Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Jonathan Kozol

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

Marco Rubio

The State of the Union address is always a reminder of how unique America is.

Peggy Baker

I send our soldiers (to the America Supports You Web site) all the time. They can go in, they can go to the Web sites of these other organizations, too, so it's a huge benefit.

James McGregor

I see stuff from Italy and Germany and elsewhere, more than America. My friends in China are buying apartments, fitting out their kitchens with Italian appliances. The other technology goods are from Germany. We are not very good in America at export promotion. Our government needs to put more into it and our politicians have to focus on it.

Jeffrey Montgomery

Is it any wonder that those who attack us feel they have a license to do so? A license to kill? Police won't investigate. Juries won't convict. The public still thinks our lives are a political issue, defined by the mythic "Gay Agenda." America. You Kill Me! America kills all of us.

Janet Reno

I simply have to draw the line and stand up for what I believe to be a very important principle: Prosecutions in America must be free of political influence. To ask for a document I am reviewing, while I have still not made a decision, is a form of political tampering that no prosecutor in America can accept.

Cyril Beuzit

We've had an accumulation of hawkish comments from the ECB and the momentum behind the European economy is now quite strong. The picture remains quite negative for the bond markets.

Mike Pomerenke

Did I think starting the season that I'd have three freshmen starting? No. ... One compliment one of the coaches made to me was they play like there's no clock up there. They just go 100 percent all the time. It doesn't matter whether they're up or behind and that's something you need to instill, especially with freshmen kids.

Jeremy Siegel

Dividends have been a way to show that earnings are real. That there is money behind those earnings.

Michael Goulde

Cost savings continue to be the driver behind adoption.

Mark Ward

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Park Chan-wook

When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.

Patrick White

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

Mike Huckabee

I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better.

Spalding Gray

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.

Niki Lauda

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

Salvador Dali

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later ... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

John Sifton

The truth does not lie with the Human Rights Watch. It lies with Poland, Romania and all the governments in Europe which might have information about these activities.

Tinie Tempah

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Michael O'Leary

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

Christina Perri

I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.

Chris Noth

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

Jeremy Davies

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

Jeff Garcia

I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.

Halle Berry

I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.