Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Chocola

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

Chris Christie

I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Doug Risebrough

Unrestricted free agency is not a savior. I've never seen an unrestricted free agent carry a team. But it is a tool.

Jack Stewart

We started this vote record last year to highlight the legislators who show an understanding of the economic and employment benefits of manufacturing and the cost burdens manufacturers incur to operate in this state. With over 340,000 lost manufacturing jobs in California over the last four years and no state agency in charge of retaining, recruiting and promoting manufacturing, we count on the Legislature to make this state more competitive for manufacturers.

Martin Van Buren

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

Chris Kennedy

We always hope our federal bureaucracy is going to do a good job responding to the needs of Americans. The painful fact is, this is a bureaucratic process. Unfortunately, there are complaints all over the place out there about the speed with which the agency is dispensing with these claims.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

Jay Graham

We want to show people that we're the team that everyone should be gunning for (in the Capital Hockey Conference). We want to keep distance between us and everyone else because we want to win the league. ... That's why the lapses are very concerning.

Dave Barry

Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain.

Carolina Herrera

I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.

Louis Navellier

Internally, when we manage portfolios, we figure out what works in large cap, what works in mid cap, what works in small cap. Generally speaking, large cap stocks want earning stability, strong cash flow, margin expansion.

JoAnne Graf

The other two (pitchers) will come around because we can't ride one pitcher the whole season. They have to step up, and they're capable of doing that.

John Cherry

The other thing about the Cape is it's fairly compact. You're never really that far away.

Bucky Lasek

(The other riders) were all stressing. As long as they know (I'm capable of knocking them off), that's all that matters.

Tim Carlson

The power company has been looking for companies that have the capability of supplying alternative energy.

Cameron Crowe

The personal stuff for me is the best, ... And this one felt a little raw emotionally. I wanted to capture some stuff, to see if I could get it right. The way it feels to lose a loved one and find a reason to celebrate, oddly enough, as a result of learning who you are.

Brian Schneider

We've actually talked about that a little bit. That's part of the reason I wanted to start catching him. Any time you catch somebody and you're more familiar with him, it helps, especially with as big as these games are going to be.

Kaylyn Bayly

We have some catching up to do. But we'll be okay.

Kay Robertson

Robertsons love Sundays! The most important thing we do is gather together with our church family for worship, teaching, and fellowship. After church, we like to have a nice lunch of roast, vegetables, and definitely rolls or biscuits. And I love catching a nap when I can.

Dave Salo

What he's doing is the right thing to figure out what he's really strong at. He knows the rest of the world is catching up to him. Eventually, he's going to have to come down to two or three events.

Bronco Mendenhall

What's interesting is they're running the quarterback, running him effectively and running him often. Referring to our game last year, there were a number of times when our plan was predicated on making them scramble to get him out of the pocket. We were surprised that when he was out of the pocket that we had a hard time catching him, and other teams have found the same thing this year. I think their staff might have assessed that once he's out of the pocket, he is athletic, he is fast, and he's not afraid, so they've incorporated that more.

Mike Scioscia

We're going to have to face him (eventually), we don't look at it as catching a break. There is no denying he's a special pitcher, but the last couple nights (Joel) Pineiro and (Ryan) Franklin have pitched as well as anyone.

Tim Bates

We're getting good play at the catching spot and the outfield has done really well. But we need to work on our play in the infield.

Chris Wagner

We're a young team. We've had a lot of trouble catching and throwing the ball. When our defense played well, we didn't throw strikes.

Justin Osmer

We know how to work in the developer world, so we in no way see ourselves as catching up.

Mark Hankins

We accomplished a lot of goals at this event. Playing a competitive round shakes off some rust and determines our strengths and weaknesses. This gives us some direction for our upcoming match in Dallas on Saturday.

Joe Gibbs

We have no doubt that Dallas will be there. We take it as a given. We don't even think there's any question about it.

