Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

Alan Rickman

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

Alan Rickman

I love working in New York theater.

Alan Rickman

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

Alan Rickman

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

Alan Brien

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

Alain Resnais

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

Al Sharpton

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

Al Leiter

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Rickman

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

Alan Grayson

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

Alan Grayson

If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

Alan Greenspan

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

Alan Ball

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Al Sharpton

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

America is laughing her way to Hell.

Mark Cuban

If I can do it, you can do it.

Edwin Land

Don't do anything that someone else can do.

David Allen

You can do anything, not everything

Craig McCracken

Theres a lot you can do without words.

Anthony de Mello

There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.

Ram Dass

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

Betty Cuthbert

I don't concentrate on things I can't do. I do what I can do.

Florence Scovel Shinn

There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.

Harvey Pekar

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.