Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Ashdown

The only thing I think can happen is that (Congress enacts) a very large, across-the-board cut, ... and nobody is talking about that. Every major program has an 800-pound gorilla protecting it.

Bob Dole

Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility: the constituent has a problem, ... We're supposed to write back and say, 'Well I can't do anything?' That's not what they elect you for.

Jerry Reed

He's able to talk to anybody, whether it's a grass roots advocate, a member of Congress or of the (Bush) administration, ... And he not only talks but he acts.

Phil Smith

I think what Sen. Specter has introduced is a very good step in the right direction and we're looking forward to Congress passing legislation to improve the safety of miners.

Greg Valliere

I think sometimes after we have this type of party, there is a hangover -- and this comes in '05, ... The new Congress in '05 will make efforts to restrain growth. They may not rescind the tax cuts, but there will be spending restraint. But between now and then, it's just a party.

Dave Douglas

I went to libraries. I went to the Library of Congress. I went to obscure video shops. Some of the most obscure films I found were in the dark, hidden, X-rated corners of the store.

Robert Hirsch

I'd just as soon they shut (Congress) down for a few years. All they do is keep passing laws and figuring out ways to spend our money.

Robert Hirsch

I'd just as soon they shut Congress down for a few years.

Sidney Blumenthal

I did not urge or encourage any reporter to investigate the private life of any member of Congress. Any suggestions otherwise are completely false.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

Ramesh Chennithala

Karat had first said that he would react after the full report of the CAG comes out. It is now a few weeks and there has been no reaction from him.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

John Fusco

It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.

Alando Tucker

I think it's motivation to show these younger guys that hard work pays off, to show that what we've been doing in these past few years has worked. And if it's worked in the past, it can work in the present.

Bill Clarke

He didn't go to work that day figuring he was going to get killed.

Sam Hunt

I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.

Jeff Hawkins

Guys are figuring out their roles. My key role is not turning over the ball. When I come in the game and come out, we shouldn't be worse off than where we started.

Charlie Whitehurst

I think we're more methodical right now. We're still figuring this thing out. We're only four games in. ... When it all gels, I think we'll be all right.

Dennis Hutchinson

He has become good at figuring out how much he can get out of them without losing them.

Larry Horn

In the patent world, the user of a product is responsible for figuring out which intellectual property obligations they have and how to meet them. They become vulnerable if infringing a patent under which they are not licensed.

Jeff Skilling

It's really a question of figuring out what makes sense.

Loren Roberts

They are usually the ones in there looking at the computer, figuring out who they passed or what they need to do,

Rob Haydak

They made all the right moves. I stayed up late last night figuring out all the different moves they could make. All the moves they made worked. They were the better team tonight.

Rudy Rucker

Physical laws provide, at best, a recipe for how the world might be computed in parallel particle by particle and region by region.

Jose Morales

The Mexicans are going to keep coming, wall or no wall, new laws or old laws.

Brian Oxman

This is a lawsuit that never should have been brought. I'm pleased it's over.

Bobby Schindler

It's going to take a little while before these laws are actually changed.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Mike Garcia

A lot of states have laws where you can't get into school without proof of immunization.

Rosemarie Arnold

This plea is Step One in the vindication process. The lawsuit is Step Two.

Ziad Asali

As a practical matter, they think that the new members of the parliament will be more amenable to pass these laws than the present one. They're comfortable that it will pass then. But they do not rule it out now.

Lloyd Chapman

These lawsuits are a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Trent Green

I think (Black and Bober) did well, ... But when you get that kind of lead, you want to start pounding the ball... . Most of our passing was play-action. That took a lot of pressure off those guys.

Woody Allen

I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

Rich Mullins

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Umberto Eco

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

Saint Augustine

Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

Wilma Mankiller

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

William Butler Yeats

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

Keith Richard

Passing the vodka bottle. And playing the guitar.

Pinsoom Tenzing

If I were to point out one strong, strong point in the team, it is the passing of the fullbacks.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Mara Wilson

I get a lot of "Shut up, Matilda." I probably get as many "Shut up, Matildas" as Wil Wheaton gets "Shut up, Wesleys." That was an actual line on his show, though.

Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

Ogden Nash

When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up.

Marty Schottenheimer

We still could have shut them out and won by four.

Shi Zhengrong

After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables.

Shaun Cody

It's painful. It's really frustrating, and it makes you want to shut it down. You want to, as a player, say 'I can't take this no more.' But I'm a professional.

Kevin Roy

Sunday at 6 p.m., we shut it down.

Brandon Rush

It just shut them up. You lost, what more can you say?

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Elian Gonzalez

I know that you're scared. This must be frightening, but this will be over very soon and you will feel much better. I'm going to take you to Poppy.

Herman Edwards

I'm not listing him as anything right now because I don't know what the tests are. I'm not a doctor. As soon as I know, I'll let you know.

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Don Temeyer

It's probably too soon to say how we'll do it.

Silvan Shalom

It is very, very important to stop them, and the sooner the better,

David DeJesus

It's frustrating, but I just want to get better as soon as possible.

Gregg Overman

That's a 'no-later-than' date. It could be sooner than that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Sam Huber

He doesn't like to run. He spends most of his time on the couch.

William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

Wilbur Ross

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Cheryln Bennett

If you make a little money, you spend it on other things (for artwork).

David Greene

I'm trying to spend as little as possible,

Brian McBride

And, of course, I like to spend time with my wife and my two-year-old daughter.

Jim Romaniszyn

I wanted to spend more time with the kids.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Nathan Rosane

In U.S. ways so that when we leave, we don't have to come back.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Andrew Jones

It's really sad, but in a lot of ways it was time.

Warren McCormick

Not at all. But there are ways to do it properly." ()

Matt Hasselbeck

They make you prepare. Just some of the things they do and all of the ways they come after you.

Jesus Fierro

They've come up. They are on the rise, but they've got a ways to go yet.