Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Reid

Let's have a real investigation and a vote here in the Senate. What the president has agreed to is no review.

Edward Norton

Lewis and Clark's expedition is as great a story as you could ever hope to tell, and like so many people, Brad and I have both been drawn to it for years, ... We both always agreed that compressing that story into a feature-length film ruined the spirit of it ... so we sat down and said, 'How can we really do this justice?'

Kofi Annan

Libya has also agreed to a trial in a third country and believes that it ought to be possible to find answers to all other outstanding issues relating to this matter,

Adnan Pachachi

Leaders of political parties have agreed to postpone parliament. There are still some issues that have not been resolved yet.

Steve Lewis

Scott has told us that he wants to stay in Wales, but he has some issues to sort out in Australia and he has kept us informed about his position. We have agreed to meet at the end of the Six Nations to thrash out his contractual position.

Charles Schumer

Sen. Graham and I do not think it would be appropriate to vote on this bill while the president is there, so we have agreed to delay the vote,

Kevin Bishop

Senator (Lindsey) Graham has not agreed to delay a vote on the China currency legislation. No decision has been made and any insinuation to the contrary is nothing more than uninformed speculation.

Arlen Specter

Senator Leahy and I took a look at it and agreed that it was insufficient,

James Rubin

Secretary Albright just got off the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu and they agreed to meet here in Washington on Wednesday to discuss ways in which we can overcome remaining differences

Robert Rainy

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

Shuji Nakamura

Many researchers have joined the field and applied the LED to many new markets such as mobile phone screens, LED TV, and LED Lighting.

Nancy Lee

Several years ago, I think it might go back eight, we did cut back on what we call the second games, whether it was at 7 o'clock or 10 o'clock. And that applied to everyone. But Montreal, because of their longer existence than Ottawa or the teams out west, would have felt the effect more. It was a budgetary thing at that point.

J. J. Johnson

Send the families to us, ... We don't have much for older adults without children, but we can help families out financially with benefit checks and food stamps. Those who haven't ever applied for food stamps will still be able to fill out an application.

Bob Mancini

My issue with the whole thing is that I don't believe that they applied the rules correctly. They way I understand it ... is the referees are in charge. They're supposed to have a decision. They need to call goal or no goal and (in replay) determine whether it's conclusive or inconclusive. I'm looking forward to talking to the league tomorrow.

Bill Walker

One hundred and fifty school systems applied for the MSAP grant. Fifty were awarded, and Jackson-Madison County Schools was one of them.

Chuck Thompson

One two-person team has applied and I expect others,

Robert C. Merton

My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.

Tina Brown

It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet.

Alafair Burke

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Amy Ziff

Last year was a massive year for holiday travel. The summer kept going in that direction, and we have the same expectation for this year despite fuel costs. If you wait until November, I think you run the risk of not getting what you want or paying a whole lot more to get what you want.

Rowen Tupuivao

Mentally hanging in there despite all the mistakes, that was the key for us. We could have folded, but we didn't go to sleep. We tried to make something happen.

Stephen Brobeck

Net wealth hardly grew despite a substantial rise in house values.

Mike Walsh

Mo seems to have fared well despite his ordeal and is expected to fully recover,

David Sidwell

Morgan Stanley had a great quarter. This was accomplished despite everything the firm has been through.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously it negates the theory about Dow 1,000. What (the new milestone) tells us is people have a lot of confidence. Money is still flowing into the United States despite some question marks about inflation. Nothing has changed.

Kathy Giusti

Despite the fact that one in every two men and one in every three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, no one ever expects it to happen to them. I surely didn't. I was an otherwise healthy 37-year-old when I was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, the same rare cancer Tom Brokaw has.

Christie Hefner

Newsstand sales for our flagship magazine rose in the first half of the year despite a very difficult market that resulted in many of our competitors reporting year-over-year declines.

Ed O'Neill

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

Elizabeth Blackwell

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

David Bowie

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Sherri Coale

If we know we've got one graduating, we're looking for another one. It's like getting a point guard or a shooter. It's a kid with an edge. You have to have some of that.

Kelly Greenberg

She's really stepped up with the graduation of their star players from last season. She has a real nice step back move and can shoot out the three. She's really a player that, as a sophomore, has become their leader.

Tommy Caldwell

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

William Lyon Phelps

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

Alexandra Fuller

I had the constitution of a missionary.

Albert Schweitzer

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Albert Schweitzer

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

Bryan Smith

Last year, we only had a 1 percent increase in our health insurance premium.

Stanislaw Dziwisz

Many journalists who in the past have written about the pope's health are already in heaven.

Jim Edmonds

Scott's healthy and it looks like he's nice and strong. That is going to be a huge plus for us.

Elyssa Rosen

Self-regulation is not enough to protect the health of our communities.

Gillian Anderson

Motherhood has been enormously healthy for her. She's more secure.

Mike Keane

Obviously, we want Jason in the lineup but his health is the No. 1 concern.

Robert Fisk

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

Alexander Yakovenko

Moscow sees no reason to submit the question of the Iranian nuclear program to the UN Security Council,

Ehud Barak

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

Ehud Olmert

Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.

Ehud Olmert

It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

Bashar al-Assad

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

Elizabeth Dole

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

Ahmed Chalabi

What was said before is not important.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Sathya Baba

One without power does not mean lack of physical or mental strength.

Bruce Bochy

One thing we are lacking is power, ... It would be big if we could get him going.

Phil Roth

Next, we worry about the 'January effect,' or lack of it.

Democritus

There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

Michael Keaton

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

David Castro

I would feel that aggravates the situation, ... his lack of empathy, his lack of remorse.

Roger Jones

Because of the lack of water, we aren't doing too much fishing.

Taylor Dent

I lost this match for the same reason I lost 99 percent of my matches over the last year and a half; my serve let me down. He played awesome; he made me pay for my lack of serving.

Mikko Hypponen

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

Mystikal

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Emma Udwin

From now on, there will be no more payments through the National Palestinian Authority.

Foster Friess

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest.

Charde Houston

She has two national championships under her belt. She has to be like that.

Mark Souder

If this is a cohesive national policy, it is embarrassing,

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Tad Williams

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Trey Gowdy

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

Cliff Black

We don't know what ignited it, perhaps a leak.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Hugo Papstein

We did some engineering stuff a year ago, and we are doing a little formatting and engineering research now.

Mike Daly

We've done our research and we think that it's OK.

John Henderson

We do all those things (site research) but not on such a formalized basis. Even responding to this (contract bid) was a project.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Derek Bailey

I don't research anything.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Carl Jung

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

David Greene

We need independent scientific breakthroughs in each of these three areas.

Ray Comfort

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

Louise Lippincott

When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.

Harold Varmus

We were overwhelmed by the scientific community's response,

Wayne Murdy

There has never been a scientific study showing that we have polluted the bay.

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

Michael Holden

Ski jumping, from the scientific viewpoint, is a wonderful problem.

Charles Spurgeon

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

Dick Van Dyke

My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing ...

Dominic West

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

David Bowie

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

David Bowie

I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

Dave Pelzer

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

David Neeleman

Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.