Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Katzenberg

As a result of its tremendous box office success, the potential to tell a new chapter in its story and the popularity of the film's characters, we are excited to announce that we are making 'Madagascar' our second company franchise -- along with 'Shrek,

Douglas Brinkley

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.

John Eisenhower

The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

Source Unknown

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

Steven Whittaker

At youth team level, I always played in central midfield alongside Kevin Thomson and I used to get well up the park and score quite a lot of goals,

Ehud Barak

a true partner for (Yitzhak Rabin) all along his life, and the woman that carried the torch of the peace process since her husband was assassinated.

Robert Warren

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.

David Sax

Bacon has been a staple of the American diet since the first European settlers, but until recently, it was consumed in a predictable, seasonal pattern. The bulk of sales came from home consumers, diners, and pancake houses, which fried it up along with eggs for breakfast.

Anthony Bailey

As one comes down the Henry Hudson Parkway along the river in the dusk, New York is never real; it is always fabulous.

Sean Ross

As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics.

Bob Wright

As CEO and then chairman of CNBC, Pamela led the network through a most challenging era in business news reporting. The network has retained its strong profitability, and the CNBC audience continues to be among the wealthiest in all of cable television.

Jared Diamond

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

Mark Watson

The board structure among banks is still pretty poor. We're critical of boards that get too big and directors tell us that smaller boards are more effective.

John Ridley

Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.

Mark Savoia

Barberton and Wadsworth are the two strongest teams in the league. It should be a fun battle. It should also be a battle for third place among Revere, Green and Highland.

Robert Shapiro

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Thomas Harrison

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

Richard Lloyd

People recognize it, and history has placed it among the group of influential records. I'm gratified it stuck to the wall.

Joyce Meskis

Reading a book is a very human experience, and Betty engaged in the humanity of putting children and books together.

Joe Wilcox

The three products launched today are the first wave of a tide of tightly integrated products. While some Microsoft executives have said that Microsoft bet the company on Windows Vista, the real bet is on integrated innovation.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.""Now lay your bet with mine, nor let These gamblers take your cash.""""Nay, this child makes no bet."" ""Great snakes! How can you be so rash?"" --Bootle P. Gish

Jerry Miller

The search committee evaluated over 20 resumes. We had interest locally and from around the state, with many very qualified candidates. Betty impressed the search committee and the board with her wealth of experience and success in her past positions.

Pat McCrory

I started giving one guy a hard time about the upcoming (NFL) Saints-Panthers game and he started to reach into his pocket because he wanted to bet me, ... Then he realized he lost his wallet in the flood.

Tupac Shakur

I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottleI make mistakes but learn from every oneAnd when it's said and doneI bet this brother be a better oneIf I upset you dont stressNever forget, that God isn't finished with me yet

Charles Schumer

This isn't just rolling the dice - it's betting the whole house.

Arthur Koestler

The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one’s own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your ears….

Brad Meltzer

I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

Karen Stewart

It was truly our privilege. We share a bond that is truly life-changing.

James Stack

The shorter the time until maturity, the less impact rising rates will have on bond prices.

Idotha Neal

These wonderful entertainers are coming together with a common bond honoring Bessie Coleman, the world's first licensed African-American woman pilot.

Alan Ruskin

These cross influences are confused enough that one has to stick with the broader trend that we still view as bond negative.

Robert Froelich

The stock market is going to be like the bond market. It's going to be focused on that Humphrey-Hawkins testimony. I think it's a very nervous market.

Stuart Hoffman

The stock and bond markets are looking at the report and seeing the signs of strength, and they know the Fed is doing the same.

Peter Mueller

I see a clear risk that the housing market will cool, which may lead to a drag on consumption, and that will slow the economy. Bond prices may increase if the housing data comes in weak.

Josh Stiles

is going to hurt the bond market more.

Pierce Brosnan

I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years.

Erick Dampier

That's what comedians do, comedians talk a lot. I laugh at it, too. He's never hung out with me. I don't even know him. So I can say anything about him, and he can say anything about me.

James Davis

For one year, Davis continued to have discussions directly with actors and comedians regarding signing with Davis to produce and perform his screenplay, ... offered funding through an investor to produce the screenplay for video distribution.

Kaley Cuoco

I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.

Stephen Hess

Had this been handled expeditiously, quickly, it might have been a story on the style page, or limited to the late night comedians and the cartoonists. There's simply no question they fumbled this one.

