Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

Will Rogers

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Steve Millburg

I love this boardwalk, even if it is one of the 'board-less' varieties. Actually, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk refers to both the seaside amusement park and the concrete path that runs through it. Here, find everything from a classic wooden roller coaster, a 1911 carousel, arcade and video games and an extra-wide beach with volleyball nets to free concerts, great surfing and windsurfing and a half-mile-long pier lined with seafood restaurants. Coastal nirvana.

Ken Jennings

One guy had this can't-miss idea to go dig up old coins at the site of former disused government mints, and he just needed a bit of money to get started ... some guy had an idea for an indoor amusement park.

Sean Penn

tearing oneself apart for the amusement of the audience.

Beverly Jones

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

Will Rogers

Our investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to knowledge

Amanda Palmer

If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities.

Peter Singer

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Stephen Colbert

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Christopher Meyer

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

Jose Maria Aznar

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

Juan Lubroth

It is important to underline that there is no evidence that the H5N1 virus is present in poultry in Italy. At the moment, the disease remains confined to individual cases in wild birds only. The current situation in Italy does not provide consumers with any cause to avoid eating poultry products.

Ted Stevens

It is important for us to get the facts and avoid speculation.

Olli Rehn

It is high time that Serbia reaches full co-operation with the ICTY. That is the way to avoid the disruption of the negotiations, that the negotiations would be put on hold when the next round takes place.

Stanley Fischer

It is in Israel's interests to avoid a collapse of the Palestinian economy.

Geoff Brown

I think we'll feed them and they'll feed us, ... When you can see the neon sign of the bank, the restaurant or whatever, the businesses are there, that's great. It's a great partnership.

Peter Mirsky

I think what they've created is the fastest growing company in the media space focused on interactivity. In a nutshell, you had the Internet bust, valuations go bust, but clearly there is value to the businesses that can be done on the Internet.

Tom Perkins

It gives the city a mechanism to more quickly and more effectively stop businesses that are masquerading as legitimate businesses,

Kim Elliott

It gives businesses guidance on how to take the next steps.

Allen Boyd

Under current law, most Americans can sue their HMO or insurance company if it denies care and a patient dies or is injured as a result. Again, most employees of small businesses already can sue their HMO. Only those employees who work in companies with "self-insured" plans are not able to sue, as these plans operate under the federal Employee Retirement, Insurance, Security Act.

Ross Moore

Rising energy costs aside, the key difference between today and a year ago is the fact that businesses have far more confidence in future economic conditions, and this gives executives comfort when signing new leases.

Jane Jankowski

Remember that if this is a deal that we end up finalizing, that this company will want to maximize the use of the Toll Road. They will be eager to have local businesses involved.

Tom Watson

Recycling can be expensive for small businesses. There are usually ways they can do it, but for some businesses it's unrealistic.

Mark Kalwinski

Our quality of life is taking a beating. We're going to lose people and lose businesses if we don't work on improving the area.

Amy Kudwa

We have to be conscious of the fact that it's a captive audience. There are going to be children. There are going to be customers with sensitivities to violence and strong material.

James Hitchcock

We're talking about a very captive audience. And this is one way to grab a guy's undivided attention.

Tommie Harris

I take my hat off to them because they didn't have a bye week and we did. There was really no excuse for us to lose and not play as well as we were supposed to.

Elizabeth Ryan

I think it's outrageous. I think they're making excuses so they can keep raising it.

Kobe Bryant

We can have all the excuses in the world. You can say we're young, we have guys hurt, but we just have man up and be ready to play every night.

Tyler Posey

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!

Duaner Sanchez

I just didn't make my pitches. It was about location. I won't make (excuses) why I lost the game. I lost the game because I walked a guy. I was feeling good and had all my stuff. But you can't walk the leadoff guy.

Bob Hill

I personally think we should have won this game. This is not a game you could just excuse. We've got to go back and take a hard look at this.

Harry Samit

His excuse is weak, he just wants to learn how to do it... That's pretty ominous and obviously suggests some sort of hijacking plan.

Eddie Jordan

I need to put you in the locker room because they're looking for excuses too,

Gene Nakamura

I'm not sure it would have mattered. We didn't have her. There's no excuses. We needed others to step up and not enough did.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Richard Gephardt

Real security means keeping Medicare and Social Security strong and getting a Medicare prescription drug program. So those are some of the things that I'm going to talk about.

Paul Buckley

Clearly, Coretta Scott King was a mover and shaker, and much of what people understand about Dr. (Martin Luther) King and keeping his memory alive, we owe to her.

Red Schoendienst

I just like still being around, seeing who's who and keeping up with what's going on.

Scott Downs

I'm just riding a wave right now. Pitching right now is fun. I'm going out there and keeping my team in the game.

Colin Montgomerie

I know the place very well, and I'm playing well. It's just a matter of keeping going.

Doc Rivers

It's not about who we play, but about keeping up the tradition, about maintaining the streak.

Wallace Smith

That has been the toughest part -- keeping this all a secret till now.

Abbe Lowell

It works to keep Chandra's name in the news by keeping Congressman Condit's name in the news.

Russell Brand

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Larry the Cable Guy

I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.

Bernard Baruch

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

Dean Koontz

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Seth MacFarlane

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

George Saunders

Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.

Jeff Ross

South Park called...they want their everything back.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Nelson Mandela

which made us realize that this is an international phenomenon that we celebrate. Rosa Parks is worldwide.

Harry Anderson

What you get when you come here is you pay way too much for my stuff, but you get it signed by me, demonstrated by me,

Woody Hayes

You don't get many chances to pay back what's been done for you. Take them.

Woody Hayes

You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.

Sarah Palin

There's no free ride. Someone always pays and if you don't know who that someone is, it's probably you.

Richard M. Nixon

Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.

Richard M. Nixon

Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.

Robert Cailliau

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

Tupac Shakur

I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.

Robert Plant

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

William Peine

Robots don't perform the surgeries, but they are tools that give the surgeon more dexterity.

Serena Williams

I just played terrible. Sun played very well and was ready for the match. I'm disappointed I couldn't perform better today.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Kim Yuna

In competition, when I start performance I try not to think about all the pressure from the fans. But, I got a lot of energy from them always. They make me more perfect.

Brian Calhoun

I'm not really worried about it, but at the same time, I do have to perform better because there is no third chance. So there will be a little more pressure, but I think I'll be fine.

Felicity Huffman

I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.

Simon Baker

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

Chan Gailey

I told the team there's a lot worse places to go than San Francisco. It's historical. It's something they'll remember the rest of their lives.

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

Kirsten Borgstrom

There are places throughout the state that are a little softer than they've been.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Mahatma Gandhi

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

James Cook

Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Noam Chomsky

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

Deutsche Bank

Excluding this, pretax profit should be up 9 percent.

Pliny the Elder

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Lei Jun

We make our profits through content and services.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Frank Mitchell

I want the public to know I'm still in it.

William Daley

They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way.

Alex Honnold

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

Lauren Bacall

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

Mick Cornett

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Dee McCann

I'm anxious. Little nervous. You know how it is. You never know until that day comes.

Charlotte Rampling

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Josh Trank

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.