Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Piketty

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

John Taylor

He secretly knows what happened. You're always looking for the right place, which was here. Board members didn't argue about petty things and wanted to do the right thing. I used to tell friends I knew I had found the right place.

James Mullen

I think we've been one of the real innovative states. It doesn't mean we don't argue and fight we do because we're human. But what will sustain the state of Washington is that we have an awful lot of dedicated emergency managers who have worked together for years.

Ken Kramer

Recreational interests of our members was not sufficient to give us a claim to be able to contest the permit. However, one of the three state environment commissioners disagreed with the majority and indeed felt that Sierra Club should have standing. So, we think we have a pretty strong case to argue that because of the recreational interests of our members in Sam Rayburn.

David Garrity

In my view, shares of Ford would probably become more attractive if it got down to say $22, $23 a share. Although, I would argue that as long as these investigations are continuing, they'll probably serve to put a lid on the stock price performance. Other stocks in the auto sector we are more positive on include General Motors ( GM : Research , Estimates ). Also at GM, you've got a change in management -- you've got a significant outside shareholder developing in Carl Icahn, owning 30 percent in GM. There's just a lot of value to be realized in the group.

Willie Mullins

I never thought I'd say this but you could argue that he's a bit of a handicap snip now!

Bruce Anderson

In fact, it tends to argue the opposite.

Jermaine Dye

If you look at the replay, it shows it hit the bat, ... I can't argue with that. I'd tell you lies if I said it hit me.

Tom Farley

In this article we argue that directing our efforts towards changing the overall acceptability or opportunity for risky sexual decision-making might be more effective than the one-on-one interventions.

Thomas Mann

I would say Joe Lieberman (would be perceived as being the most pro-business), ... is the least likely of the major candidates to win the nomination.

Ron Walters

There are so many candidates in the race. Whoever can get a critical mass of voters will win the race.

Summer Luciano

Having the music and the candidates out here forms a sense of community. We want people to be excited and feel empowered to go out in force and vote.

Stephen Harper

I am confident about the next election. We have our candidates in place, we have our financing in place and we have our policies ready to go if need be,

Paul Light

If you say that only conservative Republicans need apply, then you have diminished the pool of potential candidates significantly,

John Ridley

In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: 'Vote for me 'cause I'm one of you. It's the other guy who's out of touch.'

Paul Stamets

If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for our population... we should be saving our old-growth forests as a matter of national defense.

Horace Engdahl

Candidates must figure on the short-list at least two years running to win,

Bill Col

Candidates have to look and see if, realistically, there is a way to get there.

John Kitzhaber

has less to do with me than the general malaise of the Democratic Party right now.

Daniel Greenberg

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Larry Jacobs

We've gone from a situation of Democratic dominance to parity.

Pierre Pettigrew

It is important to realize that the process of democratic development will not end on election day.

Jesse Jackson

I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it just as much the second time.

E. B. White

He's feeling the pressure from the growth of the Democratic Party, ... He's probably being more diligent.

Jeremy Corbyn

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

Mark Wallace

I just think the Democratic Party is reaching to try to find votes wherever they can be and where they're not.

Douglas Brinkley

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

Dan Hess

Retailers have worked tirelessly to translate the lessons of years past into improved merchandising systems and strategies, and the work is paying dividends this season.

Madeline Albright

The status quo is not acceptable, ... We need more resources to support our people, operations and programs. These are investments that will pay large dividends rapidly.

Tom Cleveland

We are restoring a fish that has huge dividends for the watershed and for the Sound.

Mario Batali

I just was introduced to the writings of Lucius Beebe, and I'm going to read him.

Rusty Hardin

We think the video shows a lecture on what their policy is. We would've introduced it if they hadn't.

Mike Wallace

I've known (Democratic presidential nominee John) Kerry for 25 years. He's a patriot. I'm listening to what he has to say,

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

David Price

Last night he painted the picture of the night he was going to have.

Andy Reust

It could be a possibility he might run it. At this point, I don't know where I'm going to go with it.

Scott Arneson

I think the proof is in the pudding. The Valley produces state championship contenders every year. Some people might not think that the Valley is that tough, but no one has proven otherwise.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Lois Lowry

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

John Higgins

I was worried when I returned that I might be booed or barracked. Nobody has waved fivers at me. I am touched by the reception since I have come back.

Ben Kay

I was worried I might end up on a pizza advert.

Brian Smith

I think they might have some more to come yet. You never know, do you?

Lena Headey

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

Fred Couples

Unless we get rain to soften it up, if it's windy then 2 or 3 under might not win.

Robert Krueger

We have prospects now who can take all of the space.

Richard Cobden

You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case.

Paul Sereno

I didn't have very rosy prospects in school,

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Richard Bernstein

At the rate it's going right now, profitability will accelerate, but at a very, very slow pace, ... much slower than what's implied by valuation in the market.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Chuck Palahniuk

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Mark Luscombe

Generally, the unemployment rate is pretty low. I'm not sure they do at this point.

Bill Belichick

I don't rate 'em, but he's pretty good. There isn't much he can't do.

Terence McKenna

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Robert Herrick

Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.

Steven Strogatz

The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically.

Daphne White

Do we really want 6-year-olds to become street fighters?

Alan Johnson

We were thinking Wall Street would be flattish for the year, but we fortunately may have undershot.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Eric Fry

There's no visibility, to put it in Wall Street terms,

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.

Robert Creeley

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Rose Macaulay

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

Rose McGowan

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Rick Riordan

Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably: Go! Then he slammed Riptide into the ice at his feet. The entire glacier shuddered. Ghosts fell to their knees. Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay-a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice. As the wave hit, the back half of the camp crumbled. The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void-carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge.

William S. Burroughs

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.

Virginia Woolf

The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

Will Durant

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.

Vanessa Hudgens

I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.