Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Borowitz

After Sept. 11, I didn't write a piece for a couple of days because I thought people wouldn't want me to be funny. This time, it was so obvious what could be written, and I'll continue to write it. I can usually gauge reader response from the number of people who cancel on my e-mail list, and there's been no major withdrawal.

Bret Calhoun

We know she has a grass pedigree, but we thought she had a good shot. You're not going to get to run for a quarter-million dollars in a Grade III like this too many times. We thought she fit as well as any other horse in here.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

Rand Paul

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

Michael Newman

No. No I felt terrible for our customers. I felt terrible for the problems that they had. I understand putting 50 dollars of gas in your tank is a real problem. There was no price gouging in Western New York.

Fanny Brice

For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.

J. Paul Getty

....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

Chuck Adams

He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.

Eliot Spitzer

It's going to be big dollars and it should be big dollars,

Martin Feldstein

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Pat Scales

There's not a public school out there that doesn't have a mission statement that says it serves all students,

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Don Brownlee

Much of the science of this mission hasn't been done yet.

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

John Ellsworth

I want to make sure his mission is finished.

Terry Pratchett

We're on a mission from Glod.

David O. McKay

Every member ... a missionary!

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Joey Skaggs

You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.

Anne Lamott

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Rick Riordan

Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!

Robert A. Heinlein

You don’t pay back, you pay forward.

Robert A. Heinlein

Anything free is worth what you pay for it.

Ron Kaufman

Customers pay a price, but they remember the value.

Roger Stone

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

Roy Oswalt

They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Ronald Reagan

How could an actor become president?

Stephen Colbert

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

John Waters

When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.

Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have had a great time as president.

Theodore Roosevelt

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.