Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

Larry Lindsey

Majority Leader Daschle misspoke this morning when he said the Bush administration would dip into Social Security and Medicare funds. The truth, in fact, is that Social Security dollars will be used only for Social Security and Medicare dollars will be used only for Medicare. The only reason for any decline in revenue is due to an economic slowdown that began last September.

Wally Snyder

Life began to really mean something to those kids.

Bill Bradley

Look we have taken action, but you know racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.

Gene Nudo

Let's face it, it was a struggle. When we lost our first three games, we began to wonder if we were going to win. I believe we've turned the corner.

Hiroko Koyama

Many of these were the first pieces my mother began collecting. One of the most precious is an 11th-century glazed black tea bowl with rainbow colored spots.

Peter Cardillo

Many retail investors were in panic mode, however many of them slowly began to come back to the marketplace as the cloud of uncertainty began to lift.

Jim Turner

Many winter visitors began coming here because of the train.

Yasser Arafat

So here we extend our hand to you in reconciliation, and we extend the olive branch to resume the path that we began in Madrid and Oslo,

George Domenech

Many of the skippers said it was more like sailing in a real regatta. Rarely do you get to use all three sails, but we did this time. The wind created havoc as all boats came to the line for the starting gun.

Irish Sayings

Nodding the head does not row the boat

Paul Taylor

One of the stranded mariners even told the sailors that other boats had passed by without stopping to help.

David Tucker

Obviously when the boat has gone over it has taken in water and then it has taken in more water - enough to sink it.

Britani Dunbar

My Dad used to draw boats all the time and I've found his drawings in my grandparents' attic. I found one picture he drew of hockey players.

Chip Foose

My dad used to design cars, boats and vans, ... I would sit next to him from the time I was 3 and copy what he was doing. I continued doing that until eventually it was easier for him to tell me to draw it than have him draw it.

Chris Taylor

My dad was a working man on the canals, one of the last people to take a boat through the top locks. Now we have nowhere to visit him. I am very upset.

Pat Smith

When the MTA tells us to begin, we will begin. The boat is there and we are ready.

Mark Helvey

We won't have enough observers for all the boats to fish at the same time.

William Story

Man is content to know that he is loved, And tires the constant phrase "I love" to hear; But woman doubts the instrument is broke Unless she daily hear the sweet refrain.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Making sleep happen is a must- anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

Gerald Howarth

Liam Fox has most directly addressed the policy issues of concern to me, particularly the broken society.

Terence Courtney

Let?s put all this money, effort, and resources into something that?s already broken that serves the vast majority of people here in the city, and that?s MARTA.

Peter Akinola

Let there be no illusions, ... The communion is broken and fragmented. The communion will break.

Mark Twain

Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.

William Laud

Lord, I am coming as fast as I can: I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to Thee; but it is but umbra mortis, a mere shadow of death... Thou, by thy merits and passion, hath broken through the jaws of death.

Martin King

Love is the only cement that can hold this broken community together.When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs fo my brothers.

Katie Quinn

Many people were broken that day. I was broken.

Dominique Villepin

Libya is heading down the path of disarmament. It's a success for the entire international community.

Sathya Baba

Love all and serve all. Your entire life will be sanctified thereby.

Christopher McQuarrie

Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, 'Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.'

Henry David Thoreau

Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

JamesOn Curry

Sean, he's been through more than all (of us). That's his dad. He's looked up to him his whole entire life. It means a lot to him and his wife and family, too. They've been through a lot. (This win) is a great reward for him.

Phil Estes

Sean has spent his entire odds overcoming odds.

Melissa Harris

Means more than anything in the entire world.

Alana Beard

My intensity level and my mindset was at a different level tonight, ... That's where I've been trying to get to the entire season and I finally made it.

Doug Eddings

My interpretation is that's my 'strike three' mechanic when it's a swinging strike. If you watch, that's what I do the whole entire game.

Alexandra Adornetto

Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.

Sam Baker

My knee brace is falling everywhere. My shorts, everything is falling around. It's not fun.

Dennis Wilson

The greatest success in life is to feel I’m something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

Debra Winger

When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

Edsger Dijkstra

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

Medea Benjamin

I feel like this is the time when the American public understands something is wrong. When we are awash in money and we can't provide universal health care. School systems are falling apart.

Teruhisa Tsuji

Given the market's weak-dollar bias, there's a risk of the U.S. unit falling further on a wider-than-expected trade deficit.

Art Russell

From a purely technical standpoint, we could see the Nasdaq falling to 2,500 levels in the near term.

Elizabeth Bishop

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

Lawrence Vale

New Orleans was slowly sinking, literally and figuratively, well before Katrina.

Jim Ramstad

When I had alcoholic blackouts, I literally could not remember what I did the preceding night,

Doug Liman

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.

Marshall Allman

I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze.

Warren Spector

I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics.

