Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Glaser

We're not being critical. We certainly appreciated the good news and we appreciate what the governor is doing.

Trent Plaisted

Man, he's 7-foot-6. You don't really appreciate it until you see it in person.

Craig Marks

Like healthcare preparedness that preceded it, schools are one of the two 'magic bubbles' where we seem to think our children are somehow divinely protected when we put them on the bus each day. We have infrastructure that is in some cases over 100 years old, and built in a time, and in a manner, for the era when chewing gum was the major crime on campus. Today, we have to appreciate that natural disasters are on the rise, as is crime, in and around school campuses.

Mike Tice

Let's talk about Chicago. It's Friday. It's been a long week, very emotionally drained. I hope you can appreciate that.

Tim Allen

Lower-valued properties appreciate less quickly. Higher-valued properties appreciate more quickly. Someone with a $100,000 home benefits, but someone with a $1 million home benefits more.

Rose Mashigo

Love and appreciate me for me, not through set societal standards.

Rosalind Murray

Less than 10 years ago, Delray was home to several blues and jazz clubs. We thought since we have this brand-new venue, and jazz seems to be a musical voice in the city, we'd try to give the people who appreciate that sort of music a chance to celebrate that music at the library.

M. Wolfe

Many members of our community appreciate the diversity and quality of our offerings and support us by watching, pledging monetary support, donating used vehicles, and volunteering their time,

Steve Kaplan

Many of our cruisers are looking to take a last-minute vacation and appreciate the value available through our last-minute deals. We ensure that we offer high-value vacation options for all cruisers, from luxury travelers to bargain shoppers.

Rick Perlstein

Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.

Ronald Kessler

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Manmohan Singh

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Marcy Kaptur

For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.

Frank Ostini

Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and we were lucky that it did.

William Lerach

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Tom DeLay

Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,

John Boehner

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

Al Gore

Make no mistake about it. The leadership of Bill Clinton is making a huge difference for the children and the families of America,

Richard P. Feynman

Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.

Richard P. Feynman

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Joel Bernstein

Like anything, ... you got to use some common sense.

Scott Pelley

Lt. Col. Ronald Stallings told investigators, quote, 'he had no idea,' end quote, that prisoners were being chained overhead for 24 hours and more. What you seem to be saying is that it was common knowledge.

Guy Burgess

Search for Common Ground has done some very interesting things. They've figured out that costs of mass media productions in third-world countries is miniscule, especially given the new technologies, compared to what you'd expect to spend to make it into the mass TV market in the United States.

Reza Aslan

Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.

Janet Yellen

Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.

Rick Applegate

much more comes out on how common the practice was.

Jim Sutton

My feeling is that the US domestic support proposal will have a comparable effect to the European Union's 2003 reform of its Common Agricultural Policy,

Edward Abbey

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

Earl Nightingale

If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.

Samuel Butler

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Alan Chadwick

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Alan Cooper

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

Catherine the Great

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

David Hume

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

Chinua Achebe

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

Tommy Haas

France will have to be reckoned with in Davis Cup. We weren't good enough today.

Carlos Santana

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

Brad Coker

Basically, Crist and Davis are nominal front-runners. Going in, they are going to be the favorites.

Jake Delhomme

I'm all for it. Whoever we can get in there. But if it's still Stephen Davis or Steve Smith, that's fine with us, as long as we have one more point than the other team.

Paul Weller

No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?

Bill Cobbs

Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

Joe Tiller

We're still a spread offense. We're going to throw it around. We think our tight ends (Charles Davis and Dustin Keller) are talented and we want to get them involved.

Stephanie Jones

We're a small community. Everybody knows each other here. Everybody would love to see it put to rest. I think it will be good (for the Davis family) to have some kind of closure.

Barry Cohen

He's a compassionate guy; he's a person of substance; he's passionate about what he wants for this state. Jim Davis is a nice guy. From my perspective, it takes more than a nice guy to get elected.

Erik Zabel

Magnifique!, ... It's a very good day for me and my team manager Walter Godefroot, as well as for Frans Van Looy. It's last race this season for them, and also for Aldag and myself, so to finish it with a victory here on Paris-Tours is wonderful! Of course, after 13 years of a lot of victories and emotions with Telekom and later T-Mobile, this is a very precious moment.

Jill Pendley

Love in all it's emotion, surpasses the physical. Without even the faintest touch,it leaves it's imprint upon you.

