Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Palmer

We have no knowledge about the documents in possession of ABC News, nor the significance of those documents, but we do know what we have repeatedly told our employees since October 25 -- and that is in no uncertain terms that they are to preserve all documents and materials,

Christiane Amanpour

'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.

Andrea Wong

We are proud to bring the Scripps National Spelling Bee to ABC for the first time in its storied, 79-year history. It's exciting for us as a network to bring this competition of some of America's brightest young minds to a broader audience.

Paul Tagliabue

We appreciate the leadership of ABC and ESPN in helping us turn this particular Monday night into far more than a primetime football doubleheader, making it part of the overall Gulf Coast relief effort. The New Orleans Saints know the importance of rising to help meet the Gulf Coast's extraordinary challenges, and we salute them, too.

David Brickman

There is no procedure what so ever in the ABC law for a suspension of a license prior to a hearing.

Robert Iger

We believe that, barring the unforeseen -- a significant downturn in the market -- the ABC network will likely be profitable in '05,

Chris Bailey

To most people, when they drive by, it will be the ABC Columbia building. You get extra recognition. It draws a little more attention to what you're doing.

Michael Graham

The only people who are happy about this, ... are CAIR and the corporate weasels at ABC who go to bed every night terrified that someone will call them insensitive.

Bob Arum

Leonard and Ali made their mark on network television, the Olympics ? Ali on 'Wide World of Sports,' Sugar Ray on ABC and so forth. By the time they were ready to go for the big bucks, they were household names. In this environment, it's much tougher.

Emma Holly

Alpha heroes, even uberalpha heroes, still win readers' hearts. I like a masterful hero myself, but I also enjoy the idea that sometimes the heroine can be in charge.

Louis Navellier

There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion.

Tina Brown

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

Dr. Seuss

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!

Louis Navellier

Now quantitatively we rank things on something called alpha over standard deviation, which is the return independent of the market divided by volatility. Usually, to get a high ranking, you need some buying pressure.

John Williams

I don't think we're going to get into the Greek alphabet this year. The good news is it's still 56 days before it starts.

Frank McCourt

I'd just go into a room in my memory and just look around and start seeing things that I'd forgotten, like the alphabet on the blackboard in Irish, which we had to chant every day for months and months and months. I remember the Gaelic script and things like that. And this awful, putrid lavatory that we used outside." ()

Adora Svitak

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

Mark Frauenfelder

We're trained in school to equate mistakes with bad grades - something to be avoided at all costs. The alpha makers were somehow able to dodge that. They think that mistakes are just part of the creative process and maybe even the best way to learn.

Dean Ryerson

We have seen an increase in pregnant students coming into the university clinic. Our clinic also hands out free condoms, and we have seen an increase of students asking for them.

Jimmy Neal

We have to go through the city manager, so we will send him a letter (today) asking for a meeting.

Imad Moustapha

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States,

Imad Moustapha

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance, on issues they wanted our assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States. This has included our support for the elections in Iraq, our securing the borders. We have done everything possible to secure the borders between Syria and Iraq.

Carol Williams

When you saw Dwayne in his front yard, you saw Shawn. Dwayne always came by asking for Shawn, until Shawn went missing. They used to just hang in the yard, laughing and joking.

Jason Klein

We want shorter contracts, because the times change. And we haven't had a pay raise since 1997. That's what this whole strike is about is unfair labor practices. We're asking for a livable wage.

Michael Ramsey

We want her on the stand. We will put in all the notes from those meetings. They'll show that (Enron) was a well-run organization and a lot of people were asking righteous questions. They demonstrate an intelligent corporation in action.

Agnes Repplier

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

Marcy Forman

We were asking for provisions, but we didn't have provisions. But we knew with the number of people walking the streets in the city that we clearly had to provide shelter.

Linda Wade

We have to go back to those mighty precious values we've left behind. We have to go back and look and see to remember the battles we've fought ... looking backward to help us move forward.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.

Vladimir Putin

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

Kathy Baker

I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.'

Eric Hughes

We started rehearsing this backwards ... so that once the students were on the spot, they would be more confident with that.

Ozzie Smith

There are some guys that come off bad, but sometimes those people need you to come off like that. Sometimes they force you to come off like that, because you may tell them four or five times to go on, and they'll come back with their cap turned backwards and try again. Those are all tricks of the trade.

Pat Williams

We stopped caring whether he was coming or not. If he came, he came. If he didn't, he didn't. He's here now, but he's late and we're not waiting for him. We're not going to go backwards waiting for him.

Mark Helprin

My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.

Guy Laliberte

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

David Houghton

Whenever you get that sort of wetland component, you get a lot of productivity, ... People in the North Country would call that bugs.