Flip Saunders

We're going to have to score more points because Dallas is going to score. We're not going to be able to hold Dallas to 70-something points. It's just not going to happen.

David Wilson

Lewisville by itself, if breeched, could send enough water to overtop the Dallas levees.

Harry Reid

She overcame difficult family circumstances to become the managing partner of a successful 400-lawyer Dallas law firm.

Renaldo Wynn

Moments like that you never forget. And I'll never forget this Dallas moment.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.

Steve Gaddis

We're excited about having him next year as we learn more about our offense and become more complex. You look at the Dallas Cowboys, their tight ends play a big role in their offense, and we're hoping T.J. can do that for us next year, too.

Jackie Smith

We stepped off the plane in Dallas and it was 72 degrees. From zero to 72, that was nice.

Alan Greenspan

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Don Worstell

The one thing we like about our team over most teams we play is our depth. We play nine guys, and any one of them can go big on you on a given night. I think we're a difficult team to scout.

Rick Stansbury

The pluses are that (Gordon) is a good player. He is going to be one of the better players in the league. If he gains more experience he will be really good, he has had some difficult times and has been providing good leadership as a freshman.

Ruben Patterson

We are a little fatigued. It's been a difficult road trip.

Angela Sgrignuoli

Where the wind made it difficult for several riders Saturday, today was nearly perfect for the runners.

Granth Sahib

Where the path is difficult and the street is narrow, there the Lord shall liberate you

McKayla Maroney

I was just used to being in shape, and getting out of it was really difficult for me.

Nicolas Roeg

I've been told my movies are difficult to market.

Jim Norton

When you talk about an icon and a legend, an extraordinary individual, as well as a people's person, it's difficult where to start about the man. He was the kind of person where all you would have to say is Amby and people knew who you were talking about. People loved him. On the day of his passing, the headline in the (Providence) Journal read, A one, and last, of a kind. In all of the years that I worked with Amby, it's hard to pinpoint what stands out the most, except that he was always there.

Donald Kerr

We are pleased with the findings and the constructive recommendations made in today's draft report,

Mac Maude

We spoke with them all before we drafted them. Earl (general manager Nicholson) made sure of that.

Na'Shan Goddard

When he gets done with the NFL draft and many years in the pros, I think he can be a reporter. I'm going to invite him on my show.

Bill Cowher

When we drafted Hines we didn't envision this. He has turned out to be a special, special player.

Jerry Angelo

We feel that the history of (Benson's) position as a rookie bodes well (for learning fast), and that was partly why we did what we did on draft day, too.

Dave Borison

We're really excited. There is now a first draft and we're back in the IEEE.

Lovie Smith

We know who Cedric is, and you don't draft a guy there unless you have plans for him down the line. But you have to go on what is happening right now. You have a running back who has rushed for 100 yards two games in a row. You can't kick him out of the house.

Ehren Kruger

I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of 'The Ring.' And then I'd seen 'Ringu 2' I think once.

Eula Biss

I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.

Trent Yawney

We want them to experience what it's like to be in that situation. This has been a hard year for everyone -- not just the kids, but everybody off the ice who are trying so hard to make this thing work.

David Burns

We want to treat everybody the same, ... provide the same level of service whether it's three in the morning or three in the afternoon.

Alan Henderson

We want to thank everybody who helped us,

Jamie Varley

We want to sound like everybody and nobody at the same time.

Alexis Karel

We want to show everybody we belong. Our record doesn't matter. All those losses prepared us for this.

Larry Glass

We want to see something that's going to be a win-win for everybody and not just for one segment of the population.

Michael Strahan

I've always been the locker-room jokester, the fun guy, the guy who keeps it loose and easy. But also, on Sundays, the guy in that huddle jumping up and down, telling guys, 'Hey, get it going. Let's go.' Firing everybody up. So I'm part relaxation therapist and part Red Bull.

Greg Biffle

Until about 20 (laps) to go, and then everybody is going to be racing for that million and a half dollars.

