Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jody Kielbasa

We want to pound home the idea that the festival is for the entire Gulf region.

Jim Hale

We have never talked about being ranked No. 1 or being undefeated at all the entire season. Those numbers aren't important to us.

Mark Driscoll

We want our fans to show their support for our program by wearing green. We want the entire stadium in green.

Terry Zwigoff

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it.

Sherri Shepherd

I want to know how to feel good while I'm in the gym, because I'm mad while I'm on the treadmill. I've got that angry-lady face the entire time.

Tracy Letts

The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells film. 'August: Osage County,' as a play, is done. Written. On the shelf. It'll be performed in its entirety for years.

Thomas Lennon

We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film.

Uzo Aduba

My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Tim Matheson

For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

Neal McLaughlin

When you're traveling around, it's very confusing, especially if you're pointing to one race and something happens and you switch up to go to another race. Maybe the medication was fine for the first race, but now you're excluded from the next race.

David Chapman

Mr. Matthew thankfully has been excluded as a suspect, ... He has been conclusively shown not to have any involvement whatsoever in the sexual assault.

Jacques Rogge

If any sport wants to come in, one will have to go. But no sport will be excluded before 2012.

Daniel Bouton

I don't exclude a cross-border, but it is rather complicated.

Bobby Seale

You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups.

Franz Beckenbauer

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

Kim Gandy

There is no job that women should be excluded from because of their gender. If you can do the job, you should have an opportunity to get the job. If you can't, you shouldn't be there, male or female.

Frank MacKay

There is no room in our party for such outrageous racism. We are a party of inclusion and the only people that should be excluded are those who preach this kind of hate.

M. Wolfe

We don't want to exclude anyone; we want to include everyone. We want students to know that we want their input. Get online and give us input.

Agnes Repplier

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Charles Simmons

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Joel Diemond

The real history of the U.N. lies in the perceived failure of the League of Nations.

Winston Churchill

We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Susan B. Anthony

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

Susan B. Anthony

Failure is impossible.

Tom Hooper

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

David Mitchell

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Sandra Goldstein

What have they done there to justify that?

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

Curt Schilling

I'd love to sit here and justify why I should throw more (on Friday). But I can't do that.

Yoshiharu Izumi

This seems to justify the Westinghouse acquisition from a strategic perspective.

Blake Shelton

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

John Casesa

which is a tough number to justify without tangible results.

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

Harold Vogel

The question is, will there be enough new advertisers to justify the cost.

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Charles Payne

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Chris McKay

So, I got stuck reading for them and paying the bill.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

Sandra King

When we see a possible discrepancy, we need to investigate to make sure the taxpayers are not paying for something that simply doesn't exist. It's our responsibility to investigate that discrepancy. It's our responsibility to the people, really.

Guy Pearce

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

Verlene Powell

One of the big things that Boise seemed to have a problem with at this school. Was that we were paying to teach all these teachers, but they were going to other states because of better pay and what not.

Clark Chapman

But there are more asteroids out there, so we should be paying attention.

Dennis Prager

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Wolfgang Gerhardt

The real poll is on September 18 and we are going to win it.

Deborah White

While they want to prevent pollution but they also want to prevent chaos.

Oscar Arias

Today, we'll make reality what the polls have been saying.

Tony Wood

I would urge patrons to go to the polls and vote, ... I think it's important to participate in this process.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is not they who will decide, but we when we go to the polls on Sunday,

John Payne

Usually, poll workers only go to school every third year, but because we have an exceptional circumstance, we required everyone to be there for all 15 classes.

David Tom

Voters will be surprised when they show up at their polling place and find they aren't on the rolls. There are a lot of things we don't feel comfortable with.

Rudy Giuliani

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

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.

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.

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

Brian Behlendorf

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

Bill McKibben

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

Henry Spencer

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Austin O'Malley

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

Isaac Mayer Wise

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

Alice James

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

Leonardo da Vinci

Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Mike Dunlap

Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

Jay Anderson

The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.

Mahatma Gandhi

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Orlando Gibbons

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Grover Norquist

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Brian Weiss

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

Brian Cox

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy