Famous Quotes & Sayings

Murray Kempton

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

Nina Totenberg

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

Nina Totenberg

Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.

Gene Fowler

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Gene Fowler

Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.

Jim McKay

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

Jerry Pournelle

We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.

Nina Blackwood

I'm a little bit to the left of things anyway.

Nina Blackwood

When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.

Alan Autry

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

Paul Hoolahan

We want to see if we can coexist. These are questions that no one can effectively answer at this point.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

David Mitchell

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

David Lange

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

David Rakoff

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

Carl Sagan

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet.

Luc Montagnier

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

Chuck D.

The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is a tough problem.

David Kay

In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.

Carl Levin

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

Carl Levin

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror

Carl Levin

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

David Horowitz

The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.

Asne Seierstad

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

Dennis Kucinich

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

Dennis Miller

I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.

Edward Kennedy

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

Dee Brown

When he got back in, he made his presence known.

Odette Annable

Richard Gere's got this very old-school Hollywood charm. He has a presence that when he's in a room you just feel him. I mean, I'm married, but he's sexy!

Carl Risch

She ran tough, really made her presence felt.

Jeff Fisher

We're not done. Veteran presence is important to us.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Jane Austen

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

Mary Carillo

His presence shows how much respect he has for her, and he's so deferential.

Gary Waters

He may be the strongest presence in the league. The thing he's doing consistently is rebounding.

Frank McDonald

We're getting into a new region of space never seen before.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Antonio Guterres

We are really very concerned. The whole region is very unstable.

Carlos Gutierrez

only then will the region be truly reborn.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Ricky Williams

We talk about life, we talk about our philosophies. He always sends me books. It's a different kind of relationship.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

John Updike

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

Andrew McDonald

I mean, when somebody like my grandmother sends me e-mail, I know that it's arrived,

Rachel Leon

In my experience, I would say it's rare, if not unprecedented. I think it sends a strong message.

Fred Droes

We do not turn signals off and on.

Bill Bavasi

This does not signal the end for Michael.

Jack Kilby

They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

Jennifer Robinson

The signals should smooth out the traffic around the (King of Prussia) mall.

Orlando Ayala

It's trying to signal how important we think this is.

David Gill

They're called signal lights. They are kind of provocative because they are always telling you something.

Rachel Cohn

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

William Dunkelberg

The index signals a solid start to 2006.

Thomas Steg

This is a humanitarian signal and we welcome it.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Charles Caleb Colton

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Judy Dickson

We (send) them all over the United States.

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Vladimir Putin

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Daniel Craig

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Chelsea Cain

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Jack Straw

The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent

Shaun Alexander

It is what it is. We play a violent sport.