Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Regan

Do not stand directly in front of a cannon...how true that is.

Jackie Robinson

There is also a PCC connection to the exhibition as well,' Cannon said.

Johnny Depp

We had talked a couple of times about his last wishes to be shot out of a cannon of his own design. All I'm doing is trying to make sure his last wish comes true. I just want to send my pal out the way he wants to go out.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When you can use the lightning it is better than cannon

Lee Tergesen

He's sort of a loose cannon with a quick wit, ... He's somebody who of course is intense. I always wind up playing somebody a little intense. Maybe I'm just intense.

Ryan Sarazin

That was big. Freshman Sean Little stepped up. He looked like he was shot out of a cannon tonight. We hadn't heard from him in a few games, he gets a few here and there, but I thought he really picked it up tonight.

Cindy Sheehan

For the more than 1,800 who have come home this way in flag-draped coffins, each one ... was a son or a daughter, not cannon fodder to be used so recklessly, ... Each one is a valuable human life that is missed so desperately.

Anton Chekhov

I cannon off the cushion! I pot into the middle pocket.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

James Blumenthal

What the studies are showing is that exercise, at least when performed in a group setting, seems to be at least as effective as standard antidepressant medications in reducing symptoms in patients with major depression,

Steve Brown

When (former Gov. George Ryan's) administration tried to roll back the sales tax, it just went into the pockets of refiners and retailers and had no effect on prices,

Bob Ross

If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

Jeff Gundy

There is no question that he will be competitive and high energy. But how effective he would be, really, I don't have any idea. We'll have to see.

Gore Vidal

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Nicholas Jarecki

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

Larry Lucchino

Tom Werner said this is a happy day for the Red Sox, and I agree. We?re a stronger, more effective and bolder front office.

Peter Beutel

We're still going to need to refine this oil into heating oil and gasoline before it really has an effect on us.

Houssaye Houssaye

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

Richard Browne

It's a big number, it's about 4 percent of personal income,

John Buchanan

A U.S. taxpayer is subject to income tax on their worldwide income, ... These schemes do not give you any relief from that legally.

David Resler

People are still planning to spend, and today's income numbers tell us that they have the wherewithal to do so.

Koji Kobayashi

The size of the income surplus is approaching that of the trade surplus, and this is a trend worth watching.

Ma Xiaohe

The slower increase of wages for migrant workers, to a large extent, hinders rural families' income growth.

Joel Slemrod

Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.

Bruce Sonnenberg

These are single moms who can't make it, it's too hard. They have no income and no way to make money.

Ed Slott

You've got to watch your income this year like no other year, ... Your Tax Questions Answered.

Richard Reeves

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

Jean Chatzky

Eliminating or substantially lowering just one major monthly expense can give you enough cushion to move into a more comfortable place financially.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Source Unknown

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Ed Silliere

Everyone is lowering their expectations for demand. It's taken the urgency out of the market.

J. Taylor

A lowering of tariffs will help. However, it's not the only issue.

Barnett Newman

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Audrey Tautou

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Deb Caletti

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Lorraine Toussaint

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

John Milton

The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none.

Joe Vinson

The point is, people are getting the most antioxidants from beverages, as opposed to what you might think,

Mike Stackpole

We still thought we might be able to do it.

Kurt Vonnegut

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Bill Nighy

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

Tracy Austin

It's about being with friends and raising money, ... To me, that's most important.

Martina McBride

Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.

Joe Andrew

This is big and this is important. This is not about raising money, it's about raising interest.

Bob Stern

I think Harman should be commended for raising so much in the district.

Victoria Moran

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to (do) better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Mark Zandi

Implicitly, ... 'I can keep raising rates, and most homeowners won't suffer.'

Nancy Kress

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Michael London

We've always, always, always wanted to shoot in Pittsburgh.

Rich Lyons

When we don't shoot well, and don't get back on defense, we have problems. We hurried some shots.

Calamity Jane

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

Steve Botkin

They got out on the perimeter and spread us out pretty well. We just didn't shoot very well offensively.

Kevin Stallings

They shoot it more than us, and they shoot it better.

Bob Martin

They didn't shoot at us, and we didn't shoot at them.

Allen Iverson

You don't want somebody shooting that had been making a lot of shots.

Jay Wright

I told him, 'We're going to go down with you shooting the ball. That's who we are.

Ernie Els

At least I know you don't have to shoot 65 to try to win.

Bret Easton Ellis

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Lorrie Moore

It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.

Ivan Turgenev

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

Kirsten Prout

There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.

Johannes Tauler

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

Robyn Davidson

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Steve Hunter

This is the most regressive tax thats ever been imposed.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Martin Buxbaum

Did you ever think what the word 'vote' means? To me it means: 'Voice of Taxpayers Everywhere'.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Barney Frank

The time has come to undo some of those tax breaks,