Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Zwilling

We have asked the teachers union to delay the normal time for contracts in order to allow us to work on the process.

Xue Donghua

We have not been able to contact her. The U.S. Embassy and the Red Cross are not allowed to visit her. We have no idea if she is in good health.

Ron Moore

We have no language to allow wind energy systems in our existing zoning ordinance.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote.

Bob Combs

We have no current plans to change our regulations and allow their use during competitive play on any of our three tours. Of course, their use continues to be permitted during practice rounds.

Jim Collins

We have never made it a secret that we allow commercials on talk channels.

Bruce Bowen

Whenever you allow a team like Dallas to shoot more than 50 percent, things aren't good for you.

Darrin Zeer

When everyone is really busy and feeling stressed out, often the time with your partner is one of the first things to get bumped. Stretching with your loved one turns the tables on the rat race, allowing you both to be in the moment and renewing your connection.

Claudia Vercellotti

When you see a priest on trial for murder who is allowed to wear his priest garb, we think he creates an undue bias.

Charles Schumer

We have to get the feeling that they are on a path, in a reasonable period of time, to stop manipulating the currency, to let it float freely. It's a delicate game, it's a delicate gambit, because the Chinese are very sensitive about being pressured into things.

Alan Tonelson

We have had 15 years of Chinese promises to improve intellectual property protection. They have all proved to be false.

Li Changchun

The CPC and Chinese government have always affixed prodigious moment to the inveterate friendly relations with Africa,

Lucie Morillon

We have so many cyber-dissidents in jail that we are trying to get out of there, and knowing that some of them are in jail with the help of Western companies is really frustrating. It's one thing to want to make money, to make profits. It's quite another one to become a weapon in the hands of the Chinese authorities.

Jack Ma

We used to take these great hikes on the Great Wall, ... From our hikes, we developed a friendship that ended up with us combining forces in forming this new Chinese company.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.

David Tang

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

Jimmy Wales

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

Jason Alexander

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

Tom Rath

We've seen the enemy, and he is us. We have to get back to the basics. Let's talk about small government and reduced spending, and don't let the Democrats take those issues.

John Hume

The real duty now, if we want to have a totally peaceful and stable country, is for all true democrats to implement the will of the people.

Stewart Udall

I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

Timothy Noah

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

Lynn Westmoreland

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

Mark Bubriski

The personality is stronger than the policies. These are issues that Democrats are talking about.

Ken Mehlman

I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

Timothy Noah

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

Timothy Noah

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

Lowell Kalapa

We have programs that are designed to help people recover from their disaster losses. The tax system is not an efficient means of handing out that money, nor is it a way to ensure that money is being used wisely.

Steve Wozniak

When I designed projects in college, he said, let's sell it.

L'Wren Scott

When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

Thomas E. Mann

Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight.

Tim Berners-Lee

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

Tim Berners-Lee

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

Eric Maskin

Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.

E. F. Benson

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

Cesare Pavese

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

Edward Young

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Charles Spurgeon

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

Charles Spurgeon

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

Thucydides

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.

Arthur Conan

Well, said she, after a pause, ""if you despise my love, I must see what can be done with fear. You smile, but the day will come when you will come screaming to me for pardon.

Graydon Carter

I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.

Maria Bamford

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.

Carolyn Anderson

We're sort of the soundtrack to these wonderful, wonderful images, ... The subject is the universe, but we interpret that loosely.

Gary Jennings

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

Rick Parker

We don't have to interpret what it looks like. This is what it is.

Devdutt Pattanaik

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Robert Wilson

Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

James Joyce

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

Luigi Pirandello

Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

Dave Sim

Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly.

Dave Sim

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

Jerome York

The reality is we have a whole menu of options.

Bonnie Tyler

Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.

Chuck Hunter

We have some ideas, but we'd like to really work out the menu with the winning bidder.

Jim Russell

What we've done, we've tried to let people know that these are the things on the menu that'll get you in and out.

James Montague

As important as the venue and the menu are, they're secondary to the content.

Christie Brinkley

I don't really seek out vegetarian spots... but mainly, I know how to work a menu no matter where I am.

Kurt Ebenhoch

a menu of ways those savings can be achieved.

Joe Gibbs

Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate, ... and I'm picking up the tab!

Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

J. A. Konrath

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Martin Jol

I can't remember him picking up a ball.

James Evans

Until he understands that, he'll keep on picking up things to see if they work.

Jose Andres Puerta

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

Jenny Potter

We have 20 players picking each other up.

Spike Lee

Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?

Christy Romano

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

Charles Buxton

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Barbara Pym

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Ambrose Bierce

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Samuel Johnson

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Paul Eldridge

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

Martin Gardner

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

James Joyce

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

William Safire

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

Tim Tebow

I think sometimes when things are taken away, then you don't realize how much fun it is to come out here and play this game. You can't play it forever, so I'm going to enjoy it.

Khloe Kardashian

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Matt Mullenweg

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

David Berry

She makes me have fun. I don't even realize I'm learning, but I am,

Bob Elek

We are getting better the more we work on this. We realize we have a lot of work going on out there.

Burmese Proverb

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

Tim Ferguson

But we didn't realize that it was going to be that temporary.

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Jonathan Safran Foer

That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.

Duncan Fletcher

They've got to be just more selective sweeping.