Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Nicolas Sarkozy

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden... something of which I am not proud.

Buck Owens

I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.

Gabriel Byrne

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

Enya

I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on the mountainside in County Donegal that's, you know, 'Oh, a melody.' It's more a matter of eventually taking that moment with me to the studio, and it begins to evolve.

Chad Smith

That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.

Carrie Fisher

What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.

Carrie Fisher

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

Carly Fiorina

I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.

Estelle

I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.

Lee Hazlewood

I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great.

I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.

We'd like the thread of history to stay alive, ... Even if the bricks were used for signage along the Centennial Trail, that would lessen the impact of losing the building.

We'd kind of been faking it, at the beginning of the year, that we got along and that everything was going well. At that point, we really realized we needed to get it together if we were going to be as successful as everyone thought we were going to be.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Brian White

We are definitely younger in that position than anywhere else on the team. But the way they have been practicing, this will be a strength for us, along with attack.

We are definitely focused on small business. Our average client is 25 to 30 desktops. That's the market that we've been in all along and we intend to stay in. Virtually all of our clients are less than 100 employees, although we do have larger clients where we do some aspect of supporting their environment.

Fidel Castro

We are not here to say goodbye to Che and his comrades. We are here to welcome them. I see Che and his men as a battalion of invincible combatants, who have come to fight alongside us and to write new pages of history and of glory.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Culture is evolving, and I'm along for the ride.

Brian Skerry

The Oceanic White Tip is considered one of the most dangerous sharks in the sea along with the Great White and Tiger. It is responsible for some of the most famous episodes of man-eating in history, such as when the U.S.S. Indianapolis sank in 1945.

Muhammad Ali

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

When I go down to Leon's, I've got to expect to stay two hours. Every time I go there, I always bring a bottle of something along with me.

When a team has a group of guys who can shoot the ball like we do, it's just a matter of time before they start to go in. Throughout the course of a season, you're going to go through some slumps, and you just try to keep those slumps as short as possible. But we knew all along that it was just a matter of relaxing and making shots.

When a scholar goes to seek out a bride he should take along an ignoramus as an expert

Chris Rice

When a sales representative takes it to the client, they can present the illustration and all information is saved. After they close the sale they can submit the case back along with the scenarios they used back at the office.

Geoff Hoon

We have made clear all along that this bill is for discussion and debate,

Vivica A. Fox

I'm gonna wait for Mr. Right to come along and take my time. I'm just enjoying just having a little me time, you know? But it's not that I'm not taking applications.

Vonda Shepard

Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you would call a good student. I tended to write songs rather than do scales.

Valeria Mazza

I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.

Wole Soyinka

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

Iris Apfel

We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.