Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jess Walter

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

Denny Green

I think the criticism should be on me. I'm the one who made the judgment that the line needed to be revamped.

Gero Neugebauer

I think that there has been criticism directed at Schroeder from inside the party. Schroeder is doing some downgrading of the price of a grand coalition, but that doesn't mean he is completely out of the race for chancellor.

Tom DeLay

I think that the judicial system should not be open to the kind of criticism that would naturally happen if Judge Perkins remains on the case,

Oscar Wilde

Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.

Bob Castellini

There is no criticism of Dan. I just needed my own person.

Jeb Bush

I thought the vice president overcompensated after the criticism he got from the first debate. He was too calm.

Robert M. Gates

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Roger Ebert

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

Jay Brown

He wants the place to feel like a family environment.

James Sarni

What will keep swap spreads from widening dramatically is that we are still in (a relatively) low yield environment.

Deb Patterson

I thought about the fans and how incredible it was for us to have competed in that environment. I thought about our players and just how proud I was of how tough-minded they had become as competitors and how happy I was for them. I thought about our staff and how hard they've worked.

Mary Walker

It gives our workforce a great opportunity to expand their knowledge within the normal working environment.

Daniel Nepstad

There is a notion that the presence of people can be harmful to the environment. But this is not always true.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Russell Baker

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

Viola Spolin

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

John Capel

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Robert McKinley

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Steve Rives

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

Mike Kelly

I think we do what the governor is talking about. I think we're all on the same page.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am going to run for governor of the state of California,

Jim McGrath

He did tell his son, the governor of Texas, that he was tired of him getting all the attention.

Margita Thompson

Our of respect for the will of the people, the governor will veto (the bill).

John Sherman Cooper

I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.

Toba Beta

I know there is only one Governor Of Deities.

E. P. Thompson

I know the governor supports the use of most supplements and vitamins that are safe. But there needs to be differentiation between supplements that are harmful and those that aren't.

Bible Bible

And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.

Fred Silva

We still have the problem that governors like to do stuff.

Steve Hutchinson

He's been thrown into the fire. It was the lowest of the lows. In my rookie year, he was getting booed off the field. Of anybody, I'm proudest of Matt.

John Cislo

We matched West's intensity, but they made the shots. They're good. Taylor didn't miss too many 3s in the first half. We were too low ... we didn't get up in his face.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Shlomo Yosef

Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Tetsu Emori

In that case, we'll be in the winter season already. If temperatures in winter time are lower than forecast, then that should be a big problem.

Cindy Hockenberry

If you know your itemized deductions will be more than the standard deduction, you can still just use the standard deduction to get an idea in your mind. This will give you the lowest estimate.

William Karesh

In this situation it had a very low impact,

Dan Houston

Individuals who are targeting a lower replacement ratio will see a significant reduction in their standard of living.

Mary Badham

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

Bhagavad Gita

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

Monica Crowley

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

Jacques Chirac

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Dave Reynolds

One thing about them is neither one will give up. They're tenacious, they really are.

Scott Brewer

Neither team made many errors. It was well played.

Larry Greene

Neither Savannah nor Brunswick has any kind of safe mooring or anchorage,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

Jake Delhomme

I thought because we had never run it out of that formation at all -- I just thought it was the perfect call.

Craig Carpenter

We took our CEO, who is not a technologist, through the new setup wizard with no problem. It was the perfect test case.

Mel Kiper

I think that makes a lot of sense. For the type of scheme they play, he would be perfect for what they need.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Richelle Mead

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richelle Mead

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Richard Baxter

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Tony Wood

I would urge patrons to go to the polls and vote, ... I think it's important to participate in this process.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is not they who will decide, but we when we go to the polls on Sunday,

Jennifer Duffy

I'm not terribly swayed by polls at this point.

Carina Perelli

The important thing now, for the first time in a long time they have turned to the polls and not to the guns.

Herb Sendek

It's early, those polls and rankings are going to change.

Sally Quinn

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

Michael Bloomberg

You can't depend on polls.

Lech Walesa

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

Oscar Arias

Today, we'll make reality what the polls have been saying.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Orrin Hatch

I think the president has to do some compromising here, not just the House.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Reza Aslan

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

William Safire

Our rogue President, after selling face time...

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

Jim Rohn

Asking is the beginning of receiving...

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Cass Canfield

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

Jan Egeland

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

Debbie Reynolds

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

Simone de Beauvoir

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

Sophia Amoruso

You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.

Shawn Fanning

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

Lofa Tatupu

He is somebody you really have to worry about and you have to know where he is at all times.

Bob Parker

He's always had illnesses. You will never get him here because somebody is always sick.

Char Quinn

I think we had somebody to walk every dog.

Gary Gilmore

There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break.

Kelly Price

A lot of times you'll have somebody who could be the most talented person in the world, but because they are plus-sized, they're not even considered for a call back.

Don Robinson

I did talk to somebody one time who said he was Doug Wood.

Jim McMahon

I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

Martha Karolyi

If you don't like it, too bad. Somebody else will, and they will work it and they will be the winner.

Dan Glickman

Agriculture is particularly vulnerable to the whims of nature,

Mahatma Gandhi

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

Norman O. Brown

To be is to be vulnerable.

Kim Cattrall

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

Mike Pence

A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

Joan Osborne

Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return.

Alan Pardew

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton has taught us really how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking.

Debbie Harry

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.