Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.

Dennis Smith

saw some people in distress across the river near the Mexican bank, and that was reported up through Border Patrol channels and relayed to Mexican officials.

Phil Koperberg

The RFS is working in China, Malaysia, Bhutan, South Korea and Indonesia. We regularly send firefighters to the US at the management level to help with some of their enormous fires. Our losses are lower in comparative circumstances and we are generally ahead of the pack in terms of managing the fire issue across the board.

Michael Barrett

This is an issue that is gaining momentum across the country.

Steve Sexton

This is an issue that could bring $400-$450 million to the state of Kentucky, not just to the particular locales that the racetracks are in, but to communities across the state.

Dana Berliner

This is an enormous problem all across the country. Eminent domain is being used to take prime real estate for private development projects.

Rick Anderson

This is happening all across the state, and there are a lot of people ending up with criminal records,

Alan Chvotkin

This is a peanut butter approach -- you spread it across everything and see what sticks, rather than seeing what particular contracts require it.

Allen Ginsberg

This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

Richard Greenfield

Clearly the question is how to participate in young people's fascination with video games. But the jury is still out as to whether a company needs to own a video game business.

Sir Stringer

Clearly the perception out there is that we shouldn't be doing too much of that copy protection stuff.

Lauren Smith

Clearly the perception, in my view, is that the company is the next acquisition target.

Alan Williamson

Clearly the outlook for the currency markets, and in particular the U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate will be critical to the outlook for the gold market,

James A. Leach

Clearly the North Korean desire is for a light-water reactor, and the North Korean desire is to retain a peaceful nuclear program,

Joshua Freeman

Clearly the MTA was not willing to concede that prior to the strike.

John Heimlich

Clearly the more we get the sooner the better.

Fred Eckhart

Clearly the more military muscle you have the more credibility you have and the greater deterrent effect you have. That's what we are seeking,

Robert Manning

Clearly the missile program has value to the North Koreans,

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Claire McCaskill

I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

Clint Eastwood

Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I'll kill you. I mean it.

Dylan Moran

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

Dylan Moran

It's such a bullshit move. Transparently so. It's obviously supposed to give succor to people who feel pissed off because someone from another country got a job that they feel should've been given to them. But that's what people voted against here. They voted against the movement of labor - that kind of fluidity - because they want a Britain that no longer exists, and they can't get it.

e. e. cummings

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems

E. B. White

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

E. B. White

The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.

E. B. White

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.