Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger than its liberal wing, and as such, when progressives speak of the party as a vehicle that naturally belongs to them, as if by right - until conservatives stole it from them - they weaken progressivism.

Rick Warren

Life is all about stewardship. It all belongs to God - he just loans it to us for a short period of time. The first command God gave to man was to take care of the Earth, which includes managing and protecting the environment.

Maxime Talbot

Let's make it 4-2. With that team, they score and you're like, 'We're not even worried.' We know we have the team to come back. We know we have the players to score goals and stop goals. There was no doubt in my mind that this game belonged to us.

Jeff Buckley

Lots of time I feel like I don't belong to this place.

Joe Pesci

Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to.

Andy Partridge

So it was a bit tricky, 'cause most of the people in London belonged to this London clique and we didn't. So we didn't go to parties or hang out.

Tom Graham

May, June and July are the heart of the season. We're being strangled out of business on an ocean that belongs to everybody.

Susan Collins

My inclination is to say that FEMA does belong in the Department of Homeland Security.

Margaret Thatcher

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''

Jodi Howell

(Monday) I ran on the treadmill some and ran on the elliptical. I've done the stair-master the past couple of days, ridden the bike and shot around.

Davide Brivio

Of course fixing this vibration is now our main focus and today we worked a lot with the entire team to try to find the right way forward. We had great cooperation between the two riders and both crews, exchanging information and experience and this is very important for the team's progress. We've been working on data collection today and we will continue tomorrow, trying some new things and gathering more information to help us. We've already done many days testing with this new bike and mostly it's going very well, now we have two more days here to continue with our improvement.

Nick Brown

More than one third of bikes on the road are in the name of their original keepers and only 40 per cent have had more than two keepers.

Tom Lewis

My goal is to win this as many times as I can now, ... It's a good race for me. I'm up around 200 pounds, which is the most I've ever weighed. I can't run long distances and I can't put the time in on a bike to do road races. This race is perfect for me.

David Abercrombie

From our standpoint things have run pretty smoothly. We had all those bikes riding around in the rain (Saturday) night. I would have anticipated more accidents.

Gary Fisher

fringe oddball (races) and the really big stuff ... trying to understand this whole bike world.

Jack Roush

If (a racer) gets a chance to race more, he'll do a better job for you. If they put themselves in a situation with good equipment, it doesn't worry me. What worries me is the off-the-track stuff. Carl Edwards is off jumping dirt bikes now. That worries me.

Lindsay Gray

I would get on the bike every morning and ride around downtown with a knapsack on my back and literally pick up orders, most of them sympathy orders. I just kept that route every day just to let people know we were serious.

Helen Huber

I would have gotten on a bike the next day with him. I hope he wants to ride, because I really enjoyed it and I know he did too.

Robert Osborne

Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me.

Marc Morial

A great American city is fighting for its life.

David Keller

Light rail has given Salt Lake City a new kind of ambience. It feels like a real city.

Michael Stern

Like in every city, some are healthy, some suffer. We try to establish a criteria and separate one mega city from another. The crucial points we look for are that the city has to be a critical place (whether regionally or globally speaking) and it needs to have a critical system which the entire city depends on,

Mike Woods

Life in the city is schedule after schedule.

Jennifer Post

Making it easier for people to travel throughout the metropolitan region includes giving them confidence about knowing how to use mass transit. And because thousands of people travel in and out of New York City every day to the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and New Jersey, it makes perfect sense for us to take a broad, regional approach.

Michael Stoops

Las Vegas has always gotten an F (in those areas). Someday I hope the city will quit criminalizing homelessness and they'll get off the list.

Peter Ueberroth

Leaders who aren't on the radar will emerge. If the city is going to recover, they must emerge.

Jim Brandt

Many of the previous powers the City Council enjoyed are now largely irrelevant under the current conditions.

Anne Johnson

Men need nutrition, counseling and health classes just as much as women,

Michael Moss

One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key things we could do to get this issue moving.

Merce Cunningham

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

Cynthia Voigt

My favorite season was when I wrote every morning for three or four hours, then I would go and teach my classes at school, come home to my family and hang out with them, have dinner, and then, after everyone was tucked in, I would prepare for my classes the next day.

