Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter King

We want to provide very significant tax incentives for businesses to locate there, incentives for housing, and attempt to minimize as much of the red tape as possible by creating one central clearing house for government programs,

Kenneth Frazier

We have said from the beginning that we do not intend to roll over in these cases when people bring insubstantial cases to court in an attempt to collect money improperly from Merck,

Dan Senor

We have no group that's claimed responsibility. It could be any number of groups attempting to operate inside Iraq.

Piero Fassino

We have never proposed a tax increase. This lie about tax hikes is a desperate attempt by Berlusconi to rake in some votes...

Gladys Bettis

What the Rams did to him was wrong. It isn't that they traded him. But they put the word out that he was a bad guy in an attempt to justify the trade. But it took people in Pittsburgh about five minutes to realize it was untrue. But Jerome was miserable over what happened in St. Louis, until he had a chance to get out there and prove the Rams wrong.

Maurice Cheeks

We want him to get offensive opportunities - no question. I think that he can get more opportunities in running the floor, getting early post up which he did. Tonight was a little unusual where he had more than a number of attempts at dunking the basketball going to the rim so I think that's a little bit unusual.

Richard Thompson

We were attempting to restore the culture of Britain for the British, ... But the English, in particular, aren't comfortable with their own culture. To be taken seriously, it has to come from somewhere else. So we remained a cult band.

Bill Daly

The fact that only one of the six proposals actually contemplated a salary cap exposes the union for its true motivation - to do everything necessary to precipitate a fight in an attempt to preserve the status quo.

John Williams

The fact of the matter is (Brazil's) currency had to fall. The whole (Brazilian) economy and interest rates were being held hostage to the currency. You had to keep interest rates high, and therefore hammer the economy in an attempt to hold the currency up.

Agnes Smedley

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

Agnes Martin

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Toba Beta

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

Theodore Bikel

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Carlos Fuentes

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

Matt Jackson

We have to get back to the drawing board. I hate being at 0-2, but we'll come back.

Alan Lee

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.

Alan Lee

To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing -- it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

Rebecca Jones

We've seen bookshelves, drawers and open shelving in the islands.

John Krasinski

The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want it to go is similar, but not exactly lined up, and that's where it's going to lead you into trouble.

Richard Durbin

There is a line to be drawn here. We should all draw it together in terms of personal intrusion of our loved ones.

Lawrence Gasman

There is a level of mistrust. The lack of a consolidated effort by HB-LED manufacturers with OEMs has been a hallmark and a drawback for the HB-LED industry.

John Ball

When I'm in good shape, I have more resources to draw from. It's nice to have that strength.

Sir Campbell

The prime minister has a lot of explaining to do.

Jared Bernstein

Explaining the unique characteristics of this unbalanced recovery is more like 'Murder on the Orient Express' than finding a smoking gun in somebody's hands. There are a lot of suspects.

Lord Byron

Explaining metaphysics to the nation - / I wish he would explain his explanation.

Bruce Young

You can learn a whole lot in a short period of time from a guide, as long as he's explaining what he wants you to do.

Sue Thilo

We need to do a better job of explaining it.

Source Unknown

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Mark Boudreaux

We take these issues very seriously. We realized that we needed to do a better job of explaining how the industry works.

Madeline Albright

I think that Senator Kerry has been working on explaining that. It hasn't come through, ... He is making that message very loud and clear.

Piet Hein

People are self-centeredto a nauseous degree.They will keep on about themselveswhile I'm explaining me.

Chinua Achebe

When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed.

Mike Holmgren

Where I am impressed even more with him this year is his pass protection,

Diane Keaton

I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep.

Pat Riley

What he does that's so impressive is he sees everybody. He's a lot like (Phoenix guard) Steve Nash. He's so unselfish.

Wendy Ward

She doesn't make mistakes, and she's never out of a hole. It's very impressive to see what she's doing.

Bill Brist

She pretty much did that on her own. That's pretty impressive for a freshman.

Sue Peet

She really impressed me as our captain. She really stepped up and made everyone feel okay. She didn't show disappointment (after losing in the finals) and she let her teammates know how proud she was of them.

Fernando Meirelles

She impressed me because she knew even more than me about the character.

Sam Schmidt

Mr. el Hage didn't leave an impression when it took a year to talk about him to the government.

Mickey Arthur

We are going to include some of the players who have done well in the local series.

Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Jim Fowler

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.

Octavio Paz

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Twyla Tharp

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

Vicky Rideout

While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.

Dan Landon

Send in your letters. We need to make the governor's program a statewide program that will include rural areas.

Jonathan Cherry

She went through all appropriate levels of security to include metal detectors and security protocols.

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Doris Williams

Women can do a lot of things when they have to, and she was a prime example.

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Patrik Elias

Would we rather play a team with Jagr or without Jagr? Yeah. We'd rather play without Jagr.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Kurt Vonnegut

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

Carol Leifer

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Leonardo Alcivar

We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Milan Hejduk

We used to play together two or three years ago, and it worked really well, ... There's no reason why it shouldn't work again.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Charles Dickens

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

Bret Bielema

We at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC ... in any way, shape or form.

Ben Shahn

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

Ben Shahn

Form is the shape of content...

Brenda Song

Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.

Derrick Jensen

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Desiderius Erasmus

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Antonio Banderas

You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.

Blanka Vlasic

Competing helps me to polish my shape.