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.

Rick Perlstein

Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.

Ronald Kessler

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Manmohan Singh

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Marcy Kaptur

For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.

Frank Ostini

Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and we were lucky that it did.

William Lerach

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Tom DeLay

Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,

John Boehner

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

Al Gore

Make no mistake about it. The leadership of Bill Clinton is making a huge difference for the children and the families of America,

Edward Hale

Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand.

Craig Smith

Last year was probably the youngest team we had in six or seven years. We're a real veteran team this year and we're looking forward to this season.

James Reed

Last year, to be honest, I wasn't as happy, ... I didn't play that much last year. I was depressed, well, not depressed. It was frustrating. Now I look forward to the games. I look forward to practice. I look forward to - if I mess up, going in there and doing it better.

Joby Scroggs

Last year's game was just a battle. It was a tough, hard fought game and we're looking forward to another one - no doubt.

Michael Stoops

Las Vegas needs to move forward on this quickly ... because the issues are still out there.

James Lilley

Lee Teng-hui is a remarkable man. And as a talented politician he moved the island forward by increasing democracy, and mostly he opened up trade routes with China.

Shane Pearsall

Led by Cindy...(these) Games have been a huge step forward for high-performance sport in our country.

Darrent Williams

Monday is like the worst day of all time. You party all weekend and then reality hits. Gotta go back to work. The only good thing about the whole day is 'Monday Night Football.' If you can't look forward to that, what else is there?

Chris Mullin

Much appreciated. It's a celebration of the past, but I look forward to it. I get to see a lot of people that were instrumental in my development and, to this day, are still a part of my life.

Samuel Coleridge

Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still

Kathy Griffin

Look, you guys, I know I'm not Courteney Cox. But I'm telling you, the house is better than me. They were like, 'I don't think so.'

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

Eddie Murphy

My life is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" life. Me around the house is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" dad.

Waris Ahluwalia

My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

Derek Ambrose

My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.

Jamie Wyeth

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

John Tesh

My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.

George H. W. Bush

Lynne is an incredibly important member of this team.

Marco Muller

So far, the results have been incredibly positive.

Susan Wojcicki

Mobile is an incredibly fast-growing market and will continue to be.

J. A. Konrath

My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.

Tony Kushner

My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to 'Lincoln.'

Bob Woodward

On the other hand, Nixon was incredibly smart and intelligent.

Pete Peterson

I would characterize the meeting as very cordial, very comfortable, ... It (the exchange) was rather free-wheeling, without reading from notes. It was incredibly comfortable.

Douglas Coupland

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

James Marsh

I find films incredibly emotional. That's the power of the medium.

George Casey

Level 1 is being totally independent, and we know they're not going to be there in large numbers for a while. But they're already getting to level 2, which means they can get into and lead the fight.

Chris Larsen

No-cost loans are pretty popular right now, especially for people with larger loans. The larger your loan, the smaller the penalty for no-cost loans.

Richard Greenfield

One of the things they'd like to do is return more to shareholders, and ... a larger buyback makes a lot of sense at this point.

Jim Tracy

One-and-7 obviously isn't the way you want to start. But the (Dodgers) team I managed last year started 12-2 and we won 71 games. So it's not a large enough sample size of games. It doesn't mean this is the kind of team we're going to be for the next six months.

John Burns

Of course, Pol Pot in Cambodia, Rwanda -- things on a much larger scale than this. But this is pretty bad.

James Macdonald

More and more production is starting to shift into some very large operations.

George Sansoucy

Obviously, they've got to remake themselves; obviously, they've got to make themselves relevant in a more significant way again. Their contribution in print is now not needed in large part.

Tullian Tchividjian

As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

Beckie Rolbiecki

From just being comfortable to have seen the large crowd. It's the same gymnastics; it's just in a different arena.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

Kevin Connell

So it's not like we're not moving the football.

Ken Starr

moving very quickly and we've made very significant progress.

Lennart Maack

Moving up is tough because no one is the favorite.

Ron Walters

None of those people who have made that policy are moving off the scene.

Leslie Nielsen

No, no, no, Mel is very much together as a director, always moving forward.

Jim Bianco

Now that yields are moving up, all these reasons have been shoved aside, and order in the universe has been restored.

Chris Crutcher

It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.

Dick Vitale

Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

Boone Pickens

Mr. Pickens is pleased to have some skin in the Barnett Shale game.

Bob Easton

Obviously, we are very pleased with (Clinton's visit).

Dominik Hasek

I can't say I'm disappointed or pleased with the process. I'd like it to go faster, but unfortunately it isn't. I suffered an injury, and it is a serious injury.

Thomas Miller

From a durability standpoint, I don't know that there's much more you can do. We're real pleased with its reliability.

Mike Hargrove

I was real pleased with how he threw the ball. He was down in the strike zone and threw well.

Rick Francis

I was really pleased with the way we played.

Nick Saban

I was pleased with the way Sage played,

Craig Faire

I was pleased with the way everyone played. We were able to get out and run.

Bob Souliere

I was pleased with the team's effort. They worked hard, unfortunately we had a poor shooting night.

Lao Tzu

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Derek Jarman

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Alexandra Picavet

We're not going to go fast. We want to preserve him as much as possible. He's pretty intact.

Evan Spiegel

The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.

Carlos Parreira

We want to preserve his health. He's not being dropped.

David Gross

reaffirmed the role of technology to the world and preserved the unique role of the U.S.

Norm Brunswig

These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.

Rig Veda

May the truth protect me in all ways.

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Daniele Audetto

We are only trying to protect our investments.

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Gordon Smith

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

George Stephanopoulos

It only works in the Senate if everyone agrees,

Tom Daschle

As we speak, the Senate is in session,

Marco Rubio

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.