Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rogers

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Rick Perlstein

Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since he broke Alger Hiss in 1948 (he never shifted course, and lost his soul).

Robert Walpole

And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.

Robert Mueller

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

Kurt Student

The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.

Kristin Cast

I don't watch 'Glee,' not that I have anything against it. Whenever I miss the first few episodes, I won't watch the series.

Marcy Kaptur

I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.

Larry Foote

Man, he could he play some ball. I never got to play against him in football, but I watched him play my high school in basketball. He dominated. He led his team to the state championship. You knew back then he had all the talent to be a great one.

John Locke

Man... hath by nature a power .... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men.

Orson Swindle

Legislation could have a dampening effect on the growth and expansion and the vitality of e-commerce, ... Our society functions on the free flow of information. If we have to have everybody's approval on everything, things would come to a grinding halt.

Rob Schneider

Legislation before the house proposes much tougher restrictions on new drugs and drugs with outstanding post-market approval studies that have not yet been completed,

Carlos Sanchez

Many investors stayed out of the market because of the long weekend, but prices rose due to the approval of the Enabling Law.

David Hale

My guess is that we'll hear by November who it is, given the need to have time for Congressional approval to occur, but I think the selection is wide open,

Nick White

Obviously, now with this information, we hope that there will be an immediate upgrading of the facilities or at least a quality approval of this product and greater availability. It's a little strange that such a valuable drug is so difficult to get.

Graham Parry

Given increasing market hopes of a full approval, we believe that this could disappoint investors.

Benjamin Andrew

Getting European Commission approval is a key step ... but the fact that there has been such a disconnect between the takeout price of $76 (per Guidant share) and the current share price tells you there's more uncertainty and nervousness out there than normal.

Matthew Dowd

Former President Bush's approval on the economy at this same time in 1991 was 28 percent and fell to the mid-teens in 1992.

Deepak Chopra

Once you know who you really are, being is enough. You feel neither superior to anyone nor inferior to anyone and you have no need for approval because you've awakened to your own infinite worth.

Rick Perlstein

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Steven Schier

Lightning probably won't strike again. Jesse's undistinguished tenure as governor in Minnesota, coupled with Arnold's troubles in California, make it unlikely that celebrity candidates will ever have the inviting luster of novelty that they had a few years ago.

Larry Sabato

Lots of things that smell are legal. But if a candidate is putting an emphasis on ethics, then he has an obligation that the spirit of the law be adhered to, not just the letter.

Ian Smith

Last year, we took several steps to improve the financial profile of the Company, and we now enter 2006 with a stronger financial position and the operating leverage that supports investment into later-stage clinical programs. Specifically, our financial strength enables us to invest comprehensively in VX-950 and develop this product candidate to its full clinical and commercial potential. We are committed to maintaining the trajectory toward a 2008 NDA filing for VX-950.

Bill Col

Many of the candidates are known only as names and not individuals. People in Iowa and New Hampshire want to get to know you individually, or feel they do. . . . That kind of courtship takes a lot of time and effort.

Rick Greenspan

shares the university's mission in cultivating a diverse pool of candidates for coaching and staff positions.

Joanne Drake

Mrs. Reagan has not endorsed any candidate in the campaign. Neither she nor President Reagan ever endorsed a candidate in a primary.

David Johnson

None of these candidates really seems to be energizing anyone.

Peter Swire

One worry is that candidates will talk out of a thousand sides of their mouth. What if they have a thousand messages that are different for every tiny part of the population? It's much harder to get accountability for what candidates say.

David McLean

I can tell you that we're not planning any price drops on Xbox 360 this year at all. The product doesn't need it.

John Updike

I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

Chuck D.

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

George Foreman

Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

Idris Elba

I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

Peter Jackson

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

Ramy Attalla

We can be a stand-alone solution or a safety-net for when Medicare drops coverage, either way it's a soft landing.

Saddam Hussein

I am trying to extinguish the fire with few drops of water.

Michael Strahan

He's confident. He can see it right now every time he takes a snap and drops back.

Alexandra Adornetto

The lake of fire awaits my lady

Garth Brooks

Life is not tried, it is merely survived if your standing outside the fire

Rick Christman

Mainly, we can't get into a fire because of the blow-down (of trees and branches).

William Williams

Love you? It'sa fire in the blood, willy-nilly!

Brandon Matich

Searle played his heart out, not having a varsity start before, he was tremendous. We threw the kid into the fire He made many good plays.

Tom Donahoe

Most young quarterbacks get thrown into the fire,

Alfred Reft

Mau was so fired up tonight -- he was a spark plug in the middle. He did a good job, hustling, getting digs. He'll have to take the (libero) jersey.

William Congreve

Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke

Tom Bennett

Maybe a fire hall, ... Ours is as old as dirt.

Dick DeGuerin

I would have told you a month ago we'd be in trial by now, but that was before Ronnie Earle pulled his shenanigans with his frivolous appeals.

Gail Wilson

He had to wait a lot, sit and wait. He was always trying to improve himself. These were not frivolous books.

