Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Probyn

This was a disappointing number relative to expectations and certainly consistent with the idea that consumer spending is going to be a much smaller contributor to economic growth in the fourth quarter.

Paul Doyle

What did he run, about 30 meters in the first round and 40 or 50 in the second? You'll see a lot more out of him, he's really looking like he's going to do something impressive ... he's certainly looking like he's in sub-10 form.

Benn Steil

The purchase is certainly no bargain. That would suggest, to the extent they have ambitions for a significant merger, they are concentrating on the London Stock Exchange.

Khaled Hosseini

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.

Tod Ruble

We haven't really found anything of the magnitude of this certainly not in Dallas. We're fully capitalized and will be starting all the construction on the site.

Ted Leonsis

We'll look at free agency, but I'm still trying to find where big free-agent signings can help the team. There's certainly no magic wand to wave and the team gets instantly better, but I like the way we're playing and I like the way the players have responded to our coach.

Greg King

Last year was the first time in about nine years we haven't made the playoffs. That's certainly a motivating factor.

Dan Wilson

Certainly the '95 season was at the top of the list, the emotions day after day. All those things we went through were things you never forget. It was just a feeling of accomplishment, coming back from so far back to tie at the end of the season.

Ryan Ford

Certainly it was big win and we're disappointed that we didn't get two. But going into this weekend, we're still in this thing.

Tamora Pierce

I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.

Taiye Selasi

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

Sylvia Plath

The day I went into physics class it was death.

Swoosie Kurtz

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

Rosanne Cash

We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.

Tom Peters

There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.

Todd Haynes

I really want the audience to place close attention to the movement, possibilities of movement, possibilities of trespassing boundaries and observe what's possible in different social settings, and different settings of class designation as well.

Steve Fisher

This alliance with Honeywell is a significant step in our strategy to provide remanufacturing services to other companies. We are pleased to build on our relationship with Honeywell through our world-class remanufacturing capabilities.

Steve Harvey

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

David Attenborough

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Daniel Webster

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Daniel Webster

It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.

Daniel Webster

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Daniel Webster

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Ameen Rihani

I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Daniel Petrocelli

Some people think it's a waste of time to go to trial here.

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Susan Murray

So we're telling people they should know what they're paying.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

E. O. Wilson

so that the will of the people can be upheld.

J. J. Johnson

Once you go out and start making plays, they don't say that anymore, ... You just have to play and show people what you can do.

Oliver Goldsmith

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

Pico Iyer

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

Phillip Phillips

Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

Kylie Minogue

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.

Marc Jacobs

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!

Marc Cohn

Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?

Natalie Merchant

I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.

Natalie Goldberg

Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

Taylor Swift

Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching for a sound we hadn't heard before. And it said, 'Welcome to New York,' It's been waiting for you. It's a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore. The lights are so bright, but they never blind me.