Famous Quotes & Sayings

George H. W. Bush

Some have argued we should wait, and that's an option. In my view, it's the riskiest of all options, because the longer we wait, the stronger and bolder Saddam Hussein will become.

Shane Oliver

Some have argued the fall in the Australian dollar at a time when commodity prices are still strong is telling us global growth is about to collapse. However, there are few indicators of any impending collapse in global growth or commodity prices. In fact, global growth seems to be strengthening thanks to stronger growth in Europe and Japan.

Dennis Gartman

Japan needs a weak yen. We have argued that case for months, and finally it is proving of merit.

Harry Edwards

I can't say that it's inconceivable that a situation could arise where there would be... ... You haven't argued that.

Jack Germond

I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.

Greg Valliere

I have argued with great futility that this entire argument is based on a flawed premise. If you use a more realistic GDP assumption, based on what we've seen over the past few decades, Social Security won't go bankrupt.

Russell Smith

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

David Boies

I think, your honor, you could say -- and this is not that different from what we have argued -- that as long as the manual recounts will not impair the final certification in time to permit the selection of electors by December 12, that those manual recounts must be included.

John Faulkner

Labor has consistently argued that the inclusion of such penalties for whistle blowers, public servants and journalists in this Bill was an attack on freedom of speech.

Carrie Underwood

Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

Aron Ralston

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees.

O. Winston

I feel like I'm playing better every game, ... I'm not up and down; ever since the start of the season, I've been climbing up. That's why I'm excited. We're going into these last five games, it's the meat of our schedule, it's all ACC opponents and I think I can play better football than I have been.

Russ Anderson

From where we're standing to the house was about ten feet. I'd say nine or ten feet of debris. 'Cause we were climbing close to the knot on that tree up there.

Marat Safin

I'm ambitious. I better start climbing back up there, because otherwise I will not get into tournaments. People will not take me as serious. It's very important to show everybody I still know how to play tennis and I'm still fighting.

Barry Bonds

I have so much on my shoulders, so much weight on my back. Constantly climbing that hill is getting a lot harder and harder by the day. But I'm going to climb it, no matter what.

Chris Neal

It could be a very hazardous job. You are going up and down ladders all day and sometimes climbing on places that are still damaged. It's very unfortunate. Our hearts go out to him and his family.

Jamie Martin

I think you're going to start seeing a new team. You're going to start seeing a team that's climbing back up again.

Gary Sheffield

If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.

David Cameron

But equally we stand by every word. We're not going to run away from it.

Richard DeKaser

For the U.S. as a whole, I expect we're going to have an orderly correction. But that doesn't mean it's going to be equally orderly in all places.

Carnegie Hall

He was just magic. He was equally as wonderful offstage as on.

Lanny Davis

He focuses on the half-empty glass. But it is equally true to say the glass is half-full.

Thomas Kristensen

Only a few companies, including the open source vendor Red Hat, handles vulnerabilities in an equally responsible way.

Dr. Hedberg

Men and women do get paid equally for the same work for the most part.

Christina Sweden

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways

Jonah Goldberg

Liberty has turned into licentiousness, and tolerance for dissenters has become little more than rank relativism and nihilism. All perspectives are equally valid, which means no perspective is truly valid.

Ken Thompson

THAT'S THE trouble with wildlife gardening. For so long it's been a refuge for anecdote and old wives' tales that get handed down and trotted out. No-one's had anything original to say about wildlife gardening for years.

Marcelene Cox

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Blake Shelton

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

Scott Lewis

There are 1,400 troops here. It's so crazy. I got guys saluting me, and I'm standing here in my big old gardening hat,

Claude Monet

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

Eve Best

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

Clive Anderson

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

David Attenborough

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

Tom Spencer

It's really about spirituality. Gardening is a metaphor.

Jim Sullivan

I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.

Graeme Base

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

Brett Bailey

His No. 1 hobby in life was snowmobiling. He'd go home for the weekend and come back and say, 'I started the snowmobile,' and we'd say, 'but there's no snow!' and he would say he just wanted to smell the smoke.

Steve Mann

We have lived through two generations of customers. We need to promote the whole hobby of horticulture to young people today.

Carl J. Lindner, Jr.

My main hobby is working. I love what I do.

John Campbell

We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job.

Iwan Rheon

I don't want to put any pressure on the music; it's my hobby and my release - a thing that I love.

John Logsdon

I'm not sure this is a hobby for him. I think this is his next big idea.

Max Clifford

It's a game, my hobby and my way of life,

Michael Brown

Having a moon is just inherently cool, and is something that most self-respecting planets have.

Esme Bianco

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Michael Clough

To say that something is not science is not to say that it is inherently wrong or bad.

Srikumar Rao

When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.

Floyd Abrams

The message you sent to me was viewed by Ms. Miller as inherently 'mixed,'

Joe Laszlo

E-mail addresses inherently are tied to the provider in the way that a phone number is not tied to a wireless carrier or phone company.

Park Chan-wook

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

David Lodge

These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Slater

Burlington will be a big challenge, to see where we're at. It (Friday's game) will be something that will tell us what kind of a team we have and if we've made improvements since Christmas.

Barry McGuigan

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Billy Corgan

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Bill Taylor

Players win games, teams win championships.

Bill Tilden

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.

Bill Simmons

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

Bill Simmons

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

Bill Shankly

I never drop a player I only make changes.

Bill Cowher

We're not attempting to circumcise rules.

C. S. Lewis

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Nigel Hamilton

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

David Bohm

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole...

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Mary Wilson

We have always understood that visibility is viability.

Daniel Johnston

To understand and be understood is to be free.

Tom Nolan

Winner never understood how that was a factor. It was always very alarming.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Drew Goddard

Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie.

Harish Rawat

I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

Travis Plunkett

What we have right now is exceedingly weak. It's virtually worthless.

Milton Glaser

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

Toby Keith

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

Craig Venter

We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.

Councilwoman Mackin

I virtually begged for the money. (The project) is really going to be good. I'm thrilled.