Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Boal

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.

Earl Smith

The question is, 'what do we do?' as there is a view which says that anything artistic should not be censored because it is a creative expression, etc. But if it is having that kind of negative impact on our young people, that is something that we are fighting against, the violence and the aggression, then we have to do something about it. And my view is that these things should be censored, banned from the airwaves and the electronic media. I have no qualms about it.

Michelle Malkin

Unfortunately, this is very bad news for the White House -- and not just because of the inevitable late-night jokes that will inundate the airwaves over the next week.

Jesse Jackson

He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.

Richard Rushing

There is a tremendous amount of critical and confidential information flying through the airwaves in the Georgia State Capitol. Our challenge is to keep this information secure while enabling wireless access.

Nathan Deal

We've heard the argument here now that the FCC is the one that ought to redefine the definition of indecency. Perhaps that is true. I find it objectionable that those who have been granted the free use of our airwaves would not see fit to restrain themselves within their own conduct to define conduct that is less than indecent, that is that which we've heard the use of the words crude, inappropriate.

Louie Fernandez

This was something that was crackling over the airwaves immediately. If happiness could have been a cloud of red smoke, we wouldn't have been able to see our hands in front of our face. Amid all the death and destruction, it's amazing what one survivor can do to boost everybody's spirits.

Jonathan Zittrain

TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.

Robert McChesney

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

Issa Rae

I really want to be the black Tina Fey, where I just am able to produce my own content and produce other content for other minority filmmakers and put their voices on screen and basically be able to have free range to produce.

Rick Perlstein

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.

John Hancock

We're not desperate, we just want to get our head count up to our control level. I'd like to hire about nine or 10, and I think that would move us into this winter and spring. We're basically hiring and training year- round.

Fred Smoot

Like Coach Tice told me, I can't get out there and try to jump back in and try to run and get where I was, ... I've got to step up the ladder. So basically I've just got to be smart right now instead of trying to be who I am.

Bill Brunson

Let's say that you decide to electronically file your tax return, but want a paper check issued, you're still cutting your time basically in half by electronically filing your tax return.

Melanie Boeglin

Losing this game, we basically know that we blew our chance for an at-large bid. We know that we have to come back here to win three games to go to the NCAA Tournament.

Garrett Hedlund

'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.

Lou Piniella

Look, there are a lot of people who care about him and work with him, ... He has to be careful how he responds to the media. Basically you have to be careful. ... He wants to do well. He gets a little bewildered.

Magnus Scheving

'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.

Stacy Schiff

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.

Jim Trett

By wearing them down we got it inside. The first half we had a tough time. They were really crowding (the inside). The second half they were worn down and it wasn't cluttered inside.

M. Wolfe

I like to say that I provide pain relief to people whose lives are cluttered with too much stuff. Getting your office organized can give you peace, serenity and can really simplify your life.

Carl Hiaasen

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

Brad Smith

We had a very constructive dialogue yesterday. In fact I wish we could have had had this type of dialogue sooner.

Ted Baker

Given that we're starting on Sept. 2 and the NHL pre-season doesn't start until two or three weeks after that, we'll be able to dialogue with the NHL about things we're seeing in our games that will hopefully help everyone.

Sanjaya Baru

The Prime Minister would like all men and women of goodwill in the dialogue process to end the period of suffering.

Kate Grenville

I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

Li Zhaoxing

China-US relations have, on the whole, maintained stability and growth. Dialogues and exchanges at the various levels have improved mutual understanding and mutual trust,

Tracy Chapman

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

Sha Zukang

We are ready to have dialogue . . . we are ready to talk to them,

Vuk Draskovic

We are ready for dialogue and we are ready to stop the demonstrations. ... (but) that dialogue must be expressed in the media -- state media -- in a free and open way.

Rick Carlisle

We know we are going to have some sluggish stretches here with guys getting back. We're just going to have to fight our way through it.

Alexis Arguello

Man I have to say this honestly each and every fight was great for me because for me to be able to perform as I did I had to go to work.

Steve Forbes

Make no mistake. This fight has just begun.

Tie Domi

Let me fight your toughest guy; if I win I get a spot on your team.

E. O. Wilson

Last year we didn't have the same team. This year we have a more able team. We can fight back.

Hugh Fountain

Last year, we were playing for a region championship. This time we're fighting for our region life.

Stuart Symington

Many were hurting because they have been fighting the flood for so long.

Jim Jacobs

Mike is only 19 years old. Look up the ring records of Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano and see who they were fighting after 10 months. You won't recognize any of the names.

Richard LeVine

Mobility is something your workers do to you. They will be mobile whether you want them to or not... Why fight it?

Archibald Hill

One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

Craig Ray

Maybe the number of travelers aren't as high, but the money spent is way up. The travelers are staying longer and spending more money. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say it's very positive.

Jake Bugg

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.

Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

David Givens

I was surprised to win, I thought for sure someone else would have a longer commute.

Michael Vick

I would have been able to come back and play ... With an injury, the longer you sit on the sideline and kind of nurse it a little bit, the stiffer you get. Once I got stiff, there was no need to go back in.

Seth Harp

I have always said when people first marry there is a whole lot of lust and not a whole lot of understanding. The longer you are married the more you understand each other.

Henry Rollins

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Bill Rodgers

So, I would recommend one longer run daily, with your longest run when you can get the time.

Roger Andrew Taylor

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Granger Whitelaw

Now that we're headquartered here, you may see some announcements in the months to come.

Dave Smith

I feel more optimistic at this time than I did 12 months ago, but we've still got a lot of work to do.

Mariella Frostrup

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

Dave Parker

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

Martin Havlat

If we don't play, then my month is over. That'd be just great.

H. Hart

because of war and other considerations, that may slip another month or so to April.

Nelva Ancona

I feel the sadness of this family. She is two months pregnant and she has two kids.

Patrick Biancone

She has been treated and will spend a month at Ashford Stud.

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Karel Bruckner

I can tell you that the starting lineup will be very different this time.

Kevin McHale

Getting Marko was something we really wanted to do. It's all starting to come together.

Herman Edwards

If we had to play tomorrow, ... Kingsbury would be our starting quarterback.

Rob Niedermayer

I didn't want to go. I really wanted to stay. Things were starting to go well. I was pretty disappointed when I got traded.

Dan McCarney

I don't know who the starting kicker's going to be.

Jonathan Taylor

Tribes are starting to make it on their own.

Aaron Levie

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Stephen Moyer

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

Taron Egerton

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

Dick Wolf

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Van Dyke

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Dennis Farina

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Denis Johnson

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Deborah Roberts

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

John DeVilbiss

If you don't put it on as continuing, you'll have to be back to the voters all the time.

Jack Germond

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.