Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Ruben Hinojosa

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

R. Robinson

I would say that it (the visit) is not guaranteed yet,

Chris Scelfo

What matters is we're playing. We'll play in the parking lot at Popeye's. I guarantee you I'll play in the parking lot at Wal-Mart if that's where they tell us to play. That's all we have is football. We've lost everything else.

Roger Ferris

There is no guarantee we will get anything.

Gary Cooper

We're only looking to have fun. It will be fun. I can guarantee that.

Mark Johnson

I will be nervous, I guarantee it, but hopefully I'll get over it real quick.

Frank Robinson

He'll listen to anything I tell him, but I don't know how he'll react. I can't guarantee he won't react to something on the field.

Robert Nozick

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

Walker Percy

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Winston Churchill

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Renee Fleming

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

Thelonious Monk

I played the wrong wrong notes.

Thelonious Monk

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

P. J. O'Rourke

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

Isaac Stern

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

Drew Lachey

In terms of TV and for the ratings that the show gets, it's ridiculous.

Tom O'Neil

It's possible. There are ratings spikes for shows that win the top awards, ... The Emmys.

Paul Holmes

They put on Ernie Dingo and their ratings went UP!

Scott Sprinzen

We haven't factored anything into the rating (but) it's worth monitoring closely. It's a big unknown.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.