Famous Quotes & Sayings

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

Roger Staubach

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Sparky Anderson

You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Thom Mayne

But often it's doubtful whether the logic of the work itself and the words used to describe it really have anything to do with each other.

Daniel Yergin

But look at Angola: The Chinese spent a lot of money to get in there, but they are among many other companies. It is a much bigger game.

Both those kids come from great programs. Every coach in America wants to recruit winners and kids with stable backgrounds, and certainly CB West and North Penn fit that description.

Alice Hoffman

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

Alex Berenson

Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured housing. From 1991 to 1998, annual sales of manufactured homes more than doubled, to 374,000 from 174,000.

Pete Rozelle

I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.

Pete Rozelle

I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

Paul Winchell

Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.

Pete du Pont

Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that.

Paul Simon

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.

Ernest Hemingway

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Donald Trump

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

The gratitude of the nation to the Sovereign Arbiter of All Human Events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.

Bill Withers

I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

Brent Musburger

You are watching what greatness, is all about.

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

Bess Truman

I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.

Fred Saberhagen

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Joel Siegel

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

David Brock

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

Darryl F. Zanuck

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back.

Benjamin Tucker

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

Bruce Vilanch

I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.

Barbara Olson

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

Barry Levinson

It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.

Bill Sienkiewicz

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.