Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.

Rick Perlstein

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

Richard P. Feynman

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

Bill Vernon

Mandates do not solve, but only exacerbate the problem. Mandates will seriously impact the state's ability to compete economically with other states.

Randy Cunneyworth

Like any young player, there was a period of inconsistency. He can be average and then he can be Clarke MacArthur. Average isn't good enough, but he possesses the ability to be above average.

David Blask

Light, in terms of our experiments, stimulates breast-cancer growth activity, and obviously this is due to the ability of light to shut off melatonin production.

Mark Duda

LT hit him a ton and practically killed him. (Charlie) got up, went out for about four plays and came back and ran the ball 25 more times. His ability to cope with adversity and physical pain, he had no equal.

Becca Kohli

MacKenzie is a player with the right attitude and the natural ability to go after every ball and to be a spark on the field. We feel MacKenzie can be a very strong player for us because she has potential in several different positions on the field.

Jeanine Pirro

Liberals stay up at night worrying about the library provisions in the Patriot Act, ... I stay up at night worried about whether we are going to have the ability to fight the war on terrorism with the same tools ... that I have had as a prosecutor to fight organized crime.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Enterprises are just starting to adopt and integrate the iPad into their networks, but this is accelerating, and that's an opportunity for Infosys.

Mahmoud Abbas

Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.

Dawn Brown

Life in our family changed when we adopted him. It has been challenging, but very rewarding.

James Mercer

Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don't like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.

Andrey Denisov

Let's just imagine that we adopt it and today we issued that statement ? then what happens after two weeks?

Andrei Denisov

Let's just imagine that we adopt it and today we issued that statement -- then what happens after two weeks? In such a pace we'll start bombing in June.

Harry Wang

Low interest in this service among the grey-power generation and the baby boomers stems from multiple reasons, including the fact that the service is a novelty to many senior citizens, who are typically slow to adopt new technologies in the first place. The seemingly complex applications inhibit adoption.

Scott Smyser

Low-end, ultra-low-cost mobile phones are being pushed into emerging markets in large numbers. Meanwhile, at the high-end, wireless communications service providers are continuing to demand lower-cost 3G mobile phones in order to spur greater consumer adoption of 3G services. These two factors are driving down the overall ASP in 2005 and 2006.

Cheryl Crates

Last year there were eight versions of the budget (the ninth version was passed by the board of education) ... This is version four. We'll probably do four or more of these (budgets) until it's adopted in September.

Jason Schultz

Let's say you get a patent on something like a pop-up window. Of course, you could, in theory, go after everyone on the Internet, but you don't. What you end up doing is picking off the weak members of the herd, companies that don't have the money to defend themselves or independent Web sites, or occasionally big companies that you think will not have very much backbone and will quickly settle.

Jeremy Grantham

Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before.

Bill Smith

Seasonal is the first thing. And then seasonal Southern. The backbone of it is traditional Southern cooking.

Fred Smoot

I hate that we had to lose a player like him. It hurts me. I wanted to come to a team that had a backbone quarterback. But now I just hope we make the right decision.

Jenny Potter

She's a solid goalie who's been playing really well. When we played (Mankato) in college, she was the backbone of their team. She really helped them out and saved a lot of games or made close ones out of others that would've been blowouts.

Jason Mathenia

She's been doing that all year long for us. She's the backbone of this team and this defense. We're not giving many shots, but when we do give them, we know we've got somebody back there that's going to make the save when it counts.

Rod Gorman

If we can't handle their pressure, we're not going to win. Our guard play has been pretty good. It's been the backbone of our team.

Nick Price

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

Mark Zuckerberg

Health is certainly extremely important, and we've done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it's not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

Rick Perlstein

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov.

Jimmy Collins

We're not doing the small things it takes to win right now. We've got to go back to the drawing board and practice blocking out, faking before we pass, making free throws.

Amber Frey

Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....

Mike McGlynn

Last year we had to sit back and pass block on every play because defenders really knew we were a passing team. This year, the defensive ends just can't pin back their ears and come right at us.

