Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

Jan Egeland

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Bob Dylan

The one who is not being born is dying.

Edgar Allan Poe

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Max Frisch

Ever since the young men have owned motorcycles, incest has been dying out.

Nicollette Sheridan

Eva was very jealous because she's dying to come and I actually think she's going to be here at the end of the (next) month.

Siobhan Rigby

Even though we are under a tragedy and don't exactly have much money at all, what we do have is each other. We have our family. We have food, water, shelter. People in New Orleans, they were dying because they didn't have any of those.

Tom Skinner

There's no evidence it's efficiently transmitted from person to person, nor is it being sustained in the human population when it comes to person to person transmission. An overwhelming majority have gotten this from handling sick or dying birds.

Donald Trump

America is dying at 1 percent GDP.

Michael Hendricks

Progress was slow at first, but the evidence is mounting that restoration is working.

James Heckman

The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.

Ryan Ward

I've spent a lot of time doing the fitness stuff, taking it to the next level. I guess that I'm kind of evidence that if you stick to a game plan and work hard, that good things can happen and maybe you can have the opportunity to do something that you love, which I've been fortunate enough to do.

Marcia Clark

I've never seen so much evidence even on the first day, as I did in that case.

Glenn Tilton

These solid results are evidence of real progress in our work to make United competitive and resilient.

Chuck D.

These settlements are evidence of systemic, industry-wide problems that need to be addressed.

Don Peters

These returns are pretty strong evidence that tax-efficient investing does work.

Charles Schumer

is good evidence that Mr. Fitzgerald is, indeed, following this investigation to its logical conclusion, even if it reaches the highest levels of our government.

Maria Cheng

It would not be surprising if it had spread from Turkey, but at the same time, we have no evidence yet that it has.

Kenneth Williams

As of now, we haven't gotten any kind of request from the state to open our shelters.

David Vitter

The situation has gotten a lot better. The water is not rising right now in New Orleans.

Doc Sadler

The thing about Southern Miss is that they've gotten better and better each game.

Shari Brill

I've always gotten a kick out that show.

Rich Aurilia

The one thing I wish would have happened was we would have scored one more run for Milton. I wish he could have gotten a win out of that instead of a no-decision.

Timothy Ghriskey

So the message here, spread your investments around, ... If you've gotten hurt this year in technology, learn from that and diversify your investments.

David Hunt

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.

Claire Rubin

The sad part is 13, 14 years later, we don't seem to have gotten much smarter, ... If anything, we've lost traction.

Jimmy Williams

It was windy and the situation could have gotten really serious.

Bob Richardson

We can no longer tolerate handling prisoners in public hallways and restrooms for safety and security reasons,

Tim Padgett

We've had numerous trees and power lines down, numerous homes that are damaged, and we are still handling emergencies.

Jaren Jackson

We talked about containment and handling ourselves on the boards.

Rick Barnes

Right now, if there's any one thing I can change, it's handling the basketball. Sixteen turnovers at this time of year just kills you.

Jay Dillon

People were very upset but were handling it well.

Jim Haslett

I got a nice e-mail from Tom Coughlin . 'Thinking of you.' How about that? He said he thought I was doing a nice job handling things. I'll tell you what I wrote him back.

Mike Strong

We just did a nice job handling their pressure.

Gregg Langbehn

His two-out RBI was a big run for us. It seems like he's handling all the pressure pretty well. He's holding his own.

Peter Jackson

We take as much inspiration from what he's doing and how he's handling it as he takes from the club.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Thomas Reed

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Ray Bradbury

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

John Paul Stevens

Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

Matt Smith

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

Philip Larkin

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Mark Twain

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Evan Esar

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

Todd Devereaux

North is very strong. We played with them for about 25 minutes.

Michael Griffith

North Dakota's is sort of a different pace.

Jay Grymes

Normal rainfall is not what we need. We need a wet spell.

Tahar Rahim

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

Abdul Aziz

Now I can sell latex at normal prices.

Larry Rice

Technology is where there's momentum, ... That's been the norm and it's getting worse. People are going to go where they can make money.

Abraham Lincoln

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

Nelson Oduber

This is a preposterous and irresponsible act, ... We are not terrorists. We don't pose a threat to the United States, nor to Alabama.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Allen Ginsberg

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Ang Lee

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

Ron Perlman

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

Stewart Udall

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

Maurice Strong

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

Terence Lewis

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

Michel Foucault

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

Mitch Hedberg

I sick of "soup of the day" it's time we made a decision, i want to know what "soup from now on" is

Doris Wallace

You're just sick to your stomach, wondering who in the world can come, because everyone is busy; everyone who's touring already has dates.

Elizabeth Scott

There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just-- smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the--" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life.

Edward Abbey

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

David Lynch

Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.

Andre Leon Talley

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

Anne Lamott

I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you'd start to laugh; you'd be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again.

Anne Lamott

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.