Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Houellebecq

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

John Ridley

Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person.

Greg Mastel

For so many years, international finance has been the domain of a very small elite in a few countries. The message the G-8 leaders got from Seattle is that they need to make their policy discussions more relevant to the general public.

Viviane Reding

I expect thousands of applications to be filed in the first few hours. .., making '.eu' a powerful domain name on equal footing with '.com'.

Bruce Hillis

Our founding fathers referred to eminent domain as 'despotic power;' and that was when property was being seized for the government's use. There need to be some serious changes.

Jim Williams

I will not use eminent domain on anybody's property.

Gene Krebs

Polling indicates that 90 percent of the electorate opposes eminent domain for economic development. And that's without pushing. If you push, it goes to 98 percent.

Rob Simmons

I have always opposed the use of eminent domain strictly for economic development purposes. Eminent domain should be used in only the most unique of circumstances and be limited to a larger public interest.

Aleksandar Hemon

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

David Suzuki

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dianne Wiest

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Lorraine Bracco

I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

Christopher Bailey

There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away.

Anton Corbijn

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

Lydia Leonard

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

Billy Gibbons

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Scott Skiles

We know we're not a title-contending team right now, but in the history of teams winning titles they tend to take their lumps for a little while before they finally get there.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Stew Morrill

We've got good shooters. That's finally starting to pay off for us at the line. Our percentages have steadily gone up as the year has gone on.

Michael Levy

We've wanted to be in Napa for a very long time. We finally got a great location.

Jim Lites

We've waited years and years for this announcement to come. It's finally here. It's been years in the making, really starting in 1993 when we got here.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Ericka Fangiullo

We're going to miss their spirit. In swimming, sometimes you're happy to get the season over with because it's so grueling. But, when it's finally over, you get sad and miss it.

Sidney Crosby

When we finally got going, we had them back on their heels.

Andy Fox

We're finally starting to come together as a team. I'm so proud of these girls.

J. G. Ballard

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

Clint Eastwood

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Charles de Gaulle

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Dean Acheson

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Dennis Miller

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

Dennis Miller

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

Dennis Miller

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

Keith Warren

We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.

Alexa Von Tobel

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

Steve Mansfield

We try to present users with what other users have found.

Doug Anderson

I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,

Shimon Peres

I think this is the end of the present government,

Source Unknown

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Nicole Perrot

The only thing I thought about was: Just stay in the present, ... This is my first win. It's special.

Ed Goren

Present me a team, and I'll give you a story line.

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Bill Goldberg

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Bob Schieffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've never had a very great public life.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got a sense of urgency because we're in a situation where we need to get wins on the road. We need to play well.

Beth Moore

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Hassan Bazzaz

We are all going to be surprised. This situation is so complicated.

Gary Hoffman

We got to this situation not overnight. We're not going to turn it around overnight.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.