Davis III

Last year was a big building block for me, getting back to playing a full schedule.

Allison Hine

Last year, some wanted to go to Block Island and the Statue of Liberty.

Eddie Locascio

Several streets had been blocked off and there were a ton of police cars there.

James Jeffords

moderates in both parties can do what we've done before: Stand up to block these anti-environmental initiatives and instead pursue policies that protect and respect our environment.

Al Warden

Mt. Lebanon couldn't block us. That caused them problems.

Sherri Murrell

Mandy Close is a senior who's playing hard and knows how to win.

Anton Corbijn

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

Ivan Seidenberg

Like all companies, we are closely monitoring the economy, but what we see at this time indicates we can hit our target for full-year revenue growth,

Rich Brooks

Make no mistake about it -- it's a very serious competition and a close one.

Geoff Ogilvy

Luke is a great player. He's probably not overdue, but close to due.

Lucy Jones

Magnitude doesn't tell you damage. If it's not that big or not that close to people, it's not that bad.

Mike Patton

Let's just say we're closer musical friends now. A lot of these people are strangers to me. They were out of sight but very much in mind.

Jordan Reese

(Liberty's) always good competition to go against. It just sucks to coming so close and falling just a little short.

Les Brown

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Edie Bailey

Life is too short to waste our precious time with stress and frustration. We should concentrate instead on the many things we have to be grateful for.

Brent Guy

Leon did a fine job of running the football. Toward the end of the game, he didn't do a few things we wanted him to do. He lost his concentration a little bit. But we're pretty pleased with the way he handled the game. He ran well and took some big hits. He's going to do nothing but get better.

Shaun Micheel

Obviously I'm disappointed with what happened on the eighth hole. I think I just lost my concentration a little bit.

Rob Domagalski

Free throws win games. That shows great concentration and it shows how we're maturing. Not having one senior, we're continuing to mature as the season goes on.

Willie Mitchell

For some reason, we lose focus and let them get back in the game. To give up as many points as we did is just a lack of concentration on our part. We need to do a better job and we will.

Richie Meade

I would have liked to see us play with more focus and concentration longer into this game. We played well in the first quarter and well into the second quarter, and then we just flattened out a little bit.

Elena Likhovtseva

I guess I lost my concentration when I got hurt. I could serve okay but it was difficult to run side-to-side. But credit to Karolina, she still played well today.

Jeff Suppan

I had a tough time with my slider; it was off the plate a lot. I work on staying focused and keeping my concentration at the level it needs to be. Sometimes, it may take five pitches to get that one out.

Francesca Schiavone

I had to think about my match and my games and my concentration because it's not easy to stay there every point. She is good -- (but) she missed a lot today.

Dimitar Sasselov

Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning. The comparative planetology of our solar system makes it seem like those initial conditions are hard to come by.

Kofi Annan

Many are living in sub-human conditions and they fear for their future,

Ken Goldstein

Severe weather conditions and uncertainty over interest rates may help explain why the rise in the indicators was cut short.

Fernando Alonso

So far we have shown we are strong in all conditions on all tracks.

Salim Altaf

No one can predict the weather. It is difficult in such weather conditions to prepare the exact type of pitch you want for a Test.

Pradeep Hirethota

Nature ultimately determines what will come out. The conditions last year were evidently congenial for good survival.

Sarah Friedman

More income seems to create conditions more favorable to development.

Ben Bernanke

Monetary policy is most effective when it is coherent, consistent and predictable as possible, while at all times leaving full scope for flexibility and the use of judgment as conditions may require.

W. Hull

Now we're in this dry cycle, and quite frankly, Texans have forgotten how to deal with it. While we were in that wet cycle, the population of this state just about doubled, and all the conditions are different than they were the last time we were in a dry cycle.

Frank Torres

Many Spaniards kept journals and pointed out some specific sights directly related to the San Pedro Valley. And the San Pedro River runs right through there. It would only make sense that they would follow the river.

Pope Benedict

No pope ever left us as many texts as he did; no pope in the past was able to visit all the world like he did and to speak directly to men of all continents. But in the end, he was struck by the path of suffering and silence.

