Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shane Warne

Where it came from I don't know. But if people are trying to unsettle me personally and the team all together through the newspapers, it won't work. We'll be looking into this article in particular and taking it from there.

Don Phillips

Way too much is made of the slowdown of money into funds in December, ... For the last several years, there have been countless articles telling investors 'Don't buy a fund in late November or early December' because you might be buying just before it pays its dividend and then you'll have to pay taxes on the dividend next April? Investors are doing what's rational and right.

Ken Mehlman

What's interesting is you could have showed me an article about 20 years ago in The Washington Post that predicted that Ronald Reagan was a lame duck.

Thomas Martin

We're not asking to get him removed. It's not about him. The article is a symptom of a larger issue.

Kevin McCloud

A friend of mine once wrote a silly article about all these metrosexuals like David Beckham wearing sarongs, and she described me as a 'heteropolitan.' I don't know what that means. I think it was a joke.

Ron Wood

I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.

Stanley A. McChrystal

In June 2010, after more than 38 years in uniform, in the midst of commanding a 46-nation coalition in a complex war in Afghanistan, my world changed suddenly - and profoundly. An article in 'Rolling Stone' magazine depicting me, and people I admired, in a manner that felt as unfamiliar as it was unfair, ignited a firestorm.

Tom Lenk

My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.

Temple Grandin

When I was in high school and college, I thought everybody could think in pictures. And my first inkling to my thinking was even different was when I was in college and I read an article about, you know, some scientist said that the caveman could not have designed tools until they had language.

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Carl Levin

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

Fran Quigley

We are pleased the court decided the Indiana Constitution prohibits the Evansville school corporation from imposing a fee for programs and services that are essential to young Hoosiers' education.

Louie Gohmert

The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

Abraham Lincoln

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

Gerald R. Ford

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Eula Biss

Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.

Eric Holder

Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.

Martin Anderson

We're confirming that houses have been lost; we can't give you the numbers.

Keeley Hawes

I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.

Susan Lyne

She has lived in many homes. She has made houses and a lifestyle her life's work.

Lynn Forres

We have appropriated about $90 billion. And I don't see that the homeowners are getting it to be able to prepare to put their houses back.

Jacky Teplitzky

There is a standstill situation. We all thought September was going to be a strong month, but that did not happen. The phones did not ring. Turnout at the open houses was low, lower than we had expected.

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

Lee Brice

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

Luke Evans

I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.

Elsa Peretti

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Nykesha Sales

Yeah, I played the majority of the year, but that's just like training. You train all year round anyway, so it's the same thing.

Jeremy Corbyn

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Charles Caleb Colton

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Alan Watts

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Alan Watts

Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

Alan Watts

The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

Alan Moore

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

Alan Moore

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I don't think that parliament will find the strength to annul its decision.

Derrick Kellier

I feel satisfied, it has been a long haul. I have been in Parliament since 1989.

Edmund Burke

Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

William Wilberforce

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

James Otis

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

Norman Tebbit

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Dario Perkins

A split parliament would be the worst-case scenario.

Jeremy Corbyn

I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.

Kenneth Rexroth

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

Harold Wilson

What he proposes is, in my view ... unacceptable.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Tom Latham

I think that person who actually proposes things, who will save Medicare, will be in a lot stronger position than someone who demagogues the issue.

Abbas Zaidi

We have proposed Karachi as a Test and a one-day venue.

Stephen Byers

The proposed merger...might result in a substantial lessening of competition,

Fred Trueman

I am here to propose a toast to sportswriters. It's up to you whether you stand up or not.

Marty McOmber

This wasn't a surprise. This is why we proposed the legislation.

Howard Miller

I think what he's proposed is accommodating It's gorgeous.

Christo

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Ben Harper

I refuse to make uninspired music.

Edward Everett

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Al Goldstein

I refuse to be silenced.

Donald Glover

I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.

Diane Jacobowitz

He refused to sign the petition. He didn't want any part of it.

Sadaharu Oh

I was disappointed but it's up to him to decide. It was not a surprise that he refused since he had been hesitating for such a long time.

Don Moreland

I thought Walker just stepped up and (turned on his game) in the second half, just refuse to lose.

Marcus Aurelius

He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse

Zab Judah

Just don't trash-talk then refuse to sign a contract, ... That's disrespectful.

Casey Stengel

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

Charlie Hunnam

It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.

Bob Marley

Money can't buy life.

Bob Marley

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Stephen Taylor

We're finalizing a settlement. It should be signed soon.

Tommy Shaw

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.

Brian Mulroney

Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Dennis Weaver

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Asa Hutchinson

She delivers the signed affidavit to Mr. Jordan,

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

CeeLo Green

I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.

Jessica Wolf

He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.

Sam Richards

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

Karen Hughes

is something that's widely supported in the region.