Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Regan

We want to totally reconfigure this model so that the purchasers have available information before they make a purchase. Our concern is how soon can consumers get the info how soon can NMVTIS get the information. If we're dependent on federal agencies, we're not going to get it as fast as if the private sector is allowed to leverage that info manage it and interpret it and send it back out.

Bud Morris

We want to show the community that there are things happening at our college that are directly benefiting the community. This will also allow our students to interact directly with the public.

W. S. Gilbert

We knew they would be pressing us and trying to set the tempo they wanted. We tried everything at the beginning not to allow that. But they're just such a good team that when they decided they wanted to run, they would run.

Bob Connelly

We knew they were going to throw a lot of different looks at us. We had to take on that challenge. We can't allow people to play us standing up on defense and not be able to run the ball effectively.

Tayshaun Prince

We knew they played that overtime game. We didn't play that many minutes last night. So the key for us was just to get out quickly, make some stuff happen. It seemed like they had slow feet from the start of the game, which allowed us to jump on them early.

John North

Wait until these laws are abused or misused and then the people of Australia will turn on them for bringing in, in peace-time, laws that allow Australians to be locked up without charge.

Alexandra Adornetto

VCE exams do not showcase students' abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam.

B. F. Skinner

Ultimately, we weren't ready to play, and (Murrieta) played hard. You can't let a team totally dominate you for 40 minutes and expect that, in the next 40 minutes, you can come back, because Murrieta is a good team. You just can't allow that to happen.

J. J. Johnson

Ultimately, public-safety concerns will determine when businesses can reopen and residents are allowed to return, even in areas that appear to be undamaged.

Shane Warne

Where it came from I don't know. But if people are trying to unsettle me personally and the team all together through the newspapers, it won't work. We'll be looking into this article in particular and taking it from there.

Don Phillips

Way too much is made of the slowdown of money into funds in December, ... For the last several years, there have been countless articles telling investors 'Don't buy a fund in late November or early December' because you might be buying just before it pays its dividend and then you'll have to pay taxes on the dividend next April? Investors are doing what's rational and right.

Demetri Martin

I've never read an article of clothing.

Nick Goepper

I had just got back from skiing, and I was just hanging out, browsing the Internet, and I found some article that was a press release that said slope style was gonna be included in the Olympics. And the first thing I did was call up my coach Mike Hanley, and we were ecstatic.

Ken Mehlman

What's interesting is you could have showed me an article about 20 years ago in The Washington Post that predicted that Ronald Reagan was a lame duck.

Thomas Martin

We're not asking to get him removed. It's not about him. The article is a symptom of a larger issue.

Stanley A. McChrystal

In June 2010, after more than 38 years in uniform, in the midst of commanding a 46-nation coalition in a complex war in Afghanistan, my world changed suddenly - and profoundly. An article in 'Rolling Stone' magazine depicting me, and people I admired, in a manner that felt as unfamiliar as it was unfair, ignited a firestorm.

Tom Lenk

My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.

Temple Grandin

When I was in high school and college, I thought everybody could think in pictures. And my first inkling to my thinking was even different was when I was in college and I read an article about, you know, some scientist said that the caveman could not have designed tools until they had language.

Charles de Gaulle

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

Nick James

Very few authors manage to keep selling that well. This is an author that clearly caught the imagination of their generation and then managed to keep capturing the imagination of generations.

Nick James

Very few authors manage to keep selling that well,

M. J. Rose

Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.

Larry Hansen

The only authority we had was to interview. Everybody made recommendations from different panels, and the city manager picked who he felt were the top three.

Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Colin Channer

We started talking about all the things in readings that don't work. We decided the people planning them don't think of the most important people involved - the author and the audience.

Charles Territo

We believe that the (federal government) has sole authority to regulate fuel economy in order to avoid a patchwork quilt of fuel economy regulations.

Jeff Bezos

We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,

Erik Paulsen

Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships.

Ron Klein

Unfortunately, it's another example of mismanagement on the part of Citizens, ... I would hope that in a bipartisan way we can get to the bottom of what it takes to fix Citizens.

Ken Lucas

I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was the right thing do. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for the war.

