Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

Alan Parker

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

Alan Moore

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

Mark Watson

When I was a kid, you put on a suit and tie, and the girls wore a black drape and that was the senior picture,

Albert Smith

When I was a kid, there were a lot more African-American farmers. It wasn't an uncommon thing to talk to a black farmer. Now, it's more of a shock. To me, it's getting to the place now where we're an endangered species.

Whoopi Goldberg

(Walker) told black women that they don't have to be less than they are capable of being. I try to uphold that standard.

Don Cheadle

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

Dexter Gordon

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

David Amram

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

David Krumholtz

I would do prosthetics again, but not on a schedule like that [in Gigi Does It]. It was grueling and brutal and it almost killed me. That show almost killed me.

George H. W. Bush

(The referendum) was a very hopeful day for peace, an exciting day for a country that only a few short years ago was ruled by a brutal tyrant. And I'm pleased at the progress being made,

Arthur Frank Burns

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

Lawrence Powell

We've solved our crime problem in a brutally Darwinian way.

Denise Outen

When I meet a new guy, straight away I'm questioning whether he's The One. You have to be brutal at my age, if it doesn't feel right, you have to move on.

Nigel Roberts

She will have to persuade her caucus to be quite brutal but that's the price they will have to pay to stay in power.

Gareth Peirce

she wrote in a statement. ''If there are 'memoranda of understanding' between this country and the brutal regimes from which they have fled, those have not been provided to those men or to us.

Lorraine Reed

Yesterday, I stood before you as a victim - a victim of a brutal homicide.

Tangee Overly

I can't lie and say that I'm sorry that this conclusion happened because I'm not. Dan was very brutally murdered.

Steve Kernkraut

We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.

Marty DeJarnette

We started cold, but we found our rhythm in the second quarter. Their size caused us some problems, but our press got us some easy baskets off turnovers.

Francis Bacon

When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.

Stephen Jones

We've tried to duplicate the problem but haven't been able to. We haven't had problems with the systems in the five elections we've used it, but we're concerned about what caused this.

Garry Trudeau

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Brad Wilson

We don't have any details on what caused it,

Toni Atkins

What has caused the damage is Ms. Atkins' misconduct, not the uncovering of Ms. Atkins' misconduct.

Bob Hofman

We gutted it out. We had a poor first half. But we played a lot better in the second half. We really picked up on defense and caused a lot of turnovers.

Mark Davis

Union Pacific apologizes for the inconveniences caused to Texarkana. Our hearts go out to the family that lost a person as a result of the derailment.

Al Sharpton

But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.

Chris Daly

The performances of the different offices are on opposite ends of the spectrum. In Fresno County we have what seems to be a near abdication of their responsibilities, whereas in Alameda County we see an office committed to protecting all residents in the county.

G. H. Hardy

We are praying we don't have an earthquake, ... This is money we've committed to sewer, street and other projects to meet the future needs of our city.

Dane Moody

We've all committed ourselves to having a good team, and we have a lot of individual talent. I think one-on-one, individually, we're better than any team in the country.

Joey Lott

We started slow out of the gate last week, and had some turnovers early. We also committed a lot of penalties and we know we can't do that this week. I've told our guys that Bowman is good enough as it is, and we don't need to help them by playing sloppy.

Patricia Smith

We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling. We remain committed to sharing a great selection of toys at great prices for our Web site.

Patti Smith

We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling in this case. Regardless of today's decision, Amazon.com is still committed to providing a great selection of toys at great prices for our customers.

Doug Oliver

We still remain committed to the development of an import terminal. It's not that the project is not occurring, it's just that these specific negotiations have ended.

Doug Oliver

We still remain committed to the development of an import terminal.

Ian Mckellen

There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

Tawni O'Dell

Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

Susanna Dudiyeva

We need to look him in the eyes and tell him that he is responsible for the deaths of our children... We are going to show him what suffering is.

Sean Keogh

There are going to be a lot more deaths from this earthquake.

John Conyers

We have yet to investigate the Administration's failed policy in Iraq that has led to the deaths of over 2,000 American soldiers.

Hariadi Wibisono

Yes, it was positive, she died from avian influenza. We have 22 deaths now.

