Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Sharp

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

Jess Bosque

He couldn't run, so he did other things like swimming and the elliptical machine just to keep him in shape. We gave him rest and it basically went away.

John Hopkins

There are still a few things we can do to improve lap times, but basically we are pretty pleased with how the weekend's going. It's the first time back since I had the surgery on my foot, the wound has healed and I'm at 100 per cent. I'm happy to be back out on the bike fully fit.

Kevin Young

What we wanted to do is basically design in a social stigma,

Peter Cardillo

Here is a classical story of a stock that is trading under book value. AT&T, the same thing. I believe it is up 4 or 5 points from its low and basically trying to stabilize at these levels, when it is all said and done, it still probably will be the leader of the pack. Again, a company selling under book value,

Rabih Alameddine

'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.

E. O. Wilson

He's a big kid; he covers a lot of ground. You have really got to work hard and you've got to score on rebounds and their defense did a good job of clearing the net. It's basically a dogfight every shot and rebound in there, and they played it well.

Kelly McBride

Here we have three males on our staff, so you'd basically be dealing with all women.

John Hall

Joe doesn't work with any candidate that contacts him. He picks and chooses. His confidence in my campaign is likely to extend to other people.

Terry Holt

There are still a lot of questions about whether or not the Kerry campaign benefited from the information Berger took.

Alan Rosenberg

I am honored that the members of this great union have placed their confidence in me. I ran a campaign that offered a simple and straightforward promise -- I will fight like hell to get actors their fair share.

Rebekah Brooks

I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.

Rod Blagojevich

help out in the campaign in any capacity.

Carol Rice

Participants can look a Texas map and see how far they could have gone if they had been walking in a straight line. One of the goals of the campaign is to help people develop good fitness habits whether it gets them moving indoors or outdoors.

Tony Leon

It has failed to provide coverage of most DA events since the launch of our campaign in Durban on January 15.

Christine Cox

Being part of this campaign has been exciting and it's been a wonderful opportunity for me,

Saad Qindeel

His campaign doesn't have an identity and therefore voters don't know why they should vote for him.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Charles Dean

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Liv Warfield

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.

Leo Tolstoy

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

Joseph Campbell

The influence of a vital being vitalizes.

Louisa May Alcott

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Jonah Hill

Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.

Robert Scheer

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Roseanne Barr

Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

Sandra Cisneros

This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.

Zoe Saldana

I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

Mark Twain

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

Leon Wieseltier

Incorruptibility by money is the old story, ... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Sam Marchio

What you have to remember is he's shown he can raise the money when he needs to.

Anthony Solomon

I thought we should give the money back to the fans.

Robert Kraft

I think when you spend up to $10 million, that's real money,

Joe Kasper

Whatever this costs, it is going to save us money in the end.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Umberto Eco

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

Jim Rogers

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is founded upon opinion.

Moby

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

Mike Rounds

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge originates in opinion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

Margaret Thatcher

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Frank Mitchell

I want the public to know I'm still in it.

William Daley

They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way.

Lauren Bacall

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

Mick Cornett

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

Johan Huizinga

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

Steve Gunderson

Reclaimed water is not raw sewage, but it's still unauthorized.

Maxim Gorky

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

George Ferguson

The approach, in fairness, should be to re-negotiate the contract, so that we don't end up with raw sewage from Sumas in the Sumas River again,

Fred Goss

We're not trying to be blue. But we're pretty frank, we're pretty raw and we're pretty real.

Ryan Stiles

That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy.