Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

E. B. White

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

Don Rose

People are still engaged; they still want music, but they want a choice. So I say, just give the people what they want. It's so simple.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Christopher Cox

The speaker of the House is just that -- the speaker of the House, ... It is the people's house. It is the business of all of America that is at stake.

Jay London

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

Cathy Keefe

After 9/11, there was a real shift toward family-oriented travel. Visiting small-town America became more popular as people were looking for a piece of Americana. You have your big all-American cities, but the majority of the country is small areas with fun events and cultural traditions that are a draw these days.

Scott Gordon

You're not limited to a song structure, as you are in pop music. For a song, you've got an intro, a chorus, a bridge, a verse, a chorus, et cetera, and you're done. This is completely open to going left or right at any point. A scoring composer isn't bound to any genre.

E. O. Wilson

Boundaries will be broken, ... and you're going to see more women in leadership roles on television and in real life. We simply want to do our part to hurry history.

E. B. White

He is not bound by any timeline, ... He's going to be extremely prudent, deliberate and pragmatic in his decision.

Billy Connolly

I'm sure everyone in this room has been told a joke about that subject. I have many times and I've laughed, even though they are horrifying and shocking. . . . I think there's no boundary at all, whether it's that subject or another.

Bill Gates

Change the boundaries of business.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Urs Linsi

We want the referees to be a team and they should all be able to speak and write a common language.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

John Mitchell

If there was a common theme to his stories, it was misuse of power. He knew who his readers were. He knew that if something outraged him, they would be outraged, too.

Jenny Eclair

I only socialise with people that I have a lot in common with.

Rudyard Kipling

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

John Daly

I love this Open, I love Scotland and this is one of my favorite courses in the world,

Randy Lein

The course played more difficult today than the last two rounds. We were holding pretty steady at one or two-under most of the day, and then the last hour the wind got stronger and stronger.

Ross Randall

The course played difficult today with the temperature and wind. I was very pleased with our team's grit and determination considering their health and physical state. Gary struggled a little today, but had a very solid overall tournament.

Ricardo Gonzalez

The course is wonderful, it has good design and the fairways and greens are in good condition. But when you play good everything is good. I start early tomorrow and hopefully if I can get lucky with my tee time I can do well.

Steve Card

These players are working hard on the golf course and it's not easy. So far it's been a solid golf tournament for us.

Chris Haack

This is a golf course that can jump out and get you. There's trouble on every hole so you never can get too comfortable out here. I'll definitely remind our guys tonight that there's still a lot of golf to be played and that they are going to have to stay focused.

Tom Moore

The houses don't encroach on the course at all.

Mitch Daniels

No, and of course they shouldn't. We just got here, and there's no way to know.

Charles Moore

This is the most important rail project in New England.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

William Shakespeare

England is safe, if true within itself.

Edwin Starr

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

Susan Allen

People are familiar with the show: a New England governor whose wife is a doctor. That is our story line.

William Wallace

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!

Shirley MacLaine

I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.

Alice Morse Earle

In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.

Alan Moore

I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

Paul Murphy

English is a language from the head and brain, Irish comes from the heart.

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

James Horner

My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.

Gordon Taylor

But this is a worrying pattern for English football. Are our stars of the future getting the opportunities they need?

Joseph Bruchac

My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.

John Edward Redmond

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.