Famous Quotes & Sayings

Issa Rae

You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me.

Issa Rae

I don't like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don't like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that's almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it.

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Isabella Rossellini

By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked how old I was. They almost fainted when I said 33.

Cory Doctorow

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

Rick Perlstein

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?

Rick Perlstein

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

Richard P. Feynman

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

Richard P. Feynman

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Joschka Fischer

Loyalty to allies is an important and central issue in German foreign policy but reason must always take priority,

Duke Cox

No one but the energy industry and its allies stand by it now.

Klaus Fuchs

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

Klaus Fuchs

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

John Tkacik

China's ambitious weapons modernization and reforms in military doctrine are aimed at promoting vast increases in its comprehensive national power, ... a wake-up call to the administration, to Congress, to the Taiwan government and to our friends and allies in the Asia-Pacific region that . . . China stands poised to assert itself as the pre-eminent power in the Asia-Pacific region.

James Inhofe

I'd much prefer to have a lot of allies out there, both in the Middle East and in Western Europe, ... Late Edition.

Timothy Murphy

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

Dave Reichert

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.

Sarah Palin

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

Lorne Michaels

Look, she really screwed up and it had a profound effect on her career. To me, it seemed it wasn't fair for someone that young to be that severely beaten up. So we're letting her come back.

Howard Davidowitz

Sears is an American institution that's getting beaten up, ... The company is trying everything it can to stay in business but it's still losing market share everywhere.

Albert Haldemann

My first personal reaction is that it's maybe not surprising since Mars gets beaten up a lot by impacts.

Jeri Morin

One reason I'm happy about winning tonight is that we've never beaten Riverton Parke since I've been coaching.

Dwight Freeney

Obviously, you hear a lot of Patriots this, Patriots that. Rightfully so: They've beaten us every year since I've been here.

Justin Gatlin

Of course I wish Asafa had run, ... I think the world record would have been threatened if he was there, and I think I would have beaten him.

Daryll Hill

Of course it was embarrassing. You're not supposed to get beaten like that on national television. We have to take it on the chin and come back.

Katie Smith

Obviously, these guys have beaten them before at their place. I wasn?t with them at the time, but we know it?s doable. I think it?s going to be another knock-down, drag-out (game), but I think we have the confidence and the tools to get it done.

Retief Goosen

Obviously it was a great round, I don't think it will be beaten for awhile,

Robert Fisk

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.

Kent Baer

(Lynch has) great vision, tremendous speed. You've got to make him run east and west, not north and south. He's a game-breaker kind of back, the kind of back you'd love to have on your team. He's a tremendous ballplayer.

Hiroyuki Kitakata

Losing Iran supplies will have a massive impact on the market, and there is no way that other Middle East producers are going to be able to make up for that loss.

Kacey Musgraves

Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.

Tony Blair

So for those who sometimes say that the process in the Middle East is hopeless we say we can look at Northern Ireland and take some hope from that.

Kevin Pittsnogle

Momentum helps, but last season, we went to the Big East with no momentum. We're in the same situation again.

Aaron Gray

One of our goals is to get a bye in the first round of the Big East Tournament.

Stacey Snider

Munich. If you're on either side in an extremist way on the issue of the source of the Middle East conflict, you're not going to just be upset, you're going to be really upset. Is that the reason not to make it? That was the gist of all of our conversations.

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.

Bible Bible

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

Dennis Prager

Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.

Ariel Sharon

Since then, I have worked tirelessly in all my meetings with Egyptians and others in order to do so,

Shereen El Feki

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight.

Elliott Abrams

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

Meles Zenawi

I am not worried that the Egyptians will suddenly invade Ethiopia. Nobody who has tried that has lived to tell the story.

Roger Wicker

Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt.

Mohammed Morsi

Egyptians are always and will always be supportive of their Palestinian brothers, all Palestinians.

Richard P. Feynman

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Yosef Lapid

Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.

Darcie Vincent

Megan was more patient in the second half. When she forces shots, it's not good for us. She's a great scorer but we need her to be patient.

Charles Sawyer

Of all of the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful as hope

Peter Pace

only a small number of Iraqi security forces are taking on the insurgents and terrorists by themselves.

Robert Mundell

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

Jaime Suchlicki

Now which way they're going to go ... I don't know. There are too many forces at work and too many people involved in this issue.

Ed Cogswell

Naturally you'll see more (campus police-JTTF partnerships) just because of the number of task forces that are up and running,

Jack Nicklaus

Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Jim Stewart

Mentally, you just have to stay focused. The minute you let your guard down, you give up five, six runs.

Gina Jones

Now that the truth is out, I want justice. I want the guards and nurse to be arrested.

Mark Sulser

From guard to guard they're 260 each. It's going to be a tough game.

