Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Cullinane

The fact that people didn't go to the satellite performances told us that they wanted to be in the Capitol Theatre. The quick sellout really reinforced that.

Stuart Roy

There are certainly a lot of people in the government-relations world -- public relations -- who are close to Tom DeLay and who are able to look out for him, be eyes and ears, that are just not the people on Capitol Hill.

Peter Cardillo

We have here a cautious market, and it will continue to be cautious until we get through some major data and Greenspan's testimony on Capitol Hill. Also, investors were taking profits from last week's rally.

Kevin Yoder

I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when it's empty, and you can go stand in the Capitol rotunda and bask in the silence of history. You can sort of imagine all of the things that have happened inside that Rotunda from presidents lying in state to other important events.

Bill Robertson

Lynn Woolsey has every right to invite the people of her choosing to sit in the gallery. She certainly is not responsible for the Capitol Police removing Cindy Sheehan.

Paul McNulty

Right here, in this community, 10 miles from Capitol Hill, in the streets of Northern Virginia, American citizens allegedly met and plotted and recruited for violent jihad.

Glenn Miller

One of the funniest lines we hear when we visit with people in the Capitol and talk to the decision-makers is, 'Well, the Internet has pretty much made the library obsolete.

Jack Kingston

Nobody has any sympathy for oil companies on Capitol Hill right now. You talk to someone driving to work in an F-150 pickup and paying $75 to fill up his tank, and everybody's on his side.

James Lindsay

I don't think his advisers understand how difficult it is going to be to get their way on Capitol Hill because of this,

George Vecsey

Nobody has ever called Shea Stadium a cathedral. In style, it was more like the old warehouse or outdated movie theater that Korean worshippers have transformed into a church in the borough of Queens. Not a cathedral - but a place where people go to be fulfilled, nonetheless.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand.

Dennis Hastert

We welcome him to this cathedral of democracy and look forward to hearing from him.

Virginia Postrel

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink).

Greg Dixon

It gives them a feeling, that they can actually win a game. We've been waiting the last five weeks for that win to come, to get it rolling. League is going to be pretty tough, but this win will give us some confidence going into Cathedral this week.

William Maestri

The St. Louis Cathedral is a symbol that really unites all of our city, and this is what we're going to need to move forward,

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Julianne Berry

Sacred Heart Cathedral is a great team, but we finally played 32 minutes of basketball. Finally got 32 minutes to get this monkey off our back.

C. S. Lewis

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Eid Kabalu

We have no confirmation (of their presence in Mindanao). As far as the MILF is concerned, there have been no sightings. We have no personal knowledge that they are here,

Steve Howard

Whenever they focus on risk, the Houston region will fare well.

Greg Gilchrist

When you're winning, you don't have to make excuses, or when you're losing, you shouldn't come up with any, either. As far as I'm concerned, we just got outrun today.

William H. Macy

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

Bob Grantham

We want our property tax rates lowered significantly and substantially and meaningfully. So far we have not seen anything in that direction.

David Jones

We want it (the fire) far enough out and in an open spot.

Mats Sundin

We were back on our heels far too much.

Tony Woody

We were a step late all night long. We did not do a good job of matching their intensity. They played hard. They played like a team that wanted to go a little farther (in the playoffs).

Charles Caleb Colton

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Charles Bradlaugh

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

William Shakespeare

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Eugene Kennedy

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

Marilyn Miller

We want to make sure they can't do this at the funeral of a hero.

John Cavanaugh

We're not planning on doing anything until after the funeral is over. I would imagine we will be getting together within the next several weeks.

David Raskin

He wishes there were more coffins, more funerals and much more pain.

Yiddish Proverb

He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral

Charles Bukowski

You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

Heather Ross

She (Victoria) can't lie to save her life. She takes responsibility for everything she does.

Bible Bible

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

William Cowper

When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave.

Andy Pettitte

I was surprised we put the runs on him, ... I'm not going to lie to you. He's tough.

Benjamin Crump

Obviously they lied to medical personnel that could have saved Martin's life.

William Bastone

Frey lied to us, lied to his lawyers, and lied to his fans.

Bill Clinton

If a president of the United States ever lied to the American People, he should resign.

Andre Hall

I can't lie to you. I wanted to size him up, see how tall he was, how much he really weighed. I just wanted to get my own view of him.

Carol Leifer

Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.

Carol Shields

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

Carlos Castaneda

The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.

Carl Bernstein

June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

C. S. Lewis

I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.

Aaron Sorkin

Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.

Alan Turing

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.

Alan Turing

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

Alan Shepard

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Jeong Kim

We have a woman who tied for third place in the national spelling be as a kid, and just really wanted to come back and do this.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Eric Swalwell

I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.

Don Cooper

We did everything we can do with these guys. They're like the National Guard. They're on 24-hour call.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Kofi Annan

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alvin Copeland

We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over.

Jessica Smith

We have so many fatalities in our state from impaired drivers. This is another tool to get them off our roadways.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Bill Polian

If we come to Wednesday with no agreement, it will be a different market.

Graeme Souness

Fortunately for England, he will be fine. By about Wednesday or Thursday, he should be okay.