Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zell Miller

Under the current rate, that single mother begins paying taxes when she earns $21,300, ... Under the Bush plan, she would not begin paying income taxes until her earnings reach $31,300. That leaves extra money in her pocket for school clothes or for the heating bill.

We had too much of our infrastructure go down in this hurricane. We have to do something. When my phone begins working again, I will call for a complete probe of the entire operation.

Hannah Kent

You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.

Jim Tressel

We have a little different world, but preparation is critical, especially when you're not as efficient as you want to me. To give a player or team the chance to be successful, it really begins with preparation.

We have a lot of support out of Helena for that. We're hoping this begins a new tradition by starting the race in Rimini.

Phillip E. Johnson

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

Robert Browning

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

fight club exists only when fight club begins and when it ends.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Elizabeth Bowen

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience

Paul Hewitt

The good ones understand that their role begins and ends with the scoreboard. The scoreboard will tell you if you've been successful or not. That's it.

Imre Kertesz

When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Barry Ritholtz

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

For me, a story begins with music: I feel the rhythm, the cadence, the pulse of the characters and their voices and the setting. Because I had just finished writing a book called 'Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine,' I was already filled with the music of the lives and culture of the Irish people, so I thought, why not use it?

Edward Hirsch

As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.

True navigation begins in the human heart. It's the most important map of all.

The partial quarter effect of the two acquisitions should result in a 17% sequential revenue lift, while core expenses (excluding any one-time restructuring charges) should rise about 23%, as the company only begins to realize both expense and revenue synergies.

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

Caron Butler

This trip is big, it really is. We're trying to get some consistency right now, and we have to find it on this trip. We have to do something before the new year starts and use that as momentum. It's a long season, but we have to feel that sense of urgency to get something done, and it begins with this trip.

Saina Nehwal

When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.