Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Adler

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us.

Jonathan Schwartz

We intend to supply more than simple investment, by bringing to bear the experience and perspective that's put Sun in a leadership position on the Internet, ... We're looking forward to promoting the success of companies aligned with Sun's vision, and broadening our strategic portfolio.

James Murdoch

I am pleased to be able to call on three senior executives who have helped to bring Sky to where it is today and to extend their responsibilities in ways that are closely aligned with our business priorities. With these changes, we will work together more effectively to create greater value for customers, exploit content on multiple platforms and expand into adjacent areas of business.

Robert Zagunis

If you wind up with a company that is so closely aligned with one individual, like it or not, the virtues of that company are tied to the virtues of that individual. You're usually much better off with CEOs who are under the radar and just work at doing a very nice job for shareholders.

John Abizaid

Clearly, we understand that we've got an enemy that's in for the long term, al-Qaida and the associated groups that are aligned with it, ... We know that they've got a long-term strategy to fight, to gain ground, to gain influence. And it's very very clear that we've got to have the same sort of long term strategy to contest it. But the keystone to this strategy is helping the people in the region help themselves.

Gabriel Lowy

The first focus is going to be continuing the growth of the business ... focus number two is getting the cost structure aligned with the new demand. I imagine we're going to see another round of downsizing ... I think it's going to be significant.

Tim Karr

The fight for Internet freedom is now being waged in earnest. On one side you have the public...on the other side you have the nation's largest telephone and cable companies, who have aligned with some in Congress to strip the Internet of the First Amendment.

Lara Rhame

The economy contracted in April and probably contracted in May; June is when we should be getting a bounce. If we're to believe all the stars are aligned for a perfect eclipse of the recession in the second half, then it should happen sooner rather than later.

Ed Murnane

These groups are basically a family of people that have been traditionally supporters of, or closely aligned with, trial lawyers nationally and in Illinois.

Kevin Selover

Ron White will do just as well as Larry the Cable Guy did. There are a lot of similarities between them.

Jan Dawson

These days, what the cable companies offer and what the phone companies offer is mostly the same.

Brian Walsh

Each year of the 10 years has been equally competitive for different reasons, ... Those early years were the most competitive in terms of securing subscribers, because in Optus Vision we had someone who was laying cable down in the same streets that we were.

Subhash Chandra

Digitisation will rather consolidate the broadcasting industry in India because once the cable is digitized, then naturally all the programmers can showcase their programming.

David Flanagan

You have cable companies out there offering voice service; you have wireless; you have voice-over-Internet protocol. So there are all these other options out there.

Mario Gabelli

The reason it's important is that that's the key to unwinding some of their cable assets, that is, to sell to U S West New Media some of their cable properties in exchange for more flexibility in the corporate structure.

Paul Simon

For those who thought it was going to be some kind of a snow job because it was paid for by the cable industry, it says very clearly we have to do a better job,

Jonathan Atkin

Some of the trends we saw from Comcast should be reflected in the results of other cable operators.

Paul Gallant

The arguments in favor of it have a clear political appeal. So cable is taking a la carte very seriously.

Neena Moorjani

We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,

Dennis Hastert

Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.

Rick Lane

There was a hands-off mentality because Congress didn't understand the issues.

Carol Cox

We will spend less money next year than we did two years ago -- not very much less, ... The administration, having lowered the bar, got more of what it wanted out of Congress. At the end, the administration was holding the whip hand because it was Congress that wanted to go home.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress. They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress, ... They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

Mark Vitner

If we had an anti-business Congress that went after pension reform aggressively, it could have a devastating impact on Wall Street.

Tom Daschle

OK, we'll take the first step. This is as crucial as it gets.

Amar Singh

It is a shame that the Congress party is describing their president Sonia Gandhi's resignation from parliament as a sacrifice. She wanted to defame us and instead stumbled and fell in the grave dug by them.

Gregg Downer

Sometimes you have to go toe-to-toe with them, they force you to play fast. It was just kind of like a heavyweight fight and we couldn't really slow them down, whoever gets that 15th-round punch is going to win.

Kurt Russell

Sometimes they did end up in fights, ... At one point there were four fights going on, and Ryan Walter just threw his hands up and said 'I can't stop them.'

Eric Esch

I've never had a fixed fight that I know of.

Steve Gross

The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard.

John Barrymore

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run

Brandon Sanderson

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

Boris Spassky

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Ben Okri

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Blaise Pascal

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Edmund Burke

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Mike Wallace

Because I think you will want to have the freedom that you have now. But you're going to need more money to have the freedom that you now have.

Carine Roitfeld

A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

Al Gore

As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet

Ben Huh

The Internet's a big enough place for everybody to be happy.

David Clarke

We might just be at the point where the utility of the Internet stalls--and perhaps turns downward.

Chuck D.

The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.

Mark Zuckerberg

Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India.

Rod Lache

I think it's a smart move because it's less deceptive. People who are going on the Internet can get the right news up front.

Bill Clinton

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

Troye Sivan

I share every aspect of my life with the internet. Whether or not that’s a good thing I don’t know,

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Robert McKinley

If you're looking to transfer a $5,000 balance, you need to look to the largest issuers.

Dan Woods

The largest need right now is to move students out of there,

Kevin Nelson

We had 80 entries for the parade and about 150 vehicles and floats. This is probably the largest parade we have ever had.

Jane Kaczmarek

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

Ally Carter

Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.

Ann Coulter

Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.

Adolf Loos

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

Alexander Pope

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

E. M. Forster

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

Donella Meadows

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

Ellen G. White

Christ was treated as we deserve that we may be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His. 'By His stripes we are healed.

Brian Eno

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Richard Armour

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

Jesse Eisenberg

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.