Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia McKinney

The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?

John Poindexter

The 9/11 Commission is identifying the exact problems that we were trying to get technology to solve. So I keep pushing the idea.

Candy Olson

We can't just keep hoping the county commission will do right by these kids.

Laura Martin

We have the Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission which translates and publishes our press releases into Latino magazines.

Michael Copps

Today the Federal Communications Commission empowers America's new media elite with unacceptable levels of influence over the ideas and information upon which our society and our democracy depend,

Jack Evans

We will respond quickly and comprehensively to any requests for information from the Commission on this complaint, but no such requests have been received so far.

Stephen Williams

We have been working for some time on this commission and the purchaser is a long standing customer of ours. Even though we regularly work on commissions to source rare wines this one has been particularly gratifying.

Thomas Vinje

Microsoft has been playing games with the Commission from the beginning, but now it realizes its time is up.

J. Taylor

Microsoft continues to be open to working with partners and competitors, alike, to jointly commission research that helps all our customers engage in an informed and respectful debate on the facts.

Zoe Kravitz

My style is really inspired by whatever I'm listening to or reading or watching; I'm always trying to embody the things that are inspiring me, just for fun. But I think it's always very important to be comfortable and just kind of expressive; if you take fashion too seriously, then you lose the fun of it. I think you should always take the risk.

Michel Faber

Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.

James Gleick

A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. It's a choice that you can embody in electrical circuits, and it is thanks to that that we have all this ubiquitous computing.

Mia Wasikowska

You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool.

King Felipe VI

I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time.

Siri Hustvedt

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

Tony Danza

I wanted someone who could embody this villainy and this very subtle villainy.

Marc Anthony

They're the truest representatives right now of their genres. The experience between us is over 50 years. They're not the hottest thing right now because they have a No. 1 single. What they embody is . . . music in the truest form.

Rebecca Stead

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Kristy Curry

That was the big question from the media so I guess I had to talk about it. I don't think it was me harping on it but when there is something not going well that seems to be the focus. It wasn't always pretty, but this team has found a way to win.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Nigel Farage

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

Bertrand Russell

Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?

Rodney Stark

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

David Phelps

Members are very much scrambling to see what's going to happen,

Patrick McHenry

I thought it would take years for a new member to become a player, ... It's better than I expected.

Lambis Nikolaou

I was the only one of the 104 members who did not vote.

Mark Morton

To become a member of the National Organization you have to stand an inspection.

Jenni Allen

I was pleased with representation on the committee. There were a variety of different opinions and we've successfully incorporated every member of the third-year class.

Gorden Blain

If I'm going to be a member of Rivals, they want the message boards. If I pulled the message boards, then I would be lopped off the network.