Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Schumer

The president, again, ought to have some nonpolitical person look into this and see what should be done. The standard shouldn't just be escaping indictment.

Alan Rickman

Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Al Pacino

I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

Edward Gibbon

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

Edmond H. Fischer

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

Edith Piaf

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

Alan Dershowitz

The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.

Anton Chekhov

Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

Lou Panzanaro

Most of them were role players. When this team is firing on all cylinders, I don't know if you can identify who the five starters are. They play so unselfishly. They all play together.

Lou DiBella

Most guys wouldn't be firing back when they are getting hit with that kind of (stuff),

Ryan Rowe

We'll do what we can and come out firing. If we come out firing in the doubles, we'll be firing the rest of the match.

Sean McAlinden

I don't remember GM ever doing anything like this before, not firing people and putting them out on the street with a box. They were called 'Mother GM' for a reason.

Sheldon Brown

I don't think he's lost respect in the locker room. If anything, he's gained respect from how he's handled it, by not firing back.

Debra Brown

He was firing his weapon the whole time.

Chuck D.

He just went crazy. She said the guy just went ballistic and starting firing off shots.

Rob Babcock

Waiving a player never is easy, because you essentially are firing someone, ... But looking at our team, this was the most logical choice.

Corey Simon

We have to go into the playoffs firing on all cylinders. I don't think we're there yet.

Patricia Cornwell

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

Wayne Beighle

It quickly spread into a residential area. Luckily we had a helicopter that was stationed here. ... That was a very high priority fire, so they threw everything that they had at it really quickly.

Oliver North

The corpsman put the wounded man in the helicopter and made a gesture.

Bob Cole

It was just a very small helicopter operation with two aircraft.

Jim Horner

It took like three seconds until it was upside down. The helicopter went down so fast.

Jim Johnson

You can land a helicopter at the North Pole, and within 10 seconds you're off position.

Roebalin Bustamante

You couldn't do this. You wouldn't be able to walk out, you'd probably had to get a helicopter to get you out.

Treat Williams

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

Bill Hader

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

Pierce Brosnan

Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.

Stanley Hauerwas

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

Wayne Grant

I think James was probably just tired from those long runs he had in the first quarter, so he needed time to rest.

Andy Roddick

We all pick each other up. I've picked up James before and today he picked me up. That's' why it's called a team.

Merry Clayton

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

Bob Bryan

He's kind of laid back but James pulls off his share of tricks.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Heikki Kovalainen

I'm a big James Bond fan. I've got a collection of them.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Mike Wallace

Whether it's $200 or $300 is not going to matter. Nintendo and Microsoft are going to sell every machine they can put on the shelves.

Rick Cooper

Ninety-eight percent of the work is done by machine. Machines make up for 1,000 people.

Steve Ruggiero

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

David Sedaris

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

Camille Paglia

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.