Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.

Rick Perlstein

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

Richard P. Feynman

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

Bill Vernon

Mandates do not solve, but only exacerbate the problem. Mandates will seriously impact the state's ability to compete economically with other states.

Randy Cunneyworth

Like any young player, there was a period of inconsistency. He can be average and then he can be Clarke MacArthur. Average isn't good enough, but he possesses the ability to be above average.

David Blask

Light, in terms of our experiments, stimulates breast-cancer growth activity, and obviously this is due to the ability of light to shut off melatonin production.

Mark Duda

LT hit him a ton and practically killed him. (Charlie) got up, went out for about four plays and came back and ran the ball 25 more times. His ability to cope with adversity and physical pain, he had no equal.

Becca Kohli

MacKenzie is a player with the right attitude and the natural ability to go after every ball and to be a spark on the field. We feel MacKenzie can be a very strong player for us because she has potential in several different positions on the field.

Jeanine Pirro

Liberals stay up at night worrying about the library provisions in the Patriot Act, ... I stay up at night worried about whether we are going to have the ability to fight the war on terrorism with the same tools ... that I have had as a prosecutor to fight organized crime.

Robert Hass

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

Robert Walpole

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

Robert Mueller

Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have.

Kurtwood Smith

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.

Jennifer Davis

We're not doing away with free shipping, but we're adding a new option, which is free pickup. Free shipping is a promotion that comes and goes on a daily basis or a weekly basis.

Ted Roof

We're not deep enough, but we're deeper than we were last year. We've just got to keep addressing depth in recruiting and the development of the players that we have.

Kevin Walsh

We're not convinced that all the victims have been found, ... We're still reaching out for additional victims to see if there are any out there.

John Douglas

Mandate has very grave doubts as to whether the social partnership process, with its current restrictive agenda and parameters can truly address the income needs of those on middle and lower incomes, given the very narrow focus on competitiveness and wage restraint being applied to the talks by both the government and employers in terms of wages in particular.

Larry Chase

Like China, the Internet is a huge new market. It's up to you to figure out what to do with it. Use it as a prospecting tool, make connections with people, add value for your existing customers.

Bruce Bochy

We're not content with how it ended last year. The brand of ball we played, we'd like to improve on that. We've got a lot of work to do and things to cover this spring.

Donovan Nelson

Mandy has done a good job of being near the strike zone. She was throwing good enough pitches to get them to chase. Now, the detriment to us is when we have good opportunities to get outs, we hang a ball and they get a get a base hit and score two. That happened a couple of times tonight.

Mick Nunez

Mandeville is a good club and we didn't do what we needed to win the ball game. When you make errors and walk people, you aren't going to be successful. We let Mandeville stay around.

Fred Jones

Like I said earlier, I don't know how to explain it. It's something we have to turn around. We're putting ourselves behind the eight ball at the start of the game and it's not working for us. We have to figure out something.

Rex Grossman

Like I said after the game, he's going to catch the ball 99 out of 100 times. He'll pick his game up. He talked to me a little bit after the game and apologized and I just said, 'Don't worry about it, you're a great receiver.' I know he's going to make the play.

Kazeronnie Mak

Life is like a crystal ball of fortune.When it falls into pieces, the people try to grab it, someone grabs more, someone grabs less, someone grabs none. And how much have you grabbed yet ?

Ben Beakes

Luckily we have a supply of paper ballots we use for absentee voting. We were able to use the ballots as backup.

Doug Schauer

Luke (Enos) was going to get the ball and we were going to flatten out and create. We weren't going to take a shot until six seconds or less. Luke was going to make the play and he found John cutting.

Dale Murphy

Luke Appling helped me hit the ball on a line and not commit too early.

Italo Calvino

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Italo Calvino

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Kevin Mitnick

My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.

David Stout

Machines have the power to become the ultimate interactive art-making tool. Computers are becoming postmodern blenders bringing together images, sound, and interactive, nonlinear space.

Dave Flaskas

Libby is the hottest swimmer in the world right now and is on the way to becoming a superstar, if she is not already there.

Ray Looze

Leila is at the threshold of becoming a world-class swimmer. With continued progress, she will be a force to be reckoned with at the end of the season.

Bobby Miller

Let the ice cap melt; it only reflects the heat from the sun, protecting earth from becoming just so much desert. The great grandchildren of the morons who elected and reelected George Exxon Bush and Dick Halliburton Cheney can survive, at least for a while, by killing off each other for a drink of water.

John Hewitt

Liberty Tax Service is a solid contender for the franchising industry to watch. Our growth is solid in number of new franchisees and new offices. We are establishing a visible brand name that's quickly becoming known for excellent customer service and a vibrant corporate culture.

Matthew Parry

Lower second- and third-quarter demand -- as the northern hemisphere warms, less crude oil is required for heating purposes -- will result in the already over-supplied global crude-oil market becoming increasingly bloated.

Richie Adubato

We're not dead yet, ... The fat lady hasn't sung yet. She was spraying her throat there for a while but she didn't sing. We still have a chance.