O. J. Simpson

Now that these students have returned, some credits do not balance, ... Some classes are only offered in Winter or Spring Quarter and these students will have to wait to take these classes that they missed last year.

Charles Pierce

Neither of us has much of a science education, or even math, ... They all went together, at first taking the same classes as their mother. They did better than she did.

Michael Beals

We had been at full capacity. Now we could unfreeze the system and move classes around to better meet demands on the campuses.

Michael Beals

We had been at full capacity, ... Now we could unfreeze the system and move classes around to better meet demands on the campuses.

Douglas Fairbanks

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

Blake Ress

Many of the people in the legislature send their kids to private schools and I think they would defend them, defend the current system. I don't know that we've done enough research where we can defend this before the legislature or in court. If we're going to go this way we better have some facts to back our decision.

Herbert Hainer

Many of our current efforts will now focus on turning around the Reebok brand.

Cindy Clark

Several teachers also go to training all year long. Even in the summer, they go to week-long training sponsored by different groups. We want them to keep up with the current research.

Atul Lele

Momentum is on the mining companies' side, at least for the short term, as current commodities prices feed through to earnings.

Mark Levine

Mr. President, please reject the Left's current efforts to influence your selection. Your political enemies wish you ill.

Xiao Qiang

Much more relevant is current affairs, social and political news. You don't necessarily have to touch taboo areas.

John Robertson

Much more inflation. Because this government is always going to be printing its way out of its current difficulty.

Robert Gruber

Most wine importers hedge about 12 months; in other words, to the end of the current price list.

Norihito Kanai

Mazda, like other automakers, is benefiting from the weaker yen. Currently they don't have many new models, but next fiscal year starting in April, they will release new SUV models in the U.S., which should help its earnings and sales.

Unknown

Life isn't about how to survie the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen

Life is like a dance one must know when to move and when not to, and never to hesitate.

Whitney Prather

Last year, the dance floor was packed. I would recommend to get there early if you want to get a table near the dance floor.

Richard Kane

Men are reticent to take dance lessons because that's not where their heads are at. They come to it after they turn 40.

Tom Jones

Music is great; it all depends on what mood you're in, what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow.

Joni Mitchell

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels/ The dizzy dancing way you feel/ As every fairy tale comes real/ I've looked at love that way.

Margot Wallstrom

Negotiation seems like dancing the Tango, two steps forward, two steps back and suddenly three surprising steps forward,

African-American Proverb

When the music changes, so does the dance

Twyla Tharp

I see dance as glue for a community.

Boris Yeltsin

Let us do everything to...ensure that those tragic events never happen in our land again.

Jack Warner

Leah was solid in all three of her events. She will impress a lot of people this year.

LaClaire Carter

My legs were really tight today, so I didn't run all my events. I saw what I can improve, and I need to work on my start in the 60.

Larry Jacoby

Memory plays a very powerful role in how we see and interpret the world, even in situations where we are completely unaware of the events that gave rise to these memories.

Dan Gilroy

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

Dennis Hastert

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

Edgar Allan Poe

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

Tiger Woods

I feel like I'm playing better. The things that I've worked on have really, really started to solidify. I've put together some good events this summer.

Nancy Wood

If all goes well there, we'll do more events like that that will be open to the public.

Sam Keen

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Mark Geragos

Scott looks forward to finding out who did this,

Cynthia Morgan

Seventy-two percent said they'd use their ex-supervisor as a reference in finding a new job,

Steven Katz

One important finding is that most patients reported that their surgeons recommended the less invasive treatment. Second, patients had substantial involvement in the decision-making process. More patient involvement, though, yielded more mastectomy, not less.

Jim Wooldridge

Obviously, we don't have any momentum going. We're finding ways to lose instead of finding ways to win.

Scott Drew

Obviously with a young team, the more time the better and we don't have a lot of time. It gives us a stepping stone in finding out what we need to improve.

Bruce Dressel

Now that we have a good view of everything of the Loop 101 south, we're finding all kinds of little issues people never called us about.

