Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

David Guterson

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

Dean Koontz

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

Bill Gates

what are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

Howard Archer

UK imports of goods excluding oil ... rose for a fourth successive month in February, and by substantial 4.5 percent, suggesting that domestic demand may have surprised on the upside in the first quarter.

David Silver

The powerful multiyear up-cycle in potash shows signs of maturing. Demand growth has slowed steadily since last spring, and North American producer inventories have risen to multiyear highs.

Brett Galloway

We are seeing an enormous increase in demand for wireless infrastructure.

Arlen Specter

We are proceeding in a matter of the utmost, utmost gravity -- the potential for impeachment of the president of the United States -- and I think American people will demand and are entitled to that kind of bipartisanship,

David Ricardo

The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

David Ricardo

But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.

Arthur Erickson

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science demands patience.

Artur Schnabel

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

Charlie Chaplin

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Charlie Chaplin

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

Charles Dickens

Please, sir, I want some more.

Charles Dickens

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Charles Spurgeon

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Charles Spurgeon

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life.

Alan Watts

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

Alan Rickman

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?