Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Foster

Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I understand this. It's not my place to presume to tell people where they can live. But perhaps that dream will simply not be possible in the future.

G. H. Hardy

Many who have experienced homelessness for a long time become numb. They feel they are separated from society, and lack the human touch. They don't get their hands shook, they don't get hugs, they are detached from society and it is not a positive world.

Paul Allen

Fans had detached themselves. They were making jokes. It was the low point.

Martin Nissenbaum

The only exception is if your office is a detached structure.

Billy Beane

I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?

Wiley Dobbs

When ninth-grade students are detached from the high school, they don't receive the message about receiving credits. That tends to be the time when you see a higher number of dropouts.

Isabel Allende

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions.

Ron Haralson

We have lost two single family dwellings, or two homes, one detached garage and three out buildings, and we have had six injuries to firefighters. Those range from serious to minor.

Christopher Shays

I get the feeling you were a little detached from this. I don't get a sense your heart was in it. It's like Pontius Pilate washing his hands of responsibility.

Patricia Russo

We have seen China's economy growing at 8-9% over the past few years and in particular within the telecom industry there has been rapid developments in technology and innovation enhancements,

Doug Porter

We have seen a string of numbers that suggest the U.S. economy is losing some momentum, which really is a perfect environment because it's not as if growth is grinding to a halt.

Avery Shenfeld

Whenever you have a situation where inflation is not a material risk and the economy is underperforming, you should be thinking about a rate cut. There's a potential reward and not much risk.

Susan Hering

The fact of the matter is, the economy moves in strange ways, and politicians move in even stranger ways.

Scott Browne

The problem with the economy right now is insufficient demand, not supply. The meat and potatoes of this plan is supply-side medicine for a demand-side problem.

Gregory Smith

The real estate market has been one of the big successes in the economy for the last 10 years. I think this would help pull the rug out from under it. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

John Challenger

There is a lot of extra fiscal stimulus moving into the economy from the storm relief.

Barry Hyman

The productivity number is key toward determining whether the economy can show some stabilization. We've seen weakening numbers, which hasn't helped, but there is no inflation story to talk about here.

Norihiro Fujito

The outlook for the economy will become a focal point this week.

Rene Preval

We have questions about the electoral process. We want to see how we can save the process.

Timothy Noah

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

Ernesto Zedillo

I am sure that in the next weeks and at the end of the electoral race prudence and the fundamental unity of the Mexicans will prevail at the slightest hint of intolerance or illegality,

Thomas Shannon

What's important is that this electoral process keep moving forward. The Haitian people have waited too long already, and it's our hope that this process will meet its timetable and that a new government will be inaugurated soon.

Blanche Lincoln

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Tom Golisano

Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.

Marianne Williamson

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.

Martin O'Malley

The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

John McKay

We're protecting Florida's 25 electoral votes and its 6 million voters,

Adam Coe

We were trying to make some noise. I told them that noise would get him rattled.

Brian Eno

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

Jane Austen

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

Diane Duane

How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

Bill Hybels

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

Bill Hybels

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

William Shakespeare

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

Ed Belfour

The more noise, the higher I get.

Edwin Way Teale

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

Carole Bouquet

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

Carlos Mencia

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

Carl Bernstein

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Carl Andre

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

C. S. Lewis

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Charles W. Pickering

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Susan B. Anthony

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.