Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

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.

Mike Janko

Life insurance is an important method of estate transfer to at least consider because death benefits can pass to your heirs essentially free of taxes.

James Soong

Maintaining the status quo would most benefit the people of Taiwan. The PFP would by no means support independence for Taiwan.

Robert Mueller

Maintaining a code of silence will not benefit you or your company in the long run. Our safely lies not only in protecting our own interest, but our critical infrastructure as a whole.

Skip Musgraves

Make sure your employees understand what a wonderful, rich benefit it is.

Wendy Wright

Making the morning-after pill over the counter would only benefit those that profit from its increased sale, but the real price will be paid by women and girls who would suffer the health consequences.

John Barrett

Let's give them the benefit of the doubt right now. The time has come to tell them to stop using this (zoning freeze) as an excuse. It's just a matter of time before the redevelopment board takes steps and requires them to make improvements to the property,

Cecilia Munoz

Let's take a deep breath here. I guess what's frustrating is that Senator Kerry was just at our conference making terrific proposals that would benefit the immigrant community.

Dana Rohrabacher

Let's quit giving these fellows the benefit of the doubt. It's costing us so much money.

Jack Mahoney

Let the parade go on, ... It's a huge benefit to the city.

Norihito Kanai

Mazda, like other automakers, is benefiting from the weaker yen. Currently they don't have many new models, but next fiscal year starting in April, they will release new SUV models in the U.S., which should help its earnings and sales.

Ron Lewis

More than 42 million workers currently participate in a defined contribution plan. But many of these people are not saving enough.

O. Henry

I can tell you now that U.S. forces, in all probability, will be engaged somewhere in the world in the next decade where they're not currently engaged. But I can't tell you with any resolution at all of where that might be, when that might be or how that might be, and that's indicative of the uncertainty that we face.

Troy Thygerson

For several years our district student population has been about 475. Currently it is about 535.

Nicholas Johnson

If a state's currently in the toilet, this is going to keep it there.

Arnie Berman

nearly as dire as technology stock prices currently reflect.

Christina Scott

I have a job currently and I'm saving up and I'm gonna get help from my parents.

Stella Young

I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

Seth Shostak

Jupiter, a world far larger than Earth, is so warm that it currently radiates more internal heat than it receives from the Sun.

Robin Cook

make a very serious decision in the next few hours.

Dennis Ross

make the decision on how to resume with the final procedures.

Gary Peters

Making the decision now allows Stuart to go out and try to get a head start.

Philip Crosby

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Jim Davies

made the decision that unity is the key to our success.

Bob Graham

(Maddox has) made the decision that unity is the key to our success,

Brent Guy

Leon made some nice plays. He knew when to run and get the yardage. ... He is making better decisions.

Pete Townshend

left entirely to me the decision as to whether or not to go on with the tour.

Nick Holt

Leaving you guys is the hardest decision we made in our young career. You guys don't need me any more.

Tony Ciriello

Majority rules -- and this is the vast majority. It's not fair to people who are standing in a line 10 tables back.

Bob Gammage

Let's put the wealth of the state as a whole on the table. Let's put every conceivable source of revenue on the table and forge a plan where every person in Texas pays their fair share.

Norma Martinez

Many of us own our trailers, but they aren't movable. We are low-income families, and this is not fair to us.

Bob DuPuy

MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.

Pat Harris

Mr. Hale thinks it was a fair deal.

Harry Kemp

Ms. Jackson and the staff at Fair worked so hard to reach Level 4, we just knew they would make it even before the test results, ... I don't think she (Jackson) has stopped smiling since I told her they reached Level 4.

Rhianna Pratchett

My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

Daniel Stern

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

James Vincent McMorrow

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Vincent Jackson

Man, hopefully I'll be playing me, on offense, working with the offense,

Shawn Chacon

Man, he is in a zone. You hope he stays that way for a long time.

Don Daniels

Let's look for a year like last year and hope it doesn't happen. That's all we can do.

Johnny Damon

Let's hope so. We've still got to play well.

Andy Robinson

Lewis is distraught and disappointed and we hope it can all be sorted out.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis. I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis, ... I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Tony Bush

lot of lives to be lifted up, lot of hope to be restored.

Wade Duty

Louisiana is undergoing a moment of revision and hopefully reconstruction, and by Friday, we will know what the shape of things will be.

Jim Sullivan

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Johnny Rivers

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

Paul Weller

Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.

Will Chase

I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.

Leslie Hope

When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.

Tracy Morgan

I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He's my dude.

Quin Snyder

We lost track of Moody. If Jimmy doesn't do that, then we don't go into overtime.

Todd Bodine

Jimmy just does what Jimmy does, ... If he can't pass you he runs into you.

Shane Victorino

I saw Jimmy keep shuffling around there. That was a big play.

Kelly Golob

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Ken Goldstein

One of the things this points out is that we're on the road to recovery, but the road is going to be bumpy -- it always is.

Valentino Castellani

For years we have been working on this ceremony, it will be one of the most important turning points of the Games.

Chris Wielgus

She was phenomenal. The score at the end had Rutgers with more points than Dartmouth, but there's no way we were losers.

Dave Wharton

She's just an all-around swimmer. We try to utilize her wherever we have any weak points in the meet.

Abdoulaye Sarr

Today our team did not play like our team should ... This was not the team I know. We'll have to work out our problems and try and take all three points from Nigeria.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

Anthony Wollschlager

We didn't put up the points we wanted to. Obviously, there are still things we need to work on. Over the summer we're going to get this thing right.

Javier Solana

We still have points on which we are separated, but we are making progress,

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

O. Henry

The plaque we presented was to commemorate the installation of the floor.

Michael Levine

Women are presented with wedding gowns. That's all we can say right now.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Bob White

That's our frustration - the way it's presented to the community.

Charlie Rose

The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.

Joseph Bologna

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.

David Miliband

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

Howard Wolfson

If Mr. Spencer wants to know why Republicans keep trying to find alternatives to him, he should look in the mirror.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Kordell Stewart

My contributions to the team won't be worth much, not being the guy,

Shawn Williams

My hat's off to them. That team there should've been in the top 10 during the season.

Craig Patrick

Obviously, the nucleus of our team is a lot younger.

George Nessman

We had breakdowns in our zone defense. We're not a team that can play from behind.

M. Wolfe

When I got there, this was the worst team in professional football,

Chris Crutcher

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.

Dick Cheney

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Zach Duke

You'd like to have that veteran presence. But I think if we are being successful, there is no such thing as too much youth.

Dick Durbin

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Clay Walker

We're a veteran line. We should get it done.

Craig Ferguson

It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

Carl von Clausewitz

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

Barbara Bush

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

Arthur Koestler

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Tommy Amaker

We're an older, veteran team. Sometimes, that can work in your favor.

John Zorn

Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.

Diablo Cody

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.

Ann Coulter

I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.

Thomas Fuller

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

Stein Vaaler

We welcome this decision. We think this is fair.

William Jenkins

Welcome to UNO; this is their new home, ... They're going to be OK.

Gerard Way

Welcome to the new church! Can I get an 'Amen'?

Alice Cooper

Welcome to my nightmare. I think you're going to like it. There'll be some more when you come down.

Samuel P. Huntington

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

Robert Wilson

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

Malcolm McDowell

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Jorge Cruz

We're not doing anything bad. We just need the work.

Adoniram Judson

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Kathryn Minshew

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Kathryn Bigelow

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.