Doc Rivers

I would play him right away. 'There you go. Guard somebody.' And he can do that. I'm sure he'll play. I'd be surprised if he didn't.

Ed DeChellis

If we get those two guys going, we've just got to get some guard production.

Jake Palluzzi

(Barnes) needs to understand how to get open and our guards have to get him the ball, too. It was two-fold.

David Jacobson

She was there to save us. These people in uniform are there to guard us.

Alana Beard

She's our missing piece. We didn't have a point guard we could rely on. She can rock anybody.

Adam Barrett

She's one of the top point guards in the state.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.

Alexandra Paul

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

Alexandra Adornetto

(Beth) "I don't care anymore." I turned my face up toward Heaven. "That's not my home anymore. You are.

Italo Calvino

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

Dave Gahan

Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.

Andy Landers

Let's be honest. It will be very much like a home game.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely

Joseph Gallagher

Lumber is up by about 25 percent over two weeks ago and carpeting and all the things that go into a home are up and spiked.

Greg McBride

Make sure you're in your home long enough to recoup those costs.

Dick Bennett

I don't even look at those things. There were so many streaks that I inherited here, and Wisconsin. When I was at Wisconsin, there were so many streaks there, I kind of let them go in one ear, and out the other.

B. F. Skinner

I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

Martin O'Malley

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

Stephen Sondheim

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

Allison Williams

My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.

Jon Adler

We seem to have inherited our own Loch Ness monster in terms of being able to find this monitoring.

Pastor Maldonado

Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

Tony Robichaux

We were able to get some big outs. Brandt got a big out for us, and Farquhar inherited a tough situation because you never know when your big inning will be.

Alexander Yakovenko

Moscow sees no reason to submit the question of the Iranian nuclear program to the UN Security Council,

Ehud Barak

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

Ehud Olmert

Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.

Ehud Olmert

It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

Ken Stern

To use this as a method for punishing Iran for its nuclear ambitions seems to be not well thought out.

Tetsu Emori

Traders are looking at the Nigerian and Iranian issues. They don't like to sell at present.

Dick Cheney

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

Robert Fisk

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

Bashar al-Assad

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

Elizabeth Dole

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

Ahmed Chalabi

What was said before is not important.

Ahmed Chalabi

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

Ahmed Chalabi

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

Ahmed Chalabi

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

Ahmed Chalabi

Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.

Chris Cornell

Friends of mine that are from here or that have spent time here have told me about Israel and how warm the people are and that I should someday come here.

Ehud Barak

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

Ehud Barak

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

Ehud Olmert

There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.

Ehud Olmert

When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

Ehud Olmert

In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.

Ehud Olmert

Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

Ehud Olmert

Peace is important for Israel.

Ehud Olmert

Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

Bruce Schneier

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.

Mark McKinnon

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.

Najib Razak

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

Evan Spiegel

What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.

David Stern

What we're doing here is largely symbolic. But it tells everyone that we've got to help. We've got to do better.

Myles Munroe

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Michael Griffin

We are largely deferring utilization (of the station) and we are paring logistics (flights) to the bone.

Rick Smolan

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

Diane Sawyer

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

Charles Schumer

I for one wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it and have been unsure how to vote.

Charles Schumer

I, for one, have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, being unsure how to vote.

Larry Fitzgerald

I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.

Stephnie Weir

I'm a middle child, and I have a younger sister who is stunning - just beautiful and smart.

Dale Jones

If they put in a bridge, it would save a lot of (driving) miles, but they'll never put that in out here in the middle of nowhere.

John McMillin

If they see United Way of Middle Tennessee, in a nutshell, sometimes they may not know that that isn't the United Way that represents their county.

Dr. Selzer

I don't dawdle. I'm a surgeon. I make an incision, do what needs to be done and sew up the wound. There is a beginning, a middle and an end.

Dannel Malloy

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Noam Chomsky

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

Timothy Noah

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

George McGovern

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

Jill Abramson

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

Ben Shapiro

President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.

Ben Shapiro

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

Glenn Greenwald

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.

Dennis Miller

Obama better hope a kicked ass is covered by Obamacare.

Cindy Sheehan

Senator Clinton, taking the peace road would not prove you are weak,

Vajira Premawardhana

New projects could be put on hold, especially now with the peace process under pressure.

Ludwig von Mises

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Ludwig von Mises

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Ludwig von Mises

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Charles Peguy

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Denis Diderot

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Dean Rusk

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Make her laugh, make her laugh, make her laugh. After all, the strongest relationships are the ones in which you can laugh with your partner through anything.

Marc Cherry

Let's just say she has a very interesting relationship with her son.

Eleanor Porter

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Elbert Hubbard

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

Eileen Caddy

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Bill Clinton

I did not have sexual relationship with that woman!

Elizabeth Bowen

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

Deepak Chopra

Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.