Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronde Barber

Regardless of what 2004 was about, 2005 gave us a new opportunity. Everybody jumped at it, believe in it, worked for it.

Friso Abbing

Regarding the substance of the proposal, our view is the reverse of the people you have been speaking to. We believe that we need to protect innovators, therefore we want to send a strong signal to those people infringing intellectual property that they face criminal sanctions.

James Loy

Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging-threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the southwest border to infiltrate the United States. Several al Qaeda leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons.

Anthony Romero

President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional approval, but this program is illegal and we intend to put a stop to it.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job, We don't speculate on personnel decisions.

Alan Greenspan

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job.

Donna Shalala

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press.

George Buckley

Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.

Tina Turner

Some of those dresses are works of art. I'd be happy to just have them in my closet and let somebody else wear them.

Rick Carlisle

I have been voting for this guy as an all-star for three years. I am no closet fan. I am an out-there fan. I love the way he plays, and he is a guy you really fear.

Tom Hank

I don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about th

James McGreevey

I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.

Gene Luen Yang

I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I've always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I've had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for 'The Shadow Hero.'

Timothy Noah

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.

John Breaux

Must be in a closet somewhere, on a shelf somewhere. I am really disappointed.

Alice Gilborn

She kept it in her upstairs bedroom. It would hang in a closet by its tail.

Alex Steffen

There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.

Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Jacob Reitan

Our message is: Learn from history and end religious-based repression.

Will Rogers

Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

Jack Turner

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Xinhua Agency

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Brad Lidge

I think they're professionals and they're going up there and looking for something and trying to hit it. I don't think they're thinking too much about the history of us, but if they are and it can work to my advantage, that's great.

B. F. Skinner

We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

B. F. Skinner

The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

Vint Cerf

Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.

Hari Kondabolu

I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.

Bob Combs

Because negotiations are ongoing, we have no comment. I want to reinforce that we are not done.

Richard Durbin

He has the right to say what he believes, ... but all of us should be denouncing these remarks as totally irresponsible.

Bill Cosby

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

Bill Cosby

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

C. S. Lewis

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

Carrie Underwood

Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret.

Carl Sagan

Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Jason Schmidt

I don't know what the big secret is.

Andrew Scott

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Mark Wilkinson

I think it's a better-kept secret than the Special Forces.

Marvin Kalb

I don't find Senator Frist to be a social fundamentalist. . . .

Kojo Annan

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Robert Torricelli

I know that's your testimony, Senator Torricelli, but it is not accurate.

Arlen Specter

No senator that I have talked to has come down and made up his or her mind.

Harold Ickes

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Alfred Jodl

To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions.

Dennis McCullough

We have a sneaking suspicion where it is." ()

Jewel

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

J. Haldane

Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Henry David Thoreau

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Samuel Johnson

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Sonia Braga

The rating [of "Aquarius"] was eventually brought down to 16 after the third appeal. Everything blew up after the second appeal because the press picked it up and spurred suspicions of persecution.