Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.

Robert LeBlanc

Knowing these people, most of them are hunters, trappers, farmers, they're not going to wait on FEMA or anyone else. They're going to do what they need to do. They're used to primitive conditions.

Garrett Gomez

I wouldn't say I thought I had the race won. It was all in the way he was going to respond to me when we turned for home. Once we headed to about the three-eighths pole, he seemed to start to come back to me a little bit more than I liked. And I said, 'I'm going to go now.' I thought I went fast enough that as long as I had him going I wouldn't give anyone a chance to even get close to him.

Shauna Dunlap

I would urge anyone who has information about this individual or about the robbery to contact us and prevent this individual from striking again.

Jack Kilmer

I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.

Tiffani Walker

I always expect a good performance from her. She is the type of player who is harder on herself than anyone else can be. If she's not doing as well as she feels she should be doing, she picks it up a notch.

Tom Curran

He walked on the field and was 6 inches taller than anyone there. My eyes lit up.

Robin Gibb

He could play a few chords on a keyboard and inspire a whole song. I don't think anyone could play a few notes as magically as Maurice could. Maurice is a part of the history of the Bee Gees, so the music will always have Maurice in it. We've lost Maurice, but we'll never lose his inspiration.

Peter Kelley

He did not indicate that anyone else was involved and my distinct impression was that he had done this on his own.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Aaron Johnson

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

Rebecca Hall

You either are a good director or you're not.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

Rich Campbell

(The film festival) has become very popular in a lot of different communities. And the director of the world tour says that the films are as good as he's ever seen them.

Norman Lear

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

Orson Welles

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Oliver Stone

I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.

Dusty Baker

I talked to him last night and this is the first time he's been in a playoff situation. I just told him to go enjoy it.

Josh Beckett

He can't even give me a week to enjoy my home run. He has to hit to a shot in the upper deck. He sure can steal the show, can't he?

Greg Behrendt

I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny because people tell me I am, but when I watch myself, it doesn't make me laugh. Does that make sense? Because I know the jokes, and to me, I feel like I'm pulling the wool over people's eyes. And there are probably people who do not enjoy what I do.

Chi Rodriguez

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends. Can Larry Holmes enjoy fighting one of his friends?

Larry Brown

I thought with this young team he was vital for us, ... I wouldn't have enjoyed watching him play handicapped as he is.

Steve Carpenter

I think the ownership is happy and the fans seemed to enjoy themselves. I think the scoreboard reflected that.

John Reed

I thoroughly enjoyed my years at the newspaper. It was a fantastic, wonderful experience, and I had the opportunity to work with some really excellent people. I leave with a heavy heart.

Vince Young

I was enjoying it. I'm at home. I'm always relaxed.

Charles Hall

There is no free lunch. If you want to enjoy something, you have to pay for it.

David Pierce

Kelsey Grammer is wickedly funny. He's like an 8-year-old child. He's always doing pranks, and we have a great time.

Rob McKittrick

He is that guy in the movie. He is that funny guy who can get in your grill, and be funny about it. He's a lot more interesting in person than you usually see on the screen.

Shaquille O'Neal

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

Maddie Ziegler

I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.

Seth Rogen

I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

David Crane

I'd like to hope that years from now people can look at the reruns...and say 'That is still a really funny show' or 'It's still really sweet.' And if that happens ... I'll be thrilled.

Joseph Trafton

He was the one who initially got me interested in the subject. I actually have his job now, so it's funny how that worked out.

Jim Saxton

He had to work hard just to get past the perception that he was just a funny guy,

Richard Dawkins

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

William Golding

Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an imperial parallel with English breaking down into, shall we say, North American, European, Australian, and so on. On the other hand, there is this immense, inward-driving influence of radio and television that is bringing us all back together. One could say it's a fight between the two: a fight between regionalism and the standardization through communication.

Dascha Polanco

I'm very proud to be representing Latinas and women of color, young mothers and full-figured women. I just love that we're seeing different types of people on screen.

Henry A. Wallace

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

Henry David Thoreau

It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.

James Rollins

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

James Fenton

A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.

George Farquhar

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

Lord Acton

It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State -- ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios -- burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man ... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.

Luis Gutierrez

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Jack Baker

I think it's very positive that the market was down more than 100 points and has come back, but this is essentially a vacation week,

Mark Pervan

It had a pretty strong run, so the market is taking profits.

William LeFevre

I think this market is going to go a lot higher.

Sara Gruen

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing is the root of everything.

Will Oldham

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

Wynonna Judd

I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots.

Wyndham Lewis

No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

Luis Bunuel

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

Marcus Tullius Cicero

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

Pope Francis

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

Sarah Palin

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Darian Townes

It's my first time to see him in person. I'm going to take some of what he speaks about and try to put it in my game.

Seth Vining

That speaks well of the team. But we still have a lot of work to do.

August Strindberg

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Chaka Khan

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

Camille Paglia

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

Dennis Kucinich

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Rob Bell

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

Saul Alinsky

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks." (On the "benchmarks" used by George W. Bush

Bill Golden

It's scaled down in terms of the days, but I think it's more targeted now.

Mark Williams

That's targeted as one of our big projects.

Nyla Milleson

It may be the first year we play without a big target on our backs. They will like that challenge. I think it will be good.

Milton Friedman

The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.

Milton Friedman

When they so-called 'target the interest rate', what they're doing is controlling the money supply via the interest rate. The interest rate is only an intermediary instrument.

Kevin Mitnick

The human. Now you know all about your target

Kodi Smit-McPhee

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.