Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.

Rick Perlstein

The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'

Richard P. Feynman

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Robert Wilson

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

Ron Wood

I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.

Bruce Pearl

We're not communicating. We're capable of defending better. I call it having a sense of urgency. You need it this part of the season.

Tammy Smith

We're not calling this a sequel. We're calling it the next installment.

Sgt. Maynard

We're not calling this a drowning. The investigation will continue and we're awaiting autopsy results to determine how the child died.

Ramon Sanchez

We're not calling the people out as long as we see that Elian's case remains in the courts and the government is not moving to suddenly take Elian back to Cuba.

Peter Jackson

In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities.

Ezra Taft Benson

I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen.

Lesley-Anne Down

The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.

Dean Karnazes

The first thing I do when I walk into a hotel is find the gym, and if they don't have a gym, I start looking for a handhold where I can do my pull-ups. Sometimes if a shower curtain rod is sturdy enough, I'll do them there.

Robert Gottlieb

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.

Robert Frost

Tree at my window, window tree,/ My sash is lowered when night comes on;/ But let there never be curtain drawn/ Between you and me.

Billie Whitelaw

Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.

Monica Procar

We can custom order for anybody. We have dozens of different fabric choices, and tier curtains and panels can be ordered as well.

Gary Gibson

We've seen the last of those white traverse curtain rods.

Tim Shea

May you grow in dignity and with grace.

Juan Somavia

Occupational safety and health is vital to the dignity of work.

Shivan Barwari

My dignity is worth more than four dollars.

Bob Reed

One of the keys to it is treating everybody with dignity and respect - he treated all of his employees the same.

Bill Frist

Since when does a senator's questioning of a witness become a sign of a lack of dignity or respect?

Jim Nicholson

We want to treat them with great dignity and respect,

Beth Moore

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

Beth Moore

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

Rick Dickson

We want to represent Tulane everywhere; our goal is to give hope to everyone, ... If we do that, and do it with dignity and serve the greater purpose, it'd be the greatest victory any of us had ever been a part of.

Samuel Coleridge

Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still

Kathy Griffin

Look, you guys, I know I'm not Courteney Cox. But I'm telling you, the house is better than me. They were like, 'I don't think so.'

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

Eddie Murphy

My life is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" life. Me around the house is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" dad.

Waris Ahluwalia

My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

Derek Ambrose

My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.

Jamie Wyeth

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

John Tesh

My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.

Mikko Hypponen

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

Mystikal

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Emma Udwin

From now on, there will be no more payments through the National Palestinian Authority.

Foster Friess

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest.

Charde Houston

She has two national championships under her belt. She has to be like that.

Mark Souder

If this is a cohesive national policy, it is embarrassing,

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Megan Smith

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

Carl Forti

Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Elizabeth Bowen

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

Anthony Waters

When you can find somebody or something that relates to you and your experiences, it puts opera in a whole different perspective,

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Fred Jacobs

We need to take steps to restore credibility to the administration and accountability to the university, and we have to do it tangibly.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Isabella Rossellini

disappeared or haven't been restored or rights haven't cleared.

Karen Woodall

You have to restore the outreach and you have to be in the community.

Abu Bakr

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

Kathleen Blanco

We have to restore the state and its people. This is important work you're about.

Tom Vilsack

He steals second, and I hereby restore his voting rights.

Bo Ryan

This is all about trying to restore confidence.

Alan Perlis

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Dylan Moran

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

Cate Blanchett

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

Jencarlos Canela

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

John Grisham

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

Jude Law

I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.

Jerry Seinfeld

I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.

Chris Lowe

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

E. Helm

Mom, I just couldn't think of a better way to spend your birthday. Sorry I'm not with you, though.

Charles Olson

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

Diane Keaton

I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.

Edward Abbey

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

Brian Deegan

I feel so sorry for them and I feel so despondent for them. It's just so needless, it's just so pointless.

Elizabeth Bishop

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

Dominic Cooper

There's this exhausting energy from you getting your lines out and your words right, especially if it's a complicated scene. And as soon as the camera is off you and goes on the other person, you're talking garbled garbage and you feel so sorry for them because you've lost the will to live, after 18 hours of saying those lines. That's terribly unfair. So, I do love the quick-paced nature of it.

David Nicholls

Sorry' he said. 'No, I'm sorry.' 'What are you sorry for?' 'Rattling on like a mad old cow. I'm sorry, I'm tired, bad day, and I'm sorry for being so...boring.' 'You're not that boring.' 'I am, Dex. God, I swear I bore myself.' 'Well, you don't bore me.' He took her hand in his. 'You could never bore me. You're one in a million, Em.

David Nicholls

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Diane Kruger

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

Dennis Rodman

I go out with white women. This...

Dennis Prager

Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.

Dennis Prager

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.

Dennis Franz

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

Dee Dee Myers

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

Eleanor Clift

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Eldridge Cleaver

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

Kym Whitley

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.