Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Goodling

We want to take a little bit of this frustration and turn it into some positive momentum.

Michael Steele

My style is a little bit different than most conventional Republican Party chairmen. My style is more grass roots-oriented. I'm much more of a street guy. I love hanging out in boardrooms, but I prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities.

Jim Calhoun

The only difference between Providence and maybe somebody a little bit higher in the standings is the young kids. Providence is talented but they're young. Young teams make mistakes.

Paul Woods

The potential is there and with a bit of luck we could finish in the top four. There are two or three programs that are traditionally strong and the final one or two spots are usually up for grabs.

Mark Zandi

The potential for even higher energy prices is a risk to the economic outlook. The economy has digested the higher prices gracefully so far. But it can get a bit of indigestion if prices move higher.

Pat Sullivan

The people who were here tonight now have an idea of the talent you see at the NAIA National Tournament. This team is every bit as talented as what you see at the nationals. In fact, if this had been 20 years ago when the NAIA had 600 teams, this team could have won it.

Winifred Creamer

The people who built the first of these structures had no model to go by, no precedent to use in building a monument. It's a bit like deciding to build a functioning spaceship in your back yard, and succeeding.

Mike Hathaway

We've always been a little bit wide open anyway, but with Chris out, it kind of forced us to throw more.

Robbie Guertin

We've all got lots of different influences. We never sit down to write a song and say, 'This is going to be a Brian Eno type of song,' or 'This is a Bob Dylan song.' It's totally little bits of lots of different stuff that come together and hopefully it's something coming out of us that we're creating.

Brendan Taman

The other thing we need is Canadian depth.

Paul Tate

We're interested in continuing to grow our Denver presence and clearly a natural link or extension would be Canadian service.

Joe Sakic

When you think of Canadian hockey, he was the greatest ever to play the game. When he talks, everybody listens. He has that much knowledge and respect, and whatever he has to say is important. It's not that we can't win without him, but we feel that much stronger with him.

Ralph Goodale

We want every Canadian to have an opportunity to experience the fulfillment, empowerment and freedom that flow from higher learning,

Rick Moranis

When we were producing the Great White North comedy album, my experience in radio told me I needed two singles in order to get enough airplay.

Jack Layton

Unfortunately it has become clear that Paul Martin and his team are not cut from the same cloth as Lester Pearson or Pierre Trudeau. And so, most Canadians think it's time for a change.

Michael Shanks

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

Tony Valeri

We're focused on keeping the House open, not shutting it down, ... It's the opposition that seems to be focused on shutting it down and dragging Canadians back to the polls.

John Matheson

We know he hasn't got any money...the American people say he hasn't got any money and the Canadians say he doesn't have any money...he tried the same scheme here.

Catherine Fisher

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Cary Sherman

There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.

Ludovico Ariosto

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Eddie Irvine

The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say.

Tammy Cox

We stopped at the edge of town, changed our clothes, and took the decorations off the car.

Theresa Adams

We started out in a 2-3, which wasn't a very good defense ... because they can shoot the 3, and two of them can drive to the goal. So we changed it to a 3-2 and it worked much better.

Faye White

We started off well in the second leg and got a goal, which is what we needed. We can't complain about the first part of the game but it all changed when they got a penalty,

Leos Carax

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

Lauren Worsham

My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.

Cliff Politte

We've all been telling a lot of jokes. I guess we'll all get half a (playoff) share and half a ring. We won't be in the team picture.

Denise Roberts

When he got well, I said, 'Well, I guess it's not too late,'

Carlos Asilis

Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess is it's not going to happen.

Dale Stewart

We guess they didn't know that we had that other side, and we wanted to show that.

Larry Brown

We're just young. And I guess this is the process you have to live with.

John Glenn

Yes! A one-word answer. I guess I should just stop there,

Luke Lanno

Three times we wrestled. I guess they were one wrestler better than us.

Christine Clifford

We're ready to move. In hindsight, I guess I should have checked, but that's what we pay a Realtor for.

Joseph Lapid

We let you guess whatever you wish. What we have promised, and we keep the promise: We will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East,

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Andi Mallarangeng

When the session resumes on January 25th, we only have three days...that is too short a time to resolve all the issues.

Danielle Brown

She had chemotherapy before Christmas, but in January she started to have shortness of breath. It had spread to her lungs.

Vijay Dandapani

There are two periods when New York is soft: January and July.

David Boies

Was that your view on January 6, 1999?

Cheryl Brom

We start getting them about spring when it warms up. It's rare for us to get them in January and February, but the winter's been warm, and we're getting them a little earlier.

John Ruiz

New Year's resolutions are quite prevalent in January but usually non-existent after the Super Bowl.

Frank Evans

Obviously, we're pleased because it means I'm open January 1st.

Steve Stirling

Certainly, if you look at it, the month of January is critical.

I. Stone

If only all that January rain had been snow.

Noel Redding

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Audre Lorde

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

Nick Logan

We did try. At this point, he will not be joining us.

Greg Steinhoff

We are joining with other Midwest states to get over the fly-over syndrome that we suffer from. We are making it known that there are tremendous biotech resources in the region.

Michael D. Barnes

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

Don Swarthout

We have seven new programmers joining us this month.

Graeme Smith

I think he will be joining the squad (this week). I don't know if he will be playing though.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Joining a new church and starting a new life is never easy and often frightening.

Sondhi Limthongkul

Our Monday protest will have more people joining from the provinces.

Bernard Goldberg

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

Rik Mayall

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.

Brigitte Boisselier

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

David Horsey

I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.

Bertie Carvel

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

Annalena McAfee

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

Jim Kelly

I don't know why a journalist in that position would not talk.

Joe Sacco

I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences.

Bruce Feirstein

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Rich McKay

Seventy-six? Seventy-six was the longest 17 years of my life,

Bikram Choudhury

I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.

Allyn Rachel

For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'

Damon Albarn

I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

Gayle Davis

(Wednesday) night, our longest stop was about 20 minutes, ... Then we were able to open one lane.

Sharon Taylor

Me and him are always in touch -- always in touch. This is the longest I have ever been without in touch with my son.

Mike Coulter

I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city.

Christine Benz

He has one of the longest records, he's more a pure quant investor, ... He's got a phenomenal record.

Pete Vasil

If someone told me they'd have 27 (by halftime), we'd take it. But we were stuck at 11 for the longest time.

David Rubenstein

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

Cecilia Bartoli

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Ashley Benson

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.

Bruce Beresford

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Howard Thompson

The proceeds are used for the operation of the Bedouin Shrine Temple and to support our transportation department,

Elizabeth Bowen

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

Alanis Morissette

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

Alan Arkin

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

David Sedaris

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

David Thewlis

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?

Cary Grant

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

Lance Armstrong

Where to start? ... This has been a long, love-hate relationship between myself and the French.

Aimee Carter

I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

Billy Joel

You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.

JoAnne Graf

She had a rocky first game. But Tiffany has really responded.

Bill Belichick

We executed it pretty well, ... I thought we could have done all right in the 3-4. We just got off to a rocky start.

Amanda Hoffman

We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.

Lester Pines

It was a description, frankly, of Rocky Rococo.

Glenn Plum

The elk rut is one of the most spectacular wildlife opportunities in the Rocky Mountains.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Studd

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Alan Perlis

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Dylan Moran

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

Cate Blanchett

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

Jerry Seinfeld

I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.

Chris Lowe

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

Hugh Bonneville

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

Jencarlos Canela

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

Jude Law

I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.