Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katie McGrath

My friend once sculpted me a bust of Admiral Ackbar from 'Star Wars.' He's my favourite character in the films after Han Solo. He's that goldfish-type alien in the white costume. 'It's a trap!' I'm a big geek.

Simon Newcomb

On the retirement of Admiral Sands in 1874, Admiral Davis returned to the observatory, and continued in charge until his death in February, 1877.

David Vitter

On the positive side, I'm very impressed so far with Vice Admiral Allen,

Gore Vidal

Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

C. Wright Mills

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

Daisy Ridley

The thing about 'Star Wars' is that every single person is important. Even though Rey is a big role, everyone influences everyone. If that wasn't so, why would so many people remember Admiral Ackbar?

David Heyman

Northern Command's mission to protect the homeland against foreign threats is separate and distinct from its mission to provide support to civil agencies in the event of a terrorist attack of catastrophic proportions. So part of the confusion you're seeing is the natural shaking-out process as the Defense Department stands up a new command and adopts a new mission that most generals assumed with great reluctance in the first place, given that their forces and budgets were already stretched thin. In that sense, Admiral Keating's comments were probably less about someone gunning to take the lead, and more a reflection of how much support Northern Command will likely be asked to provide in the event of a real catastrophe.

Christopher Columbus

At sunset Martin Alonzo called out with great joy from his vessel that he saw land, and demanded of the Admiral a reward for his intelligence.

Vern Clark

Admiral Stockdale challenged the human limits of moral courage, physical endurance and intellectual bravery, emerging victorious as a legendary beacon for all to follow,

John Stokes

There is blood and there certainly is some pain. Banning it would limit a veterinarian's practice. But I don't think you are going to find many who complain.

Lisa Morton

For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.

James Morgan

Most of these (pit bulls) you are banning (are) loving family pets.

Kinky Friedman

One eye is laughing and one eye is crying. And the eye that is crying is because this governor has been invisibly banning gay marriage for the past two or three years while the education has just veered into a meteor crater somewhere.

Gary Johnson

As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.

Brian Joyce

We're talking about banning a procedure, not about a woman's right to choose. It's an inhuman act. It's not necessary.

John Millett

Yes, they were burdensome. What was unforeseen was the banning of MTBE in some states because it was getting into groundwater. After MTBE was off the table, it was burdensome for states like California and New York that didn't have a strong ethanol base to meet the requirements.

Phil Burress

We have a city that is spinning out of control with crime and other problems, and this council wants to pass laws banning hypothetical situations. There are no cases of this type of discrimination, so why pass a law based on sexual orientation?

Mark Rosenker

We must do everything we can to reduce these needless deaths and we strongly believe that banning wireless communications devices for teen-agers learning to drive will help significantly.

Danny Nee

We have to get help for McAllister. We need more offense from someone else on the floor. It can't be McAllister carrying us on his shoulders. We need all the other players to get more consistent.

Yasser Arafat

We have no other alternative. And in spite of all the difficulties we are facing, we have one alternative: to carry on with the peace process. This is our strategic target.

Italian Proverb

When your neighbor's house is on fire, carry water to your own

Mark Teixeira

When he gets hot, he can carry a team for a long time.

Susan Glisson

We want participation from each of the 11 states in the original Confederacy. We invite all those committed to carrying the South out of the dark past of racial violence and conflict, away from fear and segregation and impoverishing lifestyles to share this journey with us.

Robert Gleitz

The extension of the federal wind-energy production tax credit in 2005 helped trigger the record-breaking year and provided momentum that will carry over through 2007.

Sharon Stone

My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.

Tracy Morgan

Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. You have to see how you're carrying yourself because there's a little girl. There's not a little boy, there's a little girl. I think I'm a little more overprotective.

Maha Muna

Ultimately we know it's the government that is responsible for ensuring protection in IDP situations. Our challenge now is to figure out how to support those mechanisms to carry out their mandates.

Carol Vorderman

All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.

Carlos Mencia

And for all of you at home, you are all welcome to visit my store. You are also welcome to park off you motherparking parks, and go park yourself. But remember, don't park in a handicapped spot.

C. S. Lewis

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

C. S. Lewis

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

Steve Squyres

We have no idea yet how widespread Home Plate-like material may be. We have not seen anything like this before, but it doesn't mean there isn't more stuff out there.

Robin Cook

We want peace, but it must be a peace that makes Kosovo safe for the refugees to go home

Alan Titchmarsh

I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.

Alan Shearer

When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.

Alan K. Simpson

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

Brendan Myers

For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just.

Clint Hurdle

The race is on, but you have to take a humanistic approach. Nobody is under a magnifying glass. We just want them to go out and pitch.

Marjane Satrapi

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

Alan Rudolph

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

David Sedaris

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

Buddy Ebsen

Don't say giddy-up to your mouth before your head is hitched up.

Jandy Nelson

How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?

James Woods

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

Janis Joplin

They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that's what I sounded like. You can't make up something that you don't feel. I didn't make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

Alan Watts

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

Al Pacino

You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

Charlaine Harris

He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth...

Ted Cruz

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

Ted Cruz

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

David A. Siegel

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

Brit Hume

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured,

Bob Beauprez

When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.

Bob Beauprez

After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

Arlen Specter

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

Timothy Noah

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Heidi Montag

I thought that plastic surgery was easy, but it is really serious and is not something you want to mess around with.

Nana Visitor

Wow, I have an effigy, and it's plastic stuff.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

Bill Janklow

Weve become a plastic society.

Jennifer Flavin

I have had no plastic surgery on my face. Can I leave it at that?

Jane Thompson

Tonight they're good, tomorrow they're just plastic beads. What's scary is what the women do for these plastic beads.

Monica Lewinsky

Why can't I just scrape that crap off and put it in a plastic bag?

Theo James

My obsession is plastic packaging. It makes me sick, all the waste. Everything about it disappoints me.

Pierce Brosnan

I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.

Darren Shan

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Ben Schwartz

When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.

Bill Watterson

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

David Bowie

For here, I'm sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.

Ruth Brown

She's another Tina Turner is what I see,

Edwidge Danticat

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Adam McKay

My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.

Debi Mazar

I'm a girl who's curvy, and I'm Latvian, but I don't have hips, and I have a tiny waist.

Allison Tolman

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

Tobias Menzies

Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Jana Kramer

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

Ariel Sharon

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

Clyde Edgerton

Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.

Jane Fonda

what the right wing has done to Sheehan is despicable.

Aaron Sorkin

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Caitlin Kittredge

Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

Carlos Santana

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

Chris Carmack

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

China Mieville

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!