Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties' greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital).

Rick Perlstein

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

Robert Walpole

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

George Diller

Liftoff of space shuttle Discovery, beginning America's new journey to the moon, Mars and beyond,

Ian Roberts

Let's begin looking at it now. Let's not wait until the last minute.

Russell Henderson

Let us make a demonstration on behalf of all those who have lost homes in our city, and in more than 1100 cases, lost their lives because the security we paid for was not there to begin with.

Adoniram Judson

Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.

Sandy Smith

Make it a priority and if you have little kids, start right at the beginning so they know there is no other way of doing it.

Connie Allen

Luckily, Chelsea hit those free throws at the end. If we would have made them at the beginning, it wouldn't have been that close, but we made them when it counted.

Granth Sahib

No one offers the rice dishes at their last rites, and no one lights the lamps for them.

Sandra Lee

When I was at the Cordon Bleu things took hours and hours and hours to make. And they were beautiful dishes - and I know how to cook that way - but I was like, 'no one is cooking like this.'

Lara Logan

I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect. It says that you think someone else is going to clean up after you: that you're not prepared to do it yourself.

Eric Schlosser

One of my favorite dishes in the world used to be steak tartare, which is raw ground beef seasoned and then served.

Charles M. Schulz

A watched supper dish never fills!

Marcus Samuelsson

Simple ingredients can be used to make elegant dishes with just a little extra attention to detail.

Marcus Samuelsson

Pot lucks are fun, especially when you encourage your guests to bring dishes that represent their families or cultures.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

My parents and my family really tried to maintain as much of a normal environment as possible. When I went home, it wasn't Keshia Knight Pulliam the actress, the glitz, the glamour. It was Keshia the daughter. Oldest of four children, who washed the dishes and did everything she was supposed to do.

Jose Andres Puerta

I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.

Larry Parrish

We're not centering. We've been late on the fastballs and out in front of the off-speed pitches. We're stuck in the middle.

Steve Watkins

Making the team is not in the front of my mind at all. I just wanted to come in here and show them what I can do.

Dan Castellaneta

Lets just plop them in front of the TV. I was raised in front of the TV and I turned out TV

Mike Stapleton

Lower the front end. Try to keep him level. Watch the top of his head.

Helli Homburg

Mrs. Richardson insists on that. But there are a lot of changes. We will have a new front door. We are putting up shutters that will open out. We are going to make this place look like a chalet in the Alps. We say it is 'The Chalet' next to the White Horse Motel.

Dave Mills

Mountain View has a very strong team. They don't have the runners up front in the (girls') races but they have a really, really strong group. They would be the next logical one with Borah as well.

Orlando Cabrera

Moving up in the order, hitting in front of Garret and Vladdy, that has helped a lot -- seeing better pitches. That is the spot. There are a lot of things you can do.

Sergei Gonchar

Maybe we just didn't shoot enough in previous games on the power play. But with a guy like John LeClair in front of the net, he's a great guy to have there when you shoot, so we have to use him.

Lindsey Vonn

My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.

Raja Bell

We're not doing anything different. Guys understand that if it's going to be a week or a month, we're going to have to pick it up without him.

Matt Birk

Like him or not, say what you want about him, but the guy makes plays. He said he was going to make up for last week, and go out and make some plays. He showed up today.

Clint Hurdle

Luis is having some difficulties getting anything going at the plate. He's not where he needs to be or where he can be offensively, yet. He's 0-for-7 off this guy lifetime. It's a manager's decision.

Dale Lennon

Mac Schneider went down with an injury. The first guy Tyler went against, if I remember right, was an All-American nose guard. Fortunately, we had the lead.

Pudge Rodriguez

(Leyland) is the manager we need. He's a guy I respect very much. We're going to play hard for him.

Frank Robinson

Let's see what has kept this guy where he's been, ... Is he a usable part for next year?

Pat Carroll

Let's rock the Capitol. Don't let these guys sneak back into town.

Mike Santiago

Leon is the starting quarterback for the Nicholls State game. Just like all the guys know, it is one day at a time. We have a lot of competition. You got to hold that spot.

S. Walker

Losing to those guys is always the worst. It's terrible.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Chris Healy

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Ellen Tolley

Looks like last-minute shoppers lived up to their high expectations.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Charles Greene

less respect for high standard and more interest in high enrollment.

Vince Cable

Many voters still...associate us with high taxes and big spending.

Kumail Nanjiani

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I work, so I'll say dinner, ... I have a job now.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I'm at work, so it'll have to be dinner. I have a job now.

Marc Warren

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

Gary Mickelson

legal obligation to do their job and are not part of this dispute.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Ruth Rendell

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Kelly Meek

Scotty knows our system so well, anyway. He is doing a super job playing within what he has.

Martin O'Malley

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

Madeline Albright

We are allies. We have responsibilities to each other. That's why our troops have been here with Italy's permission for so many years,

Bobbi Brown

Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Nothing Can Make You Suffer, Without Your Silent Permission

Joy Page

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you can choose to be.

Robert Baxter

They just told me we had no permission to go from his commanders,

Patrick Rothfuss

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

Patricia Schroeder

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

Michael Keaton

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

Paulo Coelho

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Enrique Garcia

We're like their Santa Claus. It's kind of special and we make them feel normal.

Ludwig von Mises

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Daniel Handler

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

H. L. Mencken

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

A. Hodge

This stage has got a stinger in the tail.

Bill Burr

The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.

will.i.am

I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.'

Peter Chan

We are not making a concert, this is not a stage musical,

Bobby Rahal

At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

Denis Leary

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Michael Collier

We're still in the preliminary stages of getting information.

Dena Crews

We're still in the development stage for that.

Celia Cruz

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Alan Cooper

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Caio Fonseca

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Denis Leary

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

William Shakespeare

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Dana Perino

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

Calvin Coolidge

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Meghan Steiner

I did everything I could for it. I was working out the whole time. I took calcium pills.

David Anders

When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

John Enos

I got right in my truck and took off to Dayton.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

Dhani Jones

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.

Solange Knowles

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Susan Brooks

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Tara Miller

I use Lysol and bleach and water. And, I am always washing blankets.

Stephen Greene

For sure, Washington is going to be rowdier.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Christopher Shays

It's kind of like Pontius Pilate washing his hands.