Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

Carol Moseley Braun

I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

Carlos Mesa

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Carlos Mencia

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

Carlos Mencia

I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

Carl Andre

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

C. S. Lewis

Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

C. S. Lewis

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Chamlong Srimuang

We have said for a long time that if the premier made this announcement we would stop. We are not stubborn, we have the interest of the country in mind.

Lowell Kalapa

We have programs that are designed to help people recover from their disaster losses. The tax system is not an efficient means of handing out that money, nor is it a way to ensure that money is being used wisely.

Steve Wozniak

When I designed projects in college, he said, let's sell it.

L'Wren Scott

When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

Thomas E. Mann

Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight.

Tim Berners-Lee

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

Tim Berners-Lee

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

Eric Maskin

Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.

E. F. Benson

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

C. S. Lewis

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.

Alan Russell

There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.

Alan K. Simpson

It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.

Charles de Lint

Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.

Charles Caleb Colton

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Charles Dickens

Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...

Charles Dickens

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

Bryan Sykes

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Kate Thompson

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

Tina Brown

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

Brigitte Bardot

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

Frank Herbert

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Jane Green

We're trying to debunk the myth that Orlando is just a teen heartthrob,

Cassandra Clare

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

Paul Di Filippo

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

Ken Reeves

The reality is for most of the East, the ingredients just didn't come together to produce the type of storm that many were claiming.

Mike Nichols

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Mindy Cohn

The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Gavid Hood

It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Kenneth Edmonds

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

Bob Lutz

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Art Spiegelman

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

Andy Rooney

Unfortunately, propaganda works.

Ken Loach

As sure as the tide comes in, communities will integrate. It is only propaganda that will stop it.

Martin Parr

Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

Jacques Ellul

Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.

Harold Pinter

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

Lindsey Buckingham

That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

Naomi Wolf

Health makes good propaganda.

Werner Herzog

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.

Ted Nelson

The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.

Bonnie McKee

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

Mike Zafirovski

This revenue is real - it was recognized in the wrong periods.

Rick Comley

We wanted to get back to being a nationally recognized program. I think we're there.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

Babe Ruth

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Juvenal

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Calvin Coolidge

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,

Charles M. Schwab

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

Bob Brown

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.