Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to be the most powerful person in the world? The answer is someone with an internal drive that is so dynamic and so determined.

Robert Walpole

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

Theodore Tilton

Life is done, but what is death?" Then, in answer to the King, Fell a sunbeam on his ring, Showing by a heavenly ray, "Even this shall pass away

Patricia Fripp

Life is a series of sales situations, and the answer is no if you don't ask.

Henry Hyde

Let me be clear about this, ... We are not here today to decide whether or not to impeach Mr. Clinton. We are not here to pass judgment on anyone. We are here to ask and answer this one simple question: based upon what we now know, do we have a duty to look further, or to look away?

Jack Rio

Let me answer that with the words from the hit Steely Dan song 'Do it Again,' ... You go back, Jack, do it again. Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round. You go back, Jack, do it again.

Liam Fox

lied and broke the law and he must answer for that.

Shaun Cassidy

Lost' has changed the climate for shows that don't answer all your questions by the end of every episode.

Douglas Gresham

Many people ask, 'Why are they coming back?' The answer is that these books never went away,

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Sam Smith

Last year we extended it, and it worked so well. We have a lot of retired people in the area, so many people can work during the week and many of them do.

Jeffrey Sconce

Many shows this season ... had gruesome shots of women being brutalized and terrorized in very graphic and extended ways,

Bill Warlick

Obviously, there's a requirement that United will have to sustain strong operating performance for an extended period to service those obligations.

Scott Henderson

We might have a facility here in Bastrop to handle some of the people who won't be able to go home for extended period,

John Edward Christopher Hill

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Grady Fuson

One of the rules (with the suspension) is that you can't play in any game with paid admission, so extended is OK. When we get to the end of May, we have to look at where Matt goes from there. Most likely, he'll go home.

Eric Holder

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

Deborah Eisenberg

I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

Johnny Damon

I feel good about things. Worst-case scenario here, we would've only been one game up, so three's all right. We wish we could've extended it, but Randy Johnson pitched a great game, as did Tim Wakefield.

Charles Koppelman

Of all working screenwriters, I'm a foul shooter, ... I would take any screenwriter on in foul shots.

MaChelle Joseph

Obviously that was a huge loss for us. That's been a problem all year for us, Terry getting in foul trouble.

Craig Mortensen

Foul trouble can hurt us. We don't have a lot of depth.

Robert Bristow

If we had hit those two foul shots, we could have put pressure on them with their point guard out. But it wasn't meant to be, I guess.

Steve Williamson

She stepped up huge. That was a huge step for us to play the way she did. She was all over the place, especially when (point guard) Erin McFadden had foul trouble, because Erin is always the player that makes us go.

Bobby Bates

She can't get tired, she can't get in foul trouble because she means too much to us out there. If she gets tired in practice, I don't take her out because she's not going to come out in the game. I tell her getting tired is not an option, she can get that out of her head.

Jen Milne

She hasn't been in foul trouble all season. It was so uncharacteristic that it kind of left us at a loss for a little bit.

Harry DeFrank

She's a good shooter, a good foul shooter, too. She has a nice touch, and she can hit the boards. We worked with her on her inside game this year, and when she started doing the right things in practice then I started playing her more.

Mike Conner

We probably messed up. That was totally our fault. We thought he only had two and we told everyone to foul to get them to the bonus.

Janet Napolitano

Several of them are inside doing their homework,

Eric Newman

Max was kind enough to give us an inside look at how the story was developing.

Mike Kopp

No one knows our program inside and out better than Harold.

Jimmy Fallon

On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to be. I'm not doing something sneaky. Inside jokes, I don't like those. We can all ride together, and everyone's on the same thing going, 'Aha, I know where you're going here.'

Takeru Kobayashi

The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.

Tommy Amaker

I can't say enough about Jason Williams. Boy, is he a tough player. He's relentless. He scores inside and out.

Alex Wurman

What I did was to be a little more inside the box,

Taha Ramadan

on Monday there will be no American inside Iraq (taking part) in inspections.

Bill Peterson

She's a very strong inside presence. She rebounds well and scores very well down low. She has a number of back-to-the-basket moves that are really nice. Defensively, she shuts down the other team's big girls.

Rick Byrd

I don't go on stage, and he doesn't come into the locker room.

DeShawn Stevenson

This stops the bleeding. Things were starting to get negative around the locker room, players were getting on each other. But we get a win like this, it relaxes us. Now, we've just got to come out and play and get the next one.

Brian Randle

We prayed for them in the locker room.

Natalie Coughlin

I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.

Fendi Onobun

We won. The locker room was really jumping.

Phillip Fulmer

We're going to miss him in the locker room as a leader. I know Jason. He'll be around and part of what we're trying to do.

Keegan Bradley

I love team environments, like the Celtics, the Bruins. I love going into the locker room and meeting these guys.

Larry Brown

With this win, in that locker room, they needed something positive.

Marco Killingsworth

When I walked in the locker room (before the game) ... I could tell he was focused. He just went out there and did his thing.

Diane Sawyer

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

Charles Schumer

I for one wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it and have been unsure how to vote.

Charles Schumer

I, for one, have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, being unsure how to vote.

Larry Fitzgerald

I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.

Stephnie Weir

I'm a middle child, and I have a younger sister who is stunning - just beautiful and smart.

Dale Jones

If they put in a bridge, it would save a lot of (driving) miles, but they'll never put that in out here in the middle of nowhere.

John McMillin

If they see United Way of Middle Tennessee, in a nutshell, sometimes they may not know that that isn't the United Way that represents their county.

Dr. Selzer

I don't dawdle. I'm a surgeon. I make an incision, do what needs to be done and sew up the wound. There is a beginning, a middle and an end.

Dannel Malloy

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Butch Klein

When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed,

Ben Okri

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Peggy Laskowski

We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.

E. Hicks

We opened in probably the worst way you can open a school.

Arthur Hiller

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

Nigel Hamilton

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

Steven Armstrong

TREC has just opened things up for him. When he comes home, it's gleaming out of him; it spills over, ... That's why it's so important for us to continue.

Maria Semple

Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.

Ian Hamilton

One or two in the back room is all it takes,

John Galliano

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

Chris Klug

When you read the qualification criteria, it's very clear. There's really no room for error. (I) should be the winner.

Charles Spurgeon

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

Dennis Ritchie

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

Eileen Caddy

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Suzanne Collins

I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.

Ving Rhames

My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

Eddie Van Halen

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Elizabeth Bowen

one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.

Dizzy Gillespie

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

Letitia Baldrige

She's not going to have any trouble at all,

Linda Killian

She's never been in trouble with the law, not ever.

William Shakespeare

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

Tom Davis

We were having trouble getting out on the shooters. They just drilled us.

Charles Spurgeon

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

David Tang

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.