Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds.

Zac Goldsmith

If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

William Henry Ashley

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.

Virginia Postrel

In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.

Ellen Key

Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Douglas Elliott

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world. The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

Douglas Elliott

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world, ... The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

Chris Hansen

The Patriot Act does not require that nuns' bank accounts be frozen. The Patriot Act has a lot of problems, but that's not one of them.

Imelda May

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

Irwin Thomas

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.

Zaha Hadid

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Evo Morales

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

Ellen Key

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

David Byrne

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

Todd Edwards

Mexico's stocks and currency did not lose as much as other markets in the region on news that the Argentine government's plan may be in trouble.

Brian Kelley

You'll see very shortly a plan to generate a currency that can generate that value for Ford shareholders.

Colen Garrow

Manufacturing will be under pressure because of currency strength. It will hold the sector back and (keep) growth from reaching its potential level.

Laurence Godfrey

We get a wide range of responses (to our phone inquiries and visits). Some people are surprised there is a fee to pay. Music is a part of the fabric of society and people forget that it is a currency - the finished product of someone's creativity. Others understand that this (music creation) is a business.

Craig Chan

From the currency perspective, there's definitely been a search for yield. The general weakness in the equity markets hasn't provided any support to regional currencies.

Rupert Stadler

For this year, there is actually no risk (from currency effects), that matches with our hedging rate.

Frank Vargo

What we want the government to do is to make it plain that currency values should reflect economic fundamentals, and governments shouldn't interfere with that.

Andrew Pyle

(It) comes down to watching the data, and data reflecting the impact of this move in the currency is not going to come out until we get into the summer.

John Faucher

We think given guidance is roughly in-line despite the negative currency impact.

Ian Mckellen

The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

William R. Keating

I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

Ellen Key

The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

Bob Stimson

The overwhelming empirical evidence of current residence of retirement villages is that they don't go in at early ages. The majority go in middle-to-late 70s.

Louis Font

The Pentagon has instituted this policy to say to the current troops that if you go AWOL you will be hunted down to the grave.

Dennis Ross

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

J. C. Watts

The $54 price objective represents 17 times 2002 estimated revenue. The stock currently trades at 28 times 2001 revenue, implying a multiple contraction.

John Harmer

We have a major problem with the current engine.

Phil Smith

We could get pulled over for speeding and pay more than that. The problem with the current laws is enforcement.

Howard Archer

The overall trade performance was dragged down by a fifth successive deficit in oil trade and a reduced surplus in services.

Richard Kogan

The path of large and permanent deficits on which the government has embarked is unsound public policy and should be reversed as soon as the economy permits.

Peter Morici

The outlook remains poor. Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

Peter Morici

The outlook remains poor, ... Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

Franco Modigliani

The immediate effect of the deficit is to make you feel good, like when you go on a trip and pay later. You feel good, and then you get a hangover. The deficit makes you feel good - until you pay later.

Peter Orszag

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

Jason Chaffetz

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

Grover Norquist

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

Jacob Lew

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

John Casesa

which is a tough number to justify without tangible results.

Curt Schilling

I'd love to sit here and justify why I should throw more (on Friday). But I can't do that.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Sandra Goldstein

What have they done there to justify that?

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

Harold Vogel

The question is, will there be enough new advertisers to justify the cost.

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

Jim Hazen

The numbers did not justify a wholesale rewrite of the rules. What really needed to be done was a simple fix.

Don Vincent

They have to really justify it well, I don't know what their logic is or anything.

Benmont Tench

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

Charles Sturcken

We don't give this out to the public, but we're not overly concerned.

Pat Riley

He wants to play, he wants to be out there. We're not being overly cautious, he's got a problem and we just want to treat it. We want to get it right.

Nancy Marchand

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

Tom Bennett

I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic. I'm not overly neurotic.

Bob Bartlett

The reaction to Rita was overly positive, and we're now getting a better sense of what is shut in,

Tomika Ferguson

I was overly excited. I did not know how to act, and I could not stop smiling until I got to Arkansas.

Jon Alterman

People were overly optimistic. And now people are overly pessimistic.

Wayne Andrews

We're not overly concerned. I wouldn't have even done my own house.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jose Rizal

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Anthony Hopkins

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Ann Patchett

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

Alfred Hershey

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Michael Boss

The traders are for the most part are out. So we're just biding out time.

Gary Ross

For the first time, traders have to worry about demand.