Gary Eddy

I can't help but think that some of these deaths could've been prevented, if people had simply slowed down.

John O. Brennan

I think the rule should be that if we're going to take actions overseas that result in the deaths of people, the United States should take responsibility for that.

Terry Ebbert

I think there's some encouragement in what we've found in the initial sweeps that some of the catastrophic deaths that some people predicted may not have occurred.

Carl Safina

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

Rand Paul

I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.

Bill Kristol

Surely the United States should do what it can to prevent dictators elsewhere from inferring that repression works.

R. Robinson

(Late Philippine dictator Ferdinand) Marcos is a good example, Mr. (Manuel) Noreiga of Panama. But this is all way after the fact. They don't get into the game soon enough to really make a difference.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

Chen Guangcheng

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

Ted Haggard

if this dictator starts to think of evangelicals as people who are gunning for him, that could be difficult for missionaries there.

Gary Peabody

We're helping a nation that was being murdered by a madman. He was a dictator that needed to be removed.

Augusto Pinochet

I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.

Joe Thornton

We've been trying to set a tone for last forty games. We've been hunting teams down the last forty games. We know what is at stake. We have to win every game to be in the playoffs. Really, every game has been a playoff game for us for so long, and we've been playing real well lately.

Kenneth Tynan

Forty years ago, he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since.

William Shakespeare

Forty thousand brothersCould not, with all their quantity of love,Make up my sum.

Skip Rimer

Forty is not bad. It means you are still growing.

Eugene Delacroix

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

Cynthia Payne

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

Dick Hill

It's about the camaraderie. Not all go in every year. If it was 0 degrees, I wouldn't go in. Forty degrees, that's fine.

Baltasar Gracian

At twenty the will rules, At thirty the intellect, At forty the judgment

Bill Dreher

We're not out of the woods yet. Forty percent of holiday sales are wrapped up in the week before Christmas.

Ismail Haniyeh

Our people will not ... kneel before such Israeli measures.

Paul Spiegel

That will be between the Vatican and the Israeli government,

Dore Gold

Right now, Israelis want a security process rather than a peace process.

Nabil Amr

we are ready to take over all the territories from which the Israelis will withdraw.

Zubin Mehta

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

Yitzhak Rabin

We were all surprised how smooth it went, relative to what was expected. It took Israeli society time, 10 years, to become ripe for such a move,

Rafiq Husseini

We understand that Mr. Sharon has to show the Israeli people that he is conceding on one side and strengthening his position on the other. That worries us, but I think that in the end, justice will have to prevail.

Jibril Rajoub

This shows how serious the Israelis are about security,

Steve Landes

When Salah was arrested, it was a very public event. It would not have been smart for Israeli officials to subject Salah to the torture he is claiming.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Jason Stanford

We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Michael Schwartz

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

Frank Moss

Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.

Paul Moreno

We've restored power to about 1.328 million people, but 89,000 are still without.

Greg Allgood

We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Bill Goldberg

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Bob Schieffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've never had a very great public life.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Robert Buchanan

I think that's reasonable over time, but it's not going to come easily.

Philip Morris

only when no other reasonable alternative testing methodology exists.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Elliott Abrams

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

bell hooks

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

David Bloom

What everyone is worried about is the whole regime will disappear.

Brian Billick

The observation of this team being soft is conjecture. I know our training regimen has been sound.

Donald Rumsfeld

The remnants of the regime are going to school on us,

Tony Blair

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

River Phoenix

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Sergei Mitrokhin

If today or tomorrow the sentence had been pronounced there would simply have been international uproar.

Kraig Troxell

He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Douglas Hofstadter

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

Amy Hempel

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Bill Cosby

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Bam Margera

Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

Anthony Trollope

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Betty Shabazz

Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We have six weeks to go, ... With your help, we can make it happen.

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Janice Dickinson

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.

David Keith

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

Charlie Chaplin

This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.

Charlie Chaplin

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Charles Sumner

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Charles Sumner

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Charles Sumner

The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

Charles Sumner

Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

Charles Dudley Warner

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

Charles de Gaulle

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Charles de Gaulle

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.