Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luc Montagnier

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

Sheila Porter

The person who answered the message didn't know much. So he said he would give me a call back so what I did was just wait. So we picked up my son, took him to school, grabbed some McDonalds, went home... we watched cartoons and then took a nap. By that time, I was getting worried.

Lew Wasserman

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

Diane Brown

When you state that you have met with us and answered our questions, that's really not the case.

Melissa Fleming

We've answered that request by saying it would take us more than a week to put our surveillance equipment in place, asked them to refrain from removing any of the seals that would enable us to make sure the equipment hasn't been touched.

Steve-O

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.

Tim Ryan

Throughout our history, brave men and women have answered the call to defend and protect our democracy.

Tony Graffanino

It's just been a lot of people calling to say they are praying for me, people calling to tell me to keep my chin up. I even had a nice comment from someone in the media saying they appreciated the way I stood up and answered all the questions. They are kind words at a time when you would like to hear them.

Craig Walker

They may have had a little jitters when we got off to start. After about the first six minutes they really answered and really stepped up to bell.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

Caren Scoropanos

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

David Rosenberg

The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do.

Jack Germond

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

Jaret Wright

We're in a race to get to the playoffs, so I'll do everything I can to get back out there, ... There's no calling in sick now. You've got to get out there.

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

Julien Pain

We want them to see that they helped the Chinese police to jail people, human beings.

Chris Christie

If the Chinese commit cyberwarfare against us, they are going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before.

Chris Christie

Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?

Steve Schneider

We actually find it not at all difficult in China -- it is more about how you drive growth; how you utilize technologies and how you train people.

Liang Guanglie

We appreciates the Jordanian side's concern with the Chinese people.

M. Wolfe

We are seeing a lot of people still putting debris out and that will be on the city's chin to pick-up.

Tim McNulty

We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.

Alex Wong

There are concerns that new competitors like China Netcom and China Telecom will enter the domestic market once 3G services are introduced next year. The focus now is on such uncertainties.

Mats Olsson

We're in close cooperation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Debbie Wing

We're not going to speak about litigation. I don't want to comment on anything in relation to this case. That's for the courts.

Lester Bagley

We have no comment on the latest Culpepper e-mail.

Rae Tyson

We have no comment on it until we're ready to release it. It's still a fluid process at this point. We look forward to significant fuel savings without sacrificing safety or doing harm to the American economy.

Karen Rugen

We have no comment as to whether or not we are being investigated by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

John Burness

Until we have greater clarity, it would be inappropriate to comment further.

Erica Abbett

Until we actually see a suit of any sort we can't comment on anything.

Dean Acosta

Until the study is complete and presented to NASA and DOD senior officials in October, it is premature to comment on specifics and possible recommendations.

Adam Putnam

While I would ordinarily not comment on conversations with my constituents, Ms. Meeks has given me her permission to do so,

Fadel Gheit

What he's saying makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, the source of the comment is going to send jitters in the market.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

Charles Caleb Colton

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

Al Michaels

We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

David Riesman

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

David Duke

When I began to talk publicly about the hatred that was in the Talmud, I was branded a hater, a bigot, and an anti-Semite by the media and by groups like the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The ADL is a multimillion-dollar, worldwide organization whose whole purpose is to defame and discredit those who simply tell the truth about Jewish supremacism and hatred against Gentiles.

David Brock

Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

Derek Jeter

Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.

Denis Leary

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

John Roberts

If it's a situation in which the public is being given access, you can't discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don't have access, because their access rights, of course, correspond with those of the public.

Mark Cuban

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

Bill Mumy

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Al Neuharth

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

Edward Gibbon

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Dean Cain

Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

David Twohy

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

David Walliams

In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.

David Hyde Pierce

Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.

David Brooks

The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Charles Spurgeon

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

Lorraine Toussaint

I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and praying over me.

Edward McKendree Bounds

He who would pray, must obey.

Bobby Bowden

I’m praying for a misdemeanor

Brigham Young

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

Nicholas Stoller

As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.

Jason Williams

I've been praying it won't go to trial. But sometimes reality sets in, and I realize that a dismissal is probably not going to happen.

Jeremy Jones

I've been praying a lot for strength and (to give) thanks for what I did.

C. S. Lewis

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Chad Caldwell

We're saying (this) is a lockout because of retaliation over that no-layoff arbitration that we won.

Richard Cate

We're saying if you've demonstrated success, you don't have to do as much paperwork.

Bruce Larner

We've tried to tone it down as much as possible. But every time you turn around, someone's saying something else about it.

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Tom Ferguson

We're just saying we want him to stay. He's saying he doesn't want any more than the teachers get.

Burke Stinson

We're just saying 'time out' to technology until the new year.

Cassie Johnson

We're getting a lot of e-mails saying they wish they could watch curling more often. They can't wait for Vancouver.

Justin Williams

It's just one game. We'll be saying that a lot. But for the first time in a long time, we have a 'must' win.

Annika Sorenstam

We stood at the tee and I told Suzann, 'We can turn this around and be 1-up. Suzann said, 'No, we could be 2-up.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right.

Ken Sawyer

They stood under it as if it were a shelter.

Tammy White

We all stood at the window and cried,

Ron Schiller

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Courtney Adams

We just stood there and watched it burn.

Robert Brown

We two stood there with never a third.

Aminatta Forna

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

Greg Simmons

I was the one commissioner that stood up on that matter.

M. Wolfe

He was unique. He stood out from the crowd.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?