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.

Francois Hollande

After what happened yesterday -- notably at the Sorbonne -- with these images of brutality, I ask the government to end its obstinacy and stubbornness and open talks toward withdrawing this law.

Steve Morton

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Todd Holmes

An official business will never ask you for your information. They already have it, and people have to be careful, because everything looks so legitimate.

Baruch Fischhoff

Are we prepared to lose a major city every year? ... It's cowardice not to ask the question and cowardice on the public's part not to get engaged in the answer.

James McCann

The senators will want to ask about views on presidential powers, women's rights and minorities, because Roberts expressed views during Reagan's term that need to be cleared up,

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.

Howard Osofsky

People's emotions are very frayed, ... And returning citizens will often be more irritable dealing with their own issues. People coming back will be under more pressure more stress.

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.

Jack Johnson

We are deploying resources to house our new citizens and to ease their suffering.

Tim Walberg

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

Thomas Friedman

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

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.

Ayad Allawi

As far as Germany and France are concerned, really, this was a regrettable position they had, ... I don't think the Iraqis are going to forget easily that in the hour of need, those countries wanted to neglect Iraq.

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.

Paul Hatch

Somerset County has the potential and the natural resources to be a real shining star in northern New England for recreational tourism.

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.

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,

Stone Gossard

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

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.

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.

Jim Bishop

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jesse Helms

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Hillary Clinton

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