Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Davis

My leg is fine. It got kind of bent up there and that hadn't happened in a long time, ... It feels pretty good, but I was kind of scared at first.

Timothy Noah

It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.

Eduardo Saverin

I do have a Bentley. I do go out.

Joss Whedon

I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.

Salvation Army

If this fantasy that somehow we're a military organization bent on the overthrow of Russia -- if that were true -- wouldn't it have shown up after eight years of ministry here?

Alexander Pope

Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined

Randeep Hooda

A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.

Ann Nocenti

When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.

Taylor Wilson

I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.

Isabella Rossellini

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Marc Morial

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Daniel Callahan

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field,

Kofi Annan

Leaders in the region remain engaged in the process of convincing President Saddam and the Iraqi leadership to disarm and cooperate with inspectors,

Matthias Egger

no convincing evidence that homeopathy was superior to placebo, whereas for conventional medicine an important effect remained.

Warren Farrell

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

Max Planck

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it

Helena Norberg-Hodge

At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.

Bobby Womack

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

Scott Brooks

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.

Orhan Pamuk

Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

John Hopkins

Three days later, the two objects were still there, and they were moving counterclockwise around Pluto, ... It made for a convincing case.

Alexandra Paul

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Fuller

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert Klein

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

Tony Blair

Let no one be in doubt that the rules of the game are changing, ... If you come to our country from abroad, don't meddle in extremism.

Mark Gottfried

LSU is one of the better teams in the country. Their front line is tremendous.

John Ashcroft

making it the country with the fourth highest rate of legal immigrants.

Tom Hoffman

We're not being propelled in one direction or another by any external timetable that is being imposed upon us.

Stephen Leacock

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions

Dave Cottle

Last year we were 5-5 at this spot. We didn't want to be there again. We talked all week that all of our goals are still in front of us. We're headed in the right direction but still have a lot of work to do.

Scott Young

Lee's really got 'em going in the right direction.

Norbert Haug

Many people would probably like this partnership, but there are neither talks nor intentions in this direction.

Larry Colagiovanni

Several drivers traveling in the same direction as Smith said he ran the red light. He wasn't even close.

Bruce Peterson

Seniors are just going to be pounded with information from every direction,

Kevin Ayers

Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that.

Roberto Suro

Much of their future lies there, ... The high school dropout rates are all going in the right direction and are improving. They have gotten better for the second generation.

Stephen Vizinczey

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

Rig Veda

One who makes a resolution and then makes sincere efforts to realize his dreams, nothing stops him from realizing his goal.

Jay Nixon

I can't say enough about the tremendous work the Missouri National Guard has done as part of our military efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries.

Saddam Hussein

found no evidence to suggest concerted efforts to restart the program.

Shelby Steele

From this point on, the race's advancement will come from the efforts of its individuals.

Bill Edwards

If all we did was say we'll raise the grading scale that would've been a silly thing to do, but in conjunction with other efforts to help them be successful, this is a wise move on our part.

Neena Moorjani

Ontario's announcement complicates our efforts to reach a long-term negotiated solution to the softwood lumber dispute.

Doug Stoffel

Because of the efforts the players needed a little kick in the pants after the match. Hopefully it woke them up a bit.

Jean Coutu

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation,

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.

Michael Aston

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.

Paul Sergeant

May will be a massive month for Cardiff and Wales.

Tim Russert

Meet the Press ... But there has been no weapons of mass destruction.

Deng Xiaoping

If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

Jose Pena

I was struck by all of the victims and the massive destruction.

Bill Stewart

Because of the size of it, just the sheer mass and configuration ... it would take me not only twice as long, but we have a situation for snow mass and where we would put it.

Judah Friedlander

I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.

Donald Rumsfeld

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Nikolay Davydenko

I can keep playing, get a massage at the start of every set,

Publius Tacitus

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.

John Milton

With necessity, / The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.

Cristina Correa

There's more of a necessity to work with minorities, period.

Chris Wilson

We haven't been sold on the necessity of this,

Bryan Moore

It's not just a road for pleasure, but it's a necessity.

William Shakespeare

Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity

Dave Wilson

The necessity of the median has never really been justified.

John Diaz

I don't see it as a necessity to run them.

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.

Del Ruiter

Luckily, Lord's will, we won and we're going to Canton and they're not.

Charles Spurgeon

None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.

Charles Spurgeon

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

Eileen Caddy

Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.

Dave Mustaine

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.

Chris Lowery

We've never done this. We've always been on eggshells wondering if we were going to get in or not.

Brian Cashman

If we had won today, we'd be going to New York.

Bill Young

If we'd had everyone, I think we could have won it.

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.