Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Rodrick

As anyone who has read 'Sports Illustrated's Steve Rushin knows, it's quite possible to write an unreadable column without being a TV pundit. But if you want to be a consistently good columnist, you can't be on television.

Jane Green

As a child, growing up in Hampstead, North London, I was shockingly fair-skinned. Holidays involved me spending the second and third day face-down on a bed, shrieking should anyone touch my blistered skin.

Lisa Davis

As always, the House of Bread will need volunteers that day. We will begin at 9 a.m. and finish at 2 p.m.. Anyone is welcome to come to the House of Bread, receive a great meal, fellowship and make a donation to the cause. The greatest need for donations is money, but bleach, bottled water and any canned goods with pull tops are needed.

W. Hull

Anyone who thinks that is out of their mind.

Jennifer Grey

Anyone who thinks I'm a plastic-surgery freak is insane.

Eric Collins

Anyone who tells you it's painless can only honestly be referring to the period the person is under anesthesia.

Henry Morris

Anyone who takes him to be a fool will be very sorry.

John Bisio

Anyone who suggests the number is inaccurate is way out of bounds. What would we have to gain from that? We are in no position to mislead people. A lot of people have an interest in working at Wal-Mart.

J. August Richards

Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

Rob Thomas

The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Bethany McLean

The story took on an importance later that it did not deserve originally. Whether I wrote that story or not, Enron would have gone bankrupt, investors would have lost billions of dollars and thousands of people would have lost their jobs. I just picked up on an underlying skepticism. If you had told me then that the company would go under by the end of the year, I would have never believed it. I was as naive as the rest of us.

Melody Davidson

The team believed and trusted in each other. There were no negatives on the bench. Everyone knew we had a lot of game left.

Alan Bates

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.

Molly Antopol

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.

Shilpa Shetty

I've never believed in dieting, but there are people out there who have problems. My advice would be don't ever stop yourself to a point where you start craving something, because you end up bingeing. I think the key word is moderation.

Alice McDermott

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

Dave Wannstedt

I've always believed this: The game comes down to the players executing,

John Spinello

Right now, the market is well bid and it will take time or some more significant event to make people want to sell.

Sean Monaghan

The winning bid will have to be well-rounded.

Rick Page

This isn't just about getting bids from companies that are ready to supply right now. If we like someone's product, even if they only have two employees, we'll work with them and show them how they can gear up to supply us.

John Copeland

We are going to make a pretty strong bid to defend our New England title.

John Loyd

We're anticipating getting bids back by Feb. 20, but that date could move a little bit.

Mark McCutcheon

Even if he comes in there is not going to be a full bid for cash at 180p-plus so there is not much upside to it." ()

Bruce Baird

During the Olympic process, I was approached by a third party who claimed to represent IOC members. He was certainly known well with the Olympic movement, and he said we wouldn't win the bid unless we provided commercial endorsements,

Sharad Pawar

We have decided to make a joint bid for Asia.

Bill Sullivan

Everything has combined to push prices to new heights and if and when stock markets capitulate, you will have a tremendous bid for Treasuries.

Tim White

We estimate that the ... remediation at our property at Third St. and Third Ave. in Brooklyn is about 75%-80% completed at this point.

Mark Twain

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

Breckin Meyer

There's a scene at the end of the movie where I tell her, 'You know you've got to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge,

David Byrne

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

Mickey Edwards

The Bush administration is certainly not the first administration to do this kind of thing, ... but they seem much more heavy-handed about it.

Larry Birns

The Bush administration has tried to make Venezuela seem like a spooky, murky place. But they have cried wolf too often. Without serious evidence, you can't take their accusations seriously.

Ryan Ford

The Bush administration has squelched freedom of speech.

Mark Gottdiener

The Bush administration has never cared much for cities, and by extension, the people who live in them,

Scott Ritter

The Bush administration has its sights set firmly on Tehran. The same deception is taking place right before our eyes and most Americans remain blind. It is going to happen. It is happening as we speak.

Edward Markey

The Bush administration has given a pass to the cargo industry,

David Yalof

The Bush administration has done a great job in reviewing the candidates, going through their opinions, backgrounds, and speeches,

Russ Feingold

The Bush administration has been very successful in one thing: in intimidating people into not uttering the words timetable or timeframe,

Barbara Kellerman

The Bush administration has been charged from the start with being cavalier about democracy. The tension between on the one hand protecting our democratic privileges and on the other hand trying to protect the American people is one we've had with us from the start.

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Sean Casey

People should not buy rabbits or chickens from pet stores.

Neil Jones

People see there's a chance that the Japanese currency will become more competitive. Whenever there's news from China of this kind, they jump in to buy the yen.

David Durrant

People are still willing to buy U.S. debt. There is still a search for yield.

Robert Lutz

People are still going to buy full-sized sport-utilities at $3 a gallon. But even at $3 a gallon, it's 750,000 people a year. It's not going to go to a million,

Lauri Ward

People can have very good taste and still not know how to pull a room together. They can buy pieces, but their spatial sense is not on target. My goal has been to teach people about decorating. The more information, the better.

Karen Benzel

People can go in and buy T-shirts and see displays and feel a little closer to the center.

Mike McCallister

People can buy full uniforms at a costume store,

Yasmin Sewell

People don't really buy winter clothes, as summer out there lasts for seven to eight months. We want to look healthy and beautiful, and we want to be comfortable.

Kara Swisher

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

Meg Whitman

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce

Gillian Anderson

I've got huge tubs full of stuff that I can sell on eBay. If there are people out there that are interested, I want them to come my way and buy my jackets and hats and scripts that are signed by everybody.

Harry Ponfil

If eBay wants to get a hold of you, it will pop up when you sign in there.

Mike Oliver

I wouldn't be surprised if some of it's showing up on eBay in some fashion, ... Some of that stuff can get expensive.

Pierre Omidyar

The interesting thing was, I started eBay off as a hobby so it was free of charge.

David Duchovny

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

Derek Brown

There is no longer a perception that eBay has few meaningful competitors.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Loren Thompson

We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

Stuart Wilde

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

Margaret Drabble

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

May Sarton

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Oscar Wilde

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

J. C. Ryle

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Antoine Rivarol

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.