Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

Alexander Yakovlev

I wrote a letter to Gorbachev warning him that trouble was brewing. He replied, 'Alexander, you overestimate their intelligence and courage.' In July, I resigned. I said, 'Something's cooking, I can sense it.' He ignored me and went on holiday,

Bertrand Russell

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Steve Ross

I think they said they were looking to read the law more aggressively than it has ever been read before. It was a mistake for them to pursue this matter. They ignored the original intent of the statute.

Patterson Hood

Most everything on it is real new. Lord knows I've got a backlog of songs, but when we went into the studio I pretty much ignored it. Everything else we've written since we started recording.

Alexa Von Tobel

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored.

Agatha Christie

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Bonnie Raitt

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Peter Schuyler

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Charles Simmons

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Edgar Degas

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Bertrand Russell

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Bill Gates

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Bertrand Russell

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.

Richard Durbin

For the president to suggest he had the same intelligence we had is just plain wrong,

James Woolsey

had to do with coordination of intelligence in the United States.

Brad Smith

We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.

William Dembski

without speculating about the nature of the intelligence.

Scott Becker

It's a totally intellectual response to something so physical.

Jim DeRogatis

Some say that's a weakness. I say it's a strength, a sign of intelligence.

Stephen Hadley

an issue of our intelligence, and obviously we need to do a better job of our intelligence.

Irene Peter

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Kazi Shams

To be strong is to have passion, and to have passion is to believe.

Daniel Ortega

His intelligence. He?s skillful and he?s very, very intelligent. He always just makes that right play.

Bryan Callen

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

Gloria Allred

We've also faxed them a letter yesterday letting them know that she would like to be a party, be told of the developments, she'd like to be able to visit and she'd like the return of her twins as soon as possible.

Austin Mahone

When I awake dramatically I start off my day by reciting aloud a fan letter.

Bob Hope

You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry.

Curt Johnston

Unfortunately, it seems like there are always winners and losers with this kind of decision. They'll probably write letters to the editor, tell us how stupid we are, and tell us we don't listen to the public.

Larry Bailey

The process starts by sending a letter to the owner by certified mail.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Elbert Hubbard

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Benjamin Franklin

Let the Letter stay for the Post, and not the Post for the Letter

Charles Spurgeon

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

David Tang

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

Chad Everett

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

Edith Stein

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

Dean Acheson

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

Benjamin Franklin

They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.

Paul Woolpert

We're soft. If we don't toughen up, we're in a lot of trouble.

Lamont Hamilton

We're going to have to do something. If this continues, we're going to be in a whole lot of trouble.

Chelsea Handler

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Gloria Moore

I wish he would've heeded the warning and left, but he didn't and we hurt,

Bobby Ray Inman

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Jamie Zawinski

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

David Baldacci

Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.....

James Buchan

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .

George Bernard Shaw

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,

Jami Attenberg

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Harold King

That's what I thought when I wrote it,

Damien Chazelle

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.