Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for two teams.

Jeff Bell

Luke's always been very mature and responsible. This was an awful lot for a kid to handle, but he did it well.

Jack Straw

Mr. Wiesenthal has been untiring in his service to the Jewish communities in the U.K. and elsewhere by helping to right at least some of the awful wrongs of the Holocaust, ... If there is one name which symbolizes this vital coming to terms with the past, it is Simon Wiesenthal's.

Chuck Amato

Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we expanded this league. The good news is we're getting better. The bad news is, so is everybody else in this league. We've lost an awful lot of close games, but we're very, very close.

Todd Berry

One of the things about the spread is there's an awful lot of built-in misdirection that it creates. It slows defenses down, so certainly we're going to do that.

Martin Campbell

Of course, it'll probably be north of $100 million, as they tend to be, because these days, ironically enough, there's an awful lot of films that are costing that, but beyond that, I can't tell you.

Paula Creamer

Obviously, the first win is very important, but just the strength of the field here, the Evian Masters, I think the whole ensemble of everything is huge, ... This is one of the biggest purses tournaments and purses that we have. I think that means an awful lot and is very exciting.

Thomas Day

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.

Mat Iandolo

I can't say enough about how mentally tough our kids stayed throughout this match. Even though we have a lot of talent, we still are very young. For the match to come down to two freshmen and for them to prevail, that says an awful lot about the heart of this team.

Eminem

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Rick Perlstein

Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.

Richard P. Feynman

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Robert Mankoff

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

Kevin Mitnick

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

Kurtwood Smith

We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three.

Kurt Browning

What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.

Malcolm McDowell

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.

Marc Faber

This is the choice in life. You choose what is less bad. I don't particularly like Mr. Obama, but I think he is less bad for the world than Mr. Romney. It is a tragedy of life that both candidates did not lose the election. They would have deserved both to lose.

Paul Turner

We're not dismayed in any way, we're building but it's a slow build right now.

Peter Steinbrueck

We're not building the public transportation system that we need.

Ben Howland

We're not building a program, we're following the leadership of John R. Wooden. He's the one that built this program. It will always be his program.

Abe Reichental

We're not building a future for a few years, we're building for a lifetime.

Audrey Lewis

Like any other marketing campaign, you want to build up your profile.

Chaz Bickers

Like any company that's going into negotiations, we have made plans for any possibility. That said, we can't make airplanes without our team members there to build them.

Steve Harrison

Let's be a little creative about this before we start building three- and four-story circular structures. This is Beaufort.

Stuart Butler

Let people try what they want in their states, providing it meets certain standards. It will mean diversity. It's also a way of building consensus over time of what needs to be done, something you can't do if you go nationally initially.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily, the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. Within six to eight weeks, I'll be completely back up and running and three weeks after the surgery, I should be jogging and building it up until I'm back.

Sherri Murrell

Mandy Close is a senior who's playing hard and knows how to win.

Anton Corbijn

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

Ivan Seidenberg

Like all companies, we are closely monitoring the economy, but what we see at this time indicates we can hit our target for full-year revenue growth,

Rich Brooks

Make no mistake about it -- it's a very serious competition and a close one.

Geoff Ogilvy

Luke is a great player. He's probably not overdue, but close to due.

Lucy Jones

Magnitude doesn't tell you damage. If it's not that big or not that close to people, it's not that bad.

Mike Patton

Let's just say we're closer musical friends now. A lot of these people are strangers to me. They were out of sight but very much in mind.

Jordan Reese

(Liberty's) always good competition to go against. It just sucks to coming so close and falling just a little short.

Les Brown

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Isabella Rossellini

I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.

Jeff McInnis

Like everybody says, he's got to get to the playoffs -- that's the key. All this he's doing now, he's been doing that. But you've got to make the playoffs.

John Lowery

Like everybody else, this is a new season for us. Not that the other games don't mean something, because they do, but everybody wants to start off well in their league.

Uli Hoeness

Like everybody else in the whole country, I think the national team is a catastrophe.

Anna Ayala

Let this be an example. Everybody out there, all those young people, learn from this.

