Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.

Rick Perlstein

The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'

Richard P. Feynman

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Robert Wilson

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

Ron Wood

I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.

Bruce Pearl

We're not communicating. We're capable of defending better. I call it having a sense of urgency. You need it this part of the season.

Tammy Smith

We're not calling this a sequel. We're calling it the next installment.

Sgt. Maynard

We're not calling this a drowning. The investigation will continue and we're awaiting autopsy results to determine how the child died.

Ramon Sanchez

We're not calling the people out as long as we see that Elian's case remains in the courts and the government is not moving to suddenly take Elian back to Cuba.

Derek Loomis

We're not concerned with what those people think about what we're doing.

Bill Walker

We're not concerned with numbers. (The way the word gets out) is that I tell you, (and) you tell someone else.

Salvation Army

We're not concerned or scared about not being able to offer them shelter, ... (However), it puts us in a position of being scared of what we are going to be able to offer them, whether we are going to be able to keep them in the same way that we have been able to. We don't know that.

Bertrand Russel

Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned

Masaki Iso

Low rates have supported equities globally, so investors are concerned interest rates will rise further.

Rick Baughman

Last year we were all really concerned about his health. He always wanted to know if he could do anything. But then he bounced back and was there for the kids this year.

George W. Bush

Leaders who are concerned about the harmful effects of high tariffs and farm subsidies must move the Doha Round forward,

Steve Ray

Many people are concerned about not only the shortage of people who can run for public office, but also the shortage of people to serve on nonprofit boards.

Asahi Shimbun

Many people in Japan were concerned whether American meat processors can properly take out risky materials. The concern was proved right so soon. Many consumers are feeling cheated.

Tony Dungy

Like '94 with Warren Moon and Joe Montana, you'll see two future Hall-of-Famers in Saturday's game.

Alexandra Robbins

...make sure you are still living in the present, rather than for an uncertain future.

Jam Master Jay

Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!

Bernard Kouchner

Let's talk about the future, not about the past. Next time I will be sure that they will not tell me that there is a Serb side and an Albanian side. Here's a hospital that will reach through this bridge.

James Schamus

Look out that window and you see a lot of people, including a lot of young ladies, ... That's the future of our film.

Justin Ossola

Leadership: that's what we learn here at USNA. Our goal is to teach people how to motivate whomever they're leading to do the right thing. Leaders of the future must have a strong moral foundation.

Brian Cashman

Let's get what we can get accomplished and let's concentrate on the future at a more appropriate time, which is after we get through the season.

Alfred McEwen

Learning more about where the water is today and where it was in the past will also guide future studies about whether Mars ever supported life.

Matthew Cooper

Sea level rise is a significant and growing threat to New Jersey, ... Future Sea Level Rise and the New Jersey Coast.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

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.

Michael Brown

My first words to him were, 'Mr. President, it is my estimation ... at least 90 percent of the population of New Orleans has been displaced. He was truly taken aback by that.

Christine Mitchell

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

Charles Harper

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again. I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Charles Harper

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again, ... I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Ellen DeGeneres

New Orleans is my hometown, and our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected.

Brian Kern

New Orleans is back open, so come on down and start visiting.

Jarvis Deberry

New Orleans had one of the most rooted populations in the nation.

Mark Smith

New Orleans as we know it does not exist.

Katie Johnson

We can't go back to New Orleans because there's nothing left,

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Edward Zwick

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

Abdul Kalam

We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.

Ernie Carson

If I recall correctly, there were probably 20 of us. I think the school population was 200 or 300.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

Bill McKibben

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

Alan Lightman

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Charlie Roberts

The population is growing, the unemployment rate is dropping. It's a combination of those two factors.

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.

Maria Semple

Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.

Ian Hamilton

One or two in the back room is all it takes,

John Galliano

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

Chris Klug

When you read the qualification criteria, it's very clear. There's really no room for error. (I) should be the winner.

Charles Spurgeon

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

Dennis Ritchie

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

Eileen Caddy

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Suzanne Collins

I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.

Ving Rhames

My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

Lee Mendelson

There are so many segments that are appropriate today.