Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur C. Clarke

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

Joe Garagiola

Six of one, half dozen of another. Oh, well, half of one, six dozen of the other.

Phil Williams

We are talking dozens and dozens of sex offenders - mainly from just four states that report the employers names.

Alessio Vinci

The people in the street -- a few dozen on Thursday night -- are a reminder of the fact that Milosevic still enjoys substantial support,

Bonnie Tyler

I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.

Rick Perlstein

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Gore Vidal

World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.

Nicola Griffith

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

Andy Stahl

The proposal has been panned by everyone I've heard comment. There have been maybe a dozen people in all.

Carl Honore

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

Nnedi Okorafor

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

Joe Glenn

We're not going to reinvent the wheel. We just have to make fewer errors.

Ryan Gentles

We were trying to do less media and fewer big things. We could have done as much as the first album, but we just turned some down on purpose.

John Vucetich

Whether or not wolves had been introduced, you'd have seen fewer elk anyway.

Jason Lamb

We're making good progress, but we have a ways to go. We are making fewer mistakes, the guys are really hustling and we are getting more confidence.

Michele Waslin

We're spending more and more money with fewer results.

Robert Reich

As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.

John Madden

It's been the video game ever since I got out of coaching. Even when I was an announcer, fewer and fewer people remembered me as 'Coach,' and as the years went on, people just started knowing me from the game.

George Crook

But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.

Sundar Pichai

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.

Daryl Kimball

If the Indians mean what they say (about not testing), they should have no quibble with this provision.

Subcomandante Marcos

We have to make sure of our place in society as indigenous Indians that we have won. In Mexico, there are movements, there are revolutions and change, but for the indigenous nothing changes.

Richard Armitage

We have to seize the moment, ... probe the minds of the Pakistanis and Indians to see if there is not a way to lower the temperature.

Jim Liberatore

All of that is secondary. We are going to do nothing but get the Indians programming right.

Geoff Hoon

encouraging because it shows the Indians are showing a first step back from the brink.

Melissa Leo

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

David Cardwell

It's no secret that the Indians and Orioles here are looking for new spring training deals.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Alan Paton

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Alan Greenspan

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

Al Pacino

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

Ari Adler

We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

Jim Sweeney

We didn't do anything spectacular on offense. But Tony Porto bailed us out several times.

Toks Olagundoye

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

Hanoi Hannah

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Ruth Winstrom

We're going to be there for several days.

James Gill

We were able to talk to several witnesses at the playground.

Greg Strobel

We don't know when he's going to be back. He'll be out for several weeks. That's a big deal.

Chris Daly

What they talked about were the qualifications for manslaughter,

Jenn Giel

She talked more around him, responded more to him.

Tony Gwynn

Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too.

Nancy Gibbs

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

Tim Thompson

When you started thinking your going to make a mistake, you've talked yourself into making it.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Lynn Samuels

To tell you the truth, I don't like talking too much once I leave this booth. I'm talked out.

Khloe Kardashian

The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.