Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathy Acker

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Kathy Acker

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

Kathy Acker

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Kate Millett

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

Kate Millett

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

Patricia Ireland

We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

Cesar Chavez

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him...The people who give you their food give you their heart.

Charles Evers

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

Jimmy Hoffa

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

Ken Ham

What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.

Doug Elliott

I would think his election increases the likelihood of a pension bill this year.

Tony Buzan

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.

Gene Munster

Hitting the 1 billion mark means that the business of selling music online is real. Over the next 10 years, the retail music industry will be turned upside down and 25 percent of worldwide industry sales will be made online.

Jean Lapierre

I think the only thing the government can do in a concrete way is to look at the supplementary revenues we have with the GST and ... return them to the poorest people of our society who have to pay more for their energy bill in general,

Henry Hyde

I think the bill that the Senate passed is a good bill,

Karen Ryan

It is charged on the total bill before taxes.

Chris Lynch

We expect total expenditure to increase to around $6 billion (in 2006). This will include around $4 billion spent on growth projects and $550 million on exploration.

Dennis Hastert

Whatever we do, before putting in billions of dollars, let's make sure lives are not put in jeopardy,

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

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.

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

Sam Altman

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

W. Somerset Maugham

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

Temple Grandin

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

John Calvin

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

Fred Thompson

Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.

Jimmy Carter

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

Ellen Page

I find a lot of people say, "Oh organic and local's expensive and I just don't have time." And I'm like, well how much TV do you watch? Where are your priorities right now? I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

Ellen Page

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

Schatzi Hageman

He was halfway red and halfway loving it.

Peter Henning

or a very short sentence in a halfway house.

Bob Beamon

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes

Jodi Smallcomb

We are a little over halfway there. For our last fundraising event, we want to push it over the top.

Roger Dearing

What if someone forecloses on a house halfway through? Do their kids still get to go to that school?

Amanda Harlech

I think I am really easygoing. Well... as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, 'No, actually you're really picky.' But the things I ask for are really simple to do.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Jerry Shuster

He (O'Connor) can't be indiscriminate. He can't tear down a house here and tear down a house there, because then it looks like it's more for show. But if they can do three, even though they need 30 taken down, if those three are strategic, it's a tremendous plus.

Mike Moore

We take it from the house and turn it into what you see here.

Robert Hoehn

I think by the end of next week they'll be cheaper. We'll get through some House legislation yet.

Tori Amos

I like cosy, intimate houses.

William Blake

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Virgil Goode

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

William Cobbett

But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.

Michael Clarke

We used sophisticated security procedures and measures to make sure only people who are supposed to be on the network can get onto the network.

Joyce Johnson

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

Cesare Lombroso

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Randy Pausch

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

Ricky Gervais

Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?

Dean Ryan

Sale were smarter and sharper than us but they lacked our power.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

George Stephen

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

Michael R. Bloomberg

thrilled if I won by one vote or more.

Tim Mambort

We went in pretty confident. It was all right. I don't think we were that thrilled about it.

Carolyn Clark

I am thrilled for her. It's her dream.

Harold Lewis

Bart is just thrilled to come back home.

Christopher Little

Ms. Rowling is thrilled to have been vindicated so clearly,

Brian Gionta

I just worry about the wins right now.

Pat Riley

You've got to have some wins like that.

Baba Kalyani

In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.