Mike Frisk

(Neely) has a knack of finding her teammates and also knows when to take it to the hole. She's unselfish and just a tough competitor.

Capt. Solano

Obviously the guns are out there but it's a matter of finding them and getting the right people on the team.

Alexandra Adornetto

My girlfriend is an angel." -Xavier

Alexandra Adornetto

I'm getting a girlfriend soon," said Michael in a serious tone, and everyone laughed. "You've got plenty of time for that, kiddo," said his father. "No need to rush." "Well, I don't want a boyfriend, Daddy," said Madeline. "Boys are dirty, and they make a mess when they eat." "I'd imagine the six-year-old ones would." Xavier chuckled. "But don't worry, they get better at it.

J. M. Roberts

My girlfriend has a smaller car, if it wasn't for her I probably wouldn't be able to make it to school.

Joe Thomas

Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look.

Aaron Carter

My career is my girlfriend.

Rebecca Romijn

I've become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermodel, beautiful girlfriend roles. I mean, playing somebody who's perfect holds no allure for me, whatsoever. It's just boring.

Lorrie Moore

Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all of your socially handicapped characters with them. Tell him his old girlfriend is in all of your stories and then watch how funny he can be, see what a really great sense of humor he can have.

A. J. McLean

Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

Alan Rickman

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Terry Jones

No doubt, 13 straight hikes by the (Federal Reserve) and the prospect of at least two more have also hurt.

Marc Pado

We're not going to feel the impact of these rate hikes for quite some time.

Alan Skrainka

If you read the speech, he seems to imply that those hikes aren't enough.

David Powell

These are the first hints that the end of the hikes may be coming.

Tom Connor

There's a lot of optimism that the interest rate hikes have slowed the economy.

Andre Bakhos

Investors are looking for a sign as to when rate hikes are going to stop.

Roberto Galvan

The markets are seeing that opposition to tax hikes is very strong. Practically all sectors of society are opposed to the budget.

Steve Case

lead the convergence of the media, entertainment, communications and Internet industries.

Doug Lewis

One of the unfortunate things about the Internet is it has made everyone gratification-happy instantaneously. But we are not going to be able to get this done in Internet time.

Rick Kaufman

One of our students received a warning ... through the Internet last night at their house.

Jenny Emanuel

We want to make sure the Internet is secure.

Kofi Annan

only normal that governments now want to be involved in Internet governance.

Andrew Vachss

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

Mitchell Baker

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

Tanya Harris

Unless you have Internet access, a lot of people are left completely out of the loop. We want to let them know what their options are. We just want people to vote.

Najib Razak

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

Mallory Ortberg

Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

Rob Sheffield

Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who has no idea what the Oscars are.

Robert Brown

One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it

Jennifer Moore

No one likes being sued, especially in a situation where it is completely baseless.

Richard Madeley

On Liam Gallagher: He likes Judy, he's got a soft spot for her.

Timothy Noah

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes compliment.

Mike Manley

I wish we didn't have to do this. This is the most distasteful part of the job. Nobody likes it. It's never fun.

Roy Brown

She's the kind of student we want at this University. She's a role model whether she likes it or not.

Mo Ibrahim

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Jeff Chambers

MSU is on a limited budget. We don't have enough money to tape every athlete.

Joseph Volpe

Maybe with 'Parsifal,' because it's only three performances and a limited rehearsal time, we'll be able to get someone really good.

Pete Sepp

Obviously we need to start considering limits on this sort of taxation.

Margaret Gillett

Now we have space to move around in. We were pretty limited before.

Rick Dinse

I can't set a time limit on this,

Earl Nightingale

There is no limit on earnings.

Deepak Chopra

To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.

Ray Garcia

The only limit is to make it underneath the bridge,

Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Robin Chase

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Robert Palmer

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Osborne

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Malcolm McDowell

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malin Akerman

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Jonathon Hamilton

None of these are material to this transaction.

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

George Wald

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Sean Booth

A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar.

Bikram Choudhury

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

Brunello Cucinelli

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Conor Maynard

I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'

David Byrne

You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

Kristoffer Polaha

When I met my wife, I was 24. Obviously, she wasn't my wife. She was just a girl. I made her my wife later on.

