Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

Colm Keaveney

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

Paul Eenhoorn

From an actor's point of view, if you are watching something, and you see improv, you know it. Because of your experience, you just bloody know that wasn't written.

Tom McMahon

I'm sitting here in front of my computer screen trying to figure the bloody thing out.

Howard Fast

I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.

Henry David Thoreau

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

E. Hicks

I think it's just bloody disgusting what they're doing to him.

John Hume

Given that he (Major) has told me in writing that those who were killed on Bloody Sunday should be regarded as innocent of any allegation that they were shot while handling firearms or explosives -- if that is the case, could he please tell me why they were shot?

Juha Park

We're looking into that segment. We're doing it now. But we want to go into that market in a very controlled way. We won't enter into that bloody competition right away.

Yahya Jammeh

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

Henry David Thoreau

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

Ben Elliot

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

Donald Norman

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Chris Jericho

When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

Donald Trump

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

Naomie Harris

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

Bill Clinton

The advocates for either side are under enormous pressure, and, of course, they're being pretty snippy with each other from time to time.

Hannu Toivonen

That was a game that was up for grabs for either team. It's a tough loss. We have to learn not to take that many penalties.

Sam Sorich

Those factors are weighed appropriately because they're a good predictor of loss.

Joseph Wise

Basically, I'm a juggler. I can put many factors in order, aligning people, processes and money.

Bill Belichick

If a player has a lot of longevity and production, you're looking at two factors -- skill and durability,

Peter MacKay

for the simple reason that I love Nova Scotia. That's my home. It's where my family is and my heart ... so that always factors in.

Ryan Leniski

If it comes down to just soccer, we feel pretty good about our chances, that we can pretty much play with anybody. But you have unknown factors in a game, be it officials, crowds, other players. Those are things you gotta be smarter about, mature about, and still play within what we say we're going to do.

Robert Waters

I think it's a combination of factors like fuel prices.

Quinn Pitcock

It comes down to really guessing the right play at the right time. The defense, the will and then raw talent. Those are really the true factors when it comes down to it.

David Sims

He had a paucity of risk factors for having an event,

Anthony Chan

There are a lot of good factors out there.

Ellen Key

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

Donald Trump

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

C. S. Lewis

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

C. S. Lewis

Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

Carrie Brownstein

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

Carrie Underwood

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

Carl Reiner

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Carl Reiner

When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.

Bill Vaughan

The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Earl Boykins

I'm improving every day, gaining more strength in my hand, more flexibility.

O. Henry

We have succeeded in gaining a lot of flexibility going forward. That bodes well for the future. It is something we haven't had a lot of.

Glen Davis

I feel we're gaining respect. We're doing something special here.

Corky Palmer

I don't even have one. I never even think about that stuff. I just want to keep gaining strength.

Cody Pickett

I'd better start gaining some more weight if I'm going to be tackling people. I've been losing all this weight playing Marvin Harrison and Larry Fitzgerald.

Chad Hurley

I feel like there's a lot of noise in the social space. The Vines and Instagrams of the world are gaining traction, and their solutions are perfect for their communities.

Sharon Stone

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Corey Johnson

If I could eat without gaining weight or getting unhealthy, I would eat all the time.

Bertrand Russell

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

Jimmy Johnson

That was a lot of fun, but I know how aggravating losing like that can be.

Dwight Howard

We can't let losing stop us from believing. We're a work in progress.

Rutina Wesley

If vampires and werewolves were walking around today, there would be chaos. People would be losing their minds.

Robert Hiscox

To make 70 million after losing 165 million in hurricanes does show the fundamental profitability of the company.

Paul Twenge

We have a lot of positives, but we just can't put it all together. It's devastating losing like this. Things should be going better than that. We're going to have to find that magic.

Clark Haggans

Winning and losing is the only thing that matters. I really don't even keep track of what is going on other than that.

E. Hicks

I think losing to us really got their attention.

Greg Ostertag

We got the win. Every season I've played (here) we haven't had a losing record. It's only .500 but it's still not a losing record.

Yani Tseng

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Iain Duncan Smith

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

Elizabeth Warren

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

Rory Stewart

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

Pat Toomey

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

Mark McKinnon

Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.

Mark McKinnon

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

Mark McKinnon

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

Mickey Rourke

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

Michael Bennett

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Ernie Carson

If I recall correctly, there were probably 20 of us. I think the school population was 200 or 300.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

E. O. Wilson

There is no population in there. It's deserted.

Bill McKibben

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Alan Lightman

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Elizabeth I

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

Bruce Johnston

There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody.

Dan Rather

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Mohammed Habib

We won 34 seats and we could have won even more had there not been wrongdoing.

Brittany Campbell

It has heated seats and a six-CD changer.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

John Cage

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

John Mayer

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.