Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

William Lennon

We're not bring these charges to be popular, we're bringing these charges in order to stand up and take on public corruption head-on.

Sumner Redstone

Li is clearly a pioneer in bringing innovative partnerships to the Chinese people.

Guy Hohenhaus

Lifting the last remaining hold order at Pimlico is a positive that things are coming to a close there. We will continue working with all parties involved to monitor the situation and bring it to a conclusion. We thank the owners, trainers, and staff for their diligence in practicing prudent bio-security measures and their patience as we work through this science-based process that will make sure the remaining horses test negative before they will be released from the detention barn.

Sathya Baba

Life would be stale if there were no trials and difficulties. It is these difficulties which bring out the human values in man.

Steve Mitchell

Let this be a starting point for us in renaming B Street a starting point for us to come together as a community all nationalities, bring it down to the human level.

Jim Johnson

Luckily, we had some engineers along. They just love that kind of scenario -- troubleshooting on the fly. That's what brings us joy in our work is fixing something and carrying on, instead of just being shut down.

John Strand

Luna Energy is a neighbor that brings tax revenues and new jobs to our city and county.

Buck Martinez

Luis Gonzalez has the respect of everybody in baseball, and his opinion is very valued. He's always been a character guy that we respect a lot. We felt that he brings everything we want on this team.

James Burrows

I have a fun clause in my contract. If I'm not having fun, I can leave.

Jean Chretien

We've discussed democracy, we have a clause of democracy, ... We've discussed what's needed to help the 800 million people in the hemisphere. We have discussed the environment, we have discussed education, we have discussed health, and all the leaders were very, very happy with what happened.

Greg Sarris

I think the anti-gaming clause shows, 'Hey, these Indians aren't doing this for the money,'

David Simmons

There is no ghost clause in that lease.

Carl Goldberg

If someone construes that clause to be a loophole, I think it's strictly an interpretation that was not the intent of the authority.

Paul Jewell

Jimmy's down talking to Fulham at the moment. He had a clause in his contract. I'm really disappointed to lose him, but he's been a fantastic player for us.

Paul Jewell

Jimmy is talking to them and I'll be disappointed to lose him. But we had to have the clause as he'd have otherwise been out of contract.

Jeremy Corbyn

I think we should talk about what the objectives of the party are, whether that's restoring the Clause Four as it was originally written or it's a different one, but I think we shouldn't shy away from public participation, public investment in industry, and public control of the railways.

Fay Vincent

It doesn't mean (Selig) shouldn't investigate, but it's going to be a very difficult position for him. If people suggest that he could use the 'best interest of baseball' clause to suspend Bonds, I think it would take the union about three minutes before a federal judge to get that enjoined.

S. Hughes

Lorenzo is out of contract this summer, and it's fair to say he won't be offered another deal.

Gil Brandt

Leaf got the big contract and that was his utopia - he didn't want to work for anything else. That's what makes this so hard: You don't know how guys are going to respond to financial success, if they will still work hard. If you knew that, you wouldn't have so many busts.

Lee Young

Several hours before the end of the official transfer period, Swede Erik Edman has signed a three-year contract with Stade Rennais.

Steve Lewis

Mike informed me today that he will not be seeking to extend his contract as Wales national coach.

Edwin Eisendrath

Mr. Blagojevich has been campaigning at taxpayer expense for months. Now he will have to rely on the state contractor and lobbyist contributions to pay for his efforts.

Gary Bettman

My feeling is contracts should always be honored,

Glenn Wilson

Obviously, we're disappointed we didn't get a contract back from Rodriguez. It was a shock to us. We're still hoping he might be back, but at the same time we've had to move forward and look at different directions.

Denis Irwin

Of course he's denying it, he's under contract to United, but that doesn't mean he won't be Republic manager when our next competitive games come round.

LaMont Jordan

My contract doesn't say I'm that kind of runner,

Mike Black

My first role was a tree at the Fox Theatre in Aurora in the Wizard of Oz .

George Grayson

Fox leaves office and has precious little to show. He's hoping to pull a rabbit out of his hat.

Peter Liguori

Fox is proud to have been the home of this groundbreaking comedy. From its innovative production values to its exceptional writers and cast, this series has helped shape the modern sitcom. We'll miss this hilariously loud and manic--yet somehow relatable and admirable--family.

George Grayson

Fox is looking for some way to be remembered in history.

Preston Beckman

Fox has a history of launching shows in the summer season.

Federico Estevez

Fox didn't meet all the expectations that were inordinately inflated by his team, by him, and by opinion makers.

Gary Bauer

I don't know what compassionate conservatism is if it doesn't include protection for innocent unborn children, ... Fox News Sunday.

Shepard Smith

When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the one doing the news. It's my show, and there's no place for opinion on my show. It's uninteresting to me.

Frank Caliendo

Fox does the NFL a lot like they program the rest of the network. There's sort of a locker room sense of humor that prevails. With ESPN, it's more like a pat-you-on-the-back kind of comedy. I mean, they'll all get on each other a little bit, but it's never mean-spirited.

Donald Trump

Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in,

Michael Schaffer

Maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.

George H. W. Bush

Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working,

Larry Brown

Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know,

Chris Shelton

Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins.

Evan Needham

Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.

Donald Lowe

Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one test does everything for everybody.

Sam Singer

Maybe we should trade in our supervisor for somebody up in Seattle.

Brian Urlacher

Maybe we shouldn't get a bye week anymore.

David Chang

Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though.

Susan Williams

We're pretty picky on those kind, and my first reaction was it was an error.

Scott Speedman

I'm pretty picky about what I want to do.

Jeff Quackenbush

I'm really picky about our post players. I probably talk to Cory more than any of our other players.

Dean Rusk

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Eduardo Galeano

Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread ...

Dick DeVos

One more step on the road to getting it done for Michigan.

Tom Davies

Now we'll get them on the road and see what we can do.

Dean Saito

Getting gross-polluting vehicles off the road is a cost-effective strategy.

Jim Bolla

Fresno is No. 1 in our conference. Let's go up there and see if we can play well and keep our road streak going.

Steve Davies

I wouldn't want to be out on the rural roads tonight up there.

Tim Short

I wouldn't trade what we've done for anything. I think going on the road has made us a better team.

John Miller

I find it really hard-pressed to support a road tax when right here there's nothing being done.

Tom Tupa

She's doing great, ... She's completely done with all her treatments, and she's on the road to recovery.

John Adams

Since the road has been changed, that's just let everything come off the park.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Valerie June

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Gene Ween

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Miranda Cosgrove

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Liz Callaway

Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.

Etta James

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Kate Micucci

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.

Mark Lewis

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Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.