Famous Quotes & Sayings

Loren Thompson

What you're seeing in these recent remarks is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how widely disliked Rumsfeld is.

Douglas Carter Beane

I went into Xanadu going, 'I really dislike this movie - let me try to make it something wonderful,' but with 'The Band Wagon,' I really revere this movie. It's really a beautiful movie musical. And, yet, because I'm a writer and look at it that way, I see that there are faults in it.

Graham Watson

Human rights are indivisible. Freedom and security are not alternatives, they go hand-in-hand ... Much as the public may dislike it, suspected terrorists have rights.

Jennifer Morrison

I dislike the online catalog; it's just easier to grab a printed schedule and look at it.

Eli Manning

I played at LSU stadium a few times, and things were rowdy and fans were yelling things. In the SEC, the quarterback is going to get harassed in those big stadiums. But I don't know if I've ever played in a place where a team had reason to dislike me.

Hal Holbrook

And I'm a very irascible, bullheaded Scot who takes an instant dislike to her.

Brendan Behan

The English and Americans dislike only some" Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.

Kevin Connors

You don't have to like Mr. Lewis. You don't have to dislike Mr. Sutton. This is a cold, hard look at the law.

Terry McAuliffe

It's really the perfect storm for fund-raising: We have a great nominee and Democrats' visceral dislike of the incumbent president's policies.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Jim Fuller

Jake had a great meet. We kind of ran him to death, too.

Joe Archuleta

Jake did a great job. Two runs, we'll take that most days.

Michael Dimock

I think any incumbent has room to worry.

Paul Dunn

Not one incumbent lost in 2004. There was only one congressional race that was within 10 points.

Charles de Gaulle

The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.

Henry Harteveldt

It's incumbent on American to respond to this. It's possible that American will try to up the bidding for US Airways.

Alan Abramowitz

As long as you have an incumbent running, you're not going to have a competitive race.

James Goldston

Ted Koppel is a unique voice in American journalism. There's no point in trying to replace him as an individual. It's incumbent upon us to find a slightly different approach.

Chris Coleman

When the incumbent mayor loses a primary by a 2-to-1 margin, it's a referendum on his performance. It has nothing to do with party loyalty. It's about value and judgment.

Councilman Okino

I think if we override, it's incumbent on us to say where we're going to go. We can't keep throwing it back to him; that's irresponsible.

Alexander Veshnyakov

I don't think the incumbent MPs are ready to revise the problem dramatically.

Lynn Coady

I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is.

Sam Brownback

We want a nominee that's set, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg is set,

Charles Schumer

My first reaction is a simple one: It could have been a lot worst. ... The president has not sent us a nominee that we've rejected already.

Jake Delhomme

I thought because we had never run it out of that formation at all -- I just thought it was the perfect call.

Craig Carpenter

We took our CEO, who is not a technologist, through the new setup wizard with no problem. It was the perfect test case.

Mel Kiper

I think that makes a lot of sense. For the type of scheme they play, he would be perfect for what they need.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Richelle Mead

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richelle Mead

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Richard Baxter

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

William Gilmore Simms

Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

Valerie Jarrett

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

William Gurnall

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

Walter Scott

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

Dan Sharp

I haven't experienced a storm like this in a long time.

Craig Smith

It's pruned a little but really isn't all that different. Things don't get big down here because they get pruned by storm after storm after storm.

Ovid

My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.

Martha Graham

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

Kate Chopin

So the storm passed and every one was happy.