Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Hynes

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wendell Mayes

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Virginia Postrel

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Michael McLachlan

The policy language is specific and clear, and the jury verdict says that. I feel sorry for these people, I really do. This is a case we should have settled a long time ago.

Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Norman Ornstein

The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),

John Danforth

The path is clear for us to get this case to a jury.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

Ivana Milicevic

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them.

Wu Yonggang

The PBOC is very prudent about making any more changes to the interest rate. It is nearly impossible to reduce the rate when it already stands at such low a level.

Rick Warren

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.

Nathan Ford

With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

Gary Rogers

The (50th anniversary) celebration is a good way to understand the changes within the borough.

Elizabeth Selvin

The association of ED with cardiovascular risk factors may be a powerful motivator for men for whom diet and lifestyle changes are indicated.

Chipper Jones

That was him being less stubborn and making some changes he needed to make at the plate.

Andrei Lankov

The 2002 reforms were just a recognition of changes that had happened already. It's not reform in any meaningful sense, there was just a disintegration of the state.

Hani Durzy

We have always had a policy that if it's illegal to do off eBay, it's illegal to do on eBay, ... We have made some changes and additions to our existing stun gun policy. We want to continue to keep people from doing illegal things on eBay.

Richard Branson

We have always felt that a company with music at its core rather than technology could do so much better for music fans. It is so user friendly that even I could use it.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money.

Jake Brace

We'll open trading on an exchange and that will determine what the value of the company will be. That's when you'll be able to determine what the true recovery will be.

Barbara Williams

We have the luxury of just watching a little bit. Every company must make a decision about where they want to be on the curve. There's always the risk that if you lead, you bleed.

Robert Hartwig

Typically, they want to know how many people are residents in your household. That creates a different liability situation, and you need to inform your insurance company about that.

Brent Bracelin

Typically a company will look at acquisition strategies when their growth starts to slow but there's no slowing down at Dell.

Robert Kirby

Today, things look much rosier for American Home. The degree of uncertainty at the company is much less today than it was four or five months ago.

Kozo Hiramatsu

We will rebuild our company and keep it going for the future. But this time we promise we'll grow our company with integrity, enhanced corporate governance, and compliance.

A. Bush

We've got some people working here because of the ingenuity of the plant managers, ... . . . This company has provided housing for the folks who work here.

Zadie Smith

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control

Michael Hancock

If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is.

Danny Green

I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed.

Bruno Julliard

Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.

Edmund Burke

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

Steven Pinker

My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.

Michel Faber

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Jules Feiffer

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father

Christina Hendricks

We're really spoiled on 'Mad Men.' Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing.

Mimi Kennedy

My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.

Mike Gardner

We are pleased to receive the Project Partnership Award. As an organization we have worked creatively with regional communities to get urban forestry off the ground. It's wonderful to be formally recognized for these efforts.

George Clooney

We're investing financially and creatively to develop an idyllic environment that reflects our personal tastes and interests and where we can relax with our friends who also love this town,

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.

Brendan Gleeson

The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.

David Hoffman

I will investigate aggressively and creatively and will follow the evidence wherever it leads.

Mary Mason

Part of what I've found is that people who can think creatively and can do this kind of work need a tolerant environment, ... Texas will wind up looking un-American, intolerant and very foolish.

Taya Kyle

I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.

Becky G

Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

Vince Gilligan

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

Bethany Hamilton

The end...is just the beginning

Aaron Small

That was huge; that play right there gives them their fourth run if they score it, and it ends an inning, ... Any time you make a play like that, in a game like this, it swings the momentum to the team that makes that play.

Shanna Zolman

We could have the most difficult, roughest experience throughout my senior year. But if it all ends the way we want it to end ? in the very end with the NCAA Tournament ? it's all worth it.

Scott Turow

There are a whole lot of little tales told in 'Presumed Innocent,' whether it's about the Hobberly kid, who was an important witness who ends up assassinated, or an accountant named Marcy Lupino, who meets a horrible fate in a state penitentiary. There's less of that in 'Innocent,' and deliberately so.

Jason Witten

We have a good era of tight ends right now,

Glenn Greenwald

Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in headlines that the dead were 'militants' - even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea of who was actually killed.

Allen Michel

Whoever ends up getting Guidant at this point will probably end up paying too much.

Graham Murray

That was as expected by the medical staff - they'll be fine.

Pete Fenson

We could hear the Swiss yelling and stuff. We expected that.

Brenden Morrow

We just didn't have the jump right away. We expected a big game from them because they've been hot.

Jeremy Burk

We played outstanding. We shot the way they expected to all year.

Sarah Kay

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.

Michael Bergin

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.

Patricia McBride

I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.

Craig Stinnett

We've got that Gill magic, I guess. Nobody even expected us to be here. To come out and play like we did shows a lot of heart and determination.

John Pine

Most grabbed some stuff thinking we would be back in three days. They never expected this.

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Mark Anderson

That was a real slap in the face. I think they perceive Microsoft as part of Western hegemony somehow.

Stewart Alsop

Microsoft is a bully. Microsoft is trying to hoodwink nontechnical people.

David Filo

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.

Chuck Austin

Microsoft has stepped up to the plate in a way we've never seen before.

Bill Gates

Microsoft has not treated us as a customer.

Chris Grisanti

Microsoft could very well be the next Microsoft.

Drake Johnstone

Microsoft would do whatever they can to keep AT&T from going to AOL.

Harvey Saferstein

Microsoft needs a settlement more than the government.

Larry Ellison

Microsoft is welcome to come investigate us and so are you guys,

Carl Sagan

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Bertrand Russell

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Jackie Spinner

That was a sign of respect for her. She was able to make a connection.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Rob Brzezinski

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Nhat Hanh

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Honore de Balzac

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Saudi Arabia

Tell me what you are seeking to hear--

Melissa Fleming

There was no explanation. We're still seeking clarification.

Robert Hamilton

We are seeking any new work we can get.

Franz Kafka

All that you are seeking is also seeking you

Timothy Radcliffe

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Les Brown

Whatever you're seeking-it's seeking You

Peter Sorensen

Using these extracts has been shown to work,

Amitabh Bachchan

You have shown that one can sustain success.

Gail Begley

He just didn't show up and he still hasn't shown up.

Scott Hoffman

Had they not have shown up, it could have been tragic.

Jim Riccitelli

He has shown us little glimpses here and there, and I told him tonight he had to be better than the other goaltender, and he was.

Larry Coker

He has shown me a lot. He's going to be an outstanding player.

Dusty Baker

He doesn't have to show more. I like what he's shown already. He has to show more of the same.

Rick Taylor

We want them and I think we have shown you that.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not a one-trick pony. We've shown it all year that we're not a one-trick pony.