Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?

Wendy Murphy

We also want not to blame women. We always want to make clear it's always the criminal's fault, 100 percent.

Afghan Proverb

The person sins, then blames Satan for it

Ken Khachigian

The point here is to move forward, to get the debate moving from fault and blame to solutions.

William Shakespeare

Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be

Rick Carlisle

We have no one to blame but ourselves. You play a lousy third quarter and give up a bunch of turnovers, you're going to tempt fate with that kind of play over a 12-minute period.

Rich McBride

We have no one to blame but ourselves. Now is the only time to prove ourselves. Otherwise, we'll go home.

Rick Carlisle

We have no one to blame but ourselves. I give Boston credit. They hung in and did what they have to do to win the game.

Chaka Fattah

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

Kass James

The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.

Norman MacCaig

There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again.

Peter Kent

There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.

Adam Rothberg

We're in favor of any program that can give our books more exposure.

James Browning

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

Heinrich Heine

Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.

Nina Jacobson

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

Nicolas Roeg

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

Nikki Grimes

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

Brian MacKenzie

It's not like Big Brother; it's a sentence that's trying to do the right thing, the appropriate thing to guarantee the community's safety, ... It's not going to be in their car forever, but it's going to be there to demonstrate that they've learned to drive appropriately so that there's one less person who is sitting two inches off your bumper at 80 mph.

Stephen Sansweet

There's a bumper sticker, 'He who dies with the most toys wins,' ... That's not quite my philosophy, but close. I'm not looking to amass size (in the collection) as much as cool things when they show up.

Brian Moore

The brace works like a bumper on your car. It absorbs the load. So a lot of the load isn't distributed through the body, it's actually distributed through the brace.

Kirk Pengilly

Sometimes I hear it in his voice, but anyway, at the end of the day he's the shiny bumper bar.

Hani Durzy

The Reagan memorabilia runs the gamut of his life, everything from an original bumper sticker from the 1980 election to magazine covers and T-shirts. It just shows that Reagan had many admirers.

Joe Johnson

This was the one that I really wanted to leave the most, you know? We left and got to the interstate. Traffic was bumper to bumper, not moving, so we turned around and came back home.

Ron White

I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.

Caroline DeWaal

Last year, there was a bumper crop of food-borne illnesses from FDA-regulated foods.

Mark Ruffalo

I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.

Richard Boulderstone

We acknowledge the considerable work that has to be undertaken by publishers to make the transition to a new structure for their electronic journal content. However, by supporting a common structure for e-journal content we have established a shared international context in which such migration can now proceed.

John Segrich

Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time.

Carol Jordan

There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.

Gordon Brown

Where I think there is common ground now, and I think that goes for producer and consumer countries, is that everyone agrees we must have more stable long-term oil prices,

Kurt Vonnegut

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

Benjamin Spock

Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Carolyn Wells

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

Agnes Repplier

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

James Schamus

It's essentially flattering, It says more about those making of the jokes than about the movie.

Ronde Barber

It's not like we're messing with some jokes at wideout here,

Matt Roth

You don't want to make him mad. He's not one for jokes or antics.

David Cross

I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous.

Ben Falcone

I'm not much of a joke writer.

Ricky Gervais

I can't find someone funny whom I don't like. Hitler told great jokes. I didn't find it funny at all.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

Brad Williams

Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them.

Ted Levy

They're all positioned quite well. There are no losers in this battle.

Mirko Slomka

That was a real setback. We are the losers of this round.

Hilary Swank

I think it's unfortunate that things are seen as winners or losers because in the end, it's the performance that matters.

Larry Chapman

I just know that winners smile and losers say deal. We have to get better.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Carolyn Wells

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Cherie Lunghi

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Scott Westerfeld

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Paul Lowe

This is where I voted from, this is where I live, this is it.

Michelle Anderson

I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.

Bob Crowder

I voted the way I thought we had to.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

M. Hopper

I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.

Hon Ip

It will be like 'Survivor.' We'll see which ones get voted off the island.

Ahmed Ali

We voted for the one who can make a change,

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Jeremy Osborne

It's very ambiguous. It was specifically written to be ambiguous.

Terrence McNally

This play was written for these 11 actors just as 'Master Class' was written for Zoe Caldwell, or 'Frankie and Johnny' was written for Kathy Bates,

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Paul Theroux

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

Felipe Alou

What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.