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.

Justin Sane

Everything comes down to Dollars

Howard Hertz

This is a big business. We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

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?

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.

Maya Angelou

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

John Vanbrugh

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

John Sweeney

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

John Podhoretz

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

Paulo Coelho

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Paulo Coelho

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Mehcad Brooks

There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.

Mircea Eliade

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

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!

Lance Armstrong

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.

Michael Moore

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

Michel Martelly

I don't even want to be president!

Hillary Clinton

I probably described more times than I can remember how stressful it was advising the President [Barack Obama] about going after Bin Laden.