Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grover Norquist

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.

Bobby May

That's not a very good start, I'm afraid. This is a big day for me, an important day, one that when I started thinking about doing this and actually making this appearance, I began to get a little nervous about what's actually happening. Just maintaining your composure is not easy for me, but I'm going to forge forward.

Aasif Mandvi

The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.

Ted Chiang

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.

Terry Semel

When I began working in Yahoo, my family moved with me. Despite our efforts, our kids wanted to study in Los Angeles, and I was forced to see my family and friends only on weekends. In the beginning I even enjoyed it, but knew that at some stage I'd want to go back home.

Pete Newell

Bill Sharman was coach at that time and I didn't want to intrude, ... But Kermit had to learn to play facing the basket, which he'd never done. So, I began meeting him at the Loyola gym at 7:30 each morning and we'd work on his development.

Robert Routh

What began as a defensive campaign somehow turned into an offensive campaign.

Michelle Hunziker

We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.

Stephen Horn

We've been working on this since March, when they began running for office.

Henry Grunwald

My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.

Patrick Sullivan

A whole holiday about studying the Constitution just sounds like they're pushing, like they're trying to make more national pride and glorify the country, ... If one or two want to do it, that's fine but don't make it a holiday that everyone has to celebrate.

Ibrahim Jaafari

We are trying to move from a state constitution to a constitutional state,

Rafael Cruz

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Roger Pilon

There's irony in using an unconstitutional measure to promote Constitution Day.

John Roberts

What Daniel Webster termed 'the miracle of our Constitution' is not something that happens every generation,

Raila Odinga

The president admits that there should be a meeting between us to discuss pertinent issues on the constitution and the way forward.

Robert Anton Wilson

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

Stephen Ambrose

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Cathi Herrod

Let the people decide, not the courts. The definition of marriage needs to rise to the level of the constitution.

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Dan Witter

Brent developed into that role as the season progressed. He did a super job finding the open man out there. Overall I thought we progressed as a team and played to our strengths and that's probably why we finished third in the conference.

Andrew Adamson

We started with a treatment that we worked up and developed a story that we liked.

Eric Haxthausen

The fact that fuel prices have increased and more importantly, fuel price forecasts have increased since the proposal was developed suggests a stronger standard is warranted.

Mark Knox

Many of the facilities, tools and systems developed over the past 10 years can still be used for HD DVD. That translates to a much more rapid time to market, and a smoother and more economical transition.

Edmund Phelps

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

Jeff Ross

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Marc Bulger

It did surprise me to hear that, ... I really thought and still think he could be developed into a very good quarterback. When I went to see Nick at the end of the year, I told him the same thing.

Tom Allen

We feel he really developed in the offseason. He worked very, very hard.

Blaise Pascal

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

Sean Reilly

We are going to be faithful stewards of this federal money.

Claudio Hummes

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

John Quincy Adams

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

James A. Baldwin

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

J. C. Ryle

Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants' work than His servants do themselves... And then shall His faithful witnesses discover, to their wonder and surprise, that there never was a word spoken on their Master's behalf, which does not receive a reward.

Hudson Taylor

Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

Chris Byrd

To fight three times in three years is crazy. It has been disappointing to the point of sometimes you get frustrated and really just want to retire. I have been to that point, but God is faithful and I just keep plugging along. I just have to remain patient and fights will happen, but it has been disappointing.

Walter Scott

To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.

Tony Russa

And then the other stuff falls into place. As you saw there, that's what he's been doing all year long. I can't remember seeing a pitcher all the years that I've managed that has been so good every time out.

Saurav Kalra

The Skin in not important, but the 'Soul', to fall in Love and reach the Heaven's Door.

Justin McNaull

The thing we hit as we head into fall is leaf-peeping, and leaf-peeping takes a lot of gas,

Mario Hernandez

It was all on fire and the roof had fallen in.

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Marcus Miller

This is the first time we've played soccer in the spring; we have just played in the fall in the past, so it's kind of fun to see some different teams.

Benito Mussolini

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

Brian Andreas

Falling into Place: deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.

James Van Der Beek

You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me,

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Blaise Pascal

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Edmund Burke

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Janet Maslin

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

Mike Felix

We know teams are gunning for us. Especially after we swept South Alabama. We're a hot team right now, but we've got to go up there with the mindset that we're going to get a sweep or win the series.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Xedrix-"No, our motto is 'everything tastes better with hot sauce.

Robert Frost

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

Karen Hechler

I was overwhelmed by the number of hotels -- there were over 12. They would invite someone to stay in their hotel for $3 a week.

Jeff Long

I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.

Geoffrey Zakarian

I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.

Bobby Bowden

I'm pretty hot right now, because that was a pretty frustrating offensive performance,

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

Ben Nicholas

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Baruch Spinoza

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arthur Adamov

Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.

Anne Hathaway

I sing everywhere. I have a very patient husband. He says he doesn't mind. But we've only been married a year and a half!

Pam Ferris

I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.

Alec Baldwin

If you do get married, get a prenup. It's not about money at all. It's about having a document that states how you'll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other.

Shelley Long

I was not a womanizer; I didn't date a lot. If I kissed somebody, I was basically married from that point on.

Matthew Ashford

Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the '40s or the 50s anymore - we cannot pretend, things are changing.

Nick Vujicic

If you’re not happy single, your not gonna be happy married.

Nicole Kidman

I got married really fast and really young.

Mason Cooley

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

Patti LaBelle

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

Michael Strahan

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Stone Gossard

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

Sonia Choquette

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Sanjaasuren Oyun

It was stupid to oust the previous government. It's illogical.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Haven Herrin

We were turned away yesterday, and we heeded that, but today, we will not be deterred.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

James Gray

William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Bianca Lawson

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.