Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Goldberg

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

Richard Orr

We've always said we had the most compelling numbers.

Peter Power

There is compelling evidence of serious state intervention.

David Delainey

We had a very compelling story that we were telling, and we weren't telling the complete truth.

Chris Hill

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Keith Lockhart

She's just an amazing, compelling performer. She has a wonderful vocal presence and really knows what to do with a song. She'll be fun. I guarantee it.

Aaron Karo

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

Tim O'Day

What we really do is tell entertaining and compelling stories, through our rides, shops, restaurants, entertainment, even our resort hotels.

Michael Gartenberg

There are some real competitive issues going on, and (Microsoft) needs to respond, not just with products and offerings for consumers but also (with) compelling products and APIs for developers, ... There's a recognition that people are embracing the Web as a platform, and they (Microsoft) want to be there as well.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Alan Paton

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Alan Greenspan

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

Al Pacino

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

Dennis Schain

Ultimately, before they build, we'll inspect to make sure the plan has addressed all the issues and will be implemented properly.

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Charlie Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Edward R. Murrow

To be credible we must be truthful.

Sen. Gallegos

I think I can, but to be truthful with you, I don't know until I come to that point. There's going to be times when it's going to be difficult.

Brenda Ueland

Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.

Randy Mayes

I can get a feel for whether the person is truthful or not.

Camille Pissarro

Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.

Roseanne Barr

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

Thomas Jefferson

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Roger Taylor

No sir, I don't think she's a truthful woman at all.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.

J. Taylor

She wants them back ... that's her life.

Jack Hughes

She wants the ball. She wants no one else there but her.

Mike Toussaint

She wants it bad, she wants to succeed.

Doug Phillips

She's a stickler. She's a perfectionist. She wants to do it right.

Scott Simmons

She's incredible. She can do whatever she wants when she has the ball.

Dave Shaw

She just wants to get on with her life.