Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Howard Jacobs

We felt U.S.A.D.A. made the proper ruling. It seems to me the anti-doping rules are lacking any notion of common sense.

Sam Atwood

Use common sense. It's better to take it easy and reduce physical exertion outdoors especially if you have a heart condition or lung disease such as asthma.

Gillian Alexy

You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common thread: everybody wants to do it because they love it.

Paul Watson

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.

Toba Beta

Feeling so rush to be proficient is a common temptation for newbies.

Daniel Valdez

There was a curiosity as to what the common denominators in all the stories are,

Bill Gates

There's still a lot of common technology and a common mission that spans all these different groups.

Mark Drake

I think this is a publicity stunt, and at the end of the day she's a fringe candidate. This is her 15 minutes of fame.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Anne Stevenson

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

America Ferrera

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

Michelle Branch

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Jerry Herman

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

Glenn Tipton

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

Ismail Kadare

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Nikita Khrushchev

Revolutions are not made for export.

Lizz Winstead

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

Estelle

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

Fiona Shaw

Theater dates very quickly.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the province of danger.

Alan Cranston

As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.

Alan Dershowitz

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

Alan Dershowitz

The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

Alain de Botton

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

Al Franken

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Diane Duane

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Dana Perino

reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.

Dan Ariely

The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund.