Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Cole

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.

Danny Elfman

But, really it was finding a kind of a vibe and letting that vibe carry the movie. And did I bring anything new to the mix? I don't know.

Tim Ryan

But quite frankly, I was not elected in China. I was elected in the United States of America.

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

John Sayles

But once I discovered that there was such a thing as a screenwriter and a director and all that, it stayed in my head as a possibility.

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.

Jim Otto

But now there are more concussions due to not being used to the hard hitting.

Vanessa Carlton

But my morn was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

Liza Minelli

But Mama was stricter: I had to wear this and I had to do that. She was really kind and loving, but I used to be so happy to go to my father's house.

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.

Shelley Berman

But, let's face it, I'm a Chicago boy.

Buddy Guy

But I was denied a record contract for 15 years, so I'm not going to be too picky about what I do. I don't have the juice to say no too many times.

Stephen Greenblatt

But I wanted to make a claim: the claim here is that life is actually compelling and that Shakespeare's life is what he principally had to work with.

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.

Peter Criss

As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world.

Pete Hamill

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

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.

TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.

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

Jon Fishman

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

Andrew O'Hagan

Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.

Armstrong Williams

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

Chuck Todd

We didn't get here overnight, we're not going to change it overnight. We at least want to make inquiries.

Ben E. King

The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.