Tom Maurer

Luke played a great all-around game. He made everybody else on the team look better.

Ryan Tucker

Making plays I think was the difference. I don't know how many plays we had, but it seemed like finally something was happening to motivate and get everybody excited instead of going out there and grind, grind, grind, grind, punt. Grind, grind, grind, punt.

Larry Bowa

Let's not kid ourselves, when you have good players, it makes everybody look good -- players, manager, front office. The other thing is depth. That's what big payroll teams have. If they lose somebody, they've got somebody else. They don't go down to their farm system. That's a big difference.

Daniel Gibson

Let the fans and everybody else watching see for themselves. I'm gonna let everybody figure it out by the way that I play.

Tee Newman

Lower Richland expects to win. We're in the hoping-to-win stage. That makes a difference.

Charlie Smith

Nobody expects nothing out of us. It's been a struggle. We had 14 kids to play two games today. Sure, the split hurts, but I've got kids who are playing hard.

Michael Hirschorn

No normal person expects someone to slit their wrists on your reality show. If you're taking your sailboat out, you'd like a strong wind, you just don't expect a hurricane.

Abdullah Gul

No-one expects us to go to Luxembourg before seeing the negotiation framework document,

Doryce Norwood

No one expects this to ever happen to them. It happened to us and we needed to push back, and they only way we could do it was through legislation.

Jeff Attinella

No one expects the goalkeeper to make the save.

Peter Cardillo

No one expects the Fed to raise rates, but people are interested to see what they say about the economy, particularly about employment.

Doryce Norwood

No one ever expects to be the lead story on the nightly news. Once you have that kind of horror fall upon you, you never see life the same again.

Michelle Laughlin

Nearly unanimous. Nobody expects the Federal Reserve to move today.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Debbie Pace

Madison never incorporated and didn't get its own government. We don't want to get lost in the shuffle.

Bruce Jones

Many of our people have lost their homes.

Frank Oz

Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.

Meg Mallon

My first Solheim was when we lost at Dalmahoy (in Scotland) in 1992,

Habibul Bashar

Obviously we will try to win the match...no matter we have lost the first two matches.

Richard Duncan

No one realized how devastating this was going to be, ... Many of these people have lost everything.

Derrick Max

One way or another, everyone's lost sight of why we're here.

Neil LeBlanc

Obviously that day we lost some delegates, but we have also got more from other areas. We've moved on from there because we have to stay focused.

Dean Barker

Obviously it's very disappointing to have lost that race but we can take a lot of positives out of it still,

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Hiroyuki Kitakata

The only news will be the U.S. stocks. But on the geopolitical front, the upside risk is more than the downside.

Dave Ramsey

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

William Shakespeare

There's villainous news abroad.

William Shakespeare

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Tim Danson

If we had our druthers, it wouldn't even be news - it would have been issued and no one would know about it until sometime down the road. But that didn't work out for us.

Susan Moores

Nobody ever said no. You just didn't say no to Maria.

John Catsimatidis

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

Jaromir Jagr

Of course, nobody is going to pick us.

Allen Funt

No, nobody ever really turned the tables on me.

Limor Livnat

I feel shame for what he said. Those are things that nobody should think or ... speak about,

James L. Petigru

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

Mary Lyon

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

Bonnie Clearwater

When we showed them, nobody cared. Most of them didn't even have galleries.

Bob Stern

New things popping up -- and something nobody thought about 30 years ago.

John Davis

Look what he's done for our community, for the sports program alone. He's a coach. Try and top him. You're not going to top him,

Donna Ferber

One of the things I try to do with this program is to normalize their experiences. One of the things women often tell me about the workshops is that they feel heard.

Edsger Dijkstra

Beauty is our business.

Robert Gottlieb

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

Henry Spencer

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Rolando Gonzalez

If we don't have the members, our program will not be as strong.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Joy Austin

The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents.

Atom Egoyan

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

Mark Philippoussis

Obviously, I'll do whatever it takes to get back,

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Jack Toney

Timing matters. It typically takes a week or so, but after the sessions begin, it could take longer.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.