William Galvin

The problem with the Carter-Baker Commission is exactly the problem with the National Association of Secretaries of State, ... We're both bipartisan and there's nothing bipartisan about scheming for presidential primaries.

Ana Navarro

There is bipartisan support for immigration reform in South Florida, including Gov. Jeb Bush, including the legislature, including our mayor in Miami. We in South Florida don't have to turn people's minds around.

John Conyers

Most of us are together, on a bipartisan basis, that a preliminary report would do no good, ... It probably would not do Starr any good either.

Cecilia Munoz

The only way something gets through is on a bipartisan vote.

Michael Oxley

We hope to go to the floor early next month with that legislation. We think we will get a strong bipartisan vote in the House for regulatory relief.

Bruce Cain

I think they may be playing it for all it's worth. If he's trying to get back on a bipartisan track, what better way than to pick a fight with the president?

Charles de Lint

My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know.

Charles de Lint

I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.

Charles de Lint

I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.

Charles de Lint

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

Charles de Lint

I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?

Charles Dickens

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

Charles Dickens

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Charles Dickens

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have no evidence at all that the allegation you cited is correct, ... I am sure it is not.

Kgalema Motlanthe

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

William Holmes

I was cited for having lights on a vehicle. I paid the fines and they released the lights back to me, and I put them back in the car, ... They weren't in use then, it was observed in my vehicle.

Gregory Melich

Management cited a narrower assortment of handsets, ramp up of expertise on the activation process, and fewer-than-expected promotions as reasons for the softness.

Russ Salsman

If somebody is cited and they want to resolve that ticket, it's here instantaneously.

Kelly Quinn

While users cited opportunities for improvement with each vendor, the level of satisfaction with all server vendors rated in this survey was very high within the market overall.

E. Howard Hunt

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.

Elizabeth King

The move to penny increments, ... greatly reduced spreads in those securities trading in pennies and narrower spreads have been cited as one of the factors that led to a decrease in the use of payment for order flow in securities traded as pennies. Payment for order flow could similarly be reduced in options if spreads are narrowed.

Bob Gorman

This year's investment themes are highly consistent with those we cited in 2005. Overall, investors can expect steady, but not spectacular progress in their portfolios in 2006.

F. Stone

We knew they had trouble shooting from the outside. We had several reports about that. We decided just to go to the zone and see what happens.

Dave Griffin

We know he's got power. Sometimes, you don't know what you're going to get. I decided to give him a start to see what he does. We tell the kids they've got to be ready when they get the call.

Chris Hoffman

Ultimately, we decided to go in a different direction.

Rob Walton

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

Navtej Sarna

We've also decided to permit relief material being sent by private organizations and international (charities) to Pakistan.

Glenn Matthews

We spoke and decided we didn't need to. We just want to let things settle down.

Luis von Ahn

I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's... might be a good idea.

Nolan Gerard Funk

I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky.

Chris Cleave

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

William Shakespeare

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Benjamin Franklin

Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

Diane Cilento

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

Desiderius Erasmus

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

Abba Eban

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Chaz Bono

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

Bryant H. McGill

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

Kevin Henkes

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

Rob Mackowiak

We've all failed in different ways and, now, it's up to us. Obviously, the organization is looking to move into a better direction, so this should be a sign. We need to improve. All Mac could do was prepare us. He couldn't play for us. I wouldn't wish what happened to him on anybody, but you can't fire all of us.

Jeffrey Robinson

Where they failed was in what to do with this huge bulk.

Dick Cheney

What we're hearing from the other side is the failed thinking of the past, and we're not going back.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Kent Houser

We failed to run our offense in the third quarter. For the rest of the game, I think we played at our pace. We didn't want to slow it down too much, just have some discipline.

Tom Marryott

We failed to match American's intensity as the game went on.

Ken Bruen

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

John Greene

Many of my traditional supporters, especially in the business, women's rights and gun-owner communities, have failed to step forward to help me as they have in the past. Many have simply written-off the governor's race and ceded it to the incumbent.

Marco Basten

Some moments we played well but overall we struggled with our opponents because we failed to raise the pace.

Eddie Vedder

We want them to be heard for the first time when the record comes out.

DeAngelo Williams

We know who (Williams) is, we've all heard about him, ... We go in the game, and we look at it like a championship game.