Robert Patrick

For something like 15 years, all I did was films or, you know, movies that I thought were going to be films that ended up going directly to video. It was sort of a real narrow opportunity. And now, working on The X-Files has broadened it and I'm looking for whatever is good, good dialogue.

Ronald Kessler

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

Jerry Wainwright

Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done that all year. They're terrific open-court players.

Jim Carroll

She called me directly and is doing fine. We were glad to see her on TV this morning. She is in good health and we are pleased about that.

Barbara Perry

She completely represents this ideal. Janie has worked tirelessly to make Salisbury a cleaner, greener and better place to live. In fact, much of our community's recent success can be attributed directly to Janie.

Stephanie Nelson

If they can get you to go directly to their Web site that's pretty strong marketing. And, it's inexpensive for them.

Jonathan Ames

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.

Gale Norton

Major repairs may take months and some facilities into next year,

Naohiro Niimura

Now the market is nervous about a new storm, while supplies are tight and oil facilities have not fully recovered (from the last hurricanes).

Ben Thatcher

I have been shown around the training facilities here, and they are really terrific. The pitches look great, and everything seems to be so well organized.

Michael DiGirolamo

What we have over San Francisco is the market. We just have to push to get our facilities in place.

Doug Hall

We get input from so many different sources. Within our organization we've got the facilities managers, server and network people, security, general contractors, architects.

Mark Dobson

We have not historically had a coordinated plan for the use of facilities we own.

James Rubin

Those are major sub-systems, missiles or key production facilities for missiles. So they're big and significant items.

Susan Cutter

you do find characteristically that there are a large number of industrial facilities located next to poor communities.

Bud Grebey

We want them back as quickly as possible. We've implemented a contingency plan and the implementation of our contingency is on track. We're performing necessary work at facilities throughout Connecticut and other locations so we can meet our commitments to the U.S. military and other customers.

Eliot Spitzer

Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Alan McCoy

(The price of zinc) has increased dramatically, especially in the past year." ()

Roy Barnes

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

Cate Blanchett

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Robert Murray

Joy is increased by spreading it to others

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.

Rick Perlstein

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Ron Gettelfinger

Make no mistake about it, we will make a big issue out of that in the (bankruptcy) hearings,

Bill Flott

Make it your top priority in this next week to get these issues resolved.

E. Hurley

MADD is not the white-hot issue it was in the 1980s, ... But we need to rebuild our organization with even more volunteers and a stronger structure than we had in the past.

Christopher Klaus

Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door,

Gerardo Copca

Many issues that had lagged are rising this week.

Christopher Richter

Setting those two issues aside, we would have seen a pretty nice rise.

Matthew Fassler

Mr. Edmondson's personal issues ... are tangential to the firm's recent lack of execution, results and direction.

Neil Lomax

Mouse's philosophy was, 'Hey, this is what we do. I want my third-stringers to throw. I want my receivers to catch,' ... I just, personally, now have an issue with it. What are you trying to prove after 70-75 points?

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Tad Williams

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Trey Gowdy

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

Cliff Black

We don't know what ignited it, perhaps a leak.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

John Humphreys

Now they have a pretty strong portfolio. This is a powerful tech story for the company, and they need that.

Charles Spurgeon

Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.

Diane Lane

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

Dennis Prager

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

Dennis Prager

Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness

Democritus

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

Deborah Tannen

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

Dee Dee Myers

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.

Dee Dee Myers

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

William Shakespeare

Let me be cruel, not unnatural;I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

All music has to speak in some form or other.

Edgar Allan Poe

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Tiger Woods

I can't speak for him, but I did not play well at all.

Eliot Spitzer

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

David Bowie

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

David Nicholls

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

Dick Van Dyke

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Edsger Dijkstra

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Abdul Kalam

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

Aaron Eckhart

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

Maxim Afinogenov

If we play like we did today we'll do good.

Greg Taylor

I don't get up and think today is going to be 'the' day they find something. I get up every day and think that 'someday' they will find something.