Darius Kasparaitis

screaming at us, telling us what to do like the 'Full Metal Jacket' movie.

Tommy Chong

Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I've got the cred.

Kate Winslet

My husband and I met in a house fire, basically.

Laura Lopez

We met with different stakeholders, and done different surveys to get a different understanding.

Wayne Applebee

We met Thursday, (September 8) with Mr. Tate, and his attorney, but were unable to resolve the issue. We still have some work to do.

Robert Galvan

We met the trainers and after a while, we were singing together.

Cindy Sheehan

I can't say that I will regret the experience. I met some very interesting women.

Brent Mitchell

The only people that didn't like Ryan were only people who hadn't met him yet.

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Romola Garai

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Mark McKinney

It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

Tony Prentice

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

Danish Proverb

One should speak little with others and much with oneself

Edsger Dijkstra

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Carl Gustav Jung

Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.

Frank Darabont

I find it doesn't pay to take oneself too seriously. And I like that sort of irreverence when I see it with other people.

Robert Frank

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

Pierre Schaeffer

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

Bruce Lee

To live is to express oneself freely

Janet Frame

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Latin Proverb

What is done for another is done for oneself

Erica White

One of the things we always wrestle with is trying to get parents to read to them at home. Time is a factor, and work schedules. A lot of them work at night.

Christopher Darden

My grandparents and parents urged me to go to school and do well in school so that at the end of the day I'd have options, choices.

Rep. Hogue

I feel real strong that violence should be in (the statute). We need to give parents a tool to protect their children.

Parry Aftab

I have 11,000 volunteers working for me, and I still can't keep up. I don't know how parents would.

Tom Riley

She was just a victim of her parents' callousness,

Vanessa Williams

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

Missy Clark

We had no clue. We want parents to do the research, get informed, talk to their kids.

Jim Bryant

She wants to ride the vehicles to make sure they're right.

Carlos Chitty

I could talk to him. He would ride in my car. We were really buddies.

Forrest Miller

We'd like to have him christen it, and have him take the first ride in it.

Jim Clyburn

we're not going to let it ride this time.

John Manion

We're going to ride (the running game) as long as we can.

Jay Gibbons

This probably is a little different, something new, ... I'll ride it as long as I can.

John Kinsey

We've seen that kind of roller-coaster ride before, and this is just another one of these.

Patrick Surtain

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

Kunda Dixit

He really wants to ride it out. It may take some time (for him to go).

Charles Petzold

NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for? Filling space. The 8080 can usually execute a bunch of NOP instructions without anything bad happening

Diane Sawyer

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

Democritus

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

Denis Diderot

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

Eduardo Chillida

Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

Eduardo Galeano

A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.

Arizona Muse

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

Barton Seaver

Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

Ed Rendell

Growing Greener doesnt produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

Marty Schottenheimer

Like a lot of their linebackers, you can get on them, but they won't stay blocked.

Joan Armatrading

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Isabel Allende

one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.

Shai Agassi

No one has said that we will only stay in that area.

Earl Boykins

Whenever you lose, you're concerned. But we've got to stay confident.

Chris Frantz

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

Barry Bonds

I did have it. It just didn't stay between the yellow lines,

Mitch Kapor

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

Corey McKeon

Getting in their heads, it's key. For a team that has had success, you have to stay in their faces.

Joyce Banda

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

Audrey Hepburn

My look is attainable. Women can look like

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.

Chris Evans

What does a woman want? More.

Tucker Max

Women always want the guy that other women want.

Tina Brown

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

Democritus

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Denis Diderot

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Deborra-Lee Furness

As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't make us feel good. We recognise that some people have bad energy and we know we don't want that in our lives. Instead, we choose to spend time with people who love us and treat us well and make us happy. There's no doubt that shows on your face.

Wayne Tartline

(Mayo) got done wrong in a whole lot of ways.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.

Sasha Adams

She was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ed White

She was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Mike Rowe

If they are, they're in the wrong business.

Phyllis Oakley

We are on the wrong track, and we need a fundamental change,

David Bailey

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.