Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke

Al Roker

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Cathy Freeman

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Casey Affleck

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Louis Stokes

Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.

Scott Cowen

Until a commission is sanctioned to sift through all these ideas and coalesce it into a single vision, I don't think people will pay much attention.

Mike Twomey

What these companies give in contributions is just a pennies-on-the-dollar investment compared with what they get from the Legislature and Public Service Commission in terms of favorable legislation and rulings.

Tom Brookes

We can confirm the meeting is taking place and is part of the regular dialogue between Microsoft and the Commission on competition and a wide range of other subjects.

Harry Reid

We're going to have an independent commission to study what went wrong, ... Mark my words, it's going to happen.

Tom Kehoe

Working with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission , we have issued a voluntary recall for the defective notebook batteries.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

Valentino Castellani

When the IOC co-ordination commission returns, we are confident we will be able to show them that everything is in place.

Paul Tagliabue

We have had this commission for a couple of years now on cardiovascular health,

Paul Campbell

Whether or not a land is for sale weighs in hugely for criteria.

Kevin Spacey

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

Arundhati Roy

In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.

Amanda Marshall

I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.

Steven Shapiro

For the self-directed investor, the Internet is hugely significant.

Nikki Rocco

which makes this picture for Universal and for Working Title a hugely profitable endeavor.

Niranjan Shah

Everything is in place and we are hugely optimistic of taking the World Cup.

Niels From

The yen is hugely undervalued and I see it strengthening next year.

Rebecca Ferguson

I've been hugely inspired by the songwriting of Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman - on their albums, they really tell it like it is.

Chris Abani

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

Chogyam Trungpa

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure

Chip Conley

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

David Greenberg

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

David Guterson

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it.

David Crystal

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

David Suzuki

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

David Suzuki

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Robert Johnston

We have no plans for any major shakeup at this point,

Tim Wilson

We were at a crossroads, whether we were going to have to doze it in or do some major repairs.

Lisa Bonet

The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Frank Villante

With the major resource stocks, the fundamentals still look very attractive.

Nykesha Sales

Yeah, I played the majority of the year, but that's just like training. You train all year round anyway, so it's the same thing.

Tom Bittman

Where I do my word processing, how I collaborate, maintaining my social network . . . those things are shifting away from Microsoft.

Armstrong Williams

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

Randy Falco

Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

Ralph Nader

should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.

Donna Shalala

She actually started the women's network in this town,

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Ed Graczyk

We are providing the broadest offering with the most flexibility for our network operators. Each of these services represent something unique to the operator.

Bethany Mota

I really utilize all of my social networking sites.

Karla Homolka

My support network and my friends are here. I like Quebec a lot.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

Chogyam Trungpa

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

David Shuster

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

David Sedaris

My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.

David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Dick Cavett

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Edward Lear

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Bertrand Russell

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

Carl Bernstein

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Keerti Melkote

We recently turned in our first profitable quarter.

Mark Constant

Merrill Lynch is still quite profitable in a very tough year.

Clive Beddoe

We'll be profitable in the third quarter. There's no question about that.

Prakash Karat

Disinvestment of shares in profitable public sector units is not the proper way to raise resources.

Jeff Wright

It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.

Nancy Bell

It's important to have documentation that it is going to be a profitable business,

Kevin Cox

They can test this marketplace, ... They don't have to sign a long-term lease. If they would take such a chance, they'd find it to be quite profitable and beneficial, as would the traveling public.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Camille Paglia

My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Albert Young

When you saw us getting pushed back over things that were non-existent ... come on. I don't know what to say about that.

Fred Couples

We were trying to push each other on.

Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

John Cape

We're going to push for two things: responsibility and reform.

Pat Fitterer

When they were sophomores they were pushing the seniors.

Brandi Chastain

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.

Jamie Hyneman

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

Ted Ligety

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Carl Jung

Are you staring at me because you've seen my doppelganger roaming the halls, playing kind of the cafeteria? Or because you need to borrow a pencil and you're too shy to ask?

Jimmy Rushing

I liked roaming around by myself.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m getting all warm and fuzzy inside at the prospect of these demon things roaming the street, preying on us. (Tate)