Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

David Talbot

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

Michael Moriarty

Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.

Ibrahim Lipumba

The persistence of poverty in Tanzania, especially in the rural areas, is cause for concern.

Ken Jackson

We are seeing a substantial increase in our fuel prices. It's not like it's going to cause us to close our doors, but we would sure like to have that 15 percent to spend elsewhere.

Kevin McCarthy

We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95.

Colin Powell

We strongly oppose it, ... It will cause us international difficulties, and it opens up other opportunities for others to try to seek similar relief.

Steve Kernkraut

We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.

Marty DeJarnette

We started cold, but we found our rhythm in the second quarter. Their size caused us some problems, but our press got us some easy baskets off turnovers.

David Silver

The powerful multiyear up-cycle in potash shows signs of maturing. Demand growth has slowed steadily since last spring, and North American producer inventories have risen to multiyear highs.

Brett Galloway

We are seeing an enormous increase in demand for wireless infrastructure.

Arlen Specter

We are proceeding in a matter of the utmost, utmost gravity -- the potential for impeachment of the president of the United States -- and I think American people will demand and are entitled to that kind of bipartisanship,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

David Ricardo

The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

David Ricardo

But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.

Rick Barnes

We want him to want the ball. He's going to have to demand it. ... The worst thing he can do is be passive this time of year.

Charlotte Bronte

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

Bill McCollum

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Alan Watts

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Alan Ritchson

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Alan Moore

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Alan Moore

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

Alan Moore

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Alan Moore

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Alan Bradley

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Alan Rickman

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Alan Bradley

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

Al Pacino

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

Childe Hassam

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

David Minge

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

David McCullough

The most interesting people are never perfect.

David Korten

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

Phil Palmer

The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors.

Bonnie MacPherson

It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

John Boyega

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

David Sanborn

While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town.

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

Sean Wilson

I don't want to come off that I'm whining about the situation, but I was disappointed. I've always regarded this as the tradition of a school.

Katie Findlay

I don't know how to exist before 9 A.M. And without coffee, I'm not classified as a human. Actually, I could be regarded as a threat.

Thomas Perls

These findings should be regarded as a warning: If you have Alzheimer's in the family, you have to take precautions.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Charlie Munger

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Nick Zito

Since he's come back to Kentucky, he's been super. I think he's rising up at the right time.

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.