David Johnson

When I was a little boy, 40-plus years ago, I remember listening to the Palmetto State Quartet on my radio. Of course, none of them singing now are the same men I heard then.

Dan Beck

ULA is separate from this. We have not heard any indication from Lockheed-Martin that the strike is a problem.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the ref once, you've kind of got to suck it up.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the referee once that you've got to kind of suck it up and quit yapping, you should probably do that.

Ednita Nazario

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me

Ariel Pink

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

Michelle Evans

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Nykesha Sales

Yeah, I played the majority of the year, but that's just like training. You train all year round anyway, so it's the same thing.

Ayn Rand

The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.

Alain de Botton

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Ben Horowitz

For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

Carol Araullo

She shows the worst qualities of masochists. She is boastful, she tramples upon the rights of others ... and because the majority of Filipinos are women, she is abusing the rights of women.

Dianna Agron

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

Bob Mould

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

David Rockefeller

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Barbra Streisand

I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.

Delta Goodrem

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

Bruce Smith

We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Gary Griffin

Whether it takes two months or two weeks whatever,

Olympia Snowe

The reality is, this is a very different world than where we were even six months ago,

Al Sharpton

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

David Brooks

Donald Trump tried to set up this debate where it was going to be globalists vs. nationalists, and the Republicans were going to be the nationalists. But, if anything, the Democrats looked more patriotic and more nationalist at the end of these two.

Mark Cuban

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

Mark Cuban

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

Thomas Jefferson

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think Americans are very patriotic.

Benjamin Franklin

Security without liberty is called prison.

Benjamin Franklin

When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.

Bill O'Reilly

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

Alan Moore

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

David Allen

There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

Buddy Rice

Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.

Jeffrey Skilling

The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11.

William Shakespeare

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

William Shakespeare

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

William Shakespeare

Love reasons without reason.

Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Bill Hayden

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

Lindsey Rice

She was just being released into a world of paranoia, and it wasn't good.

Bruce Springsteen

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Anita Allen

I can't release that information. We can't give out anything about salaries or bonuses.

Jim Calhoun

I thought at first when he released it, it was going to be good, but it wasn't.

Trevor Manuel

It is something that we should be able to release very very soon.

Jack Sheehan

He was immediately released to his place of employment.

Douglas Alexander

Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

William Shatner

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

Ben Bass

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

Sebastian Horsley

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

Zahi Hawass

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

Lily Chatterjee

One strange thing about the rain? It reveals all of the leaks.

Gunter Blobel

The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography.

Jacques Chirac

We can't reveal the secrets of the confessional.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Paul Bishop

We feel that (the $30 came) from the sale of marijuana.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Alexander

His sale to Watford is another filip for the youth set-up.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Lu Donnelly

Barns are for sale on the Internet. The wood is sought after now.

Ricky Gervais

Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Kojo Annan

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Steve Alford

We've already got three up on the board.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Anton Chekhov

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

Billy Sunday

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Natalie Coughlin

Ties are pretty rare. I don't think I've ever tied anybody.

Theresa Hamilton

We really want to make this an entire-valley event. We all know someone. We're all tied together. This valley is very interconnected.

Forel Davies

Another title, but we'll probably be tied with Vista, so it's not so great. That tarnishes it a little for me.

Matt Brown

I kind of tied the two together (music and art).

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Monty Python

Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Tubby Smith

We really got rattled. They really had another gear; they turned it up.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Jason Garey

I think it turned out pretty well for me.

Madeline Albright

He has to be turned over. We want to see him in The Hague,

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....

Ben Harper

It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

Author unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Jan Egeland

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.

David A. Siegel

I can't tell anyone to vote.

David R. Brower

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

Eazy-E

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Bill O'Reilly

Millions of Americans have already convicted Mrs. Clinton on many, many things. They will never vote for her.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Bill Maher

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

Bob Packwood

I don't trade my vote for money.

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Cathy Elkies

For us, it was really about the story of the Plaza. It is such a New York institution.

Jim Sims

He wanted it to feel romantic, seductive-elegant like a place you'd see in New York magazine.

Rachel Tucker

Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.

Peter Thiel

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.