Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Lehrer

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

David M. Kelley

When I was in high school, I lettered in math. The only thing that was important was football. There were two other letters that were awarded each year. One was in math and one was in science. I got the math one. But you didn't put it on a letter sweater and wear it around because they'd be throwing you in a wastebasket upside down on your head.

Faith Nicole

Last year we had 50 local sponsors who awarded 106 scholarships to 49 of our seniors.

Shuji Nakamura

I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.

Richard Scruggs

Given the level of risk that we undertook, which included the expenditure of millions of dollars of our own money, the attorneys' fees awarded in this case (are) entirely justified and consistent with precedent.

John Hayes

I have concern with the number of minority contracts being awarded and the county and the city holding departments accountable for it.

Myron Scholes

My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.

Frederick Soddy

In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

Antonio Munoz Molina

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

William Mattison

Where the dealers are making a market with a wide spread, but have in their possession an order to buy stocks at a higher price than they're bid, or for a lower price than they're offering, they want the investors and the institutions to see those better bids and offers.

Source Unknown

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

Gray Davis

I expect these bids on long-term energy contracts should stabilize the market and drive the price of electricity down. This is a key step in our efforts to keep the lights on in California at a reasonable price.

Cathy Elkies

I have enormous interest on this lot. This may blow you away. I have triple order bids of $10,000 on this lot.

Doug Elgin

We're under siege and I don't get it. We deserved every bid. We earned them. We deserved six bids and we should have had five, because I don't understand how they can look at Missouri State and not put them in.

Eliot Spitzer

First, before any bids were submitted, the defendants determined which insurance company would win the business. Second, they set a 'target' for the winner to submit as its bid,

David Frick

We've had a soil contamination problem, and our steel bids came in pretty dramatically over what we thought the estimate was going to be. Between those two, we've exhausted a good part of our contingency fund.

Larry Bush

The original bids for construction costs started out at $8 million, then it went to $12 million. To stop the bleeding, we've signed a contract for $13.5 million. It's locked in now.

Johnnie Burton

This sale represents a record in terms of the total volume of RIK gas sold, the number of bids received, and the total number of companies that made offers.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Bryan Hassler

We want to take it a step further and start promoting some of the solutions to not only the short-term issues but also the long-term solutions.

Jacques Rogge

We are preparing for the joint team, which is going much further than just two teams parading together.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by the reporting that Mark and Lance did throughout this story and in all the stories that were published in the paper. And if and when Mr. Conte speaks further about this, I'm sure we'll report about that as well.

David Leff

This property is a very high priority. We remain open to further discussions.

Kenneth Branagh

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Edward Murphy

We won't go any further with the VA until this process comes to some sort of conclusion.

Margaret Chan

Until we see further evidence, we are still at Phase 3 of the pandemic alert,

Carl Bernstein

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

Tommy Amaker

We have no more information on him. He's out indefinitely.

Bryan Whitman

We have no information to suggest they have done so.

Dr. Gerberding

We have no information to suggest any problem with the vaccine.

Dennis Brugos

We have no information that words were exchanged between them . . . or of any prior neighbor dispute. We have no information about what Miller was doing outside. The motive is unknown.

Florence Hartmann

We have no information that something particular has happened.

Bobby Hernandez

We have no information on who did it or why, and (we) are investigating.

Alexandra Milenov

We have no information. He is not in the tribunal.

Aaron Swartz

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Richard Hartley

We have to have a plan in place to know what we're going to do in 2006-2007.

Joe Dumars

We have no plans to do anything with Derrick at the moment.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Mullah Dadullah

We have plans for more of the same.

Ricky Gervais

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

John Devine

very challenging, but we plan to get it done.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Jane Bryant Quinn

hindsight is not a strategy.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Edmund Phelps

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

George Miller

We're tight. We secured the property for the future, which is what we need.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Buddy Hackett

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight...

Demi Lovato

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

Daniel Handler

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

Antonio Villaraigosa

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.,

Dee Dee Ramone

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Mike Davis

I didn't want us to take any 3s tonight because of their size.

Chris Sload

Tonight we started to become a better all-around team.

Chris Osgood

Tonight wasn't one of our better games, but we managed to find a way.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.