John Gibbons

We're not dead yet, but we're tired. In the end if we hang in there, it's because of the way they go about their business. If we don't it's because we're not good enough, yet. But it won't be because of lack of effort or lack of preparation or lack of heart.

Bill White

Like a dead skunk in the middle of the road, it stinks to high heaven,

Walter Raleigh

Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.

Julie Morgenstern

Leaving work a half-hour early makes you work as if you're on a deadline all the time.

Helmut Kohl

So many dead ... It's a tragedy, ... Excuse me, but I must return home right away.

Irish Blessings

May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead

Granth Sahib

Meditate on your Dear Lord, and be dead to the world; renounce your love of duality

Gregory Campbell

One man with 100 loyal friends is a lot stronger than one man with 1000 dead enemies, but only the former knows it, and only the latter cares.

Manolo Blahnik

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

Marc Bolan

I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!

Tim O'Brien

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism?the way you play it is free will.

Michael Ryan

Like everyone else, the school system will have to deal with increased utility costs. We already are running with a deficit from fuel oil for this year's budget.

John Glover

Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.

Kip Winger

Major labels they're not into me at all because the name is like - all they can remember is what I've done, so I don't even want to deal with that.

Patrick Quinn

Magazines and newspapers are loath to discuss these types of deals publicly.

Tim Fitzpatrick

Lexmark's cartridge return program deals exclusively with laser printer toner cartridges. It does not involve any inkjet products. The court's decision was very specifically about this program.

Edward Hale

Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand.

Craig Smith

Last year was probably the youngest team we had in six or seven years. We're a real veteran team this year and we're looking forward to this season.

James Reed

Last year, to be honest, I wasn't as happy, ... I didn't play that much last year. I was depressed, well, not depressed. It was frustrating. Now I look forward to the games. I look forward to practice. I look forward to - if I mess up, going in there and doing it better.

Joby Scroggs

Last year's game was just a battle. It was a tough, hard fought game and we're looking forward to another one - no doubt.

Michael Stoops

Las Vegas needs to move forward on this quickly ... because the issues are still out there.

James Lilley

Lee Teng-hui is a remarkable man. And as a talented politician he moved the island forward by increasing democracy, and mostly he opened up trade routes with China.

Shane Pearsall

Led by Cindy...(these) Games have been a huge step forward for high-performance sport in our country.

Darrent Williams

Monday is like the worst day of all time. You party all weekend and then reality hits. Gotta go back to work. The only good thing about the whole day is 'Monday Night Football.' If you can't look forward to that, what else is there?

Chris Mullin

Much appreciated. It's a celebration of the past, but I look forward to it. I get to see a lot of people that were instrumental in my development and, to this day, are still a part of my life.

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.

LeeAnn Palo

Let them do it next year. They've got a lot of time left.

Al Reynolds

Many if not most of the property owners out there have taken the next steps.

Jake Gyllenhaal

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

Craig Bradshaw

One more chance. Next season, we have one more chance.

Ed Belfour

One minute, you're a slug. And the next minute, you're a hero.

Sal Mineo

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

Sidney Ponson

One at a time. The next one after one is two. It's not 10.

Laurence Barron

One in six planes sold this year will go to China. Next year that will be one in five.

Chad Knaus

Obviously, we're parked right next to each other in the garage,

Elizabeth Bishop

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Sarah Hill

We were challenging the keeper. We had a wonderful passing game.

Vin Laczkoski

She's one of the more underrated players in our league. Whether it's setting picks or passing the ball, she does things you look for as a coach.

Jim Press

To us, it's not a passing phase but a vital technology for the 21st century.

Paul Hewitt

You look at the stat sheet and see we had 27 turnovers, I don't think there's anything else I can point to. They're long and they really got out in the passing lanes, and we didn't react to it very well.

Jamie Dixon

Those are the things that separate him from the other guys, his passing and his touch. And he's willing to pay the price.

Lucy Punch

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

Wes Miller

We want to take them out of what they want to do. When they run their flex offense, they're pretty good. We tried to pressure the passing lanes. We did it better in the second half, especially down the stretch.

Diana Gabaldon

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

David Brooks

My SUV, assuming Hummer comes out with a model for those who find the current ones too cramped, will look something like the Louisiana Superdome on wheels. It'll guzzle so much gas as I walk out to my driveway there will be squads of Saudi princes gaping and applauding. It'll come, when I buy it, with little Hondas and Mazdas already embedded in the front grillwork.

Busta Rhymes

I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or A Tribe Called Quest. I miss albums like those.

Bram Stoker

Take me away from all this Death.

Bryan Robson

Jonathan's been in the squad before when Steve McLaren had him,

Frank Rijkaard

He isn't in the squad because I wanted to give him a rest.

Alessandro Del Piero

I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.

Ashley Cole

There's nothing we can do about it and we've just got to do what we can with the squad we've got.

Dane Cook

I love singing along to the radio while I'm riding in the back of a squad car.

Jamie Hyneman

We've found that the biggest thing as far as the danger is simply pressure.When we work with explosives, we've got bomb technicians there, bomb-squad guys who go into unknown situations all the time, and they've dealt with it safely.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.