Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kay Redfield Jamison

I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

Johnny Depp

I was known as 'Ray, Head of Security' in the bookstores and stuff where he was signing books. I just spent an enormous amount of time with him and watched him like a hawk. Studied him. I tried to steal his soul.

Michael Gibson

I would think that it would only be fair that the Chamber was able to reduce their request by 25 percent with their money they got from Charlie Adams Day and other things, that Main Street be reduced by the same amount from $10,000 to $7,500,

Bruce Davidson

Jail must be imposed to reflect the ongoing breach of trust, the considerable effect on the victims and the considerable amount of money,

John Planamenta

Kelly is a very intelligent player. She held that ball the perfect amount of time.

Joseph Laszlo

Keeping fed taxes off broadband is well and good. But there's a fair amount of the country that doesn't have access.

Greg Holland

Katrina was one of those we've seen increasing in intensity but we can't say Katrina by itself was part of this factor. There is a substantial amount of natural variability.

Lindy Ruff

Just to go in there and hack away at it is the key to that goal. And we stayed with it. It was easy to get frustrated after missing the amount of chances we missed. ... Just keep grinding, keep working.

Thomas Miller

Just think that every household has a certain amount of Mr. Yuk stuff stashed under the kitchen sink or in the garage, and all that material is presumably mixed into the water to some extent,

Steve Schmidt

John Kerry's attacks today were baseless. He said American troops did not secure the explosives, when the explosives were already missing.

Douglas Hattaway

He can't help himself but make personal attacks and misleading statements to distort the real differences on the issues.

Eugene Kaspersky

Hackers don't want to damage computers any more, they want to own them. They've started to run direct attacks where just one business, or even just one computer, is infected.

Craig Teagle

He's a shooter. They set the screens. Every kid that plays basketball can learn from him. He keeps his dribble alive. If he doesn't have anything he backs away and attacks again. ... The kid is just a great player.

Willie Randolph

He's got quick hands. He attacks the ball aggressively. And you have to like his speed. He's just a very effortless type of runner. When he hit that triple, it looked like he was coasting. Just real smooth. It's that young talent, that raw kind of young skill you like to see.

O. Winston

His strong leadership in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks helped to calm the financial markets by passing the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.

John Morrison

I think it's a reflection of the anti-car philosophy that's creeping into our council. It's the tip of the iceberg as far as many more restrictions and reductions and attacks on motorists in this city and suburbs.

Joshua Dressler

I think the government wanted to find somebody they could hold responsible, but the people who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks are all dead. They have this individual who is obviously anti-American and who would do harm to this country if he had the opportunity. And he becomes the person who is going to pay the consequences for things that really he didn't do.

David Travis

We studied the change in temperature range that occurred during the three-day period immediately following the 9/11 terror attacks when airplanes were grounded and compared those to the three-day period immediately before and afterwards.

Peter Ward

Guests who stay at the Hilton are paying premium dollars for a safe, secure, well-run hotel, and they deserve to have that. I don't know what's worse, all the Hilton violations or the way they keep covering them up.

Edgerrin James

He said he was tired of having everybody covering him. He said if we could just get a back, the team wants to win.

Michael Huff

I was deep free safety, or I was strong safety in the box, or covering the slot, or outside covering. I was all over the place.

Ron Anderson

I thought the local media outlets did a good job of covering it in advance.

Brandon McKinney

I didn't like defensive line so much, ... It's more my thing to be out there covering receivers and blitzing from the outside.

Randy Cross

I'd be very surprised if this doesn't become a staple for any network covering the NFL.

Joe Gibbs

He is explosive. He can really run and he covers a lot of ground. You see when he gets matched up covering people, like tight ends and running backs, he does a very good job.

Amyas Godfrey

We can get very excited about covering ourselves with technology. But at the end of the day, you have to think like an insurgent.

Bill Ferguson

Our magazine isn't covering shuffleboard; we're covering people who are still grabbing surfboards even though they're 60 or 70 or older. The people who've seen this magazine love it. Through word of mouth alone, we've already generated more than 7,000 sign-ups on our website.

Ken Hill

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Jesus Dureza

Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.

James Cox

He didn't go very far. The currents there tend to pull you under and keep you there.

Kenneth Miller

Half of the current rise ... was going on anyway. But that means half of what's going on is not background. It's human induced.

Sam Brownback

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

Seth Shostak

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.

Mick Davis

I think the current market price is a reasonable level.

Ralph Norris

We're probably in a situation where interest rates will stay somewhere around the current levels.

David Seiders

We're now in the 'middle innings' of the current economic expansion, and the next economic recession is not yet in sight.

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Fred Powell

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Tom Daschle

We've got to rise to a higher level,

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Phil Ruffat

I think we're going higher. I don't know about today, but I think they're going higher in general.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Karen MacNeil

It is not true that there is a linear relationship between price and quality. A higher price doesn't mean its better. The higher you go in price, the quality differences get smaller.

