Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Schrader

I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

My go-to shoes for everyday would probably have to be either my white Converse that I've had since high school or my black Alexander McQueen flats with the skull on the top. It depends on my day.

Phil Funkenbusch

When 'The Man Who Came To Dinner' opened on Broadway, everyone knew Alexander Woollcott. Today, no one knows him. And I'm not sure who is like that today. He was one of a kind, and it's such a different world.

Greek proverb

If Alexander wishes to be a god, let him set up as a god

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never

Denis O'Hare

When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.

Adam Jaffe

Today's collaborative technologies are presenting a real challenge for patent law, ... and for the kinds of thinking that emerged at the time of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, when individual inventions seemed much more distinct, much less complex.

Sid Waddell

I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy's screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy's chatting about Alexander the Great. I'm after pulling in, whether it's in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience.

David Carradine

'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

John Danforth

Let the investigation go forward, ... The investigation has to be comprehensive, all the evidence has to come out, there has to be full cooperation with the investigation by all parties.

Greg Anderson

Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.

Manouchehr Mottaki

If at the upcoming meeting of the IAEA heads a decision is reached on referring Iran's nuclear file to the UN Security Council, the government of the Islamic Republic, in accordance with a parliamentary resolution, will be forced to end its voluntary cooperation with the IAEA.

Zeng Qinghong

To promote Sino-Indonesian cooperation accords with our fundamental interest as important developing countries,

Dave Murray

I was surprised and disappointed when the cooperation stopped. We were excluded from the most critical part of the effort.

Benjamin Franklin

If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.

Jiang Zemin

China-Russia strategic cooperation has become a positive factor stimulating the multi-polarity of the world,

Jack Straw

I look forward to the full cooperation of Syria in form as well as substance, ... but I have to say after what I've heard I'm not holding my breath.

Eric Clark

I felt it was important to give law enforcement an opportunity to let us know what they were doing in a friendly environment and for us to share with them our concerns. It's going to take cooperation from all of us to solve the problem though. We have to step up and help them help them us.

Andrea Seigel

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Matthew Sweet

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

Sarah Palin

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

Vitor Meira

I was telling (team co-owner) John Barnes that patience pays here. That's what we did the whole race. We were racing smart instead of aggressive. It paid off for us.

Rocco Buttiglione

If instead one talks about the United States, there's a turning point. You know where you can find it? In a film called Pretty Woman.

Terry Egan

So instead of PowerPoint you have presentation software and instead of Microsoft Word you have word processing software.

Elaine Elliott

She's pretty much had her way. You're always talking about containing, not stopping a player like that. It would be a victory to keep (Langhorne) from getting 20 instead of 30.

Bill Clinton

If they had been in office instead of me, we would have had peace in the Middle East.

Marvin Demoff

If they want to sign someone else instead of Larry and release him, he'll end up playing somewhere else. Players have only so many options.

Ed Stern

You look for a stage manager who really is in charge, who can really smooth things out.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Paul Anka

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Christine Parker

We'll have thousands of prizes to give away.

Jim Crace

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Winning prizes is always a pleasure, and especially these because they come from your colleagues.

Eric Clapton

Musically, Nathan is in the Top 3 as a bassist.

Anne Byrn

Now that would be way too much for the top of a cake.

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Carles Puyol

I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Angus MacMillan

I wouldn't want to put a top on it at the moment. It has still got a lot of wind in its sales.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Dennis Potter

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Dee Dee Myers

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

Earl Nightingale

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Elizabeth Drew

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Elizabeth Bowen

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

Elizabeth Bowen

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

Elinor Glyn

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

Jules Verne

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

Joss Stone

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

John Bryan

I don't know many trips you can do for a whole week for $150.

Vic Tayback

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

Lauren German

I'm very klutzy. I've fallen off horses, I've tripped with my high-heeled boots over a stunt guy.

Caron Butler

Yeah, it was ugly, but we won. We'll take it, especially after the trip we just had.

Cliff Hite

I always tell the quarterback, we don't want you to make a big tackle, just get in his way, trip him, do whatever you have to do to get in his way.

Tim Adams

Our findings on this trip will be an important input,

Paddy Ashdown

It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans,

Gary Fuller

To take that $187 million, more than triple our five-year average, is very significant,

Colleen Nave

That's the first triple play I've ever seen. It was very exciting.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.