Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Stern

Regardless of how much money I make, this product costs a lot of money to put on. I don't think it's asking too much to ask people to pay 43 cents a day (to listen to satellite radio for the $13 a month fee to subscribe to Sirius).

Horace

Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Marla Crago

Patients who come in asking about this treatment are usually at the end of their rope. This is a good last resort for people like Alicia and it's a good first line of defense.

Gene Russianoff

Pataki's got to make up his mind. If he keeps asking the feds for billions for both . . . New York will wind up with nothing.

Kathleen Blanco

Our local governments are recovering, but many are on the verge of financial collapse. I'm asking the federal government to help pay the regular-time salaries of these essential public employees during this emergency period,

Steve Brozak

Our military is being stretched too thin, to the point of being broken for the foreseeable future. We are asking too much and not giving enough, and we are certainly not any safer than before September 11.

Cindy Morrison

People have been calling, asking all kinds of questions about the weekend, which is great. With the nice weather we're getting, I have good reason to believe everything is going to be fabulous.

Denise Barrett

People have been calling and asking about replanting to replace the trees that were destroyed. They looked at what trees did well and which would hold up better next time.

Eric Swensen

People have been asking our guys to compete in these tournaments. I think the program has a reputation.

Andy Collins

People look at Brazil in the same terms they look at China.

David Hendler

Our feeling is that Brazil will default in the next year and you could have a similar problem to what you had in Argentina.

Leo Kiely

Our Brazil operation continued to report operating losses, but at a significantly reduced level.

Christian Stracke

It is a perfect time for populism. It will be more and more difficult for Brazil to resist.

Paul Wolfowitz

I was pleased to hear various Brazilians say that this technology can be transferred.

Giancarlo Fisichella

I think we can go to Brazil feeling very optimistic,

Fabio Capello

Liverpool won the European Cup and they should have the right to defend their trophy. The champions should be involved but I think they should have to qualify like Brazil have to qualify for next year's World Cup.

Peter Scott

It has a very strong corporate sector, a very sensible government and Brazil is a place that is going to do extremely well over the medium term after this rough patch is out of the way.

John Bailey

It could reduce immigration because it would make it more difficult for Brazilians to get there, but that wouldn't be the end of it.

Michael Chapman

Some kind of historical use for the tribe would be ideal, but we don't have the resources, ... We'd probably want the property with the main building, but that'll be very competitive.

Diana Gabaldon

Some people are just mad about the historical aspects; they feel as though they're living in a different time or they're learning something,

Romesh Gunesekera

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

Luis Restrepo

It is a very important thing that the historical structure of the BCB has been demobilized.

Bertrand Russell

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Laurent Fabius

I think really this time it's a historical moment,

Lynn Coady

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Kelly McBride

Journalists' notes are incredibly useful for historical perspectives.

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Dan Brooks

You have to find out everything you possibly can about what their intentions are so you can be prepared.

Chris Stevens

My intentions are to be the Republican candidate.

Bo Burnham

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

Angelo Bitsis

We're not making any assumptions. What his intentions were, we don't know.

Ron Hebert

You always want to win. But we went into the jamboree with the intentions of looking at some different rotations.

Tim Halstead

Our intentions are to someday have a property.

Jim King

They wanted to make nice with the Republican Party and show us their intentions to invest in the state.

Dante Hall

I have no intentions on being a coach.

Greg Collins

Preserving the agricultural land out in that part of Visalia has been important to me since 1975, and I haven't wavered from that position for 30 years.

John Roberts

Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land, ... It's a little more than settled.

Kamika Smith

Rocks were landing right on the viewing area.

Ahmed Qorei

Please protect this land. It is for you and yours to protect.

Larry Kelly

Pierre said, 'If he can get clearance, give us a shout and we'll see what the lay of the land is at that point.

Barry Lopez

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Barry Lopez

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.

Barry Lopez

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

C. S. Lewis

I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

Christian Camargo

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

George Herbert Mead

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

Matt Kuchar

Going to a one-plane swing method has made me a much more consistent player. Even when I'm not on, I never get very far off.

Michael Keaton

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

Lee H. Hamilton

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.

Alan Alda

No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.

Simone Signoret

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

Beth Henley

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

Omar Sharif

Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Matthew Stover

It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Edward Norton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Shane Meyer

They just seized it and took control. Then we were just flat.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.