David Steinberg

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

Bob Newhart

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

Bob Newhart

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

David Carr

As far as the records go, that has to be thrown out the window for right now when I go talk to the guys when I'm trying to get them encouraged and get them pumped up and ready to play. We have to lock it up, run the right route. I'll hit you and then we'll worry about the record later.

Justin Vernon

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.

Jeff Conine

You sure hope so. You got to hope and feel encouraged by the fact that, if we keep this team together and play as excitingly as we have next year, that they'll come out to support us.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

Douglas Zipes

We heard what we wanted to and we are encouraged that they are putting the patient first,

Sue Townsend

My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.

Adrian Leppard

I am very encouraged by the response from members of the public.

John Wilkerson

He was a mentor to me. He always encouraged me to do all I could in school. He told me I had talents. He told me I could do anything I wanted,

Kate Curran

My parents always encouraged me to do what I wanted.

Graeme Smith

We are fearful it is possibly going to be sold for scrap, which would be a travesty.

Arthur Miller

A playwright . . . is . . . the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's gre

H. Hunt

This is, for us, kind of an opening salvo. We want them to know we are as mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore.

Diana Vreeland

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

Charles Bukowski

The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

Peter Hargreaves

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

Albert Einstein

Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're all going overnight express delivery straight to Hell.

D. A. Carson

Damn all false dichotomies to hell

Ann Richards

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

Ray Elliott

I've never seen an individual request more time,

Lindsay Whalen

I've been having that my whole life, where there haven't been a lot of individual awards,

Ron Messick

They all had their own individual abilities, but I could tell they were special players.

Masaaki Kanno

This is a new trend in Japanese politics. People are increasingly voting on the policies of individual parties. Now the manifestos of the different parties have become very clear.

Leonard Leo

that they were very interested in making sure that the president nominated a second individual who shared the philosophy of judicial restraint.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Jerry Colangelo

We wanted a team not of individual stars, but athleticism, shooters, role players and distributors.

Geno Auriemma

We don't score on sheer individual talent. Sometimes we run stuff just to run stuff without an idea what we're going to get from it.

Robert Kiyosaki

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Anna Deavere Smith

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

Soren Kierkegaard

An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.

Jerry Spinelli

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

Tim Riordan

I respect them; they're smart, and I trust their individuality as musicians.

Ernest Renan

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Christian Dior

Perfume is a note of woman's individuality. It is the last touch to her look.

J. K. Rowling

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Barbara Johnson

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

Baruch Spinoza

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Art Linkletter

And keep a sense of humor. It doesn't mean you have to tell jokes. If you can't think of anything else, when you're my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you'll get a laugh.

Brian Tracy

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

Brenda Ueland

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

Jane Campion

I fell in love again (laughs).

Juvenal

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

Busy Philipps

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.

Catherine O'Hara

I'm afraid to laugh out loud, because there's so much information.

Jim Macaluso

It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.

Joe Hughes

That's kind of an odd statistic. You don't see that too often.

Ricky Gervais

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

Charles Bukowski

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Kurt Busch

We've never seen a spark here out on the race track, because we've never run under the lights, so you'll see sparks in odd places that you've never seen here before.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor

Anne Rice

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

Ann Patchett

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

Anita Shreve

Odd how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love-soaked, drenched in love-only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

George H. W. Bush

We will not rest until we get this right.

Craig Haase

We shut down the rest of their guys.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Sonia Rykiel

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

Gene Robinson

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

George W. Bush

My views are one that speaks to freedom.

Darian Townes

It's my first time to see him in person. I'm going to take some of what he speaks about and try to put it in my game.

Seth Vining

That speaks well of the team. But we still have a lot of work to do.

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Chaka Khan

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

Camille Paglia

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

Brandon Roy

It would have been really special if he had come here. We would have been really good.

Christian Maraker

They all feel great. This one is special in its own way.

Charlie Warner

This is a special group. They never quit.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before. We don't know how much we'll be getting or how it will be dispersed.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before,

Melanie Sloan

That, to me, would be special treatment that he doesn't really deserve.

Jan Karon

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

Bon Scott

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Dietric Slater

We thought we could win. We started executing, slowed it down, got on a little run. Then we couldn't stop them from scoring.

Tara Kelly

There's no secrets. We have to stop them. We can't let them get on a streak.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Dee Brown

That was what we set out to do, stop Grier.

Maudie Samiee

It doesn't stop her for a minute. She's very adaptable.

Brian Jones

We were never going to stop even if they told us to.

Ray Parlour

We have to try to stop the supply to Thierry Henry, get about them and have a go ourselves.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.