Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.

Rick Perlstein

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

Richard P. Feynman

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

Bill Vernon

Mandates do not solve, but only exacerbate the problem. Mandates will seriously impact the state's ability to compete economically with other states.

Randy Cunneyworth

Like any young player, there was a period of inconsistency. He can be average and then he can be Clarke MacArthur. Average isn't good enough, but he possesses the ability to be above average.

David Blask

Light, in terms of our experiments, stimulates breast-cancer growth activity, and obviously this is due to the ability of light to shut off melatonin production.

Mark Duda

LT hit him a ton and practically killed him. (Charlie) got up, went out for about four plays and came back and ran the ball 25 more times. His ability to cope with adversity and physical pain, he had no equal.

Becca Kohli

MacKenzie is a player with the right attitude and the natural ability to go after every ball and to be a spark on the field. We feel MacKenzie can be a very strong player for us because she has potential in several different positions on the field.

Jeanine Pirro

Liberals stay up at night worrying about the library provisions in the Patriot Act, ... I stay up at night worried about whether we are going to have the ability to fight the war on terrorism with the same tools ... that I have had as a prosecutor to fight organized crime.

O. J. Simpson

Seniors, the disabled, the mentally ill, people on life-saving transplant rejection drugs - the least medically secure have been the most affected. At least now with a state emergency declared no one will walk out of the pharmacy without the medications they need.

Craig Snyder

No one other than emergency crews were there,

Billy Wagner

One thing we don't want to do in emergency management or in the weather service is to go backwards. And I can guarantee you this is a step backwards.

Michael Greenberger

My hope is, and it's a sad way to learn this, that people now understand the importance of a federal emergency response. It's not something you can do on the cheap.

Jan Walker

Now that we've got the emergency of the hurricane out of the way, we want to look at preventing more destruction.

Jorge Belevan

The plane did not crash. It did not fall. The plane made an emergency landing.

David Donnelly

There are times where it seems like we don't have enough people to do what needs to be done, and sometimes it seems that CERT performs that. There are several different roles for them to play in an emergency situation, and we're always looking to expand that and involve these people as much as we can throughout the year.

Susan Johnson

I'm already so wet that if I stay, I'll end up in the emergency room.

Brian Vaughn

I have an emergency service. I'll go out any time to help someone figure out what's wrong.

Davis III

Obviously, we were playing for Jack Nicklaus this week after the kind of year he's had,

Chad Fox

Obviously, Jack sensed that the momentum was starting to swing their way,

Skeet Ulrich

She was pretty raw and technically she didn't know what was going on and that's understandable. So we sat back and laughed. We had all been there, we had all been the ones who didn't know what to do. I remember my first film was terrifying, so it was nice to sit back like I was Jack Lemmon or something.

Tracy Rocker

Since that first day, he's been the Keith Jackson we've been waiting on. He's doing what he's supposed to do.

Felipe Alou

If they did it with Jackie Robinson already, they should do that for the Latin American players. And who's better than Roberto? ... No one is better than him.

Willie Mays

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.

Conor Maynard

My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and I used to be really into that.

Vijay

I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

Evel Knievel

I think if you have ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

George H. W. Bush

legal but taxed and regulated like other goods.

Robert Casey

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

John Schaeffer

Obviously, we need to look into what our legal rights and responsibilities to our ratepayers are, so we'll be studying that.

George Bernard Shaw

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Doug Ferrari

I did not have a sober, straight, legal day from 1974 to 1994. Not one.

David Crane

From a legal perspective, it is going fine.

Alberto Fujimori

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States, ... I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

Linda Powell

If I'm going to do it, I want to make it legal.

Don Waddell

Some of his patterns come in legal and some come in illegal.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Marilyn Praisner

Let's stop going around and around. Let's move it.

Kit Hale

Sellers may not be able to move quite as quickly with the transaction, but prices still remain solid.

William Proxmire

Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!

Richard Rosenbaum

move on to the next stage of his life.

Chris McCarron

One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,

Tom Bradley

Obviously, we're going to have to move some personnel around and make some adjustments.

Walt Kuver

Of course, the commissioners need to be reassured that this move will be risk-free for the county.

David Morrissey

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

Bill Pullman

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

Bobby Jones

We're still 12-2. It's not like we're pushing the panic button.

Kate Winslet

I have moments when I'll stare at a script and say, 'I don't know what I'm doing!' But then I push myself into that feeling because I think panic is important.

Bret Easton Ellis

I am gripped by an existential panic.

John Callahan

Going into the Rutland game, they know what's at stake. I'm not going to push the panic button.

Amy Hempel

I get rational when I panic.

Philip Hoffman

I went (to rehab), I got sober when I was 22 years old. You get panicked ... and I got panicked for my life.

Simon Perry

It got to the point where there was panic over nothing. But don't panic, it's not going to smash anybody.

Elizabeth Bishop

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Sarah Hill

We were challenging the keeper. We had a wonderful passing game.

Vin Laczkoski

She's one of the more underrated players in our league. Whether it's setting picks or passing the ball, she does things you look for as a coach.

Jim Press

To us, it's not a passing phase but a vital technology for the 21st century.

Paul Hewitt

You look at the stat sheet and see we had 27 turnovers, I don't think there's anything else I can point to. They're long and they really got out in the passing lanes, and we didn't react to it very well.

Jamie Dixon

Those are the things that separate him from the other guys, his passing and his touch. And he's willing to pay the price.

Lucy Punch

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

Wes Miller

We want to take them out of what they want to do. When they run their flex offense, they're pretty good. We tried to pressure the passing lanes. We did it better in the second half, especially down the stretch.

Diana Gabaldon

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Richard Williams

Now the question is 'What is the right price for the shares?'.

Jack Cox

I feel sorry for the (homeless) people. But what price do we pay?

Michael Gartenberg

The price sounds reasonable and should resonate with consumers,

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

John Simley

If we're going to make this work, the price must be transparent to the consumer.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Armando Iannucci

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Tony Mowbray

I am surprised by how quickly he has come back,

Andrew Maynard

But the research into the risks isn't being done as efficiently or quickly as it should.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

Tessa Hafen

Senator Reid has done nothing wrong and he doesn't see any reason why he would need to return the money.

Don Braunecker

Megan Richardson was a big reason for our success (Tuesday) night.

Charles Spurgeon

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is reason at rest in God.

Deborah Tannen

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Taylor Vichorek

For some reason OTs haven't treated us as well as we hoped.

Ahmed Chalabi

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Scott Nelson

Retailers haven't told us they wanted to be down there.

John Longworth

As retailers had feared, the spending surge was short-lived.

Todd Jones

The teen retailers and some of the specialty retailers were the clear-cut winners.

Michael Beyard

The retailers want to be on the street now.

David Cook

It's time for big-box retailers to start to do the right things by their employees.

Shahrukh Khan

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Charles R. Swindoll

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Dave Wood

I feel that I got stopped (because I'm black),

Ed Pastor

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

G. H. Hardy

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

Warren Rensehausen

I have been able to make arrangements for him to stop by. It will be a first because we haven't been able get him here before.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

James Rubin

I don't know who talked first. Let's just stop it, okay?