Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Allen

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Dave Barry

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

David Talbot

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

Kevin McCarthy

We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95.

Legal Maxim

Where the law is most strictly administered, it sometimes causes the greatest wrong

David Givens

When you start to see the emotional muscles contracting, you know there's some attraction. The muscles of the face are definitely emotional. The upper trapezius muscle is emotional, which causes you to flex your head and your shoulders.

Bo Burnham

I masturbate 'cause I'm the only one whose standards are low enough to f-k me.

Billy Gibbons

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

David Hume

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

Benny Hill

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Peter Fisher

Since 2001, we've had 42 states increase their cigarette taxes.

William Ohlemeyer

Mrs. Whiteley never smoked a pack of cigarettes that didn't have a health warning on it that was written by the surgeon general.

Johnny Mathis

Little did I know the excesses this life can lead you into. I used to smoke and drink. I gave up cigarettes 35 years ago, drinking six years ago.

Rand Paul

Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.

Conrad Veidt

I am indifferent if my spinach is leaf or creamed; if I work to fatiguing point or spend days doing nothing; if I smoke fifty cigarettes a day or none at all; if it rains or shines; if the dentist hurts, or the shoe pinches, or I secure a bargain.

Augusten Burroughs

It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

Dan Becker

Nuclear power is a dangerous energy source that creates more problems than it solves. Switching from dirty coal plants to dangerous nuclear power is like giving up smoking cigarettes and taking up crack.

Douglas Adams

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

Ibrahim Lipumba

We were also denied a total of 116 results forms from different polling stations in 11 rural constituencies.

Ron Smith

The only information I can give out is that he was denied entry under the Immigration Act.

Charlie Wi

I don't think I denied him. He's such a solid player. Even on the last putt, I thought he was going to make it and that I would go into a playoff. Luckily, it turned out my way.

John Whitaker

Knowing that sexual harassment was going on, they in effect denied her her educational rights.

Jeff Bzdelik

Jake was relentless and not to be denied on the boards. Everyone contributed, and everyone was in the fray. It's just a wonderful team to coach.

Diane Feinstein

I think it's a dimension of his character. He hasn't denied them. Women have come forward.

John Bell

I think everyone is entitled to our heritage and should not be denied it. It is elitist not to teach it, to say someone is not good enough or smart enough.

Patrick Booth

I was denied my right to a speedy trial.

Perry Wildeboer

We looked smooth and crisp, passes were denied and we got Nick the ball.

Ellen Anderson

We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready.

Benjamin Franklin

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

Avicenna

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Arundhati Roy

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

William Shakespeare

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

Biz Stone

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

Bill Gates

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

David Steiner

What's scaring us now is the disease they are saying is coming,

Ben Goldacre

I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease

Jerry Maren

She was one of the all-time money makers for the studio, ... She use to tell us in the morning she could get anything we needed.

Chuck Grassley

I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

Virginia Postrel

Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.

Franklin Knight Lane

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

Orson Scott Card

The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.

Sathya Baba

Women are the makers of the home,the nation and the world. You are the mothers who shape the generation.

Stephanie Rollings

There will have to be policy makers in the room. These are serious discussions.

John Rother

We just wish the same kind of self-restraint could be true for the makers of brand-name drugs.

Eva Zeisel

I am a maker of useful things.

Benjamin Franklin

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

William Shakespeare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

Elizabeth Edwards

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Craig Johnson

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

A. R. Ammons

To be saved is here, local and mortal

Bodhidharma

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Julie Gerberding

You may see the mortality rate go up -- but that's not necessarily because SARS per se is getting worse,

E. B. White

No trial has ever shown before a reduction in severe mortality with a new anti-malarial drug.

Menander

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Matt Mullenweg

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Luciano Spalletti

Francesco also realized it, and immediately said 'I'm broken.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

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.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

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.

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

John Felmy

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

Thomas Steinbeck

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

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Charles Dickens

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

David Sedaris

It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

Cesare Pavese

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

John Green

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

David Hockney

There would be no bohemia without smoking.

Benjamin Franklin

Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is quite a three-pipe problem.

Benjamin Disraeli

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

John Krasinski

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Ted Stevens

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Brian Watson

That was the only real threat after the first inning.

Kevin McCarthy

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

Charlie Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Charles Sumner

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Alanis Morissette

I think everyone's hungry for the truth

Alan Watts

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.