Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

Robert Teeter

The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican.

Rulon Gardner

Make sure the people of Laramie stay healthy, or my sister Marcella will come visit you, ... With my sister, physically maybe (she can be overpowered), but mentally, psychologically she will destroy you. I don't mess with my sisters. You think I'm tough, you should mess with my family.

Marguerite Valois

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

George E. Pataki

September 11 wasn't just aimed at destroying the two towers and killing thousands of people. It was aimed at dividing us and frightening us and taking away our freedom and taking away our confidence,

David Richard

So it is important to set realistic targets for young drivers. I've seen drivers destroyed by high expectations and fear of failure.

Dieter Hundt

Minimum wages would destroy at least a part of these jobs, which are occupied primarily by people with few qualifications and in eastern Germany.

Igor Smirnov

Moldova destroyed this plan with its own hands by imposing an economic blockade.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so very fortunate; dwell upon the jewel of spiritual wisdom. You hold in your hands the sword of the Guru's spiritual wisdom; with this destroyer of death, kill the Messenger of Death.

Frank Holmes

Money will flow to where there are solid returns on capital. There are great opportunities in Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. We're seeing economic growth twice that of the U.S. but stocks are trading at a discount.

Brad Taylor

From what we can see, it's a trend that is moving into Eastern Washington from Western Washington.

John Fusco

I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Piqua and the Mohegan Indians of that area.

Suzy Merchant

She's the face of Eastern Michigan basketball. She can do it all.

George Grey

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.

Goldie Hawn

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

F. Sionil Jose

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

Mark Connolly

What we have seen in Eastern Europe, particularly in some of the former Soviet republics, is just a very accelerated increase in infection, primarily through intravenous drug use.

Shalrie Joseph

We are not going to sit back, even when we are on the road. We will keep doing what got us to the top of the Eastern Conference.

Richard Rogers

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Robert Wilson

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Ron Wood

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Stuart Anderson

Like any other day, you feel like you leave a few out there. But any time you shoot 68 with a hole in one, you can't complain.

James Kilts

Mach3 will remain No. 1 for the first few years, but Fusion will become our flagship brand.

Kelly Martin

Magdalena's beatable, but they're tough. Our girls got stuck a few times, but they never gave up.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words. And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words, ... And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

Martha Stewart

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

Jim Talent

Missouri is going to be better off because we've kept these jobs in Missouri.

Walt Fennell

One of our jobs is to be a greeter. As a resident, I like that too.

Roger Williams

One of my major jobs as secretary of state is to get people to vote, and I'm going to do my job.

O. J. Simpson

No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed.

Jay Shows

One thousand-plus jobs within a 40-mile radius represents a major labor provider.

Ray Giacoletti

Money is the crux of our business. People take jobs because of money. Money ruins everyone.

Roger Schagrin

Numerous plants will be shut down, thousands of workers will lose their jobs and communities will be devastated.

Dito Montiel

When I had jobs, I was always doing manual jobs because I couldn't think. I worked at the docks, unloading trucks, and did ridiculous jobs.

Tim Barrett

Some monthly minimum payments could be twice what they were.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

Kevin Knox

We're going to see 4.6GB be a minimum for around six months or so. Then we'll move quickly to 6.4GB.

Jan Johnson

We have minimum wage laws. Do we need more social engineering? ... I say no.

Mayor Iwuc

Better than the minimum qualifications outlined in the charter. Not only do I want the best-qualified chief, I want the best.

Aaron Rodgers

There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

Rep. Lawlor

Most people who are sex offenders plea bargain, often because the victims themselves don't want to testify. If the minimum sentence is 25 years, no one would ever plead to a sex offense.

Ray Williams

We'll be out of power, they said, minimum a month,

David Byrne

We can say we're trying to reduce the risk to the minimum but there is no such thing as risk-free,

Rose Angel

My time right now is occupied with family.

Debi Mazar

My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch.

Ariel Sharon

It's not occupied territory, but disputed territory, and that is the real thing, ... It is disputed territory.

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.

David Boies

From our perspective, to say that you are going to wait until after the trial to have the examination of the ballots, is backwards, because here the witnesses are primarily the ballots.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

Matthew Quick

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.

John Ashcroft

Thousands of persons, primarily women and children, are trafficked into the United States each year,

Hootie Johnson

We settled on 18-10 primarily in consideration of our patrons.

Jared Bernstein

has primarily to do with the compensation the typical worker earns.

Richard Sherman

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

Brendan Myers

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

John Heimlich

We don't yet have traffic back where we need it, but yes, the problem (of losses) is primarily fares rather than traffic,

Ed Pastor

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

Benjamin Harrison

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.

Jared Bernstein

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

Susan B. Anthony

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!