Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Holofcener

I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up.

Debbie Stabenow

We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that.

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Chris Lasoya

People ask me what makes a professional player and I don't know. I guess I was really marketable.

Lester Piggott

People ask me why I ride with my bottom in the air. Well, I've got to put it somewhere.

Mike Tice

The story got in the paper, then it got on the web, then it went worldwide, ... Then our phones started ringing and people started asking about Moss so we had a meeting and said, 'Since these calls are coming, what is the value of Moss?' We said it was three No. 1s because we knew no one in his right mind would ever give up three No. 1s.

Scott Wright

The study further confirms aspirin's benefits for patients with known cardiovascular disease. It also shows there is no increased risk of bleeding, which eliminates the main reason why physicians and surgeons would ask patients to discontinue aspirin therapy,

Jackie Cooper

The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.

Jim Garvin

The students that are learning about Mars through this expedition are understanding the tools and technology to ask the right questions and get the right answers. They're the ones who will be traveling to Mars and making the great discoveries. They'll do the fun stuff.

Laurie Zoloth

The system broke down. We have to ask hard questions.

Bret Bielema

The thing that Mike brings to the table is that he's a competitor. He plays hard every play. And he's willing to do anything we ask of him.

David Novak

The southeast division of the Bureau of Prisons is in total disarray, ... I could eat my words but I'd be shocked if they did (assign Stewart to Coleman).

Robert Baer

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

Muhammad Ali

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.

Larry Simmons

It's my understanding that we're holding them at the request of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics. Since we're holding them for a state agency, we'll wait for the state agency's direction on how to dispose of them.

Leon Trotsky

Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.

Barack Obama

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

Paul Auster

I took a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. In The Locked Room, the third volume of the New York Trilogy, there's a sequence where the narrator talks about working for the census, and I took this straight from life. As in the book, I wound up inventing people. Kind of curious.

Mark DiCamillo

The survey just looked at registered Latino voters. Had it included non-voters and non-citizens, the numbers likely would have been different.

Paul Hancock

Public officials have a responsibility to count and recognize the votes of all Floridians who voted in this presidential election, ... Factors such as administrative inconvenience, expediency or the limitations of vote-reading machines pale in comparison to protecting the voting rights of our citizens.

Candace Cameron Bure

I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

Dennis Prager

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

Jason Chaffetz

There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.

Thomas Friedman

We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

Socrates

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

Ted Cruz

The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change.

Gore Vidal

As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Judy Davis

Our daughter has learned her lesson. She learned it the first day she was in county jail. A long sentence is just not appropriate on first-time offenders.

Donald Rumsfeld

normally ministers of defense visit countries where there's that type of activity.

John Murray

Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards.

Bob Stallman

So you do have your work cut out for you, ... I'm not going to pretend this is going to be easy here in this county. But other counties have managed to defeat these kinds of initiatives.

Josh Liss

Once we receive the equipment, we have to have the staff trained on this and get our election judges trained. We'd also like to take it around the county and demonstrate it to the voters so that when they walk into the polling place for the first time it's not the first time they've seen the equipment.

Kim Thompson

Now, it's more of a team effort, because last year we could count on them to come in with a good score. Now, everyone needs to work on their game.

Mark Thompson

Sometimes you have so much success, you forget what got you here. We need to be more selective at the plate and work the count better, things like that. ... The good thing is that our guys have been through it, and I think they'll be fine.

Sean Howard

It has outraged the community. He should be ashamed.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Sonia Choquette

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Tim Cook

What makes Siri cool is she has a personality.

Stephanie Seymour

Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit, what they're interested in. That's what really shines.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Francis Bacon

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Pat Hanlon

There's a lot of questions that need to be answered.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Harry Reid

We know the questions that must be asked, ... Now we need answers.

Roy Hattersley

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

Jean Cocteau

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

Norman Reedus

I'm so fortunate, it's ridiculous.

David Pogue

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Fareed Zakaria

The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.