Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Reid

Let's have a real investigation and a vote here in the Senate. What the president has agreed to is no review.

Edward Norton

Lewis and Clark's expedition is as great a story as you could ever hope to tell, and like so many people, Brad and I have both been drawn to it for years, ... We both always agreed that compressing that story into a feature-length film ruined the spirit of it ... so we sat down and said, 'How can we really do this justice?'

Kofi Annan

Libya has also agreed to a trial in a third country and believes that it ought to be possible to find answers to all other outstanding issues relating to this matter,

Adnan Pachachi

Leaders of political parties have agreed to postpone parliament. There are still some issues that have not been resolved yet.

Steve Lewis

Scott has told us that he wants to stay in Wales, but he has some issues to sort out in Australia and he has kept us informed about his position. We have agreed to meet at the end of the Six Nations to thrash out his contractual position.

Charles Schumer

Sen. Graham and I do not think it would be appropriate to vote on this bill while the president is there, so we have agreed to delay the vote,

Kevin Bishop

Senator (Lindsey) Graham has not agreed to delay a vote on the China currency legislation. No decision has been made and any insinuation to the contrary is nothing more than uninformed speculation.

Arlen Specter

Senator Leahy and I took a look at it and agreed that it was insufficient,

James Rubin

Secretary Albright just got off the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu and they agreed to meet here in Washington on Wednesday to discuss ways in which we can overcome remaining differences

Frank Arnesen

Many clubs like him and this is normal, he is big lad, left footed and has a lot of experience even though he is only 21.

Robin Birley

My father has never really had time for children, ... My mother encouraged us to be pretty naughty. We used to go to Dad's clubs all the time when we were little but, to be honest, he was busy. Our mother was much more sociable then, but not so much now.

Chris Cornell

I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there,

Charles Portis

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

Dave Collins

I can't imagine all the clubs in the division continuing to play under .500. But stranger things have happened.

Scott Boras

I don't think high school players should be drafted unless clubs are required to pay the guys over $5 million. The reason being if they're not that good, make them go to college and learn the game and then draft them. But if you draft a high school player you have to guarantee his future. And if the player is not that good the team won't take the risk. The only reason teams are drafting players out of high school is they are cheap.

Richard Francis Burton

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

Matt Kuchar

I had a temper when I played junior golf and had my clubs taken away for slamming them on the ground. I learned very quickly that I didn't want my clubs taken away from me.

Jim Shuping

Sex-oriented clubs have no place in our school system, gay or straight. They are disrespectful and disruptive to our educational process.... We need to take a step back from this and take control of our schools.

Bud Selig

We're not discussing contraction at the major league level.

John Thompson

Levy limits were discussed this year, but not enforced. Some of that's just every-year political stuff, but you don't know until the Legislature adjourns for the year what they really will do to us.

Carol Chastang

Many lenders may not have discussed the STAR program specifically with the borrower.

James Appathurai

Sofia will be an opportunity for foreign ministers to look forward to Riga. Indeed, this whole ministerial meeting is a stepping stone toward the very important Riga summit. But they will have a discussion on enlargement.

Malcolm Speed

Moving venues was one of the issues discussed today.

Jonathan Knight

My fellow band members don't discuss their loved ones, and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine!

Jim Fischer

One point here is that it's very valuable for the staff to be involved in that discussion. When there's really thoughtful discussion about an issue, it seems the right thing is done most of the time.

Nobu Matsuhisa

One evening, Mike Myers and Steven Spielberg were discussing 'Goldmember,' and I just happened to joke, 'If you need a Japanese character, let me know!' The next day, they called me for audition! I find it's always helpful to maintain a sense of humour.

Jaime Suchlicki

None of us want what we discussed here. It's the most likely scenario, but it's not what we wish for.

Kevin Mitnick

Anything out there is vulnerable to attack given enough time and resources.

Thomas p Kempis

Let Your name be praised, not mine: let Your work be magnified, not mine. Let Your holy name be blessed, but let nothing of man's praises be given to me.

Luan Enjie

Sending a man to the Moon? It would be a one-way ticket if we do it now, given the thrust of our rockets at present is not strong enough.

Tom White

maybe you could have given him a letter of reprimand.

Caitlyn Jenner

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

Rosemary Fox

One mom said if we hadn't given her a laptop, she would have gone insane.

Dannel Malloy

No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages.

Joanne Harris

No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.

Stephen Marley

Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness... a message of love, a message of unity.

Debra Messing

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life

Stephen Dorff

I'd like to make a movie in the South of France. I'd like to make a movie in London again. And, I'm going to make a movie in Amsterdam.

Lauren Willig

I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession.

Alan Rickman

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

David Mitchell

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

Carole King

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Camille Pissarro

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Benedict Cumberbatch

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

Antony Beevor

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Madeline Albright

We are allies. We have responsibilities to each other. That's why our troops have been here with Italy's permission for so many years,

Bobbi Brown

Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Nothing Can Make You Suffer, Without Your Silent Permission

Joy Page

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you can choose to be.

Robert Baxter

They just told me we had no permission to go from his commanders,

Patrick Rothfuss

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

Patricia Schroeder

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

Michael Keaton

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

Paulo Coelho

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Terry Fox

Ms. Garcia is stretching the truth for her own personal gain,

Dick Van Dyke

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

Patrick McMahon

give everything they have right down to personal sacrifice.

Deepak Chopra

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

Aaron Copland

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Justin Timberlake

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

Jessica Valenti

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

Dale Romans

I wouldn't have taken it personally even if he was. I've got more important things to worry about than what he does with his horse.

Howard Stern

I have a personal rule that I'm not going to curse.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Kathy Deepe

There is a part for everyone. And if they don't want a speaking part, they can be on the set crew.

Yoko Ono

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm terrible at speaking when I cry. Thank you so much.

Itula Mili

Sometimes, when we're together, we start just speaking pidgin and stuff like that and that's good, too.

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Michelle Obama

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

Dennis Potter

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Dee Dee Myers

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

Earl Nightingale

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Elizabeth Drew

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Elizabeth Bowen

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

Elizabeth Bowen

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

Elinor Glyn

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

Jules Verne

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

Joss Stone

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

Lin Yutang

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.

Aaron Levie

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

David Ginola

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Derek Jeter

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

Dennis Miller

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.