Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Kopplin

We need to keep working to get our national surrogates to explain the facts - that the federal response was anemic and had been shortchanged by budget cuts and avoiding responsibilities like protecting Louisiana levees and wetlands.

Kurt Karl

We have a housing valuation issue. The time is now for raising interest rates and defusing these problems potentially by slowing down the economy a bit and avoiding a big necessary increase later and a consequential recession.

Sean Egan

It dodged a bullet by avoiding punitive damages in this case. But if it is forced to clean up lead paint, the company's exposure could be huge.

Himanshu Patel

One of the likely sticking points in the pending sale of GMAC may well be resolution on Delphi, further emphasizing GM's interest in avoiding a labor dispute.

Rachel Miner

I have all these rules for avoiding depression. One is going outside in the morning. I don't keep breakfast in the house, so that I have to go out first thing when I first wake up. And then I come back and shower.

John Faso

I have always been pro-life. I characterize myself that way and I'm not running away from it or avoiding it.

Frederick Sanger

I had remained in Cambridge concentrating only on basic research and avoiding as far as possible teaching or administrative responsibilities.

Brent Lewis

I felt like they were avoiding questions. They cut it (the meeting) short when people weren't done.

John King

Fortunately for us, we got a break and he did a good job of avoiding the tag.

Garry Winogrand

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

Evangeline Lilly

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

Rick Havercroft

The over and back call, we were clearly pushed over the line.

Madeline Albright

The path out of the wilderness is uphill, but it is clearly marked. It is time to move up that road.

Arndt Ellinghorst

The outlook that the first half-margin should be similar to the second half last year clearly highlights that the market pressures will continue and that Peugeot is less resistant to these pressures, given that their cost savings are flattening out and the new models are delivering less of a positive volume and mix effect than the company was expecting.

Bridget Kelly

Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.

William Hague

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Nicole Holofcener

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

F. Sionil Jose

At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

Rick Smolan

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

Mark McKinnon

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Najib Razak

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

Evan Spiegel

What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.

Michael Griffin

We are largely deferring utilization (of the station) and we are paring logistics (flights) to the bone.

Bruce Schneier

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.

Myles Munroe

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Samuel P. Huntington

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Jay Nixon

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

George Galloway

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

Andrei Tarkovsky

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

Kate Grenville

I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

John Hughes

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

Melina Kennedy

We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.

Jonathan Ames

I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

Ernest Hemingway

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

Ted Rall

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Peter Berg

We were simply brushed off by MAF officials.

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Martin Sheen

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

Peter Scolari

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.

Joe Nappi

Wherever there was an event, we tried to be there with buckets.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.

Sidney Crosby

I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.

Phil Flynn

Yesterday we had the big sell-off and we tried to come back a little bit.

Shannon Miller

We really tried to find where we had some duplication of services. It was one of our lesser-used facilities.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Patti Smith

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

Daisy Ridley

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

Liam Hemsworth

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Margaret Spellings

I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,

Ian Mckellen

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

Ruth Rendell

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.