Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Allen

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Dave Barry

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

David Talbot

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

Kevin McCarthy

We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95.

Legal Maxim

Where the law is most strictly administered, it sometimes causes the greatest wrong

David Givens

When you start to see the emotional muscles contracting, you know there's some attraction. The muscles of the face are definitely emotional. The upper trapezius muscle is emotional, which causes you to flex your head and your shoulders.

Bo Burnham

I masturbate 'cause I'm the only one whose standards are low enough to f-k me.

Billy Gibbons

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

David Hume

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

Mary McDowell

We are making a lot of enhancements to devices specifically for enterprises,

James Cameron

We're in a fight for survival here. Maybe we just need to fight back harder, come out blazing, not wither away and die. D-cinema can do it, for a number of reasons, but because d-cinema is an enabling technology for 3-D. Digital 3-D is a revolutionary form of showmanship that is within our grasp. It can get people off their butts and away from their portable devices and get people back in the theaters where they belong.

Jose Maldonado

When he first moved here, I knew it was because he got in trouble at (Iowa City's) West High. He always had this tracking device on his ankle.

Montel Williams

I'm involved in everything from a nutraceutical company to a pharmaceutical company to a medical device company. My whole world revolves around health, and I feel it's my responsibility, in a way, and I say it this way, and I don't take this lightly.

Nitin Gupta

We're going to see some type of portable device that offers some PDA elements but is very consumer-focused, and that means more entertainment functionality.

Bill Gates

Three years from now everyone will have a wireless PC device with them at this conference,

Todd Rundgren

I first started doing some somewhat technology-based shows in the '80s. If you wanted to get real technical about it, back in the '70s I used to open up with Utopia with just me on the stage with a four-track tape recorder. So, technically, I've been using the help of various devices pretty much throughout my career.

Jim Voss

We have a pretty good program for keeping ourselves in good shape. We have two bicycles, a treadmill and an exercise device that simulates weightlifting,

Rip Gerber

Software has to work with all carriers. People will want any application to work on any device on any network. Open standards will drive down costs. As the market matures, the technology will have to open up.

Chuck D.

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

David McLean

I can tell you that we're not planning any price drops on Xbox 360 this year at all. The product doesn't need it.

Nick Ferguson

I think it's the fact that the guy's so confident. He's the guy that all the cheerleaders want to be with -- he's one of those guys. If he was a drink, he'd be some fine cognac because that's how smooth he is. The way he drops back and reads, the way he passes the ball. He plays very poised -- doesn't seem to let anything rattle him even if you pressure him.

Andy Reid

It gets pointed at McMahon, but it's not all him. You can't have six or seven drops like we did Saturday.

James Farrior

He had a lot of drops today. I don't know what it was. Maybe Joey got in his head. His game plan all week was to try to get in Stevens' head and I think he might have done that.

Kevin Kinel

Our focus has been on the state meet. I feel pretty good about going down to state. We'll have time drops there.

Doug Johnson

Our main focus right now is our D zone coverage. Hopefully when the puck drops we'll be ready.

Alan Vituli

Sure it's a loss, but losses are funny things, when thing are going well, any piece that drops out of the equation seems like a loss. But things often work out.

Jay Greene

It does give us a perspective that we didn't have, which is the perspective of the student who drops out.

David Sedaris

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

We still need to strengthen ourselves in the sprints. We're pushing hard in those events this week in practice.

Todd Rogers

We're in a great place to win. Everyone is gunning for us. We played really well in the last two events and for the most part, when one of us wasn't hot, the other did well. When we put it together, we really handled the teams.

Jacques Chirac

Where is the president when such serious events are taking place?

Mike Schnur

We actually didn't swim very well tonight. West Chester won seven individual events out of nine. We were just tired and not as up for it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.

Deepak Chopra

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

Brad Carson

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

Delta Goodrem

What a strange turn of events.

Dorothy Allison

Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.

Randy Graham

When we have younger people here, then that's sometimes when the trouble comes. Any time you have a nightclub, you're subject to anything happening at any time.

Mike Stanton

We feel a frustration at times, too. We have a sense that a lot more is happening than we are able to report, and I don't like it.

Clarissa Ward

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

Jason Silva

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

Shia LaBeouf

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

Tracy Morgan

Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down.

Stella Maeve

When I left New York, not a lot of shows were happening there, but 'Golden Boy' is such a New York show.

Sharon Smith

When we saw her come in, I thought, it's not real. It can't be happening to her.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

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!

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bill Halbrehder

When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.

Bart Bryant

There is no question he played a huge role in getting me going as a pro,

Lisa Papademetriou

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

Paul Campbell

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

Pete Carroll

We're so young in so many areas. These next two weeks will be huge for our development.

Kent Beck

There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.

Harvey Jewett

With the limited monies we've got, we know it's going to show the need for a huge appropriation by the state.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

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

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Don Cheadle

You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.

Common

The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world.

Jennifer Dunn

This is not a ripple effect. This is a tsunami.

Charles Taze Russell

The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.

Charles Spurgeon

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

Billy Joel

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.

David Viscott

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

Diablo Cody

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

Bobby Keys

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

Rich Rodriguez

What makes it tough is they're better for sure than they were two years ago,

Ralph Neas

We're going to make sure that Americans understand what is at stake.

Ed Paulk

We're just making sure there is nothing we are missing. It's just being proactive.

Abby Wambach

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

Rick Adelman

We're just trying to make sure somebody's on him all the time.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Randy Waynick

We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.

Edward Gorey

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Bread for today is bread enough.

Anthony Brown

Watching upsets and being a part of an upset are two different things.

Joan Rivers

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

Matt Worsham

Absolutely, because there have been many upsets in the past. We upset them in 2001. We could have upset them today, but we couldn't put it together.

Denny Green

Things have to go the way you want them to go, and I think that's probably what upsets me the most as a coach.

Lisa Delbridge

It upsets me so much that someone would come into our yard and vandalize.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

Bette Midler

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

C. S. Lewis

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

Charles Darwin

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.