Famous Quotes & Sayings

Issa Rae

You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me.

Issa Rae

I don't like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don't like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that's almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it.

Isabella Rossellini

By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked how old I was. They almost fainted when I said 33.

Cory Doctorow

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

Rick Perlstein

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?

Rick Perlstein

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

Richard P. Feynman

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

Robert Teeter

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know of any case that involves computer hacking where there were multiple defendants charged where there wasn't an informant on the case.

Nikki Sanderson

Luckily my friend took charge of the situation,

Bob Woodward

Libby was not charged with being the first to talk to a reporter, and that is not part of the indictment,

Donna Newman

Let us see him. Why be held incommunicado? If they want to, charge him with a crime.

Dave Whelan

Let's see someone in charge with feeling for the game and let's make sure England are coached by an Englishman.

Samuel Butler

Learning is like a great house that requires a great charge to keep it in repair

Sulejman Tihic

Milosevic will be remembered as a negative historical individual and a dictator, and the first statesman charged with genocide.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Fitzgerald hasn't made any decision on the charges and I can't speculate what the outcome will be. Mr. Rove has cooperated completely with the investigation.

James Greenwood

Ms. Watkins is not a whistleblower in the conventional sense. She was and is a loyal company employee who sought valiantly and, sadly, in vain to get the people in charge to face the facts and make the hard choices needed to save the company.

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Alan Trammel

Like a lot of guys, Pudge has tried to do too much. Yes, he's a free swinger -- to a limit. This year he has expanded his zone.

Jim Woodring

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

Dutch Proverb

Life is a gift, but you do not get it for free

Anthony Smith

Make free throws. I told the girls, 'Let's make some free throws and don't foul.' That's how I felt. Let's make those free throws, and B.T. and Miranda made two of them. Not just one of them, but two of them, and that was great.

Shelly Smith

Lunch is provided, poles are provided; everything is free at this event.

Charles Gargano

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship

Ross Baker

So long as he is a free man, still a member of the House and participating in the conference, his influence is going to remain considerable.

Rita Ora

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.

Jim Tutwiler

I have a Rembrandt etching. I have a Renoir etching, and we've already sold two Renoir etchings at this show.

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

William Peter Blatty

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.

Veronica Saffo

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.