Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Angelo

We are awaiting the result of the draft resolution on whether Charles Taylor should be taken to The Hague to stand trial.

Patrick Renn

We acknowledge that it is going to be difficult for a jury to hear that Charles Boney was there, that Charles Boney sold a firearm, when you're talking about the murder of a young woman and her two children.

Princess Diana

When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo. William had to be induced because I couldn't handle the press pressure any longer,

Kim Williams

On any given day one of those three are going to be second. I was real pleased the way Charles Myers ran right with them today. Tim Smith was there too. I hate losing those seniors, but next year we'll have Tim Smith and freshman Steven Reynolds.

Jeff Kinney

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.

Terry Crews

You know what? I wanna play something that is really... it changes the game. I don't wanna be the same story where it's the Charles Bronson formula, where he's getting revenge or whatever.

John Boyne

Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.

Brian Cox

Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio.

Alex Pettyfer

My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Dan Wakefield

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Baltasar Gracian

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Chris Faidley

I know how to say 'faster' and 'defend' in Bosnian, Spanish and Creole.

Oscar Wilde

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

Lee Whitnum

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Robert Mueller

I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture.

Robert Frost

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

Margaret DiNinno

Right now that's where it stands to be.

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.

Annika Sorenstam

We stood at the tee and I told Suzann, 'We can turn this around and be 1-up. Suzann said, 'No, we could be 2-up.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right.

Sam Dumont

We stood around a lot and watched and waited for someone else to do the scoring.

Hermann Maier

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

Aminatta Forna

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

M. Wolfe

He was unique. He stood out from the crowd.

Do Won Chang

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

Tammy White

We all stood at the window and cried,

Greg Simmons

I was the one commissioner that stood up on that matter.

Ken Sawyer

They stood under it as if it were a shelter.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Judy Dickson

We (send) them all over the United States.