Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cary Goldstein

The police followed the lead and apparently it all fell into place. They have the evidence with which to do this, ... They're going to put on a thorough, competent case because they're not going to risk losing this.

Russell Smith

Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.

Robert Raines

Well over 60 per cent of the subscriptions have been sold, ... I've spoken to a lot of different groups and apparently there is a new energy that's hitting the city and as a result ticket sales are up.

Greg Stemm

We have been very disappointed in the unprofessional and dangerous behavior that some of the local vessels have engaged in during the course of our operations. It is distressing to see the casual attitude that some local Captains take toward marine laws and safety, a matter we take very seriously. On numerous occasions during the past weeks, we have seen small local boats approach our ship in a careless manner, apparently not realizing the danger of their actions. The thrusters that are engaged during dynamic positioning operations present a serious threat to small vessels that come too close, which is why we request a safe working perimeter through the Notice to Mariners. We are seeking legal redress to prevent this from happening in the future in order to avail ourselves of every avenue available before someone is seriously hurt or worse.

Herb Levine

Voters will pay for it for the next four years and apparently for longer than that.

Hani Durzy

We haven't seen any product, since one apparently does not exist yet. So we can't comment on what we haven't seen.

Scott Ross

You just don't expect this kind of thing to occur, ... This guy was apparently a one man crime spree. The good news is that we do believe the officers are going to recover and there's no one on the loose. The suspect is in custody.

Scott Baker

Where was the SEC nine years ago when the defendants apparently looted the money?

Ryohei Muramatsu

Judging from fundamentals for the yen, including strong share prices and relatively positive economic data, the recent fall of the yen is apparently overdone.

George Allen

In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

Paul Johnson

It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book.

Scott Long

The police are using brutal harassment and detention without charge to clear transgender people off the streets. These attacks reflect a law enforcement system that is unchecked and operating outside the law.

Edward Brooke

The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.

Andrew Kohut

The overall finding of public opinion since the September 11 attacks is that the American public is willing to see the rules bent a little bit in the war on terrorism.

Noah Feldman

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

John Banville

The 9/11 attack was a huge and terrible thing but it was not unique. I come from a country where, if you put it in scale, some say 350,000 people would have died from the violence.

LaVonda Wagner

That was huge. We talked about being focused (at halftime), we talked about having an attack mind-set, it was a five-point game at that point.

Carey Green

That was how the game was called. We want to be physical. We want to attack the basket and we want to get to the free-throw line. We've got a goal to get to the free-throw line 30 times, and we didn't. ? There were fewer calls than we expected.

Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Ashton Kutcher

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

Art Alexakis

My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring - the 101 is just right. It's like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.

Jerry Martin

That will provide roughly 10 percent more gasoline for California users and hopefully stabilize availability, which we hope will stabilize prices.

Brooke Julicher

We have more people graduating than usual, but the girls that we'll have next year are solid, and our B-team is getting better. Also, people in California know that this is a good school for lacrosse at this level, so we always get good recruiting.

Russell Sheldon

With the U.S. economy hot and global growth accelerating, the issue of Fed tightening has become the conceptual equivalent of pondering a possible California earthquake. It's going to happen, but probably not tomorrow, and participants would rather not think about it.

Penn Badgley

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

Mike Fleming

When the California Highway Patrol contacted him, he said its a miracle. He's very excited about it. He's flying in tomorrow.

Kevin Starr

We need to reclaim the ethical high ground of what California should mean,

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Zack Snyder

To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

Warren Farrell

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Clive Thompson

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

Timothy Noah

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

Wesley Clark

Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.

John C. Calhoun

The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested.

Bill Vaughan

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

Stephen Ambrose

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Kevin McCarthy

We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.

Pat Oliphant

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

George Casey

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

Roy Moore

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

Irving Stone

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Kati Haycock

That we have such problems is clear. The way to better results is less clear.

Porter Goss

We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

John Scott

That's showing the rise in PKA activity, and the drop.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Drew DiPippo

We're still trying to get better and we want to make the state tournament.

Tommy Bowden

You like to see the state be a success.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Carly Fiorina

The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.

Joseph Stalin

It is not the voters who count, but those who count the votes.