Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

A writer is like a bean plant, he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.

Dick Smothers

Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been.

Robert Klein

Nor did anyone censor any of my book. It is the most creative freedom you can have, in this, the 21st century, I can assure you.

Jay London

Do you know it was a year a ago today?

Mel Brooks

Anybody can direct. There are only 11 good writers.

Sarah Silverman

And then in my senior year of high school, I tried to go on at local nightclubs in New Hampshire, or I'd go on at school assemblies.

Todd Barry

I've never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show.

Julia Sweeney

I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.

Jay London

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

Jerry Klein

As far as participation, this is the best showing anyone can remember since sometime in the '90s. It was fantastic.

Ben Jacobson

As far as we're concerned, we're 100 percent positive. Unfortunately, we don't have anyone on this team on the selection committee.

Shaun Stenshol

As far as bio-diesel rental cars, I don't know of anyone else doing it in the world.

James Gallagher

As far as anyone knows, and officials have checked, there was no wreck and Junior was not dead.

Paul Miller

As far as anyone knew, she was just a good Samaritan who had tried to help this guy.

James Dimon

as good a partner as anyone would have hoped for.

Jay Karlins

As bad as we played defensively we were in the game the first half but then we come out and take the third quarter off. We're one shooter away. Dave (LeBlanc) had a great game but we didn't get much from anyone else.

Dan Wheldon

As competitive as all of us have been, the relationships have stayed very, very close, and that has been a very enjoyable experience for me. We push each other harder than anyone else out there. Our goal for next year is to all stay together and stay the winning team that we have become.

Atom Egoyan

As a parent, I would feel comfortable taking a mature 16- or 17-year-old to this movie. I feel dismayed that they wouldn't now be able to see it in a theater. Yet there is a double standard, because anyone can watch it at their home.

John Austin

After years of unabated pollution, I can assure you that the voters of Sussex are now very aware of the health impacts that the Indian River facility has caused or aggravated.

Dr. McKinlay

Dentists and parents, I think, can be very assured from the results of this study that they can continue to put silver amalgam in children's mouths to fill cavities.

Mitt Romney

are revisiting and reviewing what is a very solid public safety plan. We will make every effort to assure the safety of the games for the athletes, spectators, sponsors, guests and the venue communities.

Mark Routt

The sooner we help our neighbor put out his house fire, the better we'll sleep at night. It's an opportunity to stop what could have been a spike in prices, and to assure that the rest of the country won't have a supply disruption they could have had.

Mike Pence

Some (soldiers) were worried that the resources they need might be diverted, ... I assured them I would do what was needed to win the war and get them home safe.

Mohamed ElBaradei

once you have that assured supply, you have taken away the justification for countries to say, 'I'd like to make my own fuel,' and that's 80 percent of the problem.

Bob Stein

Round two is in the courts, it's not necessarily in November. He needs to be acquitted to assure his re-election.

Bob Riley

I've talked with federal officials and they've assured me this disruption of the gasoline supply is one of their top priorities and they're working to correct the problem, ... I'm hoping this will be a short-term disruption. In the meantime, citizens can continue to do their part by purchasing and using fuel responsibly.

David Walsh

The whole purpose is to assure the public we are dealing with these cases promptly, efficiently and fairly. This is a serious problem, and it's an embarrassment.

Tommy Smothers

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

John Palfrey

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

Tom Ford

One of the most important lessons everyone can take from 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' whether they support the war in Iraq, oppose the war or are undecided, is that we need less censorship in this country, not more.

Kurt Opsahl

Under current law, the legal question of whether speech is obscene is determined partly by reference to local community standards, ... EFF is concerned that these venue rules permits censorship of speech on the Internet under the standards of the least tolerant community, negating the values that the community standards doctrine was intended to protect -- diversity and localism in the marketplace of ideas.

Najam Sethi

People who question some of the facts of the Holocaust are ostracized; most publishers are so sensitive they won't even get into the argument. A degree of censorship is imposed that is not articulated in this case.

John Pilger

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

John Carpenter

There was no real censorship involved, which is a tantalizing draw,

David Byrne

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

Marlee Matlin

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

Jane Badler

As an actor and artist, it's much better to do things because... you're interested in saying something and because you enjoy the creative process.

Sheila Nevins

a singular creative force in what may be called high-impact television.

Sean Tipton

People do very creative things to get money, ... like selling or mortgaging their house.

Leon Edel

Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.

Mike Daly

After working with Tierney for nearly three years as our PR partner, we were not surprised by their strong strategic and creative expertise.

Tayshaun Prince

Anything that's more creative is going to be more fun.

Carlos Constantini

The subsidies are smaller as operators look for more creative promotions to retain customers and recover margins.

Michael Greene

The technical and creative innovations and contributions of Les Paul and the inventiveness of DigiDesign's Pro Tools system are the towering achievements of true visionaries.

Tom Gray

I've been a crazy, huge Pixies fan my entire life, since I was thirteen. As a creative partnership, and as friends, we had to regroup and make a career-defining record.

Sam Reed

As a consequence, Americans are more comfortable in India because of human freedom and democracy.

Mary Gauthier

The most important thing I got from philosophy was that there are no answers. There's freedom in knowing that you don't have to know it all ... which is why to me a song should end with a question, not an answer.

Pablo Neruda

Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing.

Paul Murphy

safe in the knowledge that the honor and memory of those men who gave their lives for freedom on the Western Front has been preserved.

Ralph Hall

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

Jack Clark

This is sacred ground today. The price of freedom is truly visible here today.

Paul Silva

This is something we'll stop and do for you so that you can have the same freedom that we have.

Matt Mullenweg

You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.

Ayn Rand

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Todd Devereaux

North is very strong. We played with them for about 25 minutes.

Michael Griffith

North Dakota's is sort of a different pace.

Jay Grymes

Normal rainfall is not what we need. We need a wet spell.

Tahar Rahim

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

Abdul Aziz

Now I can sell latex at normal prices.

Larry Rice

Technology is where there's momentum, ... That's been the norm and it's getting worse. People are going to go where they can make money.

Abraham Lincoln

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

Nelson Oduber

This is a preposterous and irresponsible act, ... We are not terrorists. We don't pose a threat to the United States, nor to Alabama.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.