Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Bill Belichick

Do you think we're going to win any more games playing like this? We can't play like this. We have to play better. We have to coach better. This won't be good enough . . . against anyone we play.

Bill Ball

Defensively we were very good against the run (Keene had 39 yards rushing in the game) and we tackled well, but we need to get better against the pass. Our defense will be fine.

Brian Blume

Defensively, I wasn't displeased. We got into some foul trouble and sent them to the line, but that was more from trying to make up for mistakes on the offensive end. Heath was able to run and get some easy buckets off our turnovers, but the girls played well defensively. They probably had 30 points off our turnovers. They really didn't score much against us out of their half-court sets. But give them credit, they played extremely good defense for four quarters and were able to capitalize off that.

Graeme Smith

Definitely. We're not disappointed with the fact that we got bowled out in the last innings, the disappointing thing for us is that we had opportunities but didn't take them. We always knew that batting last against the two spinners would be difficult but it was in the middle of the game that we lost it.

Edwin Jackson

Definitely, me being a competitor, I like to get even. No one likes to get beat down. For me pitching to the Yankees twice, I tried to look at it in a positive way. Just as well as I can do bad, I can go out and do good. I'm ready to handle any challenge. It's fun going out there and compete against guys who can hit.

Alberto Bernal

Companies are signing these accords because it's a lost battle against the government. We still remember Shell. Sooner or later, there will be problems with the supply, which will be lower because no company will want to produce if it doesn't receive a proper profit.

Tyler Browne

Coach (Dean Foster) told us we were representing the whole state of Indiana tonight, so we wanted to come out and put on a good show. We felt like we didn't play very well last night (Friday against St. Joseph's), so we felt we had something to prove out here tonight.

Kevin Keller

Coming off the Poway game, we wanted to come in and give a good effort. We got everyone into the game against a top caliber team.

Charles Bukowski

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

Douglas Booth

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

Doug Stanhope

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

Doug Stanhope

The only legitimate excuse you could have for having a baby in those dire, war torn, famine struck conditions - would be to eat it.

Duke Ellington

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

Douglas William Jerrold

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

Dwayne Hickman

The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens who watch the show on cable.

Clare Boothe Luce

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

Dick Gregory

Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Sue Shipman

This is the basic premise for everything. Gather, purge and sort. This pile is to take to another room where you can look at it later. And this is the indecision pile. Come back when you have another opportunity.

Norman Cook

The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you sort of spreading the word in different cities.

Rex Berryman

The way we played, we were about the dumbest group we've ever put on the field here. Not to take anything away from Hamilton, they played well, but we didn't even play basic baseball.

Jack Kilby

This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.

Anthony Schlegel

That's why it's football and you have to play with your eyes. All that window dressing, they're still going to run the same basic stuff. They can run it out of different things, but you just have to play with your eyes.

Greg Forte

All a recipe is is a road map -- how to get from Point A to Point B. In the recreational books, it's a lot more descriptive. Cooking isn't brain surgery. It isn't rocket science. It's the application of some basic principles. It just takes some experience.

Kurt Scherf

You see this movement by the carriers and their equipment partners to make sure that home networking becomes as easy and hassle-free to install and configure -- not only to get the basic performance working right, but also the security issue.

Sonny Perdue

You see, I believe most people want just a few basic things from government. They want safe neighborhoods, good schools, good roads and the opportunity for good jobs to support their families. They want a safety net in place for the hard times.Beyond that, they just want government to leave them alone.

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

Glenn Tasker

Bill would be invaluable as a member of our coaching staff.

Tracy Davids

While they are complaining that species aren't recovering, the new bill removes recovery as a goal at all.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Harold Evensky

There is nothing in the tax bill that requires an immediate response.

Robert Martin

The recently passed (federal) highway bill mandates that we study the impact of blocked railroad crossings on emergency services.

Gerry Adams

We in Sinn Fein have many good friends in the USA, with this president (George W. Bush) and former president Bill Clinton,

Mike Tranghese

I think there's this public perception that we're under tremendous scrutiny, so I guess that's true, but I have to tell you, I would never have that conversation with West Virginia. I would never impose that extra burden on them.

Noam Chomsky

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

Andy Card

That's a pretty significant burden to carry. The president and the chief of staff have to have a relationship where they don't necessarily share with others what they talk about. That level of confidence and trust is very dear.

Marilyn French

Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but pretend that this burden is not work; they do not reward it as work or count it as work in global accounting, in either developing

Emma Stone

What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it's not.

