Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

Al Sharpton

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

Joseph Kamotho

We want the President to take action now as the leader of the Government and not a few ministers to defend him.

Cindy Cohn

We want them to pledge not to take action against the paper and all future papers as well, ... It's not appropriate for scientists to have to ask the industry for permission to present research.

Jodie Bernstein

We want them to know that the borderless Internet marketplace is not a free zone. Together with our partners, we are putting get-rich-quick schemes on notice that we're monitoring the Web and that we intend to take law enforcement action against those that continue to make fraudulent or deceptive claims.

Janet Reno

We want to try to apprehend those people and take action against them for the most serious crime for which they are eligible for prosecution,

Jan Egeland

We want to stay as long as we can. As we speak we have had to suspend action in many areas. Tens of thousands of people will not get any assistance because it's too dangerous and it could grow exponentially.

Jesse Greener

We want to see the provincial government play more of a leadership role and not leaving the colleges, and the students especially, out to hang dry, and we need to see that action very quickly.

Chogyam Trungpa

It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.

Charles Sturt

Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.

Charles Spurgeon

Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

Alan Moore

Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.

David Guterson

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

Cesar Pelli

The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

Camille Paglia

Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm. ?

Caitlin Thomas

money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

Carl Lewis

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

Carl Hiaasen

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

David Miliband

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Louis Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Louis Leakey

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

Louis Leakey

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Louis Leakey

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Michael York

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

Reg Keys

The people who will be his judge is not God, it will be the families of the bereaved British soldiers and it will be the families of the bereaved innocent Iraqis who have all been slaughtered in this totally unnecessary conflict.

Davina McCall

The people who go into that house are a cross section of British culture. They're not freaks.

Mike Parker

We are pleased to be able to enter into a contract that will secure the maximum return on the British taxpayers' investment and cement the continued leadership of Westinghouse in the nuclear energy field through the stewardship of the Toshiba Corporation.

Rob Walton

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

Navtej Sarna

We've also decided to permit relief material being sent by private organizations and international (charities) to Pakistan.

Glenn Matthews

We spoke and decided we didn't need to. We just want to let things settle down.

Luis von Ahn

I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's... might be a good idea.

Nolan Gerard Funk

I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky.

M.V. Govindan

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

Christopher Hill

Whether we have a draft that everyone agrees on, or whether it's decided that there should be a recess of some kind, we don't know yet,

Katie Cook

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we're in India, we've decided that we're going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

Ellen Key

The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.

Yoshihiko Noda

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

Mirko Slomka

We were a little tense in the first half, which I hadn't been expecting, but we were more decisive after the break.

Manuel Pellegrini

I expect maximum effort from my reserve players because this kind of match will be decisive for our season.

Van Chancellor

I enjoyed it when we were the favorites. I'm enjoying us being decisive underdogs, because nobody thinks we'll win this series. So, yeah, I'm enjoying it. I've enjoyed it all. What I'd like to do is see our players play as good as they can play.

Koya Tabata

There is no decisive lead for either side.

German Espejo

The paramilitaries played a decisive role in this election, particularly in the northern part of the country.

Atal Vajpayee

Our goal is victory. It's time to wage a decisive battle.

Boris Yeltsin

I think these qualities will be decisive during presidential elections in 2000, ... decent, honest and thorough.

Luc Montagnier

What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.

Denis Leary

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

Sophie Marceau

What's nice is that when you have to put a wig on, funny costumes, You know it's like being a little girl playing with accessories.

Delta Burke

And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Sushi is something very exclusive. It is not like a McDonald's, not like a hot dog, not like a French fry. It's very high-class cooking in Japan.

Shaun Stenshol

There are people who say it smells like popcorn, or French fries or doughnuts. But to me it is just a pleasant tang.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

Thomas Mars

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

Leslie Caron

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

Chuck Palahniuk

The only frontier left is the world of intangibles. Everything else is sewn up too tight.

David Hernandez

Frontier is trying to work with us and they have been very responsive to our situation.

Charles Kettering

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Albert Camus

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

John Conte

Our system of justice is not and should not be a system of frontier justice,

Paul Koretz

the last frontier of bigotry and discrimination, and it's time we put an end to it.

Bob Olson

The new frontier is back-office processing done offshore.

Dan Shechtman

The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

Jeff Hill

It's a new frontier for us, and it's good for us to know. Everything's connected. We need to protect what was given to us by our creator.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Clint Eastwood

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.