Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melville Fuller

No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.

Gary Patterson

One of the things I'll fight when we have the national convention is to keep the coaches' challenge.

Quinton Foreman

New Orleans routinely has hosted conventions of 20, 30, 40, 60,000 people. This is a convention town unlike anything you've ever seen. So they've got to get that back. That fuels the economy.

Peter Yesawich

Obviously, that's where the opportunity is for Denver, given the new convention center. It catapults Denver into the national spotlight. I'd hit the accelerator hard on that.

Tom Schrader

We had a very nice rally, primarily due to the fact that we had oil down, and there was some relief that the convention passed without incident.

Walt Baker

I can't see a lot of development without that convention center.

Pat Walsh

I was still working on my last entry on Wednesday night before the convention opened on Thursday. So, it was a long, hard struggle to get where I was.

George Takei

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

Barack Obama

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

Italo Calvino

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

David Craig

My job was to manage that network of people and -- if people couldn't be convinced to support us -- to take them out, as people who could stop us from selling our project.

Nikki Rocco

My little monkey's doing great. We're convinced with all the information we have that this is the big guy, and he's going to be around for a long time.

Tami Erickson

One minute I think, 'We're just looking for his body.' The next minute I've convinced myself well he's taken off somewhere.

Charles Payne

No one is panicking and that is the good news. There's no leadership out there and there are a lot of question marks. Investors have convinced themselves of a better second half, but it's not assured.

Paul Tagliabue

Now that the team is 1-0, they're convinced they are going to the postseason.

Jon Gruden

We might have a scratchy throat, we might have something wrong with us. But if you can play, by gosh, we're going to play. Carnell Williams is that type of kid. ... If there's any way he can play, I'm convinced he would go.

Greg Gardner

We met with family members of the suspect and convinced the family members, when they heard from their son to have him turn himself in.

Andrew Burgreen

I can tell you firsthand it's not always easy to develop a not-for-profit until people are convinced there's a worthy product,

Isabella Rossellini

My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

Tom Hoffman

We're not being propelled in one direction or another by any external timetable that is being imposed upon us.

Lowell Kalapa

Lower the rate and that's the direct way of providing tax relief.

Stephen Leacock

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions

Dave Cottle

Last year we were 5-5 at this spot. We didn't want to be there again. We talked all week that all of our goals are still in front of us. We're headed in the right direction but still have a lot of work to do.

Scott Young

Lee's really got 'em going in the right direction.

Frank Torres

Many Spaniards kept journals and pointed out some specific sights directly related to the San Pedro Valley. And the San Pedro River runs right through there. It would only make sense that they would follow the river.

Norbert Haug

Many people would probably like this partnership, but there are neither talks nor intentions in this direction.

Larry Colagiovanni

Several drivers traveling in the same direction as Smith said he ran the red light. He wasn't even close.

Marisa Miller

So, it's kind of a big deal. This will result in more exposure and, hopefully, new connections, more shows and who knows what.

T.I.

I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.

Bode Miller

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.

Pete Carroll

We get as much exposure as any NFL team in any NFL city. You can't get more exposure than that. It's impossible.

Matthew Pearl

'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.

Pamela Salsberry

We don't have physiological data, but our findings suggest that prenatal exposure can be seen as a risk factor. There's such a strong relationship.

George Shinn

We're going to have national exposure here; you don't want to have only 1,500 people in the seats.

Dawn Ostroff

Veronica Mars' is a smart, intelligent show with a fabulous star in Kristen Bell, and like many other great series, it simply needs more exposure to gain real traction. This is that opportunity,

Charlie Hall

We started Big Muddy Records because we felt that there was a lot of good music happening in St. Louis that needed exposure and support.

Robert Jenkins

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert Toombs

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Kurt Andersen

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

David Scott

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Linda Tripp

Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously.

Hoshyar Zebari

left to the Kuwaiti government itself and its estimation about the situation in Iraq.

Tasnim Aslam

No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.

David Williams

No one in government is making hard choices,

Ralph Trine

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Tom Lewis

MLK really left his mark even today and influences us in our community.

Alexandra Shipp

My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'

Jonathan Lethem

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Drake Bell

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Elizabeth Drew

Money buys access; access buys influence.

Billy Sherwood

I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.

E. P. Thompson

I would be naive to think that it's not going to be heavily influenced by a lot of things he's taught me.

Josh Trank

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Steve Case

lead the convergence of the media, entertainment, communications and Internet industries.

Doug Lewis

One of the unfortunate things about the Internet is it has made everyone gratification-happy instantaneously. But we are not going to be able to get this done in Internet time.

Rick Kaufman

One of our students received a warning ... through the Internet last night at their house.

Jenny Emanuel

We want to make sure the Internet is secure.

Kofi Annan

only normal that governments now want to be involved in Internet governance.

Andrew Vachss

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

Mitchell Baker

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

Tanya Harris

Unless you have Internet access, a lot of people are left completely out of the loop. We want to let them know what their options are. We just want people to vote.

Najib Razak

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

George Foreman

The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything.

Patrick Ness

We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.

Nina Garcia

If my closet were burning, it'd be my collection of jackets I would save - they always make me feel pulled-together.

J. M. Roberts

We never did it ourselves. I'd think about it but I wouldn't do it. But it's the simplest thing to save somebody's life.

Joseph Roth

You do a little, we do a little, we all save a lot.

Coolio

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

Bob Watson

What we're going to do is save a roster spot for him. He can't make up his mind.

Sarah Newton

We didn't want to have them come down to do the work if we weren't sure we would be able to save the building.