Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.

Ron Atkinson

Zero-zero is a big score.

Toshihiko Fukui

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

Rick Riordan

No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.

Sarah Palin

Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.

Robert Caro

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

Rick Warren

Life minus love equals zero.

Topher Grace

Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.

Jose Mourinho

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

Mike Babcock

He's been a courageous competitor. He probably shouldn't have played tonight, but he perceives this as his team and he wanted to lead them.

Jimmy Littleton

I'm totally proud of what we've accomplished. The kids were so courageous over the past five weeks. They weren't going to give up.

Jack Straw

As Prime Minister, (Rabin) made difficult and courageous decisions in his search for peace and was undaunted by the many obstacles he faced,

Mike Sutton

The most courageous person in all of this is my wife, Karen. She has not had a day off or any time to herself since this happened.

Steven Spielberg

This is a courageous year for filmmakers. ... They are saying 'If I never make another film, this one says what I think and feel.

Saddam Hussein

It was the most wonderful thing I've seen in my life. He was the most wonderful and courageous father,

Werner Herzog

Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not the one I set out to tell, ... I had no opinion about Treadwell . . . I gave him space, let him tell me his story. And it was pretty easy to see that he was haunted by demons -- illuminated, courageous and cowardly, exhilarated and in love with the idea of himself as a star.

Herbie Hancock

Sometimes it was good and sometimes it wasn't, but I had to stand up for all of it or else I couldn't play any of it. I learned how to be courageous from that experience.

Garrick Phillips

Pretty darn courageous effort. We made the plays late we needed to win the game. These are kids I want to be with every day This is a special group of kids and win or lose they are going to have a special place in my heart forever.

Jim Taylor

I don't know whether it will sell; God's truth, I don't care. I want it in libraries, I want it in journalism schools. I want it out there.

Russell Baker

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Will Rogers

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Frank Zappa

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read

Henry David Thoreau

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

P. J. O'Rourke

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

Neil Young

This is the sickest piece of journalism I have ever seen!

Denise Mina

Journalism is a Darwinian process.