Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Reid

Let's have a real investigation and a vote here in the Senate. What the president has agreed to is no review.

Edward Norton

Lewis and Clark's expedition is as great a story as you could ever hope to tell, and like so many people, Brad and I have both been drawn to it for years, ... We both always agreed that compressing that story into a feature-length film ruined the spirit of it ... so we sat down and said, 'How can we really do this justice?'

Kofi Annan

Libya has also agreed to a trial in a third country and believes that it ought to be possible to find answers to all other outstanding issues relating to this matter,

Adnan Pachachi

Leaders of political parties have agreed to postpone parliament. There are still some issues that have not been resolved yet.

Steve Lewis

Scott has told us that he wants to stay in Wales, but he has some issues to sort out in Australia and he has kept us informed about his position. We have agreed to meet at the end of the Six Nations to thrash out his contractual position.

Charles Schumer

Sen. Graham and I do not think it would be appropriate to vote on this bill while the president is there, so we have agreed to delay the vote,

Kevin Bishop

Senator (Lindsey) Graham has not agreed to delay a vote on the China currency legislation. No decision has been made and any insinuation to the contrary is nothing more than uninformed speculation.

Arlen Specter

Senator Leahy and I took a look at it and agreed that it was insufficient,

James Rubin

Secretary Albright just got off the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu and they agreed to meet here in Washington on Wednesday to discuss ways in which we can overcome remaining differences

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Mike Williams

Last year was the most violent year so far, and that gave pause, especially given the fact that a lot of the European countries think that the United States is trying to dump the Afghanistan counter-terrorism mission on them.

Stuart Law

Many of these countries don't yet have good resale markets.

David Gilmore

Many of these countries are struggling to match rate hikes by the Federal Reserve,

Michael Driscoll

Many OECD countries already have 60% participation in higher education,

Claire McCaskill

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

Daniel Tieken

So far, we have people from 21 different states and five different countries - including Japan, Singapore and England - looking at participating in The Great Scavenger Hunt.

Leo Bokeria

Milosevic could have been cured with the help of a surgical operation. Such operations are performed in many countries now.

Martin Jacques

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

Richard Vespucci

Many of these decisions are ultimately the responsibility of the local district, but we are trying to come up with guidance to pass on to them. There's no target date for this grand plan, but as ideas come to light, we'll share them in a timely manner.

Tony Juniper

Many of us are extremely worried by the position of the European Union. The end date for talks should be set for 2008.

Tom Daschle

second-guess what has been done to date ... the jury is still out on future success.

Drew Brees

Mini-camp would be five months, so by that point I should be full speed. I'm going to do everything that I can to get back as soon as possible. The real date that is most important is early September. I need to make sure I'm good to go by then.

Anton Corbijn

My first pictures are from 1972, and my first proper camera dates back to 1973. During the first year I used my father's camera. It had a flash on it, which I don't like, but I didn't know anything about photography back then, so it was just what I did.

Gigi Hadid

One time, my ex-boyfriend and I were in Paris, and we went to this really fancy dinner. We weren't full after, so we walked from the schmoozy restaurant to McDonald's, and we finished our date at McDonald's. It was awesome.

Hulk Hogan

My daughter's getting old enough to date and I'm mad about it!

Saddam Hussein

must be served notice stating a trial date and that hasn't happened.

Rory Bruer

Maybe it wasn't the most traditional of dates, but it turned out to be an excellent date for us,

Bob Groves

One year from now, in December of '06, unless there's a funding solution for more dedicated funds for transit statewide, we will literally run out of money. That's the situation we're in.

Brian Halla

Now that we have the months of December and January finished, we felt it necessary to factor those results into our earlier projections and issue this update.

Heather Ridout

New orders jumped sharply in the month. Manufacturing experienced moderate growth in December to end the year in positive territory.

Daniel Alfredsson

Obviously, it's going to get tougher, I think, in the second half because of the schedule and the Olympics. So, I think, right now, we're making the most of a good schedule for our team. I think we have only four road games in this month, and then December is tougher for us. But definitely after the Olympic break, we have a tougher schedule. But the way we're going now, I don't think we should slow down and we just have to keep pushing ourselves every night and keep trying to improve to be better.

Al Groh

we might be going till December without him, and I don't think about it. . . . The only time I have a discussion about it is when I'm talking with you guys.

Michael Linenberg

Given that the first half of December is a relatively quiet time for travel, Delta has been able to re-accommodate most of the passengers on other Delta flights.

Jason Chaffetz

From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent.

O. Henry

From December 2002 until the end of 2004 it was pretty much laughed out of the room,

Kurt Eichenwald

A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.

Charles Schumer

There are too many questions still to be answered, too many doubts still to be alleviated to say that this nomination is a slam dunk,

Steve Howard

I got my doubts about things. But I still support the president.

Bill Rowe

I don't have any doubts at all how he's going to do here. I realize at the end of the year he could walk. We've just got to slide through this first year, and I think we will.

Jermain Taylor

I don't have to have a knockout. I just need to win this fight and leave no doubts in the minds of my fans or his fans,

Felipe Alou

I don't have doubts that he'll hit or that they'll walk him. The swing has always been there.

Tony Mosa

We had no doubts that we made the right decision. They violated one of the standard rules that we have. Every team knows that you can't do that.

Jamie McNeilly

We never had any doubts about that. It just meant too much to us.

Reinhard Kurth

Unfortunately, it has been found that the swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. We have no doubts whatsoever any more.

Robert Gossett

What effect am I having on this world? I'm not sure yet. I have my worries, doubts and fears, but the way I'm trying to affect the world is with positive, right action.

Anna Lindh

major step forward toward the integration (of Macedonia) into the European Union.

