Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Daniels

The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.

Charles W. Pickering

If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Rickman

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

Alan Grayson

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

Alan Grayson

If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

Alan Greenspan

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

Alan Ball

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Al Sharpton

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

Charlie Daniels

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.

Charles Tupper

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

Charles Tupper

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

Charles Taylor

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

Charles Sumner

There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

Charles Sumner

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Charles E. Wilson

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

Charles de Gaulle

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles de Gaulle

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

David Hockney

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

Bill Nye

The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a "viable" explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I'm not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.

Hugo Chavez

We have never had such an intense, frank and profound debate in the past seven years,

Kenneth Miller

Whenever you debate, you should really have one person representing I.D. on one side and 10,000 scientists on the other. That would give a fair representation of the division of opinion in the scientific community.

John Warhurst

We want others to know that the debate is not over and we want another referendum in due course.

Suzanne Fields

We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate.

Charlie Sheen

I dare anyone to debate me on things.

Robert Perry

What's often also left out of this debate is that 90 percent of victims know their perpetrators. These are family members, neighbors, acquaintances.

Bill Bradley

We're going to have two debates in Iowa in January, ... You can't have a debate in Iowa without agriculture being a major part of it. So we're going to debate agriculture in Iowa.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Ed Walker

We want to see that he gets some national recognition.

M. Hopper

We know if a team gets 60 on us it's not going to be good. So the tempo was good for us with it in the 50s, and the guys never quit.

Ed Smith

We know everything gets started with that press. If we can't make shots and get into the press, we struggle.

Pat Gillick

Wait until the championship season gets going and judge for yourselves.

Michael Specter

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.

Sasho Cirovski

The other team starts to feel, 'It's just not our day.' And our team gets that great save as a lift. I think that's what happened at that point.

Bob Stoops

We're in good shape and the guys understand the plan. It just gets down to making plays and handling the different wrinkles.

Joe Tereshinski

Where Shock is now, he is light years away from where he was back then. He could play back then, but now he gets in there and he doesn't hesitate. He can play, and he knows that. That's what makes him so dangerous.

Alyn McCauley

Where it gets really complicated is some player reps are on different teams now and some aren't even playing. Some executive-committee members have retired. So who gets a vote? Who still has a say in the matter? Without those guys in there, should somebody be promoted?

Ben Affleck

The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

Diana Wynne Jones

I've got a hangover!" "No, you hit your head on the floor," Sophie said. Howl rose up on his hands and knees with a scramble. "I can't stay," he said. "I've got to rescue that fool Sophie." "I'm here!" Sophie shook his shoulder. "But so is Mis Angorian! Get up and do something about her!

Diana Wynne Jones

I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.

Cass McCombs

Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.

Cameron Diaz

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

Alan Garner

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

Alan Garner

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

Brian Molko

When every day became a hangover and when you look at yourself in the mirror and go 'I don't like how you're coming across to people.' and when every day just started to feel the same. After the 50th shag, it doesn't mean so much anymore.

Charles Bukowski

I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Jason Stanford

We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Michael Schwartz

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

Frank Moss

Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.

Paul Moreno

We've restored power to about 1.328 million people, but 89,000 are still without.

Greg Allgood

We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.

Steve Rodriguez

We let them self-destruct. They had a lot of passed balls, a lot of walks. They kind of folded on us.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Jake Long

I was just tested. Someone was just testing me, and I think I passed all the tests.

Jon Banner

We've been wanting to do it for a while, we talked about it more seriously after Peter passed away.

Sen Brownlee

If it had one more vote it would have passed the Senate.

Mike Tice

I think we've passed the point of having him anointed at any position. I think anything he earns now, he's got to work his way up the ladder.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Gene Upshaw

The price of poker will go up. We can not stay in the place where we are now.

Jim Griffin

It's a computer. It's not a poker machine.

Evan Depew

I used to play real poker at least twice a week.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

David Anders

When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Cesare Pavese

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

Avril Lavigne

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

Stewart Rahr

I can't seem to shake waking up early.

Dr. Miglietta

It can be anything from him waking up to having a seizure, or it could be involuntary.

Alvin Toffler

I work virtually every waking hour.

Desmond Tutu

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Annie Dillard

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

Terry Pratchett

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Douglas Coupland

I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Robert Jordan

I tore all the ligaments around my collarbone. I don't know if I will be able to play (against Washington State).

Susan Brooks

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Stephen Greene

For sure, Washington is going to be rowdier.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.