Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melissa Caldwell

Until a couple years ago, the FCC was sort of asleep at the wheel when it comes to indecency enforcement, ... We helped jump-start the FCC and get them to look at this issue seriously.

Nathan Kirsh

Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

Dennis Goldford

What this does, at the very least, is raise the question of competence. Did someone fall asleep at the switch?

Kate Forsyth

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

Shilpa Shetty

I believe I am blessed with the ability to fall asleep just about anytime, anywhere. I can sleep on a flight, on a couch, and even on a bus.

Tom Inman

We're not consistently putting people asleep when we need to.

Sue Monk Kidd

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

Nathaniel Hawthorne

She and her husband fell asleep with hands tenderly clasped, and awoke, from visions of unearthly radiance, to meet the more blessed light of one another's eyes.

Ralph Nader

Sixty-four percent of people polled want a four-way debate. People like debate. They like competition. They like not to fall asleep in front of the TV set, watching the drab debate the dreary.

Karl Rove

The outcome of that debate will shape the course of human events,

Gary Shaw

When you've been going to places for 35 years, of course you think about it being your last time. Each track meet has something you remember.

Lexi Thompson

I'm not a huge shopper. I love looking good - obviously, on the golf course I like looking sharp, that's for sure. I'm just not into knowing brands.

Jack Ferguson

When he got fired, of course he was shocked. I don't think he was ever given a reason for it. They packed him up and tossed him out. If they had just paid him, he probably would have just gone his way.

Carol Nelson

Whether or not (the WASL) has demonstrated its effectiveness yet, I think it's still too new to rate, ... But it's important to stay the course and not lower standards, and let the tool do its work.

Juli Inkster

We've always got a good field here, and the course and the facilities are great. We've all enjoyed the experience here. I think it's great that they're trying to work it out to stay.

Katie Featherston

I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl!

Max Gartner

Whenever racers ski a course for the first time, the strategy is to focus on the line and to take the first run as an opportunity to evaluate how the mountain reacts.

Kate Mulgrew

We would very much like to work together again. And we've talked about it for years. For some reason it's been elusive. She would take a movie idea to a network and I would not be available. And of course Voyager happened and it's just been - it's not been in the cards. But I'd give my eye-teeth to work with her.

Jeff Horvath

The other team saw all of our players leave and maybe that lulled them to sleep.

Sian Jones

The people who lived here couldn't leave it.

Catherine Bell

We usually work 14-hour days, and sometimes 16 to 18 days, which doesn't leave much time for anything else - most Sundays are spent recovering.

Jon Nettleton

We'd like to be here when it's all said and done. We'd obviously like to come back and leave it all on this floor.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Ariel Sharon

working document... not a take it or leave it document.

Elbert Higginbotham

We're from Arizona. The No. 1 rule is never, never leave your vehicle.

Fidel Castro

The plane will be ready to leave Tuesday if the visas are granted,

Kim Gordon

I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode.

Brandon Banks

At this time, we are corroborating witness statements in regards to suspect description.

Dennis Hastert

Back in 1935, there were 42 workers for every retiree. Today, in regards to Social Security, we only have 3 workers for every retiree.

Sergei Lavrov

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

Kenneth Edmonds

In regards to the play, I'll just keep watching it and go out on the road every now and then to see how it's going and to tweak it to make it better.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.