Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Richardson

We believe it's a good strong text calling for an international arms embargo. It's moving forward. Hopefully, it will be adopted in the next few days.

We believe it makes a lot of sense, given the needs of the county and the fact they have a huge imbalance in housing, a great transportation advantage here at Hunter Mill Road, and the fact that there is Metro coming down the corridor,

We believe it is premature for the county Legislature to adopt any resolution regarding the proposed resort until new members of the legislative body are able to get up to speed on its history. At that point, we would gladly present our plan and discuss alternatives that are economically feasible while also addressing the concerns the legislature might have.

Billy Graham

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

TSMC is ahead in terms of technology and know-how. For the higher-quality and more technologically advanced chips, not all foundries can do that.

Cyrus McCormick

Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what you are doing, but no one else does.

George Vecsey

To this day, while maintaining a healthy respect for the Giants and Jets and other teams I cover, I admit to checking the results every Monday to see how the Bears did.

Mark Anderson

To the degree that Microsoft wants to grow up into advanced server operations, that would be a pretty smart place to play.

to the Bride and Groom There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Ed Asner

To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

Truthfully, wrestling in northern Virginia is decent. The east already has the advantage in wrestling terms. It gets kind of stale after a while being in the same area.

Charles Mackay

Truth... and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

Larry Fitzgerald

True to his word he did resist. ... It took about 30 seconds to remove him from the cell and maybe an additional 60 seconds to strap him to the gurney.

To rectify the problem, the police chief or commission gave them 10 additional days off per year, known as floater days.

To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became totally immobile and speechless! I stood there looking at him and couldn't say a word.

Bill Plympton

I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. 'Tangled,' was great. I loved 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the Dreamworks film. But it's not for me. I don't want to make a film for families; I want to make adult films.

Bill Plympton

I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.

In the spring of 1984, I was crushed not to make my Little League All-Star team. I will not go into too much detail, but imagine all your best friends were invited to a one-month party, and you weren't. You could watch it from afar but never get past the fence line. It was an early and abrupt welcome to adolescent loneliness.

My dad doesn't like to admit it, but he's the ultimate stage dad. He likes to see himself as my manager even though he's not. I tell him to calm down at least twice a week. The day of the Tony nominations, I honestly thought he was having a heart attack.

Bruce Cameron

When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.

Bharati Mukherjee

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

Irving Wallace

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Iris Chang

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

Imre Kertesz

A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

Dan Buettner

I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

Jose Rizal

My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.

Jose Rizal

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.

Irwin Winkler

The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

Ivan Lendl

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.