John Heimlich

When your second-highest cost plummets, that's huge. I call it the saving grace of the fourth quarter after the (federal assistance). But we're not quite as sanguine that we can count on that this year.

Saul Klein

When you're visiting the page of an enterprise software vendor and you want to call their support number, that phone number will be highlighted and you'll instantly be connected.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Jason Mraz

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

Nancy Verderber

We want people to realize that while we are a national organization and our roots are in the community. We do raise a lot of money but we are also something patients can call on when they need something.

Curtis Green

We want her to know we love her, we miss her and we want her to come home. Please call someone.

Ryan Metcalf

We were trying to find a new shoe place and we were calling all these places. They told us they were going to call us and we never got a phone call back. There was always some problem that kept getting in the way.

Carol Leifer

You know what kills me about Jennifer Lopez? The fact that this woman wakes up one day and she's like, 'You know what? From now on, I'd like people to call me J-Lo,' and then they do it. Only a celebrity can get away with this. George Bush doesn't come out for his morning press conferences: 'From now on, I'd like to be referred to as G-Bu. Y'all know my vice president, Dog Chain.

Carlos Castaneda

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

C. S. Lewis

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

Holly Swoape

We have never really had any problems that I know of. Occasionally there are little scuffles -- between dogs or humans -- but nothing serious.

Agnetha Faltskog

I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.

Agnes Repplier

A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

Agnes Repplier

whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

Agnes Repplier

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

Agnes Repplier

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

Martin Freeman

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

Sharon Stone

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Sharon Stone

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

Tom Guiry

If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier.

Tobias Menzies

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

Ted Ligety

I don't do ski racing to be famous.

Elizabeth Peyton

No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.

Cameron Russell

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

Kacey Musgraves

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

Ram Shriram

I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

Hillary Clinton

I love all the mentoring, the public-private partnership ideas.

Myles Munroe

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Peggy Robbins

It's been a perfect mentoring system and support back and forth.

Brian Eno

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

Bryan Adams

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

Chris Lofton

We've got heart. We don't back down from nobody. We're going to come at you for 40 minutes and get after you, and that's just how it is.

Melissa Hughes

When I was in the play this summer, and Cody wasn't, we had about 30 minutes together each day.

Malorie Blackman

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

Scott Gardiner

We're going to go after them by doing the same things we've talked about all year. And that's tightening up in our own zone, opening it up in the offensive zone like we have been the past month or so, and 60 minutes of effort.

Pamela Gainey

She's having to play a lot of minutes even with that hand.

Nick Exel

But it took me 15 minutes to get him to say yes.

Stephen Doyle

Now they're still 40 minutes out, and they're getting frightened,

Joseph Joubert

Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

Donald Barthelme

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Don DeLillo

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

David Ogilvy

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

Ted Cruz

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

John Milton

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

Horace

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Horace

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

Karl Eikenberry

When you're trying to put the pieces back together again, you need a lot of time and a lot of patience,

Alan Shepard

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Thomas Middleditch

Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Barbara Kruger

The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Barbara Kruger

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

Calista Flockhart

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

S. Walker

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

Pete Eliades

We have no problem if they tax everybody. But they don't. ... We just want the public to know the truth.

Lily Tomlin

The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.

Christine Callies

The problem with the tech sector is not so much a fundamental problem as a valuations problem.

Miriam Santiago

The problem with the Americans is that they are overpaid, oversexed, and over here.

Joe Duffy

The problem with security standards is that there are so many of them.

Hitesh Sheth

The problem with psychiatry is, it doesn't know what the problem is.

Kent Conrad

The reality here is we've got a problem here and it's a big problem.

Brandi Carlile

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

Dan McCanta

We know by season what some of our problems could be.

Mark Lawrenson

Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.

Kathryn Schulz

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Deb Caletti

Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.

CeeLo Green

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.

Rabih Alameddine

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

Jamal Boykin

We're all from very different placesLondon, Lithuania, L.A.and all wanted stuff to remind us of home.

Ted Koppel

Why? Because those are desperately important issues, and you need to keep reminding the public,

Pat Riley

This trip reminds me of when I started. You've got to get after it.

Daniel Cohen

This trial will do one thing: It will serve to remind the world what really happened.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Charlie Crist

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

Orlando Cabrera

When I did that I said 'Wow,' ... I got the video, and when Tejada saw the play when he got out, he started clapping.

Brian Wilson

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Gabrielle Zevin

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

Jandy Nelson

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Brian May

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

Charles Spurgeon

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

Richard G. Scott

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

David Puttnam

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

John Hughes

If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.

James Wolk

What's been exciting for me is to read the scripts.

Charles Spurgeon

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

Al Pacino

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.

Chloe Grace Moretz

My mum reads every script before I go for it.