Jarvis Herring

We've always been known as a soft program, a finesse program -- all about speed, whatever. We're just trying to go out and show everybody this isn't the Gators that you're used to looking at. We're trying to show them that we're really tough and that we're really going to go out and play.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Dell Leonard

We've won some big games at the line this year, and we've lost some at the line. We know how important free throws are.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Dave Barry

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Byron Katie

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Alan Cooper

Form follows function straight to hell.

Ben Stiller

What the hell am I doing with my life?

Charlie Munger

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

Charlie Munger

Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business.

Charlie Munger

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?

Edmund White

Hell is God's Absence.

Diana Vreeland

I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!

Diana Vreeland

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

Alan Vega

Life is a gamble. And I took a chance, man. And here I am, talkin' to you today, thirty years later, wondering what the hell I did in the first place!

Bill Kurtis

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

Bill Kurtis

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

Bill Maher

March Madnesss...the only place where you hear 'Kansas is advancing.'

Alexandra Adornetto

(...) I don´t want a drink. I just want to know where am I? -You´re not in Kansas anymore!- Jake chuckled at his own joke.

Warren Moon

I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.

John Alexander

We are looking at all the options. I have been to Kansas and looked at (ethanol) plants up there and how they do things.

Drew Brees

I couldn't say that was our motivation, but obviously we all knew about it. But Kansas City's 8-4 now, and we've got to go there. So there are plenty of tough tests ahead.

Colton Haynes

Kansas is very religious, very Republican, and very straight-laced. I needed to get away from that.

Herman Edwards

He's got to get his mind mentally ready to play Kansas City. We know one thing: When he is healthy, we win games.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

John Lackey

When we have two jurisdictions, we have to have a meeting of the minds.

David Davies

We're going to meet up and have a training session before I go.

Tim Collins

We're doing everything we can to meet the needs of our customers, but things are going to be kind of crowded.

Amanda Brown

We're doing everything we can to meet that goal.

Robert Worthy

We're really getting into the meet of our schedule. This is really important.

Charles Stanley

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.

David Miliband

"I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?"'

David Rakoff

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Carl Sagan

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Byron Katie

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

Bobbi Brown

I look at a woman and I don't see what's wrong with her. I see what's right.

Bernard Williams

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

David Hume

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

David Dreman

Analysts have always been overly optimistic.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Carl Hiaasen

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

Noel Redding

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

Bo Bice

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Blake Shelton

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

Bill Parcells

You are what your record says you are.

Beyonce Knowles

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Peter Edwards

The other, the Klingensmith's cat, he'd shot and buried,

Mitchell Davis

We started out well, and we made them take shots that we wanted them to. But Trinity's very good. And we just couldn't make any shots.

Scott Wilson

We struggled offensively all night. The shots just rolled off the rim.

Joevan Catron

We started off really sluggish. That shot got us going and started us rolling.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

Mariusz Czerkawski

We have to get more traffic, simple plays, with more pucks on the net. Simple shots can work sometimes.

Dick Davey

We're making shots and that's something that we haven't been able to do this year.

Ned Yost

We're going to give this a shot, and a shot is not one day.

Keegan Bradley

Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.

Kristin Cast

No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.

Dave Shaw

She just wants to get on with her life.

Stephen Rodrick

Jeff Bridges wants you to take it easy, man.

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.

J. Taylor

She wants them back ... that's her life.

Jack Hughes

She wants the ball. She wants no one else there but her.

Mike Toussaint

She wants it bad, she wants to succeed.

Doug Phillips

She's a stickler. She's a perfectionist. She wants to do it right.

Armstrong Williams

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

Mike Easley

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

Susan Brooks

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

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Michael Bennet

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

Seth Greenberg

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

Robert Jordan

I tore all the ligaments around my collarbone. I don't know if I will be able to play (against Washington State).

Stephen Greene

For sure, Washington is going to be rowdier.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.