Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to be the most powerful person in the world? The answer is someone with an internal drive that is so dynamic and so determined.

Robert Walpole

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

Theodore Tilton

Life is done, but what is death?" Then, in answer to the King, Fell a sunbeam on his ring, Showing by a heavenly ray, "Even this shall pass away

Patricia Fripp

Life is a series of sales situations, and the answer is no if you don't ask.

Henry Hyde

Let me be clear about this, ... We are not here today to decide whether or not to impeach Mr. Clinton. We are not here to pass judgment on anyone. We are here to ask and answer this one simple question: based upon what we now know, do we have a duty to look further, or to look away?

Jack Rio

Let me answer that with the words from the hit Steely Dan song 'Do it Again,' ... You go back, Jack, do it again. Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round. You go back, Jack, do it again.

Liam Fox

lied and broke the law and he must answer for that.

Shaun Cassidy

Lost' has changed the climate for shows that don't answer all your questions by the end of every episode.

Douglas Gresham

Many people ask, 'Why are they coming back?' The answer is that these books never went away,

Jason Statham

So I used to put money in my pocket while working on the street corners, selling perfume and jewelry, and other goods that were supposedly expensive.

Peter Davison

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

Alan Bates

Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.

David Warner

On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

David Prowse

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

David Warner

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

Jared Harris

There are many cases where the direction of the play comes from within the cast of actors, especially in terms of the choices in performance.

John Leeson

I worked with Hannah Gordon, whom I've seen today, and reminded her of an episode of My Wife Next Door that we did way back in the late 70s.

John Thaw

I feel very proud to have created a character that is so respected. On the other hand, as an actor, I have more freedom now to do other things.

Jin Zhong

Lee grew up and had his education in Japan, he has a strong Japan complex and must trust Japanese health system more than Taiwan,

Alan Williamson

Sentiment towards the precious metals complex remains overwhelmingly bullish.

Jamie Cullum

'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world.

S. Iyengar

My guru had stern discipline, ... Gradually a fear complex grew in me.

Chris Bates

Newer complexes generally go for higher rents than older ones.

Mary Bravo

When the objects were presented in a sparse array, search times to find the target were similar for displays composed of simple and complex objects. But when the same objects were presented as dense clutter, search functions were steeper for displays composed of complex objects.

Donald Tusk

If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.

Toni Tennille

Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more than just the one facet that television played on.

Tina Brown

Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse.

John Grace

Macquarie may have to raise the offer. It's a question of what shareholders want.

John Hunter

set out systematically to question every established process.

John Fitzgibbon

Semiconductors have always done well, ... The question is how well.

James Rubin

Mr. Haider is still going to be governor, as I understand the reports, and still going to be in the party. So the question is what the party's role will be in the Austrian government.

Jeffery Smith

Now, there's not a question about it. They know that to participate at Woodward, you have to have a helmet.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.

Robert Shaffer

There are many different types of logging. The question is, how much is enough?

Francis Gaskins

If they're profitable, they could go public. The question is, if they want to.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.