Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Rowland

I remember I went through a period where I didn't embrace my 'chocolatiness.' I don't know if that's a word, but I didn't embrace my chocolate lifestyle. Just being a chocolate, lovely brown skin girl and being proud of that.

Malcolm Rifkind

Ken Clarke has the popular appeal, he has the experience, he's an obvious person who can handle Gordon Brown who will be Prime Minister by the time of the next election.

Craig Parker

Kareem Brown is probably one of the premier players in the area.

Brian Schweitzer

John Brown is a great legal intellect, ... He has a composed and compassionate way about him and I am confident he will make a solid judge.

Joe Moreno

Joel Brown will be the featured singer, and the night will include worship and praise,

Nancy Becker

Judge Brown wasn't a perfect man, he made mistakes, but he was committed to the court system,

Tony Woodley

He didn't tackle the big issues which are critical to the union movement, such as rights at work. It was the usual Brown speech and that is why he got a flat reception.

George Stigler

After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

Tom Izzo

Guy gets a cramp ? that's no big deal. Is that something that's a day-to-day thing? No. There's one thing you should never question on Shannon Brown and that's his heart.

Edgar Chen

He is one of the most critical high-level insiders that the prosecution has been able to produce.

Joseph Stiglitz

Greenspan's irresponsible support of that tax cut was critical to its passage.

Tony Vecchio

Her loss will be felt not just here locally, but world-wide due to the critically endangered status of this species.

Daniel Esty

Good governance emerges as a critical driver of environmental performance.

Stan Johnson

Going to referendum is a 50-50 chance, but it forces districts to be critical in communicating the need.

Tom Daschle

I think it's critical that we offer minimum wage limits to all these jobs,

Larry Coker

I think it's critical for us because he's a veteran player.

David Smith

It is a critical eight- to 10-weeks for retailing and for the producers. The retailers and PC hardware manufacturers work on razor-thin margins, so the impact there could be pretty severe.

Matt Fidler

What ETS is hoping to do is test vocabulary in a different way under the umbrella of 'testing critical thinking' without the use of antonyms and analogies.

Ernie Beck

I think it's a big disadvantage because I think you need to be playing. It's one thing to practice. ... About six or seven years ago we had a similar situation. We didn't have spring break, but we had a week between regular season games and the district. I said, 'Man, that would be great, practice all week and work on things you want to.' We were flat as can be going into districts.

Jason Bay

There are still a lot of things that need to be worked out, ... but it's flattering to have that offer.

Quincy Jones

I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

Sanford Bernstein

I think the DaimlerChrysler numbers are a disappointment, ... The most glaring question would seem to be in Mercedes car. Operating margins were flat year over year.

Aerial Gregston

I think we weren't playing up to our level today. We were really flat today, and we just need to step up.

Jerry Miller

I think we were a little flat today,

Don Williams

I think what it's saying is that '04 was an outstanding year, which leaves us flat with '05.

Jeff Hironaka

We looked flat at times and I thought pressure on us forced us into some hasty decisions. And they capitalized.

William Blake

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Tim Chelling

I think what it shows is that some of these issues are perennial. Some of these issues have worked themselves out.

Marshall Acuff

I think this could go on for another year or more. There is no short-term resolution of the major issues in sight.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Bill Graham

I did point out (that) his is a minority that is even less strong than ours and on many of these issues he knows that not only (does) he represent a minority of members of the House, but also in terms of the electorate.

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

William J. Brennan

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

William Jennings Bryan

The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Richard M. Nixon

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Salman Rushdie

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is life itself.

Robert Orben

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Robin Quivers

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

Wislawa Szymborska

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

Yunus Emre

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

Ryan Clark

I look at him like, hmmm, I just tackled him.

Michelle Monaghan

As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.

Todd France

I was trying to tackle Dante Hall, and that wasn't going to happen.

Richard Rogers

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

Jose Manuel Barroso

The euro area must not be treated as an 'opt out' from the European Union.

Jose Manuel Barroso

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

Henry A. Kissinger

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

Joe Seroogy

The Union makes De Pere what it is.

Gary Dellaverson

The union is still here, we're still here.

Wislawa Szymborska

Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.

Yukio Mishima

As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words.

Richard Shelley

Otherwise, everyone was wearing masks, gowns, gloves, and all of the usual precautions.

Henry Ford

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Nellie Bly

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

Martin Amis

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

Prince Philip

During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.

Plutarch

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.