Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Tierney

Rinsing out tuna cans and tying up newspapers may make you feel virtuous, but recycling could be America's most wasteful activity.

Richard Stanley

Obviously if you're Coppola going into 'Apocalypse Now' off the back of the two 'Godfathers,' you're in a much better position than coming off the back of something like 'Dust Devil,' which had scarcely been released, and was pretty much lying around in film cans in different places.

Tristram Stuart

In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled.

Dar Williams

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

Mike Gibson

We used to get a lot of different products from manufacturers because the cans were mislabeled or the cans had dents in them. Now those manufacturers have found secondary markets for their goods.

Mari VanderWal

When I worked in Ames at the recycling center we had two containers - pop cans and two-liter bottles. Now we have seven different sizes in plastic, and they expect us to separate them all out. Do all of that on the same penny.

Corita Kent

In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.

Tom Baker

When it rained, I ran from floor to floor and room to room, placing garbage cans and buckets under the rain that was leaking into the building,

Beth McGinley

We did get a couple of things back. Some of it was in the truck and some of it was in a garbage can outside (of Valley Truck and Trailer) in the pouring-down rain. I actually had to dig through the garbage cans to get some things back.

Jill Lepore

One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.

James Watkins

People have to understand the ocean needs more attention, not only when there's a crisis, but in everyday life,

W. C. Fields

Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with.

Bill Shuster

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

Carl Sagan

The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

Leonard Sand

It gives some reflection of the impact on which jury service impacts on people's everyday lives,

Jane Fonda

I thank God and I thank Ted Turner (her estranged husband) everyday that I don't have to make movies.

Andrew Bogut

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. I just got to keep striving to work hard everyday and I think good things will happen. As long as we get the win it doesn't matter what I did.

Kathleen Schaben

It allows you to express words and thoughts that aren't necessarily permitted in everyday conversation.

Aaron Miles

I'm still here, still getting starts, still getting at-bats, so I feel like I'm one of the options. I'm not sure if they've made their mind up over who's going to be the everyday starter or where I fit in the mix, but I feel like I'm at least somewhere in that equation.

E. P. Thompson

It is not unknown for gentlemen to come in and purchase two of the same items.

George Bernard Shaw

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

Alan Grayson

Ladies and gentlemen, we understand the big picture after three weeks of testimony. The big picture is greed.

William Brownfield

Ladies and gentlemen, how can I get any sleep with so many conspiracies and plots? ... The truth is there are many things in this world that have nothing to do with the United States.

William Brownfield

Ladies and gentlemen, How am I going to sleep with so many conspiracies and plots?

James Baker

Ladies and gentlemen, at some point -- at some point -- there must be closure,

Mary Green

We want you to know, ladies and gentlemen, he did it out of greed, to get stuff to sell for a little pocket change. You're going to hear the whole history of Joe Michael Luna.

Garry Houston

True gentlemen. I've had a very special time.

Dave Murphy

We have a hard time keeping up with these older gentlemen.

M. Thompson

I think they should reduce the tax. I realize they use the money for highways, but our highways will be this way when we're long gone.

Gerry Reid

We're operating snowplows in St. John's 24 hours a day. I don't why we couldn't do that on the main highway in our province.

Brian Riedl

Montana is getting more highway pork, but so is every other state.

Fritz Todt

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

R. Robinson

Two mobile homes were demolished on (U.S.) Highway 70, ... and there was one injury in one of those mobile homes.

Janet Wright

When people come up on Highway 94 . . . they can come out and sample wine and purchase wine. Eventually, that would be nice.

Anthony Sanfilippo

Those barges you've seen on Highway 90? They're our casinos.

Robert Ingersoll

You have no right to erect your toll-gate upon the highways of thought

Rick Warren

What you see from the highway will be brick. It's going to be a pretty building.

Don Hays

Ladies and Gentlemen, the wall-of-worry is being rebuilt strong and wide,

William Ford

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies

Dion Custis

(He) is not a cold-blooded murderer, ladies and gentlemen, he reacted. There was no thought process.

Kacey Musgraves

Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.

Neil Innes

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

Arthur Baer

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness

Iris Apfel

Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

Nick Carter

What it is that he has that makes the ladies do what they just did?

John Kasich

I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary.

Jack Canfield

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

Johnny Knoxville

She threw up from soup on my shoes,

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

Cornelia Funke

But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

Doug Larson

Fancy Restaurant: one that serves cold soup on purpose.

Dan Harmon

You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

Clive James

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

Dylan Moran

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

Ann Brashares

Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

Alan Dershowitz

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

Augusten Burroughs

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

Elbert Hubbard

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Albert Einstein

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

Davey Havok

I'm Davey. I sing, make faces and swing from trees.

David Ortiz

I just swing hard in case I hit it -- that's it.

David Ortiz

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

James Johnson

I think they've done as much as they've been able to do. It takes a break, some remark.

Mike Parker

That's the sixth-best in the United States. She's getting to be where she wants to be. Forty-seven takes her to her new goals.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

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.

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

Jenny Lewis

I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

David Burroughs

If it takes one day, three days, 365 days, that it will have to be.