Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?

Ed McMahon

I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.

Brad Milton

I have even been in the pits with our Marine team before.

Phil Klay

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

Dave Barry

The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent a gunboat filled with marines down to Panama, just on the off chance that a revolution might suddenly break out, and darned if one didn't, two days later. Not only that, but the leaders of the new nation of Panama-talk about lucky breaks!-were absolutely thrilled to have the United States build a canal there. 'Really, it's our pleasure,' they told the marines, adding, 'Don't shoot.'

Catherine Bell

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

Ed Royce

The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.

Chesty Puller

We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

Chesty Puller

So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

Albert Schweitzer

An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

Stavros Cosmopulos

Make the layouts rough and the ideas fancy.

Stephen Parker

No one respected language more than Nabokov. You don't read it for his ideas, you read it for his presentation.

John Walsh

on interesting subjects, ideas and unfamiliar artists, with many surprises for visitors.

Philip Gee

Maybe just to get my idea out. Maybe to find out other people's ideas, to see if they're similar to mine.

Fred Brown

Now we would like some ideas for different shows. These must be quality shows.

Ludwig von Mises

Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

Ludwig von Mises

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

Chris Evans

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.