Lyndon B. Johnson

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Michael Klein

The Jacksonville Business Coalition will study alternative water sources, but this financial burden should not be placed on us. Extraordinary circumstances demand extraordinary steps.

Zhang Jianguo

The measures we made for our 1.16 million pupils is to show our determination of relieving the burden on the children.

Paul Christie

Traditionally, trucking has not focused on developing and maintaining good human resources practices. Companies like Unique Personnel are able to remove much of that burden from our clients but there is a definite need for more of this type of expertise in the industry and we are happy to help develop it.

If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.

Brad Rutta

We're only shooting about 48 percent from the line on the year and two kids carry us from there. If they're not on the line, it hurts. Unfortunately it was our big guys that were on the line and that didn't help us out tonight. They shot free throws well and we didn't.

Jack Roush

It is important we peak right. It is important to carry momentum into the chase,

Danielle Goyette

I will carry our flag for all the athletes.

Stephanie Aveiro

HUD expects us to carry out our responsibilities to the federal government. If the leases are violated, we have to take action. This is our way of, I guess, putting out the message that a lease violation is very serious.

Brian Baum

He was probably our hardest worker on the team. His work ethic will carry on for years and years in some of our younger kids. He showed them this is what it takes to be successful.

Bob Kurtz

I don't carry a lock, because I don't let it out of my sight.

Kevin Connors

He hasn't even played a full season yet, ... We're going to carry three point guards. We talked to a lot of folks, and it was a priority to get a veteran, solid player.

Jim Bates

He did a good job throughout the preseason of limiting the penalties. He had a couple spells where he had more penalties than he should have had. He has all the athleticism to carry out the technique, the speed to run with the receivers, the toughness. And he had a good camp,

Dick Enberg

said Simms. ''It's a matter of time. The game is much faster in the TV booth. It's so hard to get it done in a three-man booth. There's less time to talk. With only two guys, Troy will be able to set it up, and decide what he wants to show and tell. I'm sure he's going to enjoy it. I'm also sure he liked Cris and working with him. But this is about freedom.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

David Walsh

We give you the facts to make an informed decision. We have to decide what we want to do as a community,

Olga Pomar

We don't think the residents of Cramer Hill should be forced out of their homes and that their homes should be taken by eminent domain. They had already selected the developer and decided on the proposal they would use before they had objectively evaluated the neighborhood and heard from the public.

Kent Jarrell

We could decide to settle others. We are not entertaining the notion of a global settlement.

Bernie Worrell

Everything is always evolving. Right now we are in a search mode. Everybody's searching. And who can say or decide what it's gonna be?

Terry Ryan

We'll let the market decide where he's going to be at.

Jim Haslett

Last year was a hard year on myself and all the coaches, and really the whole city. So I decided that if I didn't get a job, or the right job, that I would probably sit out a year and see if I could get back in the next year.

Stephen Briggs

So it doesn't matter really whether it is or it isn't, the gold market has decided it is an issue.

Li Yong

This was the most difficult time in my life.

Jamey Wright

This was the first time I've ever hit in the first inning, so to get a hit and be a part of the fun was kind of cool. It's not real difficult to pitch with a 15-run lead, but I'm happy with the way I went about my business.

Lester Sullivan

This was a very difficult thing for us, to even stage Mardi Gras this year.

Richie Adubato

This was a very difficult game for our players. We had to finish this season the way we played this season. We always gave it 110 percent.

David Montgomery

This was a very difficult decision. No one works harder than Ed, and he has served this organization extraordinarily well for over 16 years.

Pat McMahon

This was a difficult loss for a lot of reasons. And they were all hard.

Chris Rankin

We try to talk them through it and get them to realize where they're headed if they can't straighten out. It is a difficult process for some of them to realize the path they're going down.

David Cooper

We expect the first wave of the epidemic to go for eight to 12 weeks; then there is usually a second peak - how are we going to exist in those eight weeks without shutting the whole society down is a difficult question.

Steve Milunovich

We expect the first half of 2001 could be difficult with fundamentals and stock prices improving in the second half, ... The question now is: 'Hard landing versus soft landing?'

Greg Nossaman

Everybody in town is talking about it, No. 1 and No. 2. But I told the kids at practice on Monday we're not talking about it, and we're not going to talk about it until Thursday at 9 p.m. If we're fortunate enough to win this game, then we can talk about it as soon as they want.

