Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eminem

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Rick Perlstein

Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.

Richard P. Feynman

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Robert Mankoff

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

Kevin Mitnick

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

Kurtwood Smith

We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three.

Kurt Browning

What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.

Malcolm McDowell

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.

Marc Faber

This is the choice in life. You choose what is less bad. I don't particularly like Mr. Obama, but I think he is less bad for the world than Mr. Romney. It is a tragedy of life that both candidates did not lose the election. They would have deserved both to lose.

Mallory Ortberg

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

Rod Wright

We're not coming out here to just hang with those guys and hopefully we can win the game in the fourth quarter. We want to dominate. That's not been said about USC.

Chipper Jones

We're not coming out here to go home after the first round. That would be a supreme disappointment.

Kurt Melton

We're not coming out at halftime with the intensity we need.

Herman Cain

We're not coming into Virginia to be a one-note Johnny.

E. B. White

We're not coming here with any false illusions.

Leinaala Lopes

We're not coming back until it is safe and secure.

Doug Holmes

Mandatory dues. Not only that, they were coming in there telling me you need to do this, you need to do that.

Susan Cohen

Life is lived in a circle. The dates keep coming back to you. People say, 'Move on.' But that implies a straight road taking you somewhere else. Nothing can take you out of the seasons of the years and the dates that recall your life. And since we were a happy family together, we had many happy days and those days are now sad days.

Isabella Rossellini

People use mobile phones in this very distracting environment where you probably don't have time to watch a 30-minute film, but you might have time to look at a film for a minute and learn something you didn't expect while you walk on the streets.

Richard Rogers

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!

Robert Hass

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

Dave Rose

Luckily, the weather's not too good with the snow. So it's a good environment for basketball.

Jochen Zeitz

Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.

Bruce Reznik

Lorena really is the environmental candidate. She's somebody I've worked with on environmental issues for the past six years, on state and local issues, and she has proven her leadership.

Jerry Ray

Many of the Florida environmental groups have come to see us, and they wanted this approach.

Beth Zimmerman

Many of the environmental modifications of interest to women are so fundamental that I expect them to improve the shopping experience and sales potential for all consumers, regardless of gender.

Keith Glass

Scott wants to be in a place where they have demonstrated to him that they want him to be there. He wants to be in an environment where everybody is on the same page. They're under no obligation to re-sign him and he's under no obligation to accept. We understand that.

Danny Davis

like a dance: how low can you go.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

Lyle Gramley

Mortgage rates haven't been significantly lower than the rates we have today since the 1960s.

David Lagercrantz

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

Safa Rashtchy

Obviously, it will mean a wider ownership of the stock and potentially lower volatility. We've seen that with other stocks that have been in the S&P 500.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Bob Schnorbus

We had been projecting an (annual) sales rate of 16 million vehicles in September. If I take out a third of sales for only a two week period, you still come out with an eye-popping 13.3 million sales rate; 13.3 million is about as low as sales ever get.

Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Carol Thorp

Motorists might see prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Movies might take five-six years, sometimes 10 years to produce. For television, when you have an idea, you put it to a network and within a week or so they have an answer.

Tom Tremont

One owner pays seven times more than another might pay.

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Hiroyuki Kitakata

The only news will be the U.S. stocks. But on the geopolitical front, the upside risk is more than the downside.

Dave Ramsey

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

William Shakespeare

There's villainous news abroad.

William Shakespeare

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Tim Danson

If we had our druthers, it wouldn't even be news - it would have been issued and no one would know about it until sometime down the road. But that didn't work out for us.

Deng Xiaoping

The minority yields to the majority!

Ben Jonson

Hell itself must yield to industry.

Abdul Kalam

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Carl Jung

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.