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Alan Trammel

He wants to play, ... We're probably the ones who have been holding him back a little bit, but we have to.

Ted Cottrell

He knows when you have to hold back now. He's reacting a lot more to where the tackle is going and making his move, rather than preplanning like he did last year.

Sheila Nevins

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

Gore Vidal

God, no. Unless you hold office, there's no point in being there.

Colin Falls

He's just making one move and not thinking about it. I think sometimes he holds onto it and over-analyzes. He catches and makes his move (and) that opens us up on the outside.

Jennifer Schack

Hold on to your hat. The winds will pick up for the afternoon.

Ryan Hollins

It hurts pretty bad, and it swelled up. But there's nothing that's going to hold me back. I still have a pulse.

Milton Ezrati

I think the next time they meet, we'll get the same thing again. They'll hold steady.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Art Hogan

I think we'll start getting investors into the marketplace later in the first quarter,

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

E. O. Wilson

investors may be saying 'it doesn't get much better than this, so let me take some money off the table and wait until some of the uncertainty flushes out.' After that, the stocks are back off to the races again.

Maelle Gavet

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

Markus Steinbeis

Investors are taking profits in insurers because it (the sector) has been one of the top performers since October.

Alan Ackerman

Investors are likely to say, 'Aha! Merrill tried to pull the wool over our eyes,' ... It will make them even more suspicious and cautious.

Kyle Huske

Investors will be looking to see if Prudential can match Principal and Anthem.

Jeffrey Silber

Investors want to see profitability now. Not two years from now.

Howard Berman

It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I was able to slip into Afghanistan for a week. However, I had to go back into Iran to produce my film, shot about two kilometers from the border.

Mark Gwozdecky

IAEA received a prompt response from Iranians to visit the site, prompt access,

Salman Rushdie

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

Salman Rushdie

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

Salman Rushdie

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

Zalmay Khalilzad

We can't say whether Tehran is supporting Al Qaeda, but we do know that al-Qaida people come here from Pakistan through Iran.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.

Rudy Giuliani

Keep pressure on Iran, because pressure works.

Dan Anderson

I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, something worse was happening,

R. Ingram

I watched the news and read the newspaper with my dad,

Richard Dawkins

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Russell Baker

Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

Rian Johnson

When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that."

Sara Paretsky

The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.

Walter Cronkite

News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.

Walter Cronkite

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough.

Ward Churchill

I consider PirateBallerina to be the most credible news source in the Denver area.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Andray Blatche

It could be next week, next month, whenever I get better.

Charles Flynn

It could be any time. It could be next week or three weeks from now.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Haz Iwendi

He is on the way to Liberia. He was sent by a Nigerian presidential jet.

Kevin Norrish

The Nigerian situation has the potential to get a lot worse. It's going to run and run.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable in other places.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Sarah Palin

Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

Rodrigo Rato

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Veerappa Moily

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

Van Jones

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

Van Jones

Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves.

Van Jones

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

Rodney Dangerfield

People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon .

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Saul Alinsky

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

Don Lynn

It's not a one-shot deal. It's an ongoing situation.

Dee Miller

It's been just an ongoing process for years.

Paul Morley

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

John Slenker

This has been an ongoing trend for decades. This isn't new. It's been getting more and more intense.

Bruce Ross

This has been an ongoing story for us.

Loyiso Pulumani

This has been an ongoing problem in our province.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

William S. Burroughs

If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Andrew Logan

If prices keep going up quickly, you?re going to see a real shock to the economy.

Richard Taylor

If prices got out of whack and stay out of equilibrium for a long time, then we'd want to know why and we'd go and find out why.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Elmore Lockley

Once again, these prices reflect what is going on in the marketplace -- not just here, but it's a trend nationwide.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jon Runyan

Just pushing and shoving. That's the way I always play.

Ryan Baker

I think it's from each other and pushing each other and having fun. If somebody does well, then we'll give him some support.

Arthur Johnson

We've got to push our way through. We need a new school.

Ron Gardenhire

We have time, but if we push it another week, it's going to be iffy. I'm starting to worry a little bit.

Dan Morrison

He has a built-in self-starter. He's never satisfied where he's at. He's always pushing himself.

Will Ferrell

When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.

Werner Erhard

Whatever you are pushing against, you are stuck to.

Sally Ride

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

Baron Davis

If you don't outwork your opponent, you're not going to win. And tonight, we got outworked, we got bullied, we got pushed, and we didn't push back until it was too late.

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Justin Young

The only thing that's different is that now I'm the short guy,

Thomas Evans

He's done great. He's come a long ways in a short time.

Tom Parker

I don't have a worry he'll be short of words.

Princess Anne

I didn't like netball... I used to get wolf whistles because of my short skirts.

Lisa Love

He doesn't take short cuts. He's very methodical, calculated.

Samuel Rogers

To know her was to love her.

Samuel Richardson

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Samuel Richardson

Love is not a volunteer thing.