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,

Matthew Arnold

Let the victors, when they come, / When the forts of folly fall, / Find thy body by the wall.

Robert Harris

Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves.

Bob Punter

Scott and Rob (Hummel) realize that if they want to play Big Ten basketball, they can't stay where they are. (Martin) already has a pretty well-proportioned body, but he still has a high school body as opposed to what you see in a Big 10 game from 6-8 players. He could put 20 more pounds on his chest, and he'll be impossible to handle. And I could be really smart.

Miroslaw Pulit

Search dogs pointed to a particular spot, so we brought in extendable cameras we were able to see a person's head and started digging, and next to that body we found another one.

Miroslaw Pulit

Search dogs pointed to a particular spot, so we brought in extendable cameras ... we were able to see a person's head and started digging, and next to that body we found another one.

Ralph Hodgson

See an old unhappy bull, / Sick in soul and body both.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

SENATE, n. A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

Sathya Baba

Mind has no physical form and so it does not perish with the body; only the body perishes.

Joe Ward

Mrs. Jones had received a lot of injuries to her body, all over her body. She had over 60 wounds. There were slashes. There were stabs, ... It looked like she had fought for her life in that room. And lost.

Louis Aragon

Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious crowd.

Craig Biggio

Last year we got to really see what our crowds were all about in this building. They're your 10th guy.

Greg Paulus

Lee is a natural leader. He's been great to me, just telling me crowds are going to say this, or they're going to try to do this. He just makes sure you're doing your thing.

Jacob Epstein

My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.

Shaun White

Music gets me in the rhythm I want before the run. And the (loudspeaker) music gets the crowd going, and that pumps me up.

Matt Thomas

When he is announced, the crowd really goes nuts.

Ian Holloway

When their man was sent off, it seemed to wake up the crowd and give them someone to get their teeth into and fortunately for us that was the referee,

Dustin Moskovitz

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Diane Kruger

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

Jimmye Laycock

Last year, they played really tough and they've got most of those people back, including their quarterback. It should be an exciting game.

Dan Wheldon

Scott and I already were talking that we want to make a big impact next year. That's a goal. I had a lot of success this season, and I'm looking to do the same (in '06). It will be a very exciting season in general. There will be a lot of competitive cars, so we'll have to be on top of our game.

Adam Topper

Sean is going to be a very exciting runner to watch this fall.

Roma Downey

Season number seven! It's been so exciting for us. When we first began, we were like the little train that could... and we did! We're terribly excited! It will be an interesting season for us, I think.

Chauncey Billups

Maybe we're not the most exciting team, but we know what it takes to win. That's what we do.

Jim Wilson

One of our goals has always been to provide fans with an exciting race program that is run fairly and efficiently.

Alice Hamilton

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.

Brian VanGorder

Obviously this is an exciting day for myself and my staff.

Ryan Howard

When I look at us, I see a young, exciting team. And with the guys we picked up, I can't wait to get to spring training and see it all unfold.

Rudi Johnson

Let him be. He's focused. We're all expecting big things out of him, and he's expecting big things out of his teammates. Let him focus and soak it in and be ready for Sunday.

Ann Stevenson

Last year, there were at least 250 people, but probably more, ... This year we are expecting about 500.

Mark McClellan

Many people were expecting significant reduction in retiree coverage, which just hasn't happened.

Ryan Newman

Mine was unintentional and his was intentional and that's all I'm saying. NASCAR can do what they want with it. By no means did I purposely wreck Dale Jarrett. I was shocked and surprised and when he later ran into us. I wasn't expecting it.

Jonathan Clark

My kids out there were playing okay, but in their minds, the numbers they?re shooting are nothing like what they were expecting to shoot,

Sean Sutton

My focus all week has been on our players. They didn't come to Oklahoma State expecting this to happen. It's been hard on them. But I have a responsibility to them and to this school. I try to keep that in my mind as much as possible and keep a positive outlook.

Henry Gomez

On ebay, the packages people are receiving are expected. They(consumers) have contacted a seller, have been bidding on the item and there's feedback, so usually you're expecting a package. You usually have some sense of what you're getting.

Billy Knight

(Monday) will be the soft opening of a break-out year. I've been hearing a lot of positive things from the community. They're expecting a lot and we're ready to give it to them.

Ashley Haynes

Now we are going in there expecting to win. We are not just going out there playing not to lose. We are going out there playing to win the game.

Sandra Sanchez

Many people think that they just simply are not following the steps. There are no legal channels.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

John Emerson

Only 50 of the 220 possible panels would have resulted in the same ranking of the skaters following the short program.

Chad Lindberg

My advice for upcoming actors is to never give up. If it's in you, keep following your dream no matter what. Perseverence is the key.

Hu Jintao

More and more Americans are following with interest China's progress and development. Understanding leads to trust. I hope this will help you gain a better understanding of China.

James Fenton

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.

Anita McLane

Obviously it's a big game because of the rivalry and the region title on the line. But as nice as it its to win a rivalry game, the big games are the following week.

Carl Lackey

We had been following him for over two years. He was doing a lot of damage.

Viktor Yushchenko

Freedom and truth are returning to Ukraine following today's decision.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Edsger Dijkstra

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Sathya Baba

If one student is bad, only that student is affected. But if one teacher is bad, hundreds of students get spoiled.

Tom Callos

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. Likewise, when the teacher is ready, the students appear.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Kevin Knight

I'd like to see every student be a part of their school, whether they are in sports, band, drama, or any other ac-tivity,

Annie Dillard

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Kelly Shackelford

What they're trying to do is treat them like they're not a student club. They are a student club.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Margaret Garcia

We don't know. Mia didn't play soccer. She was a cheerleader all her life. She cheered for (the University of Colorado).

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Adolf Hitler

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.

Adam Ross

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Bill Gates

I didn't completed my University Education