Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Evelyn Thompson

That's a very difficult time, because you can't think. I mean, you know, you just don't process. And even in that meeting, I'm not too sure how much they heard me, but it was OK. Because I knew that, I knew they're not hearing it, or not right now. It'll come back maybe later, and they know they can call me.

S. Hughes

I was really looking to being wanted . . . to have a place to call home and finish my career out,

Bryan Thomas

I wasn't expecting to go to California. I got the call the day before the North-South game. I came home for Christmas and flew out (Dec. 26). Right after the game we flew back that night.

Charles Dickens

I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they call character, my dear, than a canary-bird, but I know I am trustworthy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Mike Reagan

The event is good way to get students to register to vote. I think it helps with democracy more than anything. It's a good way to get a lot of student support.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Henri Matisse

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

Heinrich Heine

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

Heinrich Heine

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

Henry Ward Beecher

True obedience is true freedom.

Henry Ward Beecher

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Henry James

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

Henry James

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

Alveda King

Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

Anthony Eden

All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

Amy Goodman

Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

Anne Rice

Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.

Andrew Leigh

Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.

Lara Pulver

It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just a device for her; it wasn't nudity for nudity's sake.