Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Grey

The American public has accepted legalized gambling as a means to spend their money for entertainment. America is on a gambling binge. The more available and accessible it becomes, the more gambling is acceptable to people.

Bela Anda

That would not be acceptable for the German government. And it wouldn't be in line with the spirit of looking to the future together and not into the past.

Stephen King

We know that they obtained these bodies in a fraudulent way and off the scale of acceptable practice.

Thomas Carroll

We know that that's not acceptable down here. A three-loss season, hey, that's great for some teams. But guys do come back here and they're like, 'Nah, that didn't cut it last year, man.' They don't expect us to lose three games. I really think guys from other schools don't expect us to lose three games. It's really unheard of down here, especially in the last four or five years. We're looking forward to stopping that trend.

Margaret DiNinno

We have tried every alternative-dispute resolution, including fact-finding. We're trying to find an acceptable resolution because it's obvious we're at an impasse.

Richard Carlson

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Paul Auster

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

John Lampe

We have been working closely with the state attorneys general on this issue for more than a year now, and believe that these efforts have allowed us to reach an acceptable agreement that permits us to focus our energies and our resources on rebuilding our company and the Firestone brand,

Ann Cooper

U.S. forces continue these alarming detentions of working journalists without any acceptable explanation, or anything resembling due process.

Yolanda Adams

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

Tim Tebow

Before a game, you know, I can take off my helmet, run over there and spend a few moments with someone who is dealing with so much more than I've ever had to deal with and to love on them and care about them and in front of thousands and thousands of people, you know, let them know that they're more important than all of this.

Gil Gerard

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Vivek Wadhwa

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Chris Matthews

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

Nigella Lawson

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

Geno Auriemma

The alternative would be that you're dealing with this thing all year long. A week she's good, a week she's bad, and back and forth. I'm hopeful that by keeping her out those two weeks that we got to the root of the problem and fixed it. But, again, we'll never know. We'll just keep our fingers crossed.

Robert Gruber

That was a surprise. I've been dealing with utility law in this state since 1973, and I can't recall an order like it.

James Mitchell

That was something in the past we just took for granted, that everybody had a way off the island. I think (Katrina) has opened up our eyes definitely and given us a different perspective on dealing with the evacuation.

Richard Kogan

The path of large and permanent deficits on which the government has embarked is unsound public policy and should be reversed as soon as the economy permits.

Peter Morici

The outlook remains poor. Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

Peter Morici

The outlook remains poor, ... Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

Peter Orszag

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

Jacob Lew

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

Alan Greenspan

There is a limit to how long and how far deficits can be sustained,

John Snow

The deficits that result from this are really an investment in our future, ... They are appropriate for the time we find ourselves in, as we wage a war on terrorism and increase homeland security and put people back to work.

John W. Snow

The deficits are modest, manageable, and will recede to zero,

Pete Sepp

Republicans are spending at a rate not seen since Lyndon Johnson's presidency, ... They're legislating as if deficits don't matter.

William Gibson

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it.

Randeep Hooda

My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this.

Randy West

I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.

David Salmon

U.S. heating demands will shift back toward normal going into the middle stretch of January.

Nick Horne

Wireless-enabling sensors demands such an extreme combination of price and performance that we expect to set a new standard of innovation, one that could offer a model of economy for the other more performance-oriented wireless schemes for some time to come.

Wolfgang Clement

It is completely incorrect to say that it has to do with the personal ambitions of the chancellor, ... It has to do with the sharing of power in Germany and the demands of the Social Democrats.

Zach Woods

I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

Rocco Buttiglione

The problems faced by this extraordinary monument that represents the heart of Rome demands an extraordinary effort,

Bruce Arena

I think our performance should be better this week than it was last week. They're another week in camp, they should be getting over the hump in terms of the physical demands and they should be getting sharper on the ball. Hopefully the performance on Sunday will be better.

Yanis Varoufakis

The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.

Isamu Akasaki

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

Giles Foden

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Zubin Mehta

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

David Walton

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

Bernard Berenson

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Bertrand Russell

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

Gordon Brown

The American and European positions have got to move. It is about making new proposals on agriculture.

Markos Kyprianou

We have already taken all steps necessary. Once it has touched European soil, then we have raised all the measures we should take,

Joanna Lumley

Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.

Inaki Saez

Greece are very comfortable playing at 0-0 and when they're 1-0 up and we have to be careful,

Marguerite Dalianes

It's personal attention, seeing Greece from the inside out.

Ken Bacon

He anticipated that they would be able to land soon and move through Greece to their posts.

Michelle Paver

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.

Michael Hudson

To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece.

Julia Gillard

I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

Daniel Woodrell

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.

Robert Sean Leonard

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

Claude Makelele

The Greeks play very well on the counter,

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Carrie Brownstein

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

Carl Sagan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

David Steinberg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people paid the price of corruption.

Fabio Barbosa

We have that right and we paid for it. We're not going to give it up without compensation.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

Claudia Smith

I worked all my life, paid for my house, just remodeled it and then boom. It's hard. There's nothing to do. I don't know what's next.

Chris Hall

I was very pleased with Michael's performance in only his second paid outing.

Andy Irons

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

John Hopkins

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,

Aaron McGruder

It astounds me that good, responsible white people paid for this show.

LaSheena Brown

That was something new. They were able to get that lob in, but we stuck it out.

David Allen

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

Tom Renney

We stuck with it. Definitely, we had to compete.

Alan Lightman

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Shirley Manson

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

Leon Johnson

Our spinners bowled well as they stuck to the task and bowled well to their fields.

Don Blalock

I said 'who is he?' I was stuck thereafter.

Phil Garner

No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove.

Brian Gionta

You thought they were down and out, for sure. But they stuck with it and got some confidence. Once you win the first one, you never know.

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

Mark Cuban

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

Robbie Tobeck

He's kind of in the zone right now.

John Gibbons

He was in command. He was down in the zone all night.

Rick Renteria

He was up in the zone a little too much.

David Lange

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

John Goodwin

Some of that is a construction zone now,

Jeb Putzier

That's where we come in. We have to get in the end zone more.

Chris Hovan

You got to zone everything out and go out and do your assignment.

Pat Metheny

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly