Famous Quotes & Sayings

Monica Lewinsky

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

Vicki Long

The only reason it became a class is we needed insurance to book these buildings.

Tommy Tuberville

We are proud of Blake Field, ... He became our starter with an hour's notice. He did a great job handling the football.

Sara Labberton

We believe that she had the best of intentions, but that she just became overwhelmed with the number of cats and the cost of cat food and medicine for the cats.

Louie Anderson

One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. 'Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you're a clean comic on stage, you'll become famous.' And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.

Louie Gohmert

It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.

Luke Nosek

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.

Li Bingbing

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

Mark Harmon

I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

Brian Keith

We started slowly, but then began to put things together. We were 3-9 to begin the year, but we have gone 9-4 the rest of the way.

John Timoney

We stopped the rescue operation around 11 o'clock (Thursday) night, ... As the tide came in, the structure began to move, and other parts began to collapse again. We made the decision to pull our divers out.

Helen Scannell

We started from scratch. Immediately people began dropping things off - and they were nice things. Our goods are gently used. We are not a junkyard or garbage drop.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

M.I.A.

Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.

Natasha Trethewey

Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.

Natasha Tsakos

I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

Ma Jian

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Stanley

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

Alan Moore

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

Alan Moore

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Hansen

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Alan Bean

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Alan Autry

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Federico Opinion

We have no law on hacking. We are consulting some technical experts to see how it would fit into wire-tapping laws.

Marty Heires

When we were alerted of the two undocumented workers - and after consulting with authorities - we shut down the site,

Erik Frieberg

We're consulting on how you become better at your software development processes.

Joanne Lewis

There is a stigma in consulting Mental Health, ... Students don't like it.

Edward Weston

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

Harry Reid

You don't need a lot of consultation if the person you're consulting with listens to you. So we'll see.

Katie Hafner

The story of the Web starts in 1980, when Berners-Lee, a young consulting physicist at the CERN physics laboratory near Geneva, grew frustrated with existing methods for finding and transferring information.

George Whalin

On the other hand, every major retailer subscribes to weather consulting firms that give seasonal forecasts over a period of a year in advance. They can better plan inventory accordingly.

Mike Rogers

I am very disappointed the Agriculture Department has put forth this plan without first consulting Congress.

David Hathaway

We're basing this on the fact that the large cycles tend to start early, and that's what happened with five of the last six big cycles.

Paul Dergarabedian

There are these cycles in Hollywood. Part of that is once there's one success, everyone tries to emulate the success,

Ted Forrest

We've seen these cycles of ebb and flow half a dozen times or more since the war began. One can hope that this is a permanent decline, but it's still much too early to reach that conclusion.

Neil Strother

Security features will always take processing cycles from users' systems.

Debbie Ford

Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victimhood. Stowed away inside you like parasites, they deplete you of your God-given life force and separate you from your inherent worth, your joy, and the love in your heart.

Dom Capers

You look at Pittsburgh and New England. Normally, this is a copycat league. When teams are having success, people are always going to study what they are doing. I also think things go in cycles ... I think it swung back the other way a little bit.

Bob Beauprez

I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.

Alan Levenson

I don't think we're in danger of going back to the kind of cycles of the '70s or the late '80s. I think the economy is still quite flexible.

Edmund Spenser

The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things doth sway.

James Glassman

Usually economists are figuring things out after the fact, especially the Fed chairman.

Paul Mendelsohn

Most traders will really be positioning for the October employment report. Economists are expecting that non-farm payrolls rose by approximately 50,000 during the month, providing evidence that with two straight months of employment growth, the jobs picture is finally turning around.

Ronald Coase

There is no doubt that the recognition by economists of the importance of the role of the firm in the functioning of the economy will prompt them to investigate its activities more closely.

Ha-Joon Chang

Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they would still not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Edmund Phelps

In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.

Tom Daschle

I think it is fair to say that there is a growing number of economists that question the stimulus,

Robert Collins

We're hoping it is one of those things that will never be finished. We want to keep growing and expanding to have more facilities.

Bob Walsh

We've been interested since day one in expanding the tour. It was just something that had to be assessed over a period of time.

Nedra Turney

So far, we're opening no new shelters. We're just expanding where we are.

Bradley Chicho

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

Paula Otto

Media General has been very successful in expanding its reach through strategic purchases.

Bill Gross

What we're doing is kind of expanding upon the neighbor concept.

Iain Sinclair

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

Rahm Emanuel

Here in Illinois it's known as Kid Care, and I talked about expanding it to family care. So if you work full- time, you get health care.

Richard Preston

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

David Miliband

...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better

David Rakoff

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

Rick Perlstein

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

Kenneth Baker

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

Niall Ferguson

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Camille Paglia

There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.

C. L. R. James

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

Ai Weiwei

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

Arnold J. Toynbee

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Antony Beevor

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Cassie Steele

I like mythology - anything historical.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Austan Goolsbee

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.

Dave Munson

With the investment we make in that zoo, it's a large investment. We want to make sure it's managed to it's maximum.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Bill Swank

We're looking at it as an investment on our part.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Abner Louima

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us,

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience.

Phil Anderton

We are going to take the appropriate time to reach our long-term aspirations.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Najib Razak

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

Evelyn Glennie

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Evander Holyfield

Of course, it is me being able to reach my goal,

Jill Soloway

To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'

Craig Thompson

Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.