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.

Patrick Mason

Life is what happens while you are trying to get well.

Will Rogers

Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

Margaret Millar

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

Chris Beatty

Life will throw stones at you, and it's what you do when that happens that counts.

Theodore Roethke

Let others probe the mystery if they can/ Time harried prisoners of shall and will./ The right thing happens to the happy man.

Alfred Adler

Life happens at the level of events, not words

Larry Brown

Let's see what happens with the MRI and go from there. We're not going to do anything foolish.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Brian Dawkins

Moss is spectacular, we all know that. But with me waiting over the top for him most of the afternoon, you could see the frustration in his eyes, in the way he ran his routes. That's not something that happens with T.O. Every route run is hard and crisp. Every possession has an intent to it.

John Dowd

McCain told me this was worse than being in the Hanoi Hilton.

Gore Vidal

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

Warren Tompkins

Having run before and served in the U.S. Senate, McCain will start out as a front-runner nationally and that translates to South Carolina.

Paul Broun

I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I'd vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Eric Bolling

What did [Donald] Trump say about John McCain?

John Dickerson

The McCain people are chalking up Tuesday as nothing to worry about.

Sarah Palin

John McCain has already tapped me

Caitriona Balfe

Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

Cameron Russell

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.

Art Alexakis

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

Deborah Abbott

We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.

Doug Rockel

I would have been disappointed if they had not raised rates by about 3 percent. This is what we all modeled for.

Clayton Smith

I have a model rocket and I launched it three times yesterday and it smelled like a sewer.

Mitchell Hurwitz

Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.

Daria Werbowy

I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.

Naomi Campbell

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive

C. S. Lewis

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Kurt Vonnegut

in nonsense is strength

Benjamin Franklin

As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.

Burt Rutan

Confidence in nonsense is required.

Albert Einstein

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

Ambrose Bierce

Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.

Alfred Bester

Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

Eric Williams

If they're going to want to speak in a partisan way, fine. But don't do it as a church.

Bill Richardson

I did not utter one partisan word in that committee.

John Thune

We need to stop the quibbling, the partisan games, and political brinkmanship to find a solution that saves and strengthens Social Security for the future.

Ken Starr

With no institutional defender, independent counsels are especially vulnerable to partisan attack,

Donald M. Payne

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

Bernie Sanders

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

Michael Bennet

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

Maxine Waters

The taking of private property for private use, in my estimation, is unconstitutional. It's un-American, and it's not to be tolerated. This is not a partisan issue.

William Harvey

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

Julie Warner

Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's like winning the lottery. So you try and keep yourself sane.

James Franco

My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

Caroline Williams

Now we all know what our roles are now, each person. we're all working together better.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

Marc Morial

She was singular in the role that she played, and she can't be replaced.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

Tanya Fischer

I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

Laura Osnes

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

Marvin Kalb

I don't find Senator Frist to be a social fundamentalist. . . .

Kojo Annan

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Robert Torricelli

I know that's your testimony, Senator Torricelli, but it is not accurate.

Arlen Specter

No senator that I have talked to has come down and made up his or her mind.

Harold Ickes

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

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.

Randy Cross

One voice is the only way to go.

Charles Spurgeon

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

Charles Olson

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

Denis Johnson

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

Debra Wilson

Voice is my instrument.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

Bartlett Sher

What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.

Elizabeth Edwards

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Dirk Benedict

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Brooke Niquette

We're so young, but we're willing to learn. We can do well.

Ed Stewart

Unfortunately, no one other than Southwest has been willing to come to the table.

Drew Brees

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

Scott Carson

wanted more than we were willing to give.