Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there - even, or especially, claiming that they don't want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it.

Terrie McNutt

My goal is to have this be the first annual. And we're claiming it as the inaugural year, and we're giving away a lot of awards.

Tom Hansen

When we sell television properties, ... we're already claiming all of California.

Vijay Mallya

I'm always claiming that 24 by 7 isn't enough. ... I love challenges,

Guy Gavriel Kay

When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will.

Bernard Beckett

The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

Reza Aslan

There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.

Henry Spencer

Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense.

Bob Buckhorn

What has happened is the 'stand your ground' law has become so over-arching that the definition has been lost. There's a lot of people claiming 'stand your ground.'

Judith Rossner

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Jill Midkiff

Music is included because music downloads fit the definition of personal property.

Tao Lin

I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

Martin Starr

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't get to see the definition behind someone, you just get to read what the person goes through and find a place to come from to make it real.

George H. W. Bush

From now on, any definition of a successful life must include serving others.

Joe Wright

Galaxy is twice as powerful as previous satellites. It will play an integral role in the development of high definition television,

David Mason

If all we're doing on the Internet is giving people another opportunity to vote, you can predict it's not going to work, ... If the definition of working is getting more people to vote.

Paul Kreutzer

Basically, you have to meet the definition of the school. Right now, part of the problem we're facing is we're meeting the definition of a program. We're going to work on that.

Deyon Pitter

I have learned a new definition of friendship...When you need me, I am always there...Whenever i need you, you'll be there too, but only if it's convenient!

Andrew Taylor

Life has overtaken our original plans, and we're hear tonight to talk about the tragedy this weekend. We're here to talk about what happened and to try to prevent it from happening again.

Lixion Avila

Let's put it this way, ... I wish it could have happened in the middle of the ocean.

Tommy Chong

Look what happened to me for a bong,

Sharon Rocha

Scott's just as worried as we are, he's sick at heart about what's happened to Laci, we are all looking for Laci, ... We're going to find you honey, we love you.

John Clark

Separate them. Judge him not on his past, but on what happened on May 28, 2004. ... He's not guilty. That's a verdict that speaks the truth.

John Gramuglia

Mentally what happened last year helps. You're not as nervous. You don't have to press as much because you know what it's about. That's just how it is.

Hideki Matsui

My knee isn't that bad. This has happened in the past.

Woody Allen

one of the truly lucky things that happened to me in my life.

Paul Gillis

Obviously, we didn't (envision a 0-2 deficit). We thought we were going to come out and play like we should play the first two games, and we have not. If you don't, you're not going to win and that's what has really happened over the last two games.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.