Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dewi Anwar

The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government?

Louis MacNeice

The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case. Our efforts on behalf of the victims of 9/11 will continue as we pursue the next phase of this trial.

Phil Smith

We believe that the Senate should carefully review this appointment to ensure that this nominee will be the kind of watchdog on behalf of American coal miners that they need.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies.

John Stokes

worked diligently and tirelessly and obtained over $750,000 in compensation for and on behalf of (Questa).

Don Aaron

Mr. Overton filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family. He is zealously representing them as their advocate. I think it's best that I don't engage in a debate with him over the lawsuit.

Everett Dirksen

Mr. President, economy is an old-fashioned thing. It savors of horse and buggy days. I am only too glad, however, to say a few words in behalf of economy, for in economy, in frugality, and in the thrift of our Government I think we shall ultimately find ourselves and our salvation.

Chris Grayling

The Prime Minister needs to have proper security. But I'm not at all persuaded that hiring luxury yachts on behalf of the security services to travel with the Prime Minister while he is on a luxury cruise is a good use of taxpayers' money,

Dennis Martin

We have a solid team and we have high expectations. I can't tell you how hard the kids have worked, especially in the weight room. (Strength and conditioning coach) Rich Miller did an excellent job with their strength training and conditioning.

Colin Riley

The people in the Treasurer's Office have done an outstanding job overseeing the management and growth. And that's their job, and they do an excellent job of it.

Mike Richardson

We've advertised and had some excellent applicants. We'll be holding interviews from next Monday and hope to make an appointment by the end of next week.

Jack Dolan

We are looking to them. Oklahoma did an excellent job getting people paid promptly.

Trisha Williams

We started off really well. We had an excellent passing night. Toward the end of the game, we got a little lackadaisical. But overall I was really happy with the way the girls played.

William Shakespeare

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

Adrian Griffin

We've got excellent scorers. Why do they need me to take shots away from them? I know what I need to do to help this team.

Frank Decker

We had a very nice run down there. We played some excellent teams.

David Kemp

We've been able to do a fairly god job under the circumstances I think, in fact an excellent job under the circumstances of controlling those fires. That's just what you have to do is just be able to have the resources to get out and fight those fires.

Ed Koch

If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Eve Plumb

I never wanted to do reunion shows for the sake of a reunion show. I've done all the 'Brady Bunch' stuff except for the Variety Show, but when a talk show wants us all to get together for their sake, it's not interesting to me.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Mark Snyder

We're still learning how to practice, like everyone except the NFL,

Keith Jarrett

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Tom Wolfe

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

C. S. Lewis

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

Brett Hall

We have no interest in helping him (Coleman) be a martyr. He has demonstrated a lack of understanding of the facts in the past and probably misunderstands what this administration has accomplished in hiring minorities and women in the state work force.

Mark Shapiro

We want him to throw quality strikes, not just hard strikes. He's going to be a contributor for us this year. Maybe not from day one, but at some point this season he'll be a factor for us.

John Laird

The fact that so many congressional seats are noncompetitive is not fair, but one state reforming the way it does redistricting is like unilateral disarmament,

Judy Woodruff

The fact that she's the first African-American woman to be named not only to be national security advisor, but to go on to be named secretary of state -- she's already made history from that standpoint. Second woman to be named secretary of state, first African-American woman to be named secretary of state.

Chris Mooney

The fact that she's a moderate makes it possible for them to slide over.

Mark Wiley

The fact that Seattle is so far away is a significant one,

Bill Cheney

The fact that prices have come down makes people feel better and they think the future looks better.

Mark Frost

The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.

John Baldwin

We want to put our mark on the sport and push pairs figure skating to next level.

Derek Hall

We have security in the building. No alarms were sounded. We're trying to figure out what happened there. There was no forced entry, no vandalism.

Ron Beard

When he figures out how incredibly good he is, he'll be unstoppable.

Bob Filner

The FAA's job is to figure out a way to make the airspace work,

Alan Paller

There is a wave of people looking for infected machines. We are getting into the second wave of infections. We haven't figured what they are doing. But we are seeing a very big wave of scanning.

Roger Wyer

When I figured out I had to write a book, I wasn't afraid.

Brandt Jobe

When I did hit a fairway, I three-putted. Go figure that one out. It doesn't make sense. Strange game.

Damian Loeb

When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.

Aasif Mandvi

I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

Alan Tudyk

I definitely knew how to fly. That's something you don't forget. One spaceship is pretty much like another when it comes to flying.

Charles Dickens

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

Louie Schwartzberg

When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.

Jimmy Cliff

I regret I didn't ever learn how to fly a plane. I had the opportunity when I started to make some money, and I regret I didn't really take the time out and put the effort in and do that.

Alan Bean

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

Alan Alda

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

Chesley Sullenberger

We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.

Mark Jackley

The power numbers really don't mean much to me. I thought we hit too many fly-ball outs today. I would rather see ground-ball outs. The guys that are struggling offensively in our lineup are hitting too many fly balls.

Michael Shaw

Where's a *!$#&!* Flying Monkey when you need one?

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Carlos Ghosn

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Paul Patton

We have no interest in pursuing it at this time.

Rob Young

We have no idea if there is an interest. But we won't know unless we ask. And we are going to start doing that on Monday.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Charles de Lint

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

Charles de Lint

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Douglas Chickering

We have renewed interest in bowling, so we are going to revisit it at our meeting and find out the level of interest.

John Hull

The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.

Carol Shields

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again...

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Eugene Doro

When you see a team like that, you can learn by just watching them play.

Richard Smith

We want it to be a learning experience. It's an opportunity to review the plans you developed. Doing a plan is first in the process.

Agnes Repplier

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Drake Reed

We have had a lot of tough lessons on the road this year. It's time to start learning from them.

Jeff Francis

When I executed my pitches I had success, ... I can learn a lot from that.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

C. S. Lewis

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Richard DeKaser

What the shock might be next time is unpredictable.

Aasif Mandvi

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

John Gibbons

We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently.

Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Charles Dudley Warner

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Jeff Mitchell

We want it to stay the way it is, natural. We want it to be open to the public.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

There are still too many people out there who are claustrophobic. On easyCruise, we are going to open up as many cabins as we can.

Daniel Barber

It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

Kara Walker

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Eckhart Tolle

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

Rick Peterson

This puts him on track to open all our options.

Alan Shepard

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Dave Barry

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

Chesley Sullenberger

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Brandon Jay McLaren

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Craig Ferguson

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

Deyon Pitter

You are the pilot of your life, be sure that you do not crash.

Jason Alexander

The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.

Peter Murray

The pilot never stopped. He never slowed down,

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,

Martin Kelly

I am taking it more as it comes (because it was unexpected),

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

Boris Becker

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Updike

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

Laila Robins

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Jane Kaczmarek

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

Jana Novotna

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

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.

Susan Brooks

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

Robert Jordan

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

Tara Miller

I use Lysol and bleach and water. And, I am always washing blankets.

Stephen Greene

For sure, Washington is going to be rowdier.

Seth Greenberg

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

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Christopher Shays

It's kind of like Pontius Pilate washing his hands.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Archie Shepp

All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

Bill Gates

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Bill Joy

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

Bill Joy

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

Elin Hilderbrand

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

Bela Lugosi

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

Arthur Rimbaud

I could never throw Love out of the window.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.