Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Jordan

He just said, 'OK, Coach,' and that was the extent of it. It was a very brief conversation, and he was agreeable. I'm sure he's going to be professional. He's always played well under these circumstances. He's always responded the right way on the floor.

Kacey Musgraves

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

Nina Simmons

The night of the event, we brief all the security, all the police who are there, and the event staff who are working, and talk to them about what's going to happen, and what everybody's responsibilities are in the event that it does happen.

Stephen Phillips

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

John Felmy

It may be possible to push production higher for very brief periods, but the decision to do so must be made by individual companies, which will not compromise the safety of workers.

James Gleick

For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message that passed through their wires. Millions of telegrams - in fireproof safes. Imagine the possibilities for history!

Naomi Wolf

For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.

K. A. Applegate

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

Liu Jianchao

Anyway, I can brief you on China's position on Sudan.

Ann Coulter

Have we been cryptic? Right-wingers said Clinton was a lying, unscrupulous traveling salesman. It turned out he was a lying, unscrupulous traveling salesman. Now liberals scratch their heads demanding to know: So what was it about him you didn't like?

Mark Brunell

I thought Clinton was going to get hit in the mouth for a 7-yard loss.

Sherrod Brown

To get fast-track through Congress, Speaker Gingrich and President Clinton are wheeling and dealing like we've never seen before,

Lanny Davis

He was the go-to person in the Clinton White House.

Karl Rove

He increased his popular vote total by 11.6 million votes since 2000. That's four-and-a-half times the increase that President Clinton got between '92 and '96.

Sara Rue

In my mind I'm pretending that Geena Davis is actually running the country because it makes me feel a lot more secure. We all thought of Hillary Clinton when we heard they were making this show. I hope it takes off!

Gennifer Flowers

I don't have any interest whatsoever in getting back out there and bashing Hillary Clinton,

Jack Reed

The growth in the economy is not going to families, ... It's in stark contrast to what happened during the Clinton Administration.

Ulla Bock

All those socially constructed images connected with femininity -- the smile, the charm, the clothes -- she doesn't serve them, such as for example Hillary Clinton does.

Jim Rich

This is contrary to everything that the Marine Corps stands for,

Merle Haggard

That I'm a contrary old son of a bitch, I guess,

Ralph Lauren

All the kinds of things ... contrary to what the look is, ... I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction.

Lois Perrin

This law sends a message contrary to the aloha spirit.

Denise Sposato

It was a regrettable incident and is contrary to any of our established procedures at H&R Block. Confidentiality of customer information is our No. 1 priority.

Tim Curry

Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.

Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

Jean Lacordaire

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Michael McKeon

Any suggestion to the contrary ... is outrageous and wrong.

Ian Cameron

It is a less formal car, more streamlined, more about the individual.

Benjamin Franklin

Can grave and formal pass for wise, When Men the solemn Owl despise?

Chris Brown

In moving to a Web services-based SOA, we've quickly seen the need for more formal communications as our service teams become more distributed.

Bill Coleman

The idea is to have those goals, and then throughout the year, talk about them regularly with your boss. It can be something as formal as a monthly or quarterly meeting, or simply giving them good news in the hallway.

Bill Nye

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Neal Milner

Any big corporation, no matter how enlightened, needs some place that people can turn to outside of the formal processes where they can get their problems solved.

Joseph Biden

DOJ (Department of Justice) has told us repeatedly that there's a formal response working its way through red tape channels, but still nothing,

Yan Xuetong

They want a formal promise from Bush, but I think they will be disappointed.

Michael Shore

It's as formal as trading securities on the stock market.

Teller

If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.

Cybill Shepherd

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.

Gore Vidal

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

Jeffrey Toobin

There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept,

Tre Cool

I am no longer married, so ladies... there you go.

Sara Shepard

You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!

Wallace Stegner

You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I don't feel that my life, my professional life, is married to a reliance upon Instagram.

Rod Steiger

Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.

Walter Savage Landor

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

Kurt Cobain

Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Mandy Moore

It's weird to have to jump in to being married with somebody, but it was really easy.

Carmen Electra

I can't say whether or not I'll ever get married again, but I'm open to the possibility.

Al Gore

He wants to start this on a message of prayer and healing,

Ray Nagin

I think it's going to send a wonderful message to the world that New Orleans is on the road to recovery.

Terry Wood

We try to get the message out there that the ongoing support of our organization is essential,

Shirley Eaton

I don't even want to be on Twitter. I think it's abhorrent, people sending messages to say they're doing the washing-up or whatever.

Susan Collins

He was unambiguous in his message to us,

Richard Dawkins

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

Salman Rushdie

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Virginia Satir

The message sent is not always the message received.

William Thomas Stead

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

Roger Richards

In December, we observed an impropriety in the bookkeeping.

Thomas Breuer

The most astonishing thing is that we have observed them using tools not for obtaining food, but for postural support.

Cinnamon Williams

They've already been observed mating. I was not here, but I have been told.

Chris Wedge

One of the things I've observed since I was a kid, is that if you work on something long enough you'll find I, even if you're lost for a while you'll find it.

Salar Kamangar

We observed by talking with our users that there is no reason to think of IM as different from an e-mail message.

Ty Cobb

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Rob Halford

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

William Wordsworth

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Robert Plant

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

Wayne Thiebaud

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Wesley Snipes

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

Wayne Coyne

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

Laurie Graham

I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.

Bret Thompson

I'm sure the other teams are thinking they made the difference, but from my perspective we made things too easy.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Lindsey Tippins

I think administration has said, 'Well, we got to do that because that's what the policy says.' I don't think that's what the policy says.

Rick Warren

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Dan Smith

It's worth considering the value of these trees when making policy decisions.

Karen Davis

It's a pretty minor, very targeted set of policy prescriptions that don't go to the root of our fundamental problems in the health-care system.

Noam Chomsky

Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.

Nicholas Stern

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

Azzam Tamimi

I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.

Luigi Speranza

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Kelly Slater

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

Lois Capps

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,

Kathleen Hanna

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Michael Keaton

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Oprah Winfrey

What do you want women to know about intuition?

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Rebecca West

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Will Durst

Men are superior to women. For one thing, men can urinate from a speeding car.