Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

Larry Lindsey

Majority Leader Daschle misspoke this morning when he said the Bush administration would dip into Social Security and Medicare funds. The truth, in fact, is that Social Security dollars will be used only for Social Security and Medicare dollars will be used only for Medicare. The only reason for any decline in revenue is due to an economic slowdown that began last September.

Wally Snyder

Life began to really mean something to those kids.

Bill Bradley

Look we have taken action, but you know racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.

Gene Nudo

Let's face it, it was a struggle. When we lost our first three games, we began to wonder if we were going to win. I believe we've turned the corner.

Hiroko Koyama

Many of these were the first pieces my mother began collecting. One of the most precious is an 11th-century glazed black tea bowl with rainbow colored spots.

Peter Cardillo

Many retail investors were in panic mode, however many of them slowly began to come back to the marketplace as the cloud of uncertainty began to lift.

Jim Turner

Many winter visitors began coming here because of the train.

Yasser Arafat

So here we extend our hand to you in reconciliation, and we extend the olive branch to resume the path that we began in Madrid and Oslo,

Robert Osborne

I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie.

Robert Osborne

There's a lot of movies that aren't all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn't the focus, but have that spirit of Christmas in them. I love that sequence in 'Auntie Mame,' where she's in the department store, sewing at Macy's, and she doesn't know how to do anything but fill out a form as 'cash on delivery!'

Rick Griffith

Luckily, we can go six or seven deep. Our gym holds about 900. We played Lodge Grass before Christmas and it was pretty much full. I think if you want to see the game, you'll have to be there early.

Dave Bailey

Lewis is really desperate, and I'm really sorry for the families being put through this. This is going to be a strange Christmas party this year.

Peter Ritcher

Lots of people were activating phones under the Christmas tree.

Jason Lesteberg

Last year, (the team) went with her for a long stretch just after Christmas.

Geoff Brown

Much of the recent team success comes from David and Diane knowing how to deal with kids going away and shepherding kids through the Christmas period,

Mary Quant

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.

Bill Grant

One of us walks in here with a new knife and ... everybody thinks Christmas (happened) and everybody comes and has got to see it.

Kristin Cast

I've gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don't feel different. Am I supposed to?

Adlai E. Stevenson

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Henry Ford

Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.

Hiroyuki Nakai

Share prices rose on the back of the gains on Wall Street overnight.

Toshihiko Matsuno

Share prices rose as technology shares here benefited from gains in the Nasdaq index.

Larry Wachtel

Second quarter is going to be excellent. Remember when the first quarter was reported in April, we had a 1,000-point gain in the Dow, and that was only a 10-percent (earnings) gain.

Pasquale Pistorio

Sequential and year-over-year gains were recorded in all major product groups and applications, reflecting primarily increases in unit volumes.

Larry Smar

Sen. Santorum is simply trying to gain publicity for his re-election campaign.

Eric Cartman

Mom, can I have some weight gain 4000?

Henry Ford

Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.

Larry Ellison

My impression is that we're gaining share, ... More and more people are using Oracle.

Chad Hurley

I feel like there's a lot of noise in the social space. The Vines and Instagrams of the world are gaining traction, and their solutions are perfect for their communities.

Glen Davis

I feel we're gaining respect. We're doing something special here.

Edgar Prado

She was in a good position but (Proposed) had quicker acceleration than my filly. I think that was the difference. But my horse was gaining and she galloped out good and strong.

Corky Palmer

I don't even have one. I never even think about that stuff. I just want to keep gaining strength.

Cody Pickett

I'd better start gaining some more weight if I'm going to be tackling people. I've been losing all this weight playing Marvin Harrison and Larry Fitzgerald.

Sharon Stone

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Isabella Rossellini

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

Kris Benson

Making one mistake instead of two helped me,

Jon Hogenson

Making it to the second day shows our kids we can do this. Playing in that competitive level helped us.

Ken Tutt

Losing last year I think really helped us win this year. And it makes it that much more special.

Christopher Monger

Sharon Stone said on many occasions that, before Roy, she was stuck in B-movies - Roy helped her make the transformation,

Gary Waters

McNamara would have helped them, but I don't know how much. They played like a team.

Jennifer Caldwell

Odyssey of the Mind is student-driven, and they aren't helped by parents or teachers. If the student wants to make a costume, they have to sew it themselves.

Roxane Gay

No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.

Jono Cornelius

My curveball was actually a strike about 80 percent of the time. The umpire had a high zone and I think that helped me a little.

Jamie Shea

Milosevic is in the corner, and that's where he's going to be kept by NATO until he throws in the towel.

Tyler Perry

My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'

Mickey Rourke

I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

Martha Grimes

I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.

Orlando Cabrera

The pitching is what kept us in games, but if you're not hitting, you're not going to win,

Colin Farrell

On shooting American Outlaws: I kept saying 'Bang bang' and they kept having to cut.

Eddie Ho

I was running and taking pictures. I just kept pressing the button.

Greg Genske

I wouldn't say that. I'd say he's kept an open mind.

Neil Roberts

If we had kept it up at that pace it would have been 88-2,

Dan Aykroyd

I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Evelyn Glennie

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Billy Graham

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

Larry Baer

We've reached out to her and she referred us to her son. We're working with the son to see what if anything to do.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Mary Jordan

They wanted to see them. And when you say no, we can't let you in, we've reached capacity, that's heartbreaking and that's what it was.

Heraclitus

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

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.

Charles R. Swindoll

We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.

Denis Lavant

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

Mike Thibault

From that standpoint, it kind of makes for a very competitive training camp.

Eleanor Tomlinson

I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.

Abdus Salam

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

Allen Ward

We know the cabin, we know the people, we know the training and we know the job.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Deena Kastor

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

Joss Whedon

I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M.

Patricia Bryant

She was there until the week before she died.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Michelle Wie

I didn't want to write anything on my scorecard until I made a birdie.

John Oates

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

Samuel L. Jackson

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

Waite Hoyt

You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

Vincent Sarubbi

One of the things that weighed heavily on our mind,

Jim Rash

There are a lot of shows that have been saved because the fans weighed in.

John Schneider

I weighed 245 pounds when I was 16 years old. I had a 44-inch waist. And that was two years before 'Dukes of Hazzard' started.

Montel Williams

I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.

Chris Farley

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Farley

I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.

Diane Sawyer

Ive always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

Diane Kruger

I do watch what I eat, but not for weight reasons.

Diane Kruger

I don't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight.

Janet Jackson

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

Ellen G. White

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.

Robert Wilson

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

Malcolm McDowell

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Jorge Cruz

We're not doing anything bad. We just need the work.

Adoniram Judson

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Kathryn Minshew

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Kathryn Bigelow

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.