Famous Quotes & Sayings

My mother's into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

It doesn't matter. We're family. Family's got to argue sometimes. At the end of the day, brothers still love brothers. Sisters still love sisters. But there's no girls on the team.

Spike Jonze

I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.

I think if consumers like the new Kmart, if the company has any business sense, you can argue they should go out and be very big with it.

Brad Dourif

I think I have an obsessive quality to my personality. What makes things scary is you can't argue with obsession.

We have some very ugly numbers. You can argue that the ISM is still backward looking, and maybe even the jobless claims, but eventually we're going to need some evidence that the economy is improving. We had a lot of enthusiasm coming from earnings, but the news today is a little bit of a slap in the face that we're not out of the woods yet.

Those who argue that Sinn Fein and the IRA are the same have ... always failed to establish that link in terms that would satisfy a court of justice.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.

James Otis

I was solicited to argue this cause as Advocate-General; and, because I would not, I have been charged with desertion from my office.

I would have preferred that the panel decision stand, but I am happy to argue before the en banc court.

Rob Enderle

I would argue this is the first major step towards a subscription operating system.

I would argue the mayor's salary should go up the same as everyone else's. If the mayor wishes to tear up his check, that's one thing, but I think his salary ought to be the same as everyone else's.

Rand Paul

I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.

Simon Winchester

I would argue that William Smith turned a lot of things on their head with this map, which was a hugely important and profound development,

I would argue that while there hasn't been that kind of breakthrough series this year, cable has continued to grow nevertheless. Eventually they'll have to come up with something fresh.

Matthew Simmons

I would argue that we are in a serious energy crisis.

I would argue that the aesthetics in flattening out a scene completely are obsolete.

John Hickenlooper

I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.

I would argue that makes (the permits) more valuable. There would be a limited number of them, so they'd have an economic value they don't have now.

Joe Kraus

I would argue that definitely they have the best talent. They invest so much because the more great talent you have, the easier it is to attract even more great talent.

Jack Germond

I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.

I have argued with great futility that this entire argument is based on a flawed premise. If you use a more realistic GDP assumption, based on what we've seen over the past few decades, Social Security won't go bankrupt.

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

John Lackey

I felt like I was still strong, but you can't argue with going to our bullpen. When you hold that lineup down the way we did tonight, you've got to find a way to win.

I felt fine, ... I wanted to take all of the snaps, but (coach Tom Coughlin) took me out and I don't argue with the head man about that. But I was making all the throws. I threw some deep ones that actually had too much on them. I have to work on the timing on some of those things, but it felt good throwing.

Fundamentals will determine the level of dollar-yen, and the fundamentals still argue for a higher dollar-yen.

Jon Kyl

If 90-plus percent of the Democrats vote against...and 90-plus percent of the Republicans vote for.... it is hard to argue it is not partisan.

For me, ... there are no real taboos, as long as it's done with respect and sensitivity and the care and creativity of an artist. But is there a clear line between pornography of a sexual and violent nature, and art? It is a fine distinction and we'll probably argue about that to the end of our days.

For the smaller services, the challenge is to make some kind of a case for why people would want to stay with them, ... They can argue today that they are more mature and they can offer more tools. This isn't a death knell for the smaller services, but this is a door slamming for them growing more.

To date, this is the best evidence for a long bar in our galaxy. It's hard to argue with this data.

Golf ratings are up with or without Tiger. Nobody's going to argue the point that he impacts ratings. At the same time, golf is a highly profitable, highly successful sport. This isn't a doomsday scenario for golf.

Going past the '70s and '80s there was a great reliance on the celebrity, the movie star and the person who sold a million records. People would argue that Ebony didn't become the journal to discuss substantive and thorny issues.

John Taylor

He secretly knows what happened. You're always looking for the right place, which was here. Board members didn't argue about petty things and wanted to do the right thing. I used to tell friends I knew I had found the right place.