Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Mallon

I'd have to say that Nixon feels like the public figure who most dominated my life - from the time I went to fourth grade wearing a Nixon-Lodge button in the fall of 1960, through my college years, which overlapped with Kent State, Cambodia, the China trip and all the rest.

Carl Sagan

My wonder button is being pushed all the time.

Kacey Musgraves

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

Kacey Musgraves

A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

Susan Brooks

We did not have to wait for an interpreter to show up, we just pushed a button and instantly we had a live person interpreting through the T-LAN system. When the patient did not know a word on her admittance form, she just held it up to the screen and the interpreter read it to her.

Jenson Button

We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever.

Hayley Kiyoko

When I'm on set, I'm on set, and I focus and get the work done. Then when I'm done, I kind of have this button that I switch. I'm constantly switching this button and putting on different masks, and that kind of keeps me organized.

Beth Behrs

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Charlotte Rampling

I've lived through deaths in my family and I've lived through separations in my family so those are the big ones. Those are the ones that press the biggest buttons in human beings' lives.

Fred Mumford

We have a zero-tolerance policy for any facility that fails to conduct the sampling.

Ellen Smith

The people who were inspecting the mine will not be the people conducting the investigation.

Paul Jensen

unprofessional conduct not related to the quality of patient care.

Leon Cubillas

We're in a position where we either spend well over $100,000 to conduct our own election or we join with the county and share in the election cost.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.

Doug Mosier

We're making criminal enterprises look to different means to conduct their business. We see it as a desperation move.

B. F. Skinner

We respect the prerogative of debate organizers to conduct the debate sponsors as they see fit. We would welcome Russ Potts if the organizers wanted to invite him.

Sheriff Norman

We're so fortunate that we can now conduct an investigation into how this thing got going rather than have to explain to the victims' family members why something like this could have happened. I don't know what we would have done if something like this had really happened.

Howard Friedman

Short-term suspensions for egregious conduct create a serious problem. It sends the wrong message to officers.

Stephen Flynn

We have no idea who's in the ports. And many of the folks who come in to service the ports, that drive the trucks back and forth, are people who don't have very distinguished backgrounds. May have criminal backgrounds.

Terry Ebbert

We have no criminal justice system functioning today.

Ralph Brown

We have some criminals out there. That's why we have lights and security people at Wal-Mart.

Craig Montgomery

We want Occidental Park to be a place where more people of all incomes gather, and where criminal behaviors are displaced by positive behaviors.

Scott Shane

Few dramas in American political history remain more riveting than that of Nixon's exit and Mr. Ford's reaction, at first halting and then decisive, to the looming possibility of a former president on criminal trial for months on end.

David Shuster

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

Aburizal Bakrie

This will not stop the ongoing criminal case.

Bruce Springsteen

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Kerry Greenwood

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Gian Carlo Menotti

The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.

Queen Latifah

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

Jason Kubel

When I'm in the game I don't even notice it. Of course, there is the usual ache that has come from the injury, but nothing different from how it has felt all along.

Matthew Caws

When it was released, it felt like rebirth. What was fun was that no one was paying attention. It made it like recording the first record.

Justin Peelle

When it was over I felt he could have come to me. When I saw film, he had pressure in his face. He had to get rid of the ball.

Bob Curran

When it was 25-20 and they scored, it felt like miles away to get seven points made up.

Sue Monk Kidd

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

Abby Wambach

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

Marie Brennan

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

Ma Kai

The outline reflects the general will of the public.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

John Noble

'Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

John Eaton

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Deborah Marshall

We have no plans to move at this time.

Chris Bell

When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.

Hans Mosesmann

We've seen the same movement (as Philips). We think this quarter is the bottom.

Jonathan Pulik

The process at this point is being re-examined on how we will proceed, but it will move forward. The project is still in the planning stages.

Malik Peiris

The real culprits who are doing the movement you probably don't see. They're probably healthy. Obviously, if they're sick, they would not be able to migrate.

Thomas Haden Church

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Thomas Bangalter

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

Thomas Dooley

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Peter Rose

We've seen no disruptions. We are anticipating a normal work day.

Taylor Lautner

If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Evangeline Lilly

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

Dita Von Teese

So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Jason Cirone

When it was 1-1, I thought something special was going on here . . . for about a minute.

Ed Belbin

We know, at this time of the year, special teams is everything.

Don Adams

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

David McCullough

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

George Williams

This was a special season. We accomplished a lot... . It's special even though we didn't win the state title.

Janet Jackson

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Ava Gardner

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

Abby Wambach

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

Rick Adelman

We're just trying to make sure somebody's on him all the time.

Brooke Adams

With this one I just want to make sure it was OK.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

John Small

She didn't do the crime, but she sure can do the thyme!

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.

Monica Johnson

It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.

Tom Epstein

We want to wrap this up by the end of the month.

Tyler Perry

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

Ken Hitchcock

We can't get all wrapped up in what's going on,

David Levithan

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

Keith Kameg

This could have been wrapped up that night.

Mayor Goulbourne

It should all be wrapped up by week's end.

Patti LaBelle

They were wrapped up in blankets. They couldn't clap.

Jim Gaffigan

You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.