James Peterson

So far the protectionists have won in the European Union,

Peter Power

No new offers were put on the table by the European side.

Matthew Buckland

Negative sentiment is expected to weigh on European equities.

Ivo Daalder

NATO's future is very much at stake. NATO may in fact no longer be the instrument of European security and will become increasingly marginal in the foreign polices of its major members.

Ivo Daalder

NATO's future is very much at stake, ... NATO may in fact no longer be the instrument of European security and will become increasingly marginal in the foreign polices of its major members.

Donald Tusk

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

Robert Lutz

Fuel prices would have to go to European levels for that to happen. If it stays (in the $3 to $4 per gallon range) it will result in some market shift. It has to.

Li Zhaoxing

If a German leader went and worshipped Hitler, worshipped the Nazis, how would the European people look at this? Would this hurt their feelings? You should think about this carefully,

Oscar Wilde

None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Hasidic Proverb

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none

Paul Perry

I can't fault the horse. He's jumping out of his skin.

Kraig Blomme

I can't fault the effort, we just need to start making plays when we need them.

Sam Mitchell

I can't fault the effort, but we made some mistakes. But they were mistakes because they were all trying to make a play.

Nick Kajca

I can't fault our effort. Cardington is a good solid team.

Heidi Perry

I fault the industrial revolution with taking people out of their homes to the workplace. Before that, people used to work at home all the time. It's kind of taking a turn now, and people are wanting to come back home. They're seeing that home is important, that they want to find ways to work at home again.

Abraham Lincoln

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

William Ellsworth

We've never been inside the fault zone before.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Mark Fischer

Let's plan for it. Don't wait. We have to step up as leaders.

Bill Cunningham

leaders in other boroughs did. State party leaders did.

Justin Gray

Leadership is what it's all about. It's got to come from somewhere.

John Maxwell

Leadership is more ? if not much more ? influence, rather than position.

Arun Sarin

Leadership is experiential... it's really a trained art.

Mark Fischer

Let's plan for it. Don't wait. We have to step up as leaders.

James Yee

West Point has the reputation for producing leaders, and it produces patriotic men and women who want to serve the country, ... And it produced me.

Andrew Barrett

What you're seeing is these old leaders, which don't have much more downside, come back in favor.

J. J. Johnson

I think (the leaders) are there. It's whether or not they know how to do that yet is what we've got to find. I'm not sure they know who they are yet, so we'll see.

Jim Zoltowski

We look for our seniors to be leaders.

Marcus Eng

We are looking for people who can become role models and leaders. We want people who are teachable.

Kip Janvrin

Steven is our top thrower. He did well and started his year off well. He's one of our leaders.

Amy Powell

Erin is one of our most vocal leaders, even though she's actually a pretty quiet girl.

Wendy Vasquez

Don't look at the people of any particular organization as the leaders. Look at yourself as the leaders.

Wayne McCants

We have membership in all of the surrounding counties. Our participation is growing.

Chris Patten

I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States

Mark Blondin

I'm so proud of our members. The overwhelming unity and solidarity of the machinist union membership won this strike.

Mark Blondin

I'm so proud of our members, ... The overwhelming unity and solidarity of the machinist union membership won this strike.

Buzz Hargrove

It was a tough set of bargaining, ... To get that kind of endorsement from the membership is just exhilarating.

Joe Mullins

This allows us to customize our services to the membership base.

Michelle Sommers

The split in the membership coincided with the split in the board.

Mike Skarr

Quantity in membership is important, but it's more important to have quality members.

Pranab Mukherjee

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning first, before we talk about anything else, ... We need to win some games. That's what I talk about. ... We need to openly talk about winning before we talk about anything else.

Greg Davis

Let's open up with a 15 zap read.

John Lewis Gaddis

Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.

Butch Klein

When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed,

Mike Gonzalez

I feel like I'm right where I need to be. I feel like I'm really sharp right now and ready to pitch in a regular-season game. I wish opening day was tomorrow.

Barry Bonds

If Opening Day was tomorrow and I had to go out there, I'd go out there. It's what I get paid to do.

Jimmy Carter

free, honest, open and without any violence of any kind.

Kerry Tharp

From our standpoint, the process is still very much open and active.

Kevin Bishop

We need to open it for more exploration. We need to become more independent.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Motto

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Japanese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Justin Kirk

I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Scott Moody

Like I have to start from scratch, I don't have anything.

David Collins

One way to start all over is to find a young woman and start a family.

John Beilein

Now we just go back and teach. We start over.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Marco Buechel

If Bode wants to start winning, he could start winning tomorrow, immediately.

Karel Bruckner

I can tell you that the starting lineup will be very different this time.

Melissa Carlson

Get out there and start talking to people.

Kevin McHale

Getting Marko was something we really wanted to do. It's all starting to come together.

Billy Bush

She talks about two people. From your experience, is that right?

Sugar Ray Leonard

When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much.

Steve Alford

We've already kind of had all the talks that we were going to have.

Roman Harper

He talks more out there than he does all week.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.

Michael Huff

Jimmy's different. He kind of talks all the time. But it's all in fun.

Liu Jianchao

The timetable for resuming the talks is unpredictable.

Bubba Watson

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.

Rich Cohen

When a movie star sits and talks to you, it's almost always, and only, because she's promoting something.

Waverley Lewis Root

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I really like Thanksgiving turkey... it does not take only time in Houston that you look at natural breasts.

Jamie Oliver

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

Brigitte Nielsen

Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

Elia Kazan

I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.

Charles Bukowski

love iz a big fat turkey and every day iz thanksgiving

Adam Sandler

It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys.

Ali Babacan

Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Lech Walesa

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Aleister Crowley

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Andy Stern

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Daniel Craig

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.