Freida Pinto

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Van Cleve

When we met those families, the wedding planning all seemed a little frivolous at that point,

Kevin Cunningham

We just got to a point with the TDC that it's more of a government entity, and it spends money on frivolous things that we don't.

Chris Nicolosi

We were trying not to be frivolous with the borough's money.

Douglas Coupland

Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Beth Richardson

Luckily, we've had an outpouring of those who have called and said they'd be happy to provide housing. We have a list of 40-50 places, some individual renters, some from local hotels.

Conard Fowkes

Making it big ? there are happy stories about that. And there are sad stories.

Jeff Horner

Last year, we were kind of just happy to be going. We were one of the last teams announced, we weren't even sure if we were going. This year, we knew we were in, and we were one of the first teams announced.

Nancy Hernandez

Many of our members were happy to see the spotlight shown on the issue that day.

Andy Mangin

Milan played well. They're a scrappy bunch. I was happy to get out of there with a win.

Gaston Gaudio

Mikhail was a very strong opponent today, so I am happy I have won the edge,

Angela Moore

Mom kept saying she was so happy I was here,

Nana Sutresna

Mr. Kim responded positively to (our) invitation and said that he will be happy to undertake that visit at the very appropriate time in the future.

Patricia Bryant

Mother never pushed him to change, but she was really happy when he did.

Kumail Nanjiani

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I work, so I'll say dinner, ... I have a job now.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I'm at work, so it'll have to be dinner. I have a job now.

Marc Warren

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

Gary Mickelson

legal obligation to do their job and are not part of this dispute.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Ruth Rendell

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Kelly Meek

Scotty knows our system so well, anyway. He is doing a super job playing within what he has.

Martin O'Malley

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

Michael Mosley

A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they've got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.

Jessica Simpson

The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different.

Lori Smith

(We were) launching until about 10 p.m. (Saturday).

Jerry Colangelo

That is for the purpose of (NBA Properties) launching sponsorships (in China).

Rod Shealy

As a part of our campaign, we're launching a series of real-people, paper-plate dinners.

Supachai Panitchpakdi

It is unclear whether a round of international trade talks can be launched in 2001, so it wouldn't be right to set a timetable for launching the round now.

John Hanson

All we're launching is a 1/2-ton. We're going to have a 1/2-ton vehicle that will tow more than 10,000 pounds. That will be quite a statement.

J. J. Johnson

There's lawsuits threatened on everything we do. You got to vote what you think is right for the kids. If somebody wants to sue you, let them sue.

Sean Egan

There may be more lawsuits and a fine, but I think they will be manageable,

Lloyd Chapman

These lawsuits are a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Paul Robertson

All the lawsuits have not been resolved, ... but it looks very positive.

Mark Lanier

From Merck's victories, I've leaned that you must tie their lawyers to the truth. They specialize in mudslinging.

Chuck D.

On a number of occasions, he sliced people down. The tribe's lawyers were not able to shake my testimony.

Randy Mayes

When I first started, I said 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, the lawyers say, 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, we're even older than most of the judges.

Ben Carson

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

Angela King

Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.

Jonathan Todd

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

Joseph Tate

We told her lawyers it was not coerced. We are surprised to learn we had anything to do with her incarceration.

Chi McBride

It is a different genre-a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

Cindy Sheehan

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

Alan Cayetano

Mr. Chairman, let us not railroad this hearing.

John Thomas

The only one that will work is a rail system, but the routes need change.

Bill Janklow

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

Jason Anderson

When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need.

Jack Ellis

But first and foremost, ... it's for transportation, and we know that rail is in Macon's future, just like it's in Macon's past, and we have to be ready for it.

Anthony Quinn

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

Christopher Morley

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Dan Aykroyd

I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

Jim Clarke

We've got the tile like the old tile in the subway, ... It's like it was in the old railroad station.

Ted Sarandos

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

Alberto Fujimori

I have a support rating of 30% in Peru, ... I shall return.

Scott Sprinzen

We haven't factored anything into the rating (but) it's worth monitoring closely. It's a big unknown.

Nancy Pelosi

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

Larry Peck

It doesn't get much better than that. It's phenomenal. Those ratings rival those of the majors.

Paul Holmes

They put on Ernie Dingo and their ratings went UP!

Marc Ganis

Ratings are down because ratings are down for every network.

Tom O'Neil

It's possible. There are ratings spikes for shows that win the top awards, ... The Emmys.

Regis Philbin

They could have had Regis back this year if they wanted. Ratings were pretty high.

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

George Foreman

The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything.

Patrick Ness

We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.

Nina Garcia

If my closet were burning, it'd be my collection of jackets I would save - they always make me feel pulled-together.

J. M. Roberts

We never did it ourselves. I'd think about it but I wouldn't do it. But it's the simplest thing to save somebody's life.

Joseph Roth

You do a little, we do a little, we all save a lot.

Coolio

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

Bob Watson

What we're going to do is save a roster spot for him. He can't make up his mind.

Sarah Newton

We didn't want to have them come down to do the work if we weren't sure we would be able to save the building.