Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Reich

Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.

Amy Taylor

The price of admission at the door is $25, so make sure you get your tickets early and save yourself some money.

Tom Newton

One of the risks that Microsoft faces, following its admission to search through all of its legacy code, is that it may have encouraged hackers to join in the search.

Joe Jamail

I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.

Paul Rieckhoff

I don't expect an easy solution to the situation in Iraq. I do expect an admission that there are serious problems that need serious solutions. I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them.

Thomas Hemingway

I don't consider it an admission that the system was flawed. I've maintained consistently that we would try to make those improvements that were necessary to the process as we moved along.

Jason Brueschke

I'd be surprised if we get tacit admission from the company, but the takeover probably distracted Oracle's front-line sales reps and customers,

Francesca Dominici

This study provides strong evidence that daily hospital admission rates for cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases are higher when the fine particulate matter levels are increased from one day to the next.

M.V. Govindan

We are planning to make the package attractive by offering free admission to the park, maybe once a year, for the families of members.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Harry Reid

Let's put good people on the independent commission and take politics out. Let's give it real power, and let's go to work,

Jyoti Basu

Let (the) Election Commission do whatever it likes, but we are going to win this time also.

David Swanson

Lee's commission to monitor the treatment of prisoners in US custody? Jane was elsewhere.

Tim Roemer

Many of these recommendations proposed by the 9/11 commission one year ago might have made a difference in saving lives and preventing loss of lives in this hurricane.

Nick Gardner

Many people will also want to commission their own valuations or surveys before proceeding - which will make the packs partly redundant.

Jonathan Todd

Several companies have expressed their concerns to the Commission concerning Microsoft's Vista operating system.

Bill Richardson

My initial view is positive, ... but the Federal Trade Commission does a very good oversight role of ensuring that consumers are protected.

John Breaux

None of us on the commission are running again.

Valentino Castellani

When the IOC co-ordination commission returns, we are confident we will be able to show them that everything is in place.

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

W. S. Gilbert

in any scenario regarding the one vote in question.

Estee Lauder

I can understand the skepticism, particularly regarding Estee Lauder,

Stephane Dujarric

Her status may be reviewed after her rebuttal is received.

Michael Kirby

that are continually being developed, reviewed and prioritized.

Margaret Moggio

I would like to be sure this has been reviewed by the G.L.E.N. Committee. We want to save as much as possible.

Bob Combs

We reviewed it. We don't see it being used in our tournaments.

Tom Moody

It wasn't a tactic and . . . it's something we've reviewed and we won't be going down that track again.

Mallory Ortberg

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

Sourav Ganguly

Only time will tell. It's not right for me to make a statement now.

Huseyin Sahin

She died. I will be making a statement shortly.

Erick Jensen

If they wrestle like they did this weekend, we could make a statement at states.

Sizwe Kupelo

This statement can be described only as utter rubbish.

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Jules Verne

The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.

Stephen Jay Gould

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Vinod Khosla

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Arash Ferdowsi

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

Michael Harris

When I am hiring, I look at the technical qualifications.

Jim Anderson

There's really not much that's technical to it,

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Nick Knight

That may well be a technical thing - it's something I will look at during the winter,

Tony Giarrusso

The scholarships don't necessarily have to be used at a university. If someone wanted to go to a technical school, or even something like hairdressing school, they could use it for that, too.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Abdu'l Baha

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.