Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

I got a signed document from Bullock's saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock's!

Jane Kaczmarek

LYou can get yourself cut and stitched, or you can get a good girdle. The day before my first Emmy show, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I've worn that thing to every single awards show since!

Mike McKee

Lynden is a disciplined team. Brian has done a good job there and the kids have bought into it.

Paul Cooper

Many people bought a PC just before Y2K. They were worried that their existing machines wouldn't work, and so they upgraded just to be safe,

Andy Miller

Sebastian's just too classy and too sophisticated to get bought by anyone.

Dom Capers

So, it's not Ed McMahon? Darn. And I bought magazines. Who's this Reggie Bush guy anyway?

Chris Rock

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand left!' Taxes didn't even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture.

Bill Halbrehder

One of the things we talked about was to get that talent she has to always be ready and play through those lulls. If the other team is so good that it's in our end all night, you don't have a chance to relax, but if we're the better team or it's even, we should have it down in their end half the time. She's been extremely alert. She's bought into it.

John Sculley

One thing about Apple is they have these fanboys - as I always say, 'Sell to the people who love us.' For example when they came up with iPad mini, everyone who had an iPad went out and bought a mini as well.

Italo Calvino

My university work was not central to my education.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

Robert Mueller

And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

Mallory Ortberg

Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

Chuck Adams

Manhattan Associates' solutions have enabled us to transition our distribution operation from a warehouse that stored $4 million of goods to a true distribution center that manages just over $1 million of goods at any given time. Our products are now where they should be--within reach of our customers.

James Howard Kunstler

Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens.

Gerald Galloway

Major urban centers like Sacramento, like Los Angeles, remain protected only at the margin. Engineers and scientists have got to be fully involved in this decision process, this political process.

Dana Taylor

Lucas comes with a wealth of experience and will be slotted into a center midfield position. At 22 years of age, it will be great to have the leadership that he brings.

S. Hughes

Lorenzo is out of contract this summer, and it's fair to say he won't be offered another deal.

Gil Brandt

Leaf got the big contract and that was his utopia - he didn't want to work for anything else. That's what makes this so hard: You don't know how guys are going to respond to financial success, if they will still work hard. If you knew that, you wouldn't have so many busts.

Lee Young

Several hours before the end of the official transfer period, Swede Erik Edman has signed a three-year contract with Stade Rennais.

Steve Lewis

Mike informed me today that he will not be seeking to extend his contract as Wales national coach.

Edwin Eisendrath

Mr. Blagojevich has been campaigning at taxpayer expense for months. Now he will have to rely on the state contractor and lobbyist contributions to pay for his efforts.

Gary Bettman

My feeling is contracts should always be honored,

Glenn Wilson

Obviously, we're disappointed we didn't get a contract back from Rodriguez. It was a shock to us. We're still hoping he might be back, but at the same time we've had to move forward and look at different directions.

Denis Irwin

Of course he's denying it, he's under contract to United, but that doesn't mean he won't be Republic manager when our next competitive games come round.

LaMont Jordan

My contract doesn't say I'm that kind of runner,

Roger Andrew Taylor

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Granger Whitelaw

Now that we're headquartered here, you may see some announcements in the months to come.

Dave Smith

I feel more optimistic at this time than I did 12 months ago, but we've still got a lot of work to do.

Mariella Frostrup

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

Dave Parker

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

Nelva Ancona

I feel the sadness of this family. She is two months pregnant and she has two kids.

Rob Glaser

six months to a year from now is realistic.

Laura Davis

Six months ago, I would have said we have the strongest team,

Anne Worcester

If this is where it (the women?s tournament field) wound up, we would be thrilled. But just think that this is just the beginning. We still have another 3 1/2 months (to sign players).

Edgar Allan Poe

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Shiv Khera

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Eddie Perez

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

Arianna Huffington

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

Booth Tarkington

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Bobby Burton

Ninety percent of the time, it is reflective of success.

Ellen Gerton

Ninety percent of them are doing something better every game. Now, hopefully, that we have a program they have something to work towards; we're just two steps shy of having all of it put together.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Kristin Cast

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

Frank Haith

Like anything you do, it'll work for a short period of time. But he's so intelligent that he's going to keep working.

Ben Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate? I didn't know if there were 12 or 1 (who were alive).

Bennett Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate?

Mark Krikorian

Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration.

Mark Geragos

Seventy percent of what's in there is not true.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side.

Terry Fox

Ms. Garcia is stretching the truth for her own personal gain,

Alan Alda

No one can replace a unique person like Peter.

Kevin Phillips

Obviously, we are not going to be able to replace these vans with one bus. It's going to be a two-to-one ratio.

Roy Green

We won't replace him, we'll just watch him as a (Missouri State) Bear.

Ellen Bogard

We're going to replace them all just to make sure.

Randy Huth

We used to have a singer but he didn't work out and we never replaced him. We all do vocals on the record, and live, we, me and Joel, split it up.

Lois Lowry

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

Kathleen Patterson

What we take out today takes 30 to 100 years to replace back into the aquifer. You can use 10,000 to 20,000 gallons (of water) on even a small lot. Micro-irrigation uses about a 10th of that.

Doug Cole

Other things can be replaced ... but not photos.

John Garber

We're never going to replace the radiologist, and that's not the intent,

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Kat Edmonson

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Stephen Covey

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.

William Shakespeare

In limited professions there's boundless theft.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

Fernando Pessoa

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

Karel Capek

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

Terry Pratchett

All property is theft, except mine.

St. Jerome

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

Stephenie Meyer

How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you?

Daniel Craig

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.