Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Ice Cube

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

Will Sergeant

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism.

Venus Williams

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Zubin Mehta

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

Nik Nanos

The polling shows there's a very clear gender gap on this. It shows 52 per cent of men support more nuclear power while only 30 per cent of women want more nuclear power.

Doug Beard

The people at the Bradley Center have been tremendous to work with. Our event management experience certainly comes into play.

Ann Smith

The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.

Lord Falconer

We made estimates of what gains we could make. We made some gains but we did not make the gains that we had hoped to make.

Mark Grossman

I think most people understood that estimates for the year were way too high. When the estimates come down to reasonable levels, that's when investors look to get back in.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Drake Johnstone

If they exceed estimates for this quarter, which I think they will, and raise guidance for the upcoming quarter, investors would be more favorably inclined to Microsoft.

Gretchen Dykstra

Until you go out into the real world, the estimates are just that.

Mike Rann

World Health Organisation estimates suggest we prepare for a situation where one quarter of our population is infected,

Joe Haworth

We did lose possibly as much as two million gallons onto the beaches. We're still doing the estimates on that. We don't know how much could possibly have made it to the ocean. We know some did.

Margaret Gatz

Our finding confirms the higher estimates that have been suggested previously.

Mark Bryant

I think a payrolls number that varies widely from estimates will shake up stocks, ... But as long as we're roughly in line with forecasts, there probably won't be much stock reaction.

David Cameron

Now they'll know they are with the L.A. Galaxy or D.C. United.

Ken Freeman

We now realize that there are distinctly different types of galaxy disks,

Seth Shostak

Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special - it's some sort of miracle.

Steve Sampson

It's really important that everyone understand this is not about me. It's about the Galaxy and the veteran players on this team who have made an incredible sacrifice.

Dennis Washington

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

John Morley

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least

Henry Charles Carey

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.

Scott Bisbe

I thought we would have probably split with Sickles and Countryside (the latter of which visited Mitchell on Thursday night). It's a tough district.

Hosea Ballou

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

Bill Callahan

He's progressing, getting back to form. He's not where he should be right now, but he could be by the latter part of the week.

Cory Booker

The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

Martin Heidegger

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

Rex Stout

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Yani Tseng

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Rob Morosi

We have work going on practically everywhere. It is a worry. It?s a worry for the motorists. It?s a worry for the workers. It?s a worry for their families. Every day they step out the door, and you just don?t know what going to occur out here.

Sabas Pretelt

We can't wait until it occurs before taking action,

Henry Bonilla

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.

Michelle Paver

I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Lina Wertmuller

When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies.

James E. Faust

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

C. S. Lewis

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

Carrie Chapman Catt

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Carrie Fisher

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Bill Bryson

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Order doesn't come by itself.

Anthony Storr

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

Bill Vaughan

In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

Bill Vaughan

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Brendon Urie

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Ramana Maharshi

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Cecelia Ahern

You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Bill Gates

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Jan Eliasson

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Ann Druyan

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

Errole Rembert

We'll play the j.v. and they play the varsity. Rather than get destroyed, we get (our kids) to play the right way.

Mary Hansen

Most of them do walk rather than take the bus.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Zana Marjanovic

The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Tanith Belbin

We'd rather it be here than at the Olympics. So in that respect, it's good.

David Chaney

We'd rather her be here, even if she does win all the time.

Indiana Evans

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

William McNamara

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Alice Walker

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Reid Scott

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

Robert Zoellick

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Pat Nixon

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

Alex Young

We would ultimately like to have a warning system throughout the solar system so we could know when these storms will occur.

Patrick Moore

There's no way that solar panels or windmills can do it themselves.

O. Henry

It's going right on out of the solar system.

Donald Yeomans

If you wish to study what the solar system is made of you study comets.

Sara Teasdale

I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold

C. S. Lewis

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

Cathy Moriarty

The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.

Cecil Rhodes

To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

Catie Curtis

Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Carrie Fisher

For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space. I have some. I have two.

Carrie Fisher

It's hard to date once you're a big Star Wars star because you don't want to give people the ability to say, "I had sex with Princess Leia."

Carrie Underwood

Wake up feeling like my life's worth living. Can't recall when I last felt that way. Guess it must be all this love you're giving. Never knew never knew it could be like this, but I guess some hearts they just get all the right breaks. Some hearts have the stars on their side. Some hearts they just have it so easy. Some hearts just get lucky sometimes.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Riley Wallace

We've got a lot of new systems going.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

John Dunn

There's a lot of systems on (boats). They're complicated.