Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

Kristen DeTienne

Bad service is something everyone can relate to -- we've all had an experience with an obnoxious employee or had to call to correct an error on a bill. What we often can't relate to is the great way a company recovers from a service failure and wins our future business.

Andrew Baird

Bad science is being used to drive bad policy. And that policy is resulting in the large-scale dispossession of some of the poorest people on the planet.

Pat Schneider

Bad public officials give us all a bad name. If we're going to have systems in which people have trust, then there's got to be integrity.

Marco Sturm

Bad penalties. We let them back in the game.

Whit Ayres

Bad news tends to move in bunches, and this White House has had more than its share. When you are in one of these periods, the best thing is to keep your head down, stay focused on the job and wait for your luck to change.

Matthew Dowd

bad news for the Bush team and declared 'the sky is falling' once again.

Kelly Fero

bad news for Kinky. If a voter was going to go independent, they may want to go somewhere that they won't waste their vote.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Joe Novak

As a whole, this class is the best athletically we've brought in here.

Jon Gruden

As a football player, Woodson is such a unique guy. He can stand in there and play man-to-man, old-school bump-and-run coverage with the best of them, and he will knock you out.

Jim Haslett

As a football coach that is not the best thing for this team.

Tom DeLay

As a member of the House leadership, I am fully supportive of doing what is in the best interests of young Elian and moving this bill through Congress when we return,

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Paul Kenny

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

John Steffensen

Everything I'm doing at the moment is focused towards the Commonwealth Games and running the sort of time which could help me win an individual medal.

Matt Hasselbeck

We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Nick Zito

It was tough yesterday. I just had to leave really early. It all just got to me with High Fly. I've got a headache right now just talking about it. But that's the way it goes.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Dan Lankheit

As I said, the head on this thing was unreal.

Eric Snyder

This weekend is really important. It's one of the weekends we've been working from the very first practice for, and this is where all the training and work we've done all season will pay off. We're one of the top teams heading down there, so we'll just hope we do enough to move on.

Robbie Bennett

We think it is his knee. But we're still not sure. That's where we're headed now.

Stephen Chick

We think Home Depot is headed for a stall.

Mark Waggoner

There's going to be these lingering problems. There's still too much uncertainty in the New Orleans area. I think we are headed back to $70.

Elizabeth Campbell

We just had to keep our heads up and not quit.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Barbara Stanwyck

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

Art Linkletter

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes

Rodney Selph

Actually, I thought I was going to throw up. We got lucky, but sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

Taylor Snell

Now I know how all those people felt, being out of their homes. We were lucky to have somewhere to go.

Steve McClain

Sometimes you have to get a little lucky, and we can't seem to get a little lucky right now.

Julie White

Ten years ago a superintendent search would have 40 applicants. Now you are lucky to get five.

Diane Keaton

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

Anton Yelchin

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

Tom Davies

We got lucky and threw up some prayers that got the right bounce.

Brian Harrigan

We're going to try to make our own luck this time.

Roger Andrew Taylor

We're very lucky to be able to go back and reclaim something that was a very special part of all our lives.

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Mats Sundin

I've told Tomas already if you see me coming, move over.

Darius Hargrove

It was tough. But we've got to move on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Melissa McBride

The only way to move forward is to be able to trust whomever you're with 100 percent.

John Bolton

We have a sense of urgency about this ... There is a need to move expeditiously.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Tammy Cox

You say you are not going to watch the news but you do. You want to know what is going on there.

Jane Fonda

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Arianna Huffington

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Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Art Hogan

Arguably, Nokia's news isn't good, ... If we were rallying on Nokia, it was a little questionable on its reasoning.

Patricia Edwards

There?s not a lot out there that?s new.

Richard Gilhooly

There's nothing surprising in this when you see day after day after day after day, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 layoffs, ... So if anyone's shocked by this, they haven't been reading the newspapers for the past three months.

Daniel Schorr

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Anna Magnani

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Stephany Smith

As a team, we just stay strong and focused. Usually, we get it done. We trust each other.

Ann Fisher

As long as we stay together, we will be alright,

Brian Clarke

As long as I stay in town I will be fine,

Kurt Kutay

Some only have a dung hut to stay in.

Lillian Carter

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.

Nate Jackson

I've been staying in it mentally. And they'll work me in as they see fit.

Calvin Williams

I've been through a storm, and I ain't trying to get in another one. So I just try to stay to myself.

Lindsey Hunter

Things are going well, but it just takes time. It's all going well, so I just have to stay patient.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Peter Hook

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

Marcus Williams

I waited it out, but I was tired.

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Willie Randolph

Right now, we just have to wait and see. But it doesn't look too good.

Chris Ferris

This is one of the fundamental specifications the world has been waiting for,

Brian Austin Green

As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

Craig Ferguson

I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the one that Obama likes is where Biden pretends to have food poisoning and they cancel the debate.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Eckhart Tolle

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Charles Bukowski

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

bell hooks

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

bell hooks

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

bell hooks

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.