Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick Law Olmsted

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Douglas Hurd

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

Mark Webber

We don't get groupies, well I don't see them, anyway. That was something that I always looked forward to and am constantly disappointed by the lack of!

Claudius

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

Colin Hanks

I've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it's best not to.

Dante Alighieri

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

Dan Simmons

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Dan Rather

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

Dan Quayle

I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.

Dan Fogler

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

Cynthia Ozick

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Cyril Connolly

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

Corrie Ten Boom

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

Dwight L. Moody

It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.

Colin Quinn

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness

Adam McKay

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

Adam Schiff

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

Edward Felten

The paper would be unintelligible to a lay person,

This shows the labor market in not overheated. And you can see that in, yes, not a lot of people are getting raises.

Dan Kennedy

There are layers upon layers upon layers here.

We always offer bidding and we are always open to union labor.

Jim Morris

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.

What Larry can get back, ... is his reputation.

Louis C. K.

I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.

When do we reach adulthood? It might be much later than we traditionally think.

Mark McCormack

We thought the lawsuit was pretty frivolous." ()

We're not in position to think, We're Stanford, we can show up and they're going to lay down for us,'

Tommy Bowden

Too many mistakes in the red zone by the offense. That's kind of is going back to last year with some of the same problems we had.

This year there's been a lot more violations. There's been twice as many as last year to this point.

We like Melvin a lot, ... But whether we proceed on that now or later we don't know.

Oliver Goldsmith

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Alberto Fujimori

We were not going to liberate, release those terrorists because of our law and because of our national security and also the regional security.