Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Roberts

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

Mickey Kaus

Is Hollywood so out of touch it thinks Stone's version of 9/11 is what America is clamoring for? After 'Alexander,' at that?

Walt Whitman

I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms

Scott Brown

I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

Robert Pittman

I understand there is considerable anxiety about America Online right now, but I want to assure you we're confident about the future. Our goal is to be in the growth mode in the second half of the year, and then get back our real momentum in 2003.

Jake Peavy

I've never had a better feeling in my life. I wanted to win with everything I had within me. I can't tell you the amount of pride you have when you put that uniform on with all of America watching.

Bill Hicks

They also have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

E. B. White

The way I feel about it is if it happened to me, I wish America opened their heart to me.

William Frey

These are two major waves in America. One is the black return to the South. The other is Hispanics going to places where everybody else is moving, following the jobs.

Robert Novak

Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this,

Vicki Crompton

One night we caught him hiding in the bushes at 10:30, watching our house,

Jamie Rappaport

Americans have made a significant commitment to recovering the wolf over the past 30 years. Unfortunately, the Bush administration is planning to turn back the clock on wolf recovery by prematurely passing management responsibility to states such as Idaho that has expressed a clear intention of immediately exterminating all of the wolves in the state.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

John Dryden

I am as free as nature first made man.

Tom Williams

However, individuals are free to do what they want.

John MacLeod

He's ... improved his outside jump shot. He's improved his free throws, and he's working on an inside game.

Paul Molitor

I could become a free agent. I'd have to go to an American League team, like the Mets. That sounds funny, doesn't it?

Scott Bamforth

I don't miss free throws. I don't know what I was doing.

Karla Gamble

I'd never had to shoot free throws in a situation like that before. I just went up there and thought about hitting my free throws. I wasn't thinking about anything else.

Red Herring

Really, I've just been inspired this year because it's my time to shine, ... Brandon Free graduated, and I learned a lot from him, so it was just my time to step up and produce.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

Alveda King

Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

Anthony Eden

All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

Amy Goodman

Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

Anne Rice

Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.

Andrew Leigh

Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.

Joanne Pratt

The Web is a great place to shop and spend money, but it's pretty great for making money too.

Beth Combs

That's why they are Purdue and we're not. They were able to sustain that run and make a great run when it counted.

Stuart Allard

That's why I prefer independent movies. It proves you don't need big stars to make a great movie.

Vinny Castilla

That's why he's here. He's a great player, and that's why he's with us and the National team.

Micky Sullivan

That's why he's going to Oklahoma. He can go and get it. It's great to have a guy that where all you need to do is get it close.

Emilie Ravin

That's what's great about it. Everyone is so different. Different ages. Different nationalities,

Will Rogers

That's what makes us a great nation. We take the little things serious, and the big ones as a joke.

Derek Dennis

That's what makes Peekskill so special. We have a great bench, so we can make runs on teams that aren't as deep.

Marcus Thames

That's what I work for every year. It'll be a great feeling.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Cristiano Ronaldo

I've always had a sense of responsibility, whether I've been captain or not. But I must say that I'm both pleased and proud to be Portugal captain, despite how young I am, because I know what it means. My job is still the same though. I need to do what I do best out on the pitch, and that's score goals and help my team win.

Craig McCracken

The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.

Craig Newmark

People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.

Craig Newmark

I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.

Craig Newmark

Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.

Craig Newmark

We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.

Craig Newmark

I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Henry Clay

I'd rather be right than President.

Helen Thomas

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

John Maynard Keynes

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

Jodi Kantor

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

Keating Holland

Americans may rally around a president when he sends troops to war but not when he sends them the bill.

Christopher Shays

This president had a right to rejoice. But it was just a compassionate, wonderful speech,

Jean Offutt

There were no surprises for us. But we're still waiting for the other two steps, which will be the president and Congress.

Alberto Gonzales

This may be the most important thing a president does.

Tom Izzo

There's no question he's pressing right now and I kind of feel for him.