Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Stephen Colbert

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

Quincy Jones

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

O. J. Simpson

It is inconceivable that French workers at Peugeot would be laid off on this magnitude.

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon and the Australian, U.S. and French Opens are to tennis.

Voltaire

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

Cara Black

I read French much better than I speak.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Indonesians must understand that there is no Islamic state without the enforcement of Islamic laws. Otherwise it is just talk and nothing else.

Veronique Rugy

I'm not surprised at the students. I am surprised by the reaction of the French government, which is able to say we are doing this to resolve the unemployment issue.

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Alan Trammel

He wants to play, ... We're probably the ones who have been holding him back a little bit, but we have to.

Ted Cottrell

He knows when you have to hold back now. He's reacting a lot more to where the tackle is going and making his move, rather than preplanning like he did last year.

Sheila Nevins

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

Gore Vidal

God, no. Unless you hold office, there's no point in being there.

Colin Falls

He's just making one move and not thinking about it. I think sometimes he holds onto it and over-analyzes. He catches and makes his move (and) that opens us up on the outside.

Jennifer Schack

Hold on to your hat. The winds will pick up for the afternoon.

Ryan Hollins

It hurts pretty bad, and it swelled up. But there's nothing that's going to hold me back. I still have a pulse.

Milton Ezrati

I think the next time they meet, we'll get the same thing again. They'll hold steady.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Pete Boone

I think you weigh all of the issues together, including the interview. It still may be close, but you've got to have all of the components.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Paula Gianino

In ten other states now we have bans pending, including Missouri. We're here to say no.

Tim Russert

Inside the C.I.A. leak indictments, including the role of journalists, including yours truly,

Christina Powers

In our live auctions, we have several vacations, including one to Portugal.

Jeff Conroy

I just couldn't pass it up with three kids, including one who will be a a senior next year and another who will be a freshman.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

J. J. Johnson

I think (the leaders) are there. It's whether or not they know how to do that yet is what we've got to find. I'm not sure they know who they are yet, so we'll see.

Andrew Barrett

What you're seeing is these old leaders, which don't have much more downside, come back in favor.

James Thurber

I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.

Oscar Lua

I think it was inevitable. The kickoff team is struggling a bit, so they need some sort of leadership out there.

Mark Gardner

He's been one of their leaders since he was a freshman.

Mel Stottlemyre

I would tell him what it's like and I wouldn't leave anything out, ... You've got to satisfy two sets of people here and it shouldn't be that way.

Leslie Moonves

Katie's someone we like a lot. But you know what? Katie's been at NBC a long, long time. We'll leave it at that.

Paul Sanders

I think I subconsciously do (try to leave people out). I don't want to be intruding in people's lives.

Steve Clarke

He leaves a strong legacy for the country.

Stephen Hunter

I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.

Kenny Rogers

He's a dead-pull hitter. Leave it to me to get him to go the other way with what I throw.

Gordon Roberts

He's a worker. He never misses a day. He's (in the weight room) first and leaves last.

Jose Guillen

We're poor people who live here and we don't know where to go. The situation is tough. We'd like to know specifically what they're going to do and not leave us stranded on the street.

Ray Nagin

Today I feel better about Rita, and I'm not as prone to do a hard, mandatory evacuation, ... But I want to leave that open as an option.

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Chamlong Srimuang

Our rally will persist until the prime minister quits.

Bill Clinton

In view of the American position, I don't see how your prime minister can be anything but really publicly very tough on this. I don't think he's got an option,

Michel Lu

If necessary we will make proposals to the minister or even the president.

David Blunkett

That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.

Little Richard

No, I've never truly been a minister.

Margaret Thatcher

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.

Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Gerhard Schr

During Merkel's years as Minister for Women, I was having a really tough time as a single parent mother,

Richelle Mead

We cannot road trip to Paris.

Woody Allen

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.

Rebecca Romijn

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

Robert Delaunay

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

Willa Cather

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

Twiggy

I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

Washington Irving

Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature.

Rick Riordan

Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. "Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow.

Robert Thompson

If you're a U.S. senator and your sex tape is leaked, it could end your career. If you're Paris Hilton, it makes your career.

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Kamisese Mara

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

Mahatma Gandhi

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.

Dan Zimmerman

This is the prime time right now. They're there.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Michael Englund

I wouldn't be surprised to see more weakness in the September report.

Robert Mueller

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

Rudy Giuliani

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

Rudy Giuliani

We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.

Matt Allen

In September 2004, I had 2,000 tons of inventory; by the first week of September 2005 there was no inventory. We were wiped out.

Wayne Carl

If September works and we can switch it, we'll switch.

Orrin Hatch

We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards.

Richard Jaffe

That's pretty dismal, ... My sense is September is not going to be much better.

Newt Gingrich

The terrorism danger to the United States is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans.

Roman Harper

He talks more out there than he does all week.

Noriyuki Suzuki

The bilateral talks are interlinked with the multilateral process.

Steve Alford

We've already kind of had all the talks that we were going to have.

M.I.A.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Liu Jianchao

The timetable for resuming the talks is unpredictable.

Billy Bush

She talks about two people. From your experience, is that right?

Michael Huff

Jimmy's different. He kind of talks all the time. But it's all in fun.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much.