Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Trump

We'll spend it alone together; we won't have people around. That's the best. I feel really comfortable in a bathrobe.

I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.

Norbert Walter

I would not expect any far-reaching reforms like the flat tax to be planned let alone executed in this parliamentary period,

Esther Dyson

Microsoft's competition -- most of it has been pretty inadequate. I don't see any reason to think that -- with all due respect -- a bunch of government lawyers are going to be any more clever than your average company, let alone Microsoft,

Alan Parker

We believe there is potential for up to 4,000 rooms in the Gulf region alone over the next few years.

Craig Woker

We don't even know if there is a deal, let alone any financial terms. So, it's premature to make an assessment of whether this is a good deal or not. There aren't a whole lot of synergies to be found.

Jeff Tittel

I don't want to say shy ... but I don't think he really likes working the room, ... A few years ago we were at a League of Municipalities dinner. I was out saying hi to all the politicians. My other half was alone at the table. He stopped by and just sat down with her for 20 minutes. I thought that was kind of nice.

Bhagavad Gita

I do not wish to kill them, who are also about to kill, even for the sovereignty of the three worlds, let alone for this earthly kingdom, O Krishna.

Mitch Daniels

If you've walked the ground down there as I have many times, you see the economic potential of that corner of the state is really terrific, ... This one project alone will have one of the highest returns of all the major moves we're suggesting.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Florence Nightingale

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

George Orwell

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

George Orwell

As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.'

Cassandra Clare

It's Simon. He's missing." "Ah," said Magnus, delicately, "missing what, exactly?" "Missing," Jace repeated, "as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared." "Maybe he's gone and hidden under something," Magnus suggested. "It can't be easy getting used to being a rat, especially for someone so dim-witted in the first place." "Simon's not dim-witted," Clary protested angrily. "It's true," Jace agreed. "He just looks dim-witted. Really his intelligence is quite average.

George Eliot

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Fred Allen

The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.

Marilyn Mackes

By and large, the average salary increases employers offered to new college graduates were respectable, and some were standouts.

Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Saul Alinsky

Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing -- but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.

Sarah Dessen

I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.

Nate Berkus

When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.

Morley Safer

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

Morgan Freeman

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

Milan Kundera

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

Margaret Weis

I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of skeletal warriors, who can destroy by touch alone. I can raise a wall of ice to protect those I serve. The invisible is discernible to my eyes. Ordinary magic spells crumble in my presence... But I bow in the presence of a master. -- Lord Soth to Raistlin Majere

Jose Saramago

We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.