Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Trout

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Studs Terkel

So here we are. We have a choice to make.

Jane Mayer

So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.

Tony Snow

Millions of Americans annually commit themselves to such good works, and no country on earth comes close to matching our record.

Kin Hubbard

Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.

Michael Isikoff

Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.

Jeff Gannon

Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

Oliver J. Lodge

Mediums have perhaps but little conscious information to give us concerning their powers; we must learn from what they do, not from what they say.

Jerry Pournelle

One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?

Mike Williams

Luckily the bags don't hit back do they? They told me to tie my right hand to my head, I keep dropping my guard.

Tony Cooper

Mayflower Food Stores also donated a number of grocery bags to be given away as door prizes.

Alan Johnson

Monthly sales of horse treats have increased from 50 of the former 40-lb paper bags to more than 600 of the new 20-lb oriented polypropylene bags since we switched to the new bags.

Dominic Monaghan

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

Bruce Barber

There are people who bring garbage bags full of bread to the lake and just dump it, ... This is part of an overall management plan to essentially reclaim the town from the geese.

Linda Lovelace

If we don't generate a response, the bags won't be as full at the pantry.

Reem Acra

I love bags, and little bags within bags. Everything is contained.

Heath Ledger

I have kind of been living out of bags for the past 13 years. I will just stick to that, ... Home is, like, Earth. I don't care where I land. I am actually thinking of going to live in Italy. The food and the wine are great there. That's it really.

Steven Hunter

I had packed all my stuff. I had about eight bags in the airport. I put my house up for sale. For something like this to happen it was very, very stressful.

Mitch Kapor

If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.

Jamie Cullum

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

Kim Kipping

People are learning that they can decorate their homes well using items from a thrift store or consignment shop. They can find a lot of things. Used furniture doesn't have the negative connotation it once did.

Bob Stein

Love him or hate him, he's no fool. He's realized he may have lost his leadership post, but with the trial he faces losing much more than that. He may not be as focused on keeping his House seat as he has been.

Billy Hatcher

New names, new faces and just getting back into the groove of things.

Charles R. Swindoll

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

Edgar Allan Poe

And I fell violently on my face.

Eileen Caddy

Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs

Edward Heath

The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.

David Bowie

Turn and face the strange.

Cameron Crowe

I was fortunate to work with actors who loved music too. Just seeing what it would do to their manner and their faces was great and it helped give the story a little more soul.

Rafael Benitez

If we have new faces all the players think we need to work harder because they want to play,

Richard Rogers

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Robert Wilson

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Ron Wood

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Stuart Anderson

Like any other day, you feel like you leave a few out there. But any time you shoot 68 with a hole in one, you can't complain.

James Kilts

Mach3 will remain No. 1 for the first few years, but Fusion will become our flagship brand.

Kelly Martin

Magdalena's beatable, but they're tough. Our girls got stuck a few times, but they never gave up.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words. And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words, ... And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Eric Brown

Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Rebecca Stead

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.

Isabel Allende

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Jonathan Galassi

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Louis Lane

The so-called No. 2 is actually the first one because he thought the first one, which he wrote second, was a little better, so he had it published first.

Siri Hustvedt

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.