Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Rick Perlstein

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

Ronald Kessler

I sat next to Carl Bernstein throughout Watergate, and Woodward would come over, and they would argue everything out, so I was really tuned into what happened.

Marc Faber

The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve's policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they can't identify bubbles, but when each bubble bursts, they flood the system with liquidity that brings about unintended consequences.

Jim Rohn

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Janelle Tolman

Lots of people argue that it is cheaper to live in South Dakota and that should be a trade off. We recruit on a national level, and cost of living is something applicants generally don't consider.

Martin Jol

Lee said in the dressing room that it was the worst tackle ever and I wouldn't argue with that. It was horrific. He has a badly bruised knee and could be out for a few weeks.

Richard Gephardt

Less than 1 percent of his tax cut takes effect this year. All economists are saying it does not stimulate the economy and I would argue it would have the opposite effect,

James Carroll

Many people will assume I'm drawing a wildly idealistic portrait of what the church can become. I would argue that all of the changes I'm calling for are not only realistic, they're essential. And I'd also say that in some way or other, each of them is already underway.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.

Albert Schweitzer

My life is my argument.

Thomas Erskine

Let reason be opposed to reason, and argument to argument, and every good government will be safe.

Alison Reynolds

Many people have used the argument that opening up trade leads to political reform and social reform.

Oliver Purnell

Momentum in sports is a powerful force. One could make the argument that we're playing better than any team coming in ó so I'll make that argument.

Terry Anderson

Much of our argument is likely to be with the U.S. government, rather than the Iranian government,

Brian Rolston

Maybe. You could make an argument for it. The bottom line is you give that team (Detroit) any time with the puck, they're going to make plays.

Ralph Catalano

One argument is that it was conserved to help us lift buses off of pedestrians who just got hit. My belief is that nature conserved the stress mechanism because of its effect on gestation. Natural selection doesn't care about individuals, it just wants poundage and conservation of genes. It found a way to maximize the pounds and the genes.

Scott Peters

No one has signed on to his view that the benefits are illegal. He has been authorized to make that argument in his own name but not on behalf of the City Council or the City of San Diego, ... I would never have voted to authorize him to litigate this illegality issue if the retirement board hadn't brought it up.

Mario Gonzalez

One woman was having a violent argument with her boyfriend close to the store. As she turned to walk away from her lover, he pulled out a pistol and shot her.

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Neil Payne

Man, I bet there is nobody on the golf course today. This is the biggest thing to happen to Andrews in a long time.

Leopold Sacher-Masoch

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Jimmy Jones

Make a bet every day; otherwise you might walk around lucky and never know it.

Alec Guinness

Luke : How did my father die? Obi-Wan : A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.

Jan C. Ting

Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don't think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that the results will be good. I suspect the results would be a disaster and the end of the American experiment.

Keith Ashdown

Senators are betting that pandering to the public with billions in election-year promises will pay off more than they lose by cutting the fiscal conservatives in their own party off at the knees.

Seo Ho

Sentiment on exporter shares will take a hit because of the stronger won. Investors will probably wait until making further bets on exporters and focus on domestic-demand related stocks.

Steve MacFarlane

Mike Hurley has betrayed his union brothers and sisters. Mike now has to live with the fact that his co-workers will forever view him as a scab.

Penny Circle

Mrs. Betty Ford remained in Eisenhower Medical Center overnight following tests late on Thursday afternoon. She has returned home and will resume a normal schedule.

Isla Fisher

When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.

Isabella Rossellini

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

Rick Perlstein

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

Janet Prust

Mandatory reporting simply means more scrutiny in all of the practices around reducing infection. Sterilization is considered a sentinel event around surgical site infections. So for a facility to be able to document and prove that they did all of those things the right way via an electronic record keeping system is a tremendous value for a facility.

Kay Vandervort

Life isn't easy. We've all had situations where we needed emotional support from a friend. Consider if you did not have a friend to hold your hand when times got tough.

Cliff Robertson

Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.

Alan Young

Last year set a new kind of standard, ... I think it does influence, especially when you consider how few people turn out to vote.

Caroline DeWaal

Many more of these plants should be considered failures.

Bill Coleman

Many people consider salary negotiations a negative thing, something to be avoided.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Dee Brown

Me and James (Augustine) have been through this before as sophomores. You just have to play with a different mentality.

Merry Clayton

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Sarah Hall

James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.

Bill Hader

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

Andy Roddick

We all pick each other up. I've picked up James before and today he picked me up. That's' why it's called a team.

Pierce Brosnan

James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.

Heikki Kovalainen

I'm a big James Bond fan. I've got a collection of them.

Gary Shteyngart

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

Dennis Bailey

I did a small part, he's the one who did the big part.

Scott Kahan

For small investors, they probably aren't the place to be.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

Courtney Riepenoff

She's small and she's inexperienced . . . but she's feisty.

Douglas Jerrold

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Alice Hoffman

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

Mark Edwards

We're doing what we can. We think it's a worthy cause.

Angelo Sorce

We're really working to make this a show worthy of the audience's time.

Mary Balogh

Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was.

Rainer Maria Rilke

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

John Green

YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

Horace

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]