.

Jose Lima

He's a stud. I like Diaz, and not because he's from my .country. He could be from Japan. He's still a stud.

Richard Raymond

I think the firewalls are in place to keep that virus from getting into this country other than the migratory flyways.

Dennis Miller

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Willie Savannah

Juan has been wanting to fight. If it was up to him, he would have defended his title three or four times in the past year instead of once.

Andrew Park

It is great that I can go to a place where I can walk on the same ground of somebody that defended our country,

Ian Holloway

We've got to learn to shut up shop like they did and I hope that we can defend like that when we go to Wolves,

Jim Nesser

I think we wore down a bit. It's tough to bang, rebound, defend and score. It took its toll on us. Plus, TJ stepped their game up.

Ted Cruz

I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

Dan DeBruycker

I don't know any team that has five guys who consistently can score. We try to take one or two guys away when we play each team. I learn something differently with how people defend us each game.

Jose Saramago

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

Dan Brown

I am a novelist, not a historian. I needed to go back, so I could defend the work.

Bill Cowher

I think it does in a lot of people's eyes. To me, it is a lot more about the journey than the final destination.... But in a lot of people's eyes, it is the defining part of a career.

Peter Mandelson

not in narrowing differences but in defining them.

Corey Dillon

Oh, I don't know. We'll see. I don't want to put any stock in that. I can't put stock in that yet. ... If he doesn't do it the right way, and that's going to be the defining mode of this football team, we won't miss a beat. He says the right things to me, but I see better than I hear.

Brian Bosworth

All I want is the defining moment.

Britney Spears

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

David Quarmby

Trafalgar was a defining moment in Britain's history as it established Britain's maritime ascendancy for 100 years which saw a fantastic growth of trade and empire during Victorian times,

Peter Lindbergh

The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.

Sinbad

There's no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.

Jim Webb

There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

William James

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William Ellery Channing

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Robinson Jeffers

And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom. You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.

Vladimir Lenin

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Virginia Woolf

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Bobby Cox

I talked to Leo and I think he's going home and that's a big thing if a guy can do that. I think it's a good situation for him. He had a wonderful 15 years here and we move on.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

William Whewell

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

Walter Huston

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

Malin Akerman

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

Emilio Estevez

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

Bob Hiester

They come with the lines on it. You order it for the sports you want.

Helen Allen

It was a madhouse, ... if you wait until voting day, then you've got the long lines and you get tired.

Bill Gates

The mainstream is always under attack.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Steve Albini

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Tom Goguen

There are also some 30 kickbacks that we are starting to use in the mainstream of the operating system.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Rick Warren

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

Ella Wilcox

If you work with zeal and ardor till the night,You can only make the wasted moments right.

Dee Brown

I just threw it up and prayed for it to go in. It was just big momentum for us before halftime.

Craig Kelly

I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son, ... All I want is to be reunited with my son.

David Stahl

If Merck can win on those, then they can really say they've got some momentum on their side.

Sebastian Coe

The international people tell us that we are taken seriously and that there is a momentum.

Jose Carreras

I am always living very good moments.

Henri Richard

A lot of momentum we are seeing is simply because we are offering choice.

Richelle Mead

Did you follow me from the party?" "Yes" "I didn't even know you were there." His dark clothes indicated he must have been on guardian duty at the party. "So you saw the illustrious Janine cause a commotion by dragging me out." "It wasn't a commotion. Hardly anyone noticed. I saw because I was watching you.

Sarah Palin

Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk. To just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

Sara Cox

To be honest, it's a bit of a relief not having to be the party animal for a change.

Rhys Ifans

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

Richard Rorty

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

Robert Caro

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

Robert Carlyle

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

Rob Bell

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime...

Richard Rohr

Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marriage, anti the Democratic party.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Steve Stirling

He is not flashy; he does all the things a smart player does. If I had to pick one player, I'd say it was him (that was most impressive).

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Wally Szczerbiak

Pick your poison. Try to stop K.G. or me . . . They wanted to play a small lineup, and we made them pay.

Andy Reid

You could pick out anything and we probably didn't do it well.

Steve Terry

You couldn't have picked a better day for spring break.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Woodrow Wilson

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

William McKinley

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William J. Clinton

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

Sarah Palin

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

Richard M. Nixon

If the President does it, it can't be illegal.

William Howard Taft

The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president

Kate Millett

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

Cory Doctorow

Like all security, privacy is hard.

Rosie Perez

You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

Marie Dressler

I'll have my double chins in privacy.

Lisa Kudrow

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

David Clohessy

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

John Sparkman

We can't make promises that we can give you assistance.

Eric Hoffer

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We need our radicals.

Ambrose Bierce

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Mort Sahl

I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!

Dana Rohrabacher

I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

Waylon Jennings

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

David Warren

If you're going to come, you have to respect our event.

Dallas Drake

I'm sure he will. He had a lot of respect in St. Louis.

Ricky Williams

I'm disappointed with the decision, but I respect it.

Khalil Gibran

Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

Khalil Gibran

Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

Jacob Bronowski

Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Nancy Pelosi

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Leon Panetta

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

John Garamendi

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Adam Sohn

He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Tim Howard

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Lyle Thomas

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Heather Dougherty

If someone wants to play catch-up fast, that's the way to go.

Ivan Rodriguez

He's the manager. If he wants me to DH, I'll DH.

Irving Layton

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.