Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to be the most powerful person in the world? The answer is someone with an internal drive that is so dynamic and so determined.

Robert Walpole

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

Theodore Tilton

Life is done, but what is death?" Then, in answer to the King, Fell a sunbeam on his ring, Showing by a heavenly ray, "Even this shall pass away

Patricia Fripp

Life is a series of sales situations, and the answer is no if you don't ask.

Henry Hyde

Let me be clear about this, ... We are not here today to decide whether or not to impeach Mr. Clinton. We are not here to pass judgment on anyone. We are here to ask and answer this one simple question: based upon what we now know, do we have a duty to look further, or to look away?

Jack Rio

Let me answer that with the words from the hit Steely Dan song 'Do it Again,' ... You go back, Jack, do it again. Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round. You go back, Jack, do it again.

Liam Fox

lied and broke the law and he must answer for that.

Shaun Cassidy

Lost' has changed the climate for shows that don't answer all your questions by the end of every episode.

Douglas Gresham

Many people ask, 'Why are they coming back?' The answer is that these books never went away,

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Drew Goddard

Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.

David Eisenberg

Like a detective, Melinda traced this fibril-forming property down to a little peptide. Nobody expected that 1 percent of the protein could have the essence of the whole protein and could form fibrils on its own; I certainly didn't expect that. There were only seven amino acids in that fragment. Rebecca later found the peptide could be cut to only four amino acids and form fibrils.

Drew DiPippo

Making the tournament has certainly been our focus. We have a tough road to get there, but it's our focus and goal and we're going to keep plugging towards it.

Tim Deal

Macs still present a price premium on the consumer side. That will always be an issue to many consumers. However, for those where technology and differentiation by innovation is the key purchasing factor, this certainly does remove that obstacle.

Keith Gumbinger

Leveraging yourself out at a time when (home) prices are very high certainly could set you up for difficult times.

David Pierce

Let's see... how old am I? I'm definitely in my 50s... and I've certainly always been in my 50s. I could be older than that... but I'm not willing to face that.

Denise Hakim

Life is not about getting the easy in. Things happen in life for a reason. What makes you confident is knowledge and getting an education.

Julie Matheny

Mac and Kelsey, they can stroke it pretty well. They're very confident shooters, as any good shooter should be.

Cory Lidle

Look, they just went ahead. The math showed we have to win our final four, and they have to go 2-3 in their last five. We're confident that we can do our part. But we're depending on another team to step up.

Rosabeth Kanter

Leaders deliver confidence, that's what they do. They make decisions, they set strategy, they do all the technical stuff, but they also have to make people feel confident that their efforts will pay off.

Brad Stuart

Leetch was trying to do a slap pass to me and it kind of got away from him, but sometimes you get those lucky breaks. I knew I hadn't made a kicking motion. The only thing I tried to do was I tried to move my leg and get my stick on it. But I was pretty confident that they would realize that it wasn't a kicking motion.

Peter Taylor

Leroy is very, very dangerous in the penalty area, and he knows how to take a goal. He is a confident boy.

Brian Finneran

Matt's been confident since he showed up here, he's had control of the huddle, in practice, in training camp. In the games he's played in, he's always been confident in his ability.

Matt Hasselbeck

No disrespect at all, ... but we expected to win this game. I've been on teams and gone in places where I'm not sure everyone felt that way. We're more confident than we've ever been.

Dorothy Moore

No one can guarantee me anything. I am much older and much sicker than I was when I had the first transplant, but I am confident in my doctors and confident that I will find a donor.

Marc Faber

When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.

Ali Naimi

make it more difficult to overcome these bottlenecks in the system.

Alain Resnais

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Clinton Case

(Lewinsky) doesn't sound crazy. She sounds fragile, as if she is in an extremely difficult spot.

Tim Bates

Last year, we could hit the ball. That was our strength. We had inexperienced pitchers, but what is nice is that they're back. We left them in at difficult times last year so they could learn and they have improved because of it.

Don Cooper

Let's face it, it's very, very difficult to get our work in. The disappointing thing is that it looked like we were going to get our five innings in.

Yoshimasa Maruyama

Less than 250 seats and things could get difficult for Koizumi.

Maria Garcia

Learning English is the most difficult part, and I hope I can do it because I really want to become a citizen. I?m happy for my friends and I hope I can do it, too.

Bradley Skolnik

Many of these folks are in very difficult straits. There are several investments where the investor has used their entire life savings and incurred enormous hardship as a result. It's truly heartbreaking.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

George H. W. Bush

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

Richard Lugar

It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

Amr Moussa

I salute the Iraqis and wish them victory.

Muqtada Sadr

We urge the Iraqis to be up to the level of responsibility... to keep Iraq's unity and safety.

Sherrod Brown

We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.

Bayan Jabor

We as Iraqis are responsible for solving our own problems,

Lawrence Eagles

Most of these projects were supposed to be done last year. If U.S. money had been made available, Iraqis could have done the job faster. Whichever way you look in the short term, it comes back to security.

Roberto Benigni

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

Jeff Tedford

He doesn't go through the peaks and valleys that some people would. He just has an easy-going attitude.

Jeff VandeLoo

We've been pretty consistent. We've played pretty well all year without having a lot of peaks and valleys, which has been encouraging.

Dick DeVos

One more step on the road to getting it done for Michigan.

Tom Davies

Now we'll get them on the road and see what we can do.

Dean Saito

Getting gross-polluting vehicles off the road is a cost-effective strategy.

Jim Bolla

Fresno is No. 1 in our conference. Let's go up there and see if we can play well and keep our road streak going.

Steve Davies

I wouldn't want to be out on the rural roads tonight up there.

Tim Short

I wouldn't trade what we've done for anything. I think going on the road has made us a better team.

John Miller

I find it really hard-pressed to support a road tax when right here there's nothing being done.

Tom Tupa

She's doing great, ... She's completely done with all her treatments, and she's on the road to recovery.

John Adams

Since the road has been changed, that's just let everything come off the park.

will.i.am

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

John Stayton

We are in a sense bucking the trend in most MBA programs.

C. L. R. James

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

David Douglass

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations...

Daymond John

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

David Amram

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

Bruce Sterling

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

Jane Krakowski

I've never been so on trend in my entire life.

Richard Herrington

If we see an upward trend in delinquency ratios, we tighten our lending, but we have not had to do that.

Bill Gurley

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Helen Keller

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

Isabelle Huppert

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

Niklas Zennstrom

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

Jay Leno

106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.

Mark Twain

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

George Herbert

Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.

Gloria Grahame

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.