Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Earl Wilson

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Duke Ellington

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

Duke Ellington

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Don Shula

I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

Ralph Boston

Without the Khrushchevs or the Nixons or the Reagans or those people you know, let us run it and I promise you we'll have a much better world.

Mitchell Hurwitz

With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.

Jack Irons

Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

John Abizaid

Yet, we believe that that's probably the vigilance of Iraqi security forces and some of our proactive measures the night before probably saved lives.

Joe Henderson

Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.

Joe Bob Briggs

Yet it wasn't so long ago that virtually every person in the world felt perfectly free to show up on the doorstep of any other person in the world.

Joel Siegel

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

Victoria Beckham

There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

Aaliyah

There are relationships where a guy already has a girlfriend and he's got one on the side, too.

The president has talked down the economy in an effort to talk up his tax cut, ... It appears that when President Bush looks at the economy he doesn't see the doughnut -- he just sees the hole. We believe that there is strength in America and in our economy, and that we can recover. But the president has to change his tune.

Kathy Valentine

There are problems and conflicts arise, but so far we've been able to overcome any difficulties that arise in a really considerate and mature fashion.

The question today is more opportunistic. The question is exactly where can I be a buyer of America Online ( AOL ) or some of these other stocks that have been weakened?

Barbara Olson

The questions that are not asked by the media surely will be asked by voters. I think it's information that voters want to know and look at.

Chiang Kai-shek

Japan cannot conquer China with America in her rear, Soviet Russia on her right and England on her left - her most powerful enemies in the South Sea all flanking her. It is this international situation that constitutes one of Japan's great weaknesses.

Chiang Kai-shek

What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.

Chris LeDoux

To me, Garth, he's kind of like my guardian angel. It's like every time I need some help, he's there.

Diane Sawyer

I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

Dick Cavett

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

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

Dorothy Fields

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.