Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Urman

There is no question that films that we would have considered viable just a few seasons ago are too risky to undertake these days, ... Small films are smaller than ever and titles that would have done decently a few years back would almost certainly be doomed to abject failure these days.

Eliot Spitzer

It's fascinating to me: when it comes to innovation in policy, it all comes from the states, ... It reflects an abject failure of policy (at the national level) in terms of dealing with energy, the environment or the securities industry. And into that void, the states have stepped.

Steven Goldstein

This is a major milestone. This is the most populous county in the southern part of the state. It shows geographic unity against homophobia and abject hatred.

Steven Camarota

Coming to America is becoming a national aspiration rather than simply reflecting abject economic conditions.

Eric Massa

Across the board, this program has been an abject failure.

Thomas E. Lawrence

This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.

Kara Walker

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

Jim Boeheim

First of all, I want to start off with a profound abject apology for my language yesterday.

Atharva Veda

Water is the abject necessity for any kind of life to exist.

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Rickman

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

Alan Grayson

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

Alan Grayson

If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

Alan Greenspan

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

Alan Ball

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Al Sharpton

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

America is laughing her way to Hell.

Nong Duc Manh

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

Hu Jintao

We both believe sustainable, healthy and stable development of Sino-US ties conforms to ... the common aspiration of our two peoples,

Hu Jintao

We're pleased with the recent sound development of Sino-US relations, ... We both believe it's the common aspiration of the two peoples to maintain sustained, healthy and stable development of bilateral ties.

Adam Kidron

It's the one thing everybody has in common, the aspiration to have a relationship with the United States . . . and also to express gratitude and patriotism to the United States for providing the opportunity.

Jiang Zemin

It is the common aspiration of the international community to safeguard the Security Council's authority when dealing with significant issues like the Iraq issue,

Tran Duc Luong

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

David Blunkett

Speaking for the nation as a whole entails understanding and feeling the pain, as well as understanding the aspiration of the different cultural, social and political make-up of the nation.

Hu Jintao

Your visit attracted much attention worldwide, and the document of 'common aspiration and prospects for cross-Straits peace and development,' which we jointly issued with a view to promoting the benefits of compatriots on both sides of the Straits, is of great significance to pushing forward the cross-Straits relations on a path of peace and stability,

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have heard much of the phrase, ''peace and friendship.'' This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, ''peace and friendship, in freedom.'' This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

David Hilbert

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

August Strindberg

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

Tom Sykora

We always had this kind of concept in mind for the past 10 years, but the opportunity wasn't becoming available.

Rick Rashid

The personal and informational connections made possible through computing and communications technology are becoming ever more critical to economic, educational and social progress,

Bill Ward

We are losing students because they are becoming discouraged. It's hard to keep their interest when they don't have the facilities to practice.

Tom Kendall

We are seeing a lot of non-traditional investors in commodities, such as mutual funds and pension funds, becoming interested in commodities such as platinum because they want to diversify their portfolios.

Wenonah Hauter

We strongly support efforts to make shellfish safe for consumers, but irradiation clearly is not the answer. The FDA is just throwing one problem on top of another - and this is becoming an illogical pattern.

Ryan MacMurchy

We started building back slowly and becoming that team we were before Christmas again, the No. 1 team in the nation. This weekend, especially, there was no doubt in our dressing room. We had no doubt. We knew it was ours for the taking, it was our tournament to lose.

Ernie Els

Where it used to be kind of the most fun of all the majors, it's becoming the hardest one now. Over four days of competition, it's going to narrow the field dramatically. You will be doing good to break par on the back nine.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Wayne Fortenberry

We accomplished a lot of things this year and I am proud of the girls. And we have a lot of talent coming back. There's a lot to look forward to.

Daniel Merideth

We always have concerns about him coming to work but he loved his work so much, he was going to do it until he retired.

Pete Hertler

We always have a good time coming to this tournament. We played well and fought hard in our games. The wind made it tough on the hitters, so pitching and defense took over.

Jerry Green

We always enjoyed the picnic, especially when it was in Bushkill Park and had the rides for the kids. This year we had to hold off because of the disaffiliation situation. With the new officers coming in, we didn't have time. But we'll go back to it next year.

Luke Pasqualino

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.

Michael Strahan

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

M. Night Shyamalan

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

Michael Farr

The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Lou D'Ermilio

We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Nerlens Noel

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

Bill Ritter

We're not going to wait for a national solution, it isn't coming.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Patrik Elias

Would we rather play a team with Jagr or without Jagr? Yeah. We'd rather play without Jagr.

Mike McLeod

It's a sad way to go out. In a way, you'd just rather get waxed. It's tough. Tough. Tough for all of us. We wanted this badly.

Gerhard Schroeder

It's not the 1950s but rather a return to the 19th century,

Andrew Gould

There will be no silver bullet. Rather it will be a combination of technologies.

Andrea Lewis

There is no where else I would rather be than at Howard University.

Maurice Flanagan

It is rather a slap in the face.

Veronica Corpuz

It's a different type of presentation rather than a full-blown musical. It requires totally different technical needs.

Mark Cuban

This is uncomfortable. You can go through 100 different scenarios you'd rather be in, but it is what it is.

M.I.A.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

Henry Mintzberg

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Ted Cruz

If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

John Locke

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Philip Yancey

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.

Britney Spears

It's the one place I feel completely anonymous. And I just like the way they treasure everything. The milkman still comes to the door. Everything is very simply done.

Sam Bodman

There will be disruptions, ... How long they will last, I simply don't know.

Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

John Hedgecoth

The Brennan Center's conclusions are simply not correct.

John Hutton

Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures.

Sarah Parker

Are we simply romantically challenged, or are we sluts?

Steve Young

I simply wished they would have studied it further.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.