Paul Dergarabedian

Love and loss are two emotions that everyone can relate to, and that's why these movies really pull at our heartstrings.

Paul Howell

My emotions were that it was just a big relief

Steve Owen

Obviously, the people there are going through a variety of emotions right now. Quite frankly, through no fault of their own, they are losing their positions.

Tina Brown

What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity.

David Padgett

I can't put into words the emotions I'm feeling. The way people have supported me is overwhelming.

Ron Rolleston

Fragrance is all about trying to communicate emotion.

Sid Otton

There are two big emotions tonight. One of them is a downer. It was a great night for the kids except for what happened to Justin.

Patrick Reilly

Lynn is a Mount Mercy girl. Her husband, Tom, who is also here tonight, and I are Timon guys. Incidentally, Kevin and Tom grew up together in South Buffalo. They haven't seen each other in 25 years since they were at Holy Family on Tifft Street together.

Jon Corzine

let his family down and he'll probably let New Jersey down, too.

Camille Moute

Leaving my hometown and my family was very hard.

Matt Doherty

Leaving Florida was hard. At first I didn't want to leave, at first I didn't want to look at another job because we have a lot of work to do there yet...but this was an opportunity here for me professionally and for my family was that was just a great fit. It had 'Matt Doherty' written all over it.

Deborah Chernoff

Many teenagers are supplementing the family income. Connecticut has a high standard of living, and people need more money to live on.

Ben Bernanke

Many savers are also homeowners; indeed, a family's home may be its most important financial asset. Many savers are working, or would like to be.

Gene Nudo

Selfishly, I wanted my family to see our team play and let them know we are doing a good job out here. We put a good show on tonight.

John Boehner

Mitt Romney comes from a family of builders.

John Kierstead

Mountain Pointe always seems to come out and fool people. We make it a family and put it together.

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.

Isabella Rossellini

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

Lucia Shook

Like everyone else I need all the help I can get.

Ted Stevens

Luke would have been a big help to us as our captain. That was a big loss.

Kris Benson

Making one mistake instead of two helped me,

Jon Hogenson

Making it to the second day shows our kids we can do this. Playing in that competitive level helped us.

Fernando Torres

Let's hope what we've done this week helps us to get something positive in our next games.

Justin Huber

Levi's been more of the outside guy; I'm more of the inside game. That helps us out a lot. It helps keep each of us rested and ready to go.

John Prescott

Legislation in itself will not end the dispute, but it is prudent to take these powers to use if necessary to help reach an agreement.

Ken Tutt

Losing last year I think really helped us win this year. And it makes it that much more special.

Ken Trump

When I looked at the incidents this year, it jumped right out.

Dave Bristow

We don't know if the two incidents are related, but it could be that the suspects were working with the two men who were arrested.

Mardy Collins

Those little incidents don't measure up to the things he's done here at Temple.

E. L. Konigsburg

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

Monte Mitchell

We've responded to nine incidents seven in the past two weeks.

Harvey Pekar

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

Thaksin Shinawatra

If the incidents have spilled over to other areas, it is possible to use martial law to solve problems in such areas. This has nothing to do with the government, ... could do it on their own.

Andrew Flintoff

Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.

G.S. Walia

The president narrated most of the incidents in the series and he even knew what type of wickets we had in the first two tests.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Mike Brey

Let's see if we can put two together. That's the only step we can think about taking right now.

Diane Lane

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Deng Xiaoping

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Denis Diderot

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

John Roe

Getting united as a team was step one. We know we have to keep working on the skill.

Trey Johnson

Getting 'discovered' is something that made us step up our game.

Deepak Chopra

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Dave Ramsey

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Terry Kukesh

She stepped it up and got them going.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Brooke Niquette

We're so young, but we're willing to learn. We can do well.

Ed Stewart

Unfortunately, no one other than Southwest has been willing to come to the table.

Drew Brees

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

Scott Carson

wanted more than we were willing to give.

Robert Wilson

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

Malcolm McDowell

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Jorge Cruz

We're not doing anything bad. We just need the work.

Adoniram Judson

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Kathryn Minshew

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Kathryn Bigelow

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Josh McDermitt

One person I haven't worked with yet, who I find hilarious, is Chad Coleman.

Stephanie Herseth

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Sally Kellerman

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

Jeremy Corbyn

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.