Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Haley

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

Albert Pujols

Every year it gets tougher and tougher. Mentally and physically. That's why you need to train and prepare.

Albert Schweitzer

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.

Debby Ryan

With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.

Debby Ryan

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

E. O. Wilson

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

E. O. Wilson

[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

E. O. Wilson

Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

E. O. Wilson

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms-folded them into its genes-and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

E. O. Wilson

Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.

Drew Brees

It took me six months to redeem myself at least to have another chance to at least have her get to know me and let her know I was at least a decent guy and to give me a shot. And here we are, we've been married seven years

Drew Brees

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

Drew Carey

The TV season is a year-long thing now, and the networks are starting to look at it that way, thanks to cable, satellites, and competition.

Drew Carey

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

Drew Barrymore

I try each day, each month, each year to become a better and better person and to be good to the people I love and let them know how much I appreciate them.

Drew Barrymore

I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.

Drew Barrymore

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

Douglas Rushkoff

What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.

Dorothy Thompson

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

Donald Cram

To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

Donald E. Westlake

My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.

Don DeLillo

The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much.

Donald T. Regan

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

Donatella Versace

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it.

Don Imus

Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

Don Herold

Methods of locomotion have improved greatly in recent years, but places to go remain about the same.

Don Ellis

It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.

Don King

The Dies tournament is always hard. We look forward to it every year from a competitive level. This is one of the biggest highlights of our season. This tournament has excellent tradition.

Dylan McDermott

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

Dylan Moran

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

Dylan Moran

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.