Paul Spicer

Everybody in this locker room left it on the field.

Tony Amonte

Everybody in this locker room is on his side trying to help him out. Hopefully he gets everything in order and is ready for the stretch run, because he's the guy we need in the lineup.

Ken Reynolds

Everybody in this lineup is expected to do it. They're not all as good at it as others, but they're all expected to do it.

David Ortiz

Everybody in this game needs help, even I need help. When you are young and talented like Mo, you like to have people around you who you can learn from. That's why we are here. At one time, we were his age. The same thing happened to us.

Wolf Blitzer

Everybody in the world should know that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,

Khaled Mashaal

Everybody in the world says that. I know, I know.

Kevin Connors

Everybody in the sub-region now has two losses. Hopefully we've still got one win on the road left in us.

Terri Sullivan

Everybody in the state should be able to see Greg Ryberg on some channel. He said that he was in this to get his message out and he's a man of his word.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Deion Sanders

I like what I see. I think the league is heading in the proper direction.

Todd Watkins

It was Mendenhall's first victory as a head coach, so that was a moral victory for us.

Laime Contreras

It was more mental than anything. She got in my head and I shouldn't have let her, but I did. I was thinking about it too much.

Chris Petersen

It's kind of what I expected. I've been around for a long time. And around a lot of head coaches. I've seen a lot of things.

Kevin Pietersen

I hate these reality TV shows where people walk off Big Brother and think they're A-list celebrities when they've done nothing in their lives, it really does my head in.

Solomon Jones

So close. I mean, we're just going to get one of these. We've just got to keep our head up and we'll get one of these.

Sharon Alexander

That's a huge head start, truly, in the fund-raising process.

Bill Grant

There's a lot of seniors sitting at home doing nothing and they would have to be here using their head and they would be busy. It would give them a little purpose.

Pam Borton

They made the plays they needed to make in overtime.

Jim Pappas

They made some big plays when they needed to, and we weren't able to make them when we needed them.

Mike Holmgren

They needed the week off. They were a little banged up and sore, so why not?

Jeremy Davies

They took it to us with offensive rebounding. They played well and we didn't play the way we needed to play to keep it competitive.

Greg Jackson

They ran up and down, and we needed to rest.

Brian Butch

It's one of those things where you keep playing with it and keep going to work on it. You just go out there and play. We needed a big road win.

Jim Peterson

It's one world -- we needed one look.

Doug Parker

It's taken us some time to truly understand what is needed to do it.

Michael Redd

You don't want to get used to losing. We're still in the hunt. We needed a win real bad. We stopped the bleeding.

Les Brown

People couldn't get down here. They couldn't find it, so they'd go a different way and go somewhere else.

Carol Schatz

People couldn't get down here. Some stayed and went on walking tours.

Kim Clijsters

People come up to me here and say, 'This is your year,'  ... but I know it's not easy. You always have to focus.

Annie Golden

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

Martin Berson

People come to yoga to find themselves. Stretching releases tension, but there?s also a meditative, spiritual aspect. ..You are going to get physical benefits, and that?s fine. But if you have the right teacher, you?re going to get all the other stuff, too.

Steve Farmer

People come to visit here, and they really like the place.

Bob Richards

People come to see the stars, and then they walk away with two or three new favorites.

Mari Dietz

People come back year after year to see what we're wearing.

John McGee

People feel more comfortable with that. They know everybody.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The President is the peoples lobbyist.

Howard Coble

I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.

Howard Dean

Barry Goldwater once said, 'I'd rather be right than president.' I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.

Ibrahim Rugova

As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

Dick Cheney

He realizes he won't be president that long.

Geena Davis

For Thelma to be president -- I just think it's delightful,

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.

James Buchanan

I am the last President of the United States!

Olivier Gasnier

There are really no encouraging signs in this survey.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.

Mithun Chakraborty

It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.

Mitt Romney

I support the work of the NRA, but disagree sometimes.

Publilius Syrus

What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!

Leonardo da Vinci

Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

Learned Hand

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

Lauren Weisberger

Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Chris Martin

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

Norman McLaren

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

Oliver Sacks

I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

Evan Parker

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.

Moby

It takes a unique woman to see me as any sort of catch.

Kevin Costner

When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

Kenneth Tynan

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.

Kathleen Blanco

When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Don Herold

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Don McLean

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

Dylan Thomas

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste ...

Dorothy L. Sayers

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

Dorothy L. Sayers

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

Don Shula

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.