Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Selby

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

Luke Pasqualino

I like a girl that takes pride in her appearance - looks are important to me, but it's also important she gets on with my friends and family. If my parents don't like a girl, then she's instantly a no-go.

Herbie Hancock

The other reason is the concept of attitude. I didn't want to appear angry, but it's okay to appear serious or to not smile.

E. B. White

The other players did not testify before this committee, ... We are asking for these results in the context of Palmeiro's appearance before the Government Reform Committee.

Dick Cheney

The positive news is we appear to be making progress,

John Challenger

The only clear picture we have from the job cut numbers this year is that employers appear to be confused about the direction this economy is taking, ... Companies are experiencing increased business, but they are also seeing their costs soar due to higher fuel prices, inflation in supplier prices and a weaker dollar, which makes it more expensive to buy foreign parts.

Ellen Tauscher

We appreciate the chairman responding to us but we also find his response deeply disturbing. The letter appears to have been written without any investigation of the specific facts in this case. It also appears there was no consultation with the Democratic members of the House Administration Committee.

Mo Shaoping

We applied to summon more witnesses to appear in court and review the evaluation conclusions. So the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court has decided this case is postponed for one month.

Randy Buckner

We appear to use memory systems often in our default states. This may help us to plan and solve problems. Maybe it helps us be creative. But it may also have metabolic consequences.

Don Phillips

Way too much is made of the slowdown of money into funds in December, ... For the last several years, there have been countless articles telling investors 'Don't buy a fund in late November or early December' because you might be buying just before it pays its dividend and then you'll have to pay taxes on the dividend next April? Investors are doing what's rational and right.

Tom Lenk

My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.

Demetri Martin

I've never read an article of clothing.

Judith Miller

Some of his comments suggested insubordination on my part. I have always written the articles assigned to me, adhered to the paper's sourcing and ethical guidelines and cooperated with editorial decisions, even those with which I disagreed.

Adam Ostrow

Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

Chang-Rae Lee

Before I start my work in the morning, I need to have quickly browsed the entire paper, noting articles that I want to read during lunch.

S. Robson Walton

I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

Robert Dudley

Today's articles are premature and a bit risky. The stories have a destabilizing effect on the community we work in.

Marquis de Lafayette

Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics.

Chad Adams

We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and what's not. This plan will be completed in March and we'll continue to prepare for a future growth.

Mike Albring

We started a little slow, but then we had a big third quarter. This was a big win for us. I guess we were all hopeful, but we are a little surprised (to be 6-0). We also know there's a lot of season left and we have to complete the second half.

Liane Balaban

I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far.

Kevin Connors

We want to provide as complete a solution as possible to photographers.

Andy Pettitte

What the starters have done over there, with all those complete games, it's amazing. I've pitched in so many games and I don't think I've ever had a complete game. It's going to be a great series, some great pitching, low scoring games. It's going to be a lot of fun.

Ashley Magnani

We remember our experience down in San Juan, and it would be great way to complete our senior season.

Jim Finn

We remain optimistic that the Department of Justice will conclude that this transaction is not anti-competitive, and that we will complete the transaction in a timely manner.

Boeing Co

We remain confident a deal will be completed in the near future.

Ben Holmes

What's notable, just looking at the list, is the complete diversity in the names. We've got the whole range.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income.

Chris Toumazou

We can replace the big monitors in hospitals with intelligent, disposable plasters that you throw away after wearing for a couple of days.

Warren Farrell

Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

Derek Blasberg

I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there's nothing better than a disposable camera.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don't want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable lifestyle is precisely what is churning up the angry response from the skies and seas.

John Ridley

If the American public is so into morality in movies, why don't they throw more of their disposable income at religious-themed entertainment? For every 'Passion of the Christ,' there's a 'Fireproof' that comes and goes with no notice.

Tim Sieber

It is costing more and more money to heat my home, more money to fill up up my car. It gives me less disposable income for a trip.

Johann Rupert

It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth.

Alfredo Gutierrez

We aren't talking about people with great disposable incomes.

Dick Cavett

Meryl Streep belongs on anybodys list of greats.

Fred Baker

When we had 3,000-person meetings, a lot of the people were not there to work on things. The meetings that we have are smaller. The mailing lists are more contained, and the work is actually proceeding better.

Mike Hargrove

We're putting together lists of names and are narrowing it down. It's important in our minds to do this quickly. But it's more important that we get the right guy.

Bret Easton Ellis

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

Connie Willis

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

David Ives

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Adam Savage

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

Adam Braun

A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

A. S. Byatt

Lists are a form of power.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Charles Dickens

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton

A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

Charles Dickens

Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

Charles Spurgeon

Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

Charles Spurgeon

Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.

Charles Spurgeon

When you receive Christ into your heart, He cannot be taken away from you!

Charles Spurgeon

Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

Charles Simmons

Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

Dave Barry

A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Dave Barry

What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrific-ally witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties.

Dave Barry

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

Dave Barry

I will vote for the first candidate who promises to use nuclear missiles against LinkedIn.

Dave Barry

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

Caroline Dhavernas

It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.

Catherine the Great

Your wits make others witty.

Ludivine Sagnier

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

F. Sionil Jose

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

Errol Morris

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

Ferran Adria

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Lyle Lovett

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.