Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to be the most powerful person in the world? The answer is someone with an internal drive that is so dynamic and so determined.

Robert Walpole

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

Theodore Tilton

Life is done, but what is death?" Then, in answer to the King, Fell a sunbeam on his ring, Showing by a heavenly ray, "Even this shall pass away

Patricia Fripp

Life is a series of sales situations, and the answer is no if you don't ask.

Henry Hyde

Let me be clear about this, ... We are not here today to decide whether or not to impeach Mr. Clinton. We are not here to pass judgment on anyone. We are here to ask and answer this one simple question: based upon what we now know, do we have a duty to look further, or to look away?

Jack Rio

Let me answer that with the words from the hit Steely Dan song 'Do it Again,' ... You go back, Jack, do it again. Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round. You go back, Jack, do it again.

Liam Fox

lied and broke the law and he must answer for that.

Shaun Cassidy

Lost' has changed the climate for shows that don't answer all your questions by the end of every episode.

Douglas Gresham

Many people ask, 'Why are they coming back?' The answer is that these books never went away,

Italo Calvino

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Richard P. Feynman

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Richard P. Feynman

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

Mamata Banerjee

Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

David Shore

We're not closing any doors. What we've found is everybody's so fallen in love with these characters that we have to explore it, but we cannot simply throw out the essence of the show, which is the procedural element.

Barbara Jordan

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

Mohandas Gandhi

Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I should be my own follower. I know what an inadequate follower I am of myself, for I cannot live up to the convictions I stand for. You are no followers but fellow students, fellow pilgrims, fellow seekers, fellow workers.

Ralph Peters

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

Alexandra Paul

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

Alexandra Paul

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

Alexandra Paul

The cars we drive say a lot about us.

Itzhak Perlman

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

Israel Horovitz

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

Richard Rogers

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

Richard Rogers

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

Richard P. Feynman

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Robert Kazinsky

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.

Ernie Irvan

Man, I remember those nasty turns, and how hard it was to judge them. That's what made it so difficult, and the reason the drivers are always so competitive. I always said if you could win at Stockton, you could win anywhere.

Jojo Moyes

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

Jerrold Nadler

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

Steven Wieting

Many of the understandable sources of recovery have been expended in the first half of 2002, leaving growth drivers into 2003 a mystery.

John Gifford

Senior retail management is increasingly hard to find right now, ... A lot of the top executives have been around for a long time and they're still working on the premise that sales are driven by value for price and assortment.

Mel Martinez

Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

Takeshi Yamaguchi

Semiconductor makers are bottoming out because of strong demand. Any good news is likely to drive shares higher.

Rajiv Dutta

Seller success is going to, in turn, drive seller volume. That will, in turn, help the vibrancy of the marketplace and eBay's financials.

Jorma Ollila

Mobile can drive Internet usage, so we all will benefit. The pie is growing, and everybody can get his or her slice.

Mark Rylance

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.

Debra Messing

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

Johnny Galecki

I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality.

Meghan Ory

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.

Brent Weeks

'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.

Seanan McGuire

'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had the words slightly modified, and you'll also get just original works that have been written about science fiction and fantasy works, or with science fiction and fantasy themes.

N. K. Jemisin

I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.

China Mieville

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Douglas Smith

Mr. Dubois is not going anywhere. This is his home. He lives there. There are serious equities here.

Michael Leunig

Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day.

Jeffrey Skoll

My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.

Billy Joel

Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights...So well-arranged...Those tasteful words that we exchange...We know it's all a passing phase.

Mark Allen

Now that day has passed, they can get on with their lives again.

Lisa Pierce

I feel terrible for those people. They're still trying to get their lives back together. I see it and I just can't stop watching it. Like a train wreck.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

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.

Nelva Ancona

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

Rob Glaser

six months to a year from now is realistic.

Laura Davis

Six months ago, I would have said we have the strongest team,

Anne Worcester

If this is where it (the women?s tournament field) wound up, we would be thrilled. But just think that this is just the beginning. We still have another 3 1/2 months (to sign players).

Cynthia Stevenson

I loved doing 'Dead Like Me.' That role was phenomenal to me.

Marty Casey

When I was in Minnesota, I thought we had phenomenal volunteers, but we never had this volume.

Chad Spalding

Having two triples in one inning is something that is unheard of in my time with the team. Tyler just had a phenomenal game.

Scott Skiles

He was on. When he's on like that, he can shoot over people. His threes were dialed in. It was a phenomenal display.

Tom Crean

He's phenomenal at the end of the game.

Gary Player

If it did end up in a tie, it has been phenomenal golf. It could happen. If it did, so be it.

Dan Scanlon

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

Carolyn Thomas

We've had a phenomenal response from students as well.

Enrique Garcia

The response has been phenomenal from the community.

Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

George Galloway

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

Tom Smothers

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Nicola Sturgeon

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Andrew Morton

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Keith Gilbertson

We never had to go to public lands.

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

Elizabeth Bowen

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Abraham Lincoln

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Grace Young

On short notice, we're not going to get a lot of people.

David Hamilton

She's his own daughter. He (his father) is in recovery, but at the very least, she has shortened his life.

Rachelle Lemieux

She?s been sick and she can only play in short spurts because she has trouble breathing.

Winston Churchill

Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better

Alan Woods

Short term, this is going to be bad. Long term, this may be good.

Tom Parker

I don't have a worry he'll be short of words.

Tori Kelly

My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.

Carla Ponte

My disappointment - my big disappointment - is because six fugitives are still at large, most probably in Serbia, and that includes, of course, Mladic,

David Keith

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

Paula Abdul

I wish we could have more than six (guys).

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Bethany Mota

I remember when I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to come over and we would give each other blindfolded makeovers, which turned out interestingly to say the least!

Chauncey Billups

We didn't play that great, but we got it done. Sixty wins, that sounds good.

Eileen Caddy

Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.

Dave Mustaine

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

Bob Roach

She's very confident. She's well-integrated with the other kids. She's a wonderful young lady.

Lisa Hall

She did what she could with what she had. She did a wonderful job.

Sean Connery

I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.

Valentino Castellani

We are having a party. A wonderful party.

Walter Benjamin

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.

A. R. Ammons

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Robert Wilson

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

Malcolm McDowell

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Jorge Cruz

We're not doing anything bad. We just need the work.

Adoniram Judson

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Kathryn Minshew

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Kathryn Bigelow

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Ron Wood

Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.

Jack Reynor

My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.

Nas

N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.

Josh Pais

I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

Tamara Tunie

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

Ira Glass

Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

Samira Wiley

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.