Vint Cerf

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

Vera Farmiga

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.

Patti Savrick

We're quite worried. She's literally on minute-to-minute care.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Douglas Smith

Mr. Dubois is not going anywhere. This is his home. He lives there. There are serious equities here.

Michael Leunig

Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day.

Jeffrey Skoll

My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.

Billy Joel

Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights...So well-arranged...Those tasteful words that we exchange...We know it's all a passing phase.

Mark Allen

Now that day has passed, they can get on with their lives again.

Lisa Pierce

I feel terrible for those people. They're still trying to get their lives back together. I see it and I just can't stop watching it. Like a train wreck.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Diane Sawyer

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

Charles Schumer

I for one wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it and have been unsure how to vote.

Charles Schumer

I, for one, have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, being unsure how to vote.

Larry Fitzgerald

I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.

Stephnie Weir

I'm a middle child, and I have a younger sister who is stunning - just beautiful and smart.

Dale Jones

If they put in a bridge, it would save a lot of (driving) miles, but they'll never put that in out here in the middle of nowhere.

John McMillin

If they see United Way of Middle Tennessee, in a nutshell, sometimes they may not know that that isn't the United Way that represents their county.

Dr. Selzer

I don't dawdle. I'm a surgeon. I make an incision, do what needs to be done and sew up the wound. There is a beginning, a middle and an end.

Dannel Malloy

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Nicolle Wallace

The two pillars of winning the presidency are being a strong leader and being someone who understands us and our problems.

Burt Shavitz

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

Jay Nixon

I think, at times of stress, you have to trust the pillars of democracy.

John Ortberg

Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church.

George Washington

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

Henrik Ibsen

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Wang Jianlin

China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.

Pete Domenici

My constituents, and actually most Americans, think that somebody rigs these prices. That in the process, somebody's getting ripped off, and they think it's them.

Andrea White

She said, 'Should I try to do the splits?' and I said 'Yeah!' and she ripped her pants!

Samantha Fox

Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.

Mark Dindal

Just ripped the Band-Aid off. He's kind of like that.

Terry Bradshaw

I ripped that. Is it the same spot?

Alice Temperley

I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.

Lloyd Smith

I just feel like I'm getting ripped off by Rockingham County.

Alexandra Adornetto

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.

Scott Bakula

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

Steve Prefontaine

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Brian Calhoun

Obviously, I'm a running back and I wanted to play running back and they had different plans, which is fine. It was just time to split ways.

Marcel Shipp

When you're a running back on this team, you have to take that personal.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Ludwig von Mises

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

Chris Crutcher

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

Chris Crutcher

I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

Felix Silla

Now there's a lot of yelling and screaming and hollering.

David Pollack

He wasn't screaming and yelling at me and cussing me. We were trying to get it solved. That's all we were doing.

Joseph Jackson

He was screaming in agony, and there was nothing we could do.

Scott Berry

There are not a lot of screaming opportunities out there.

David Bryant

We we charging in ... slapping the water and screaming at the shark: 'Hey, no, no, no.

Laura Davis

There's going to be 20,000 Americans screaming down on us all weekend,

Mike Boyd

There will be screaming and yelling and gnashing of teeth, but at the end of the day it will probably get approved. They know what's at stake.

Darren Boston

Thanks for your time. She turned around and just started screaming at me. I was embarrassed for her.

David Kiefer

The stocks are practically screaming at you to buy.

Elizabeth I

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

Bruce Johnston

There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody.

Mohammed Habib

We won 34 seats and we could have won even more had there not been wrongdoing.

Dan Rather

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Brittany Campbell

It has heated seats and a six-CD changer.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

John Mayer

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

John Cage

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

Alexandra Paul

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

S. Walker

One will be right here and the other will be other side of the ramp, diagonally.

Roger Szendy

New Fairfield is on the other side of the lake, and there would be a lot of time spent just trying to stay organized.

Tessanne Chin

I think on stage there's a side of me that comes out that's very fierce and confident.

Eleanor Porter

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

Ehud Barak

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Eric Herzik

I don't think he's going to want to let this go unanswered. You don't want to see it (the rating) slip any more, or you're on the wrong side of the equation.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Claude Mandil

On the refining side we need regulations to be predictable.

Zach Johnson

I thought that I was going to get a place somewhere. But with (Housing) tearing down the Towers, I'm wondering where they'll put everybody.

Michael Sullivan

I couldn't take it no more. The mosquitoes were tearing us up,

Jim Carrey

Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

Edgar Mitchell

Our success and our understanding is that all beings are right inside, the deeper we go inside ourselves. There's a saying that Unity uses that I have always liked: "Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me." We all have to be a part of this. We have to be the initiator. We can't wait.

Elbert Hubbard

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

Eddie Vedder

Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.

Earl Nightingale

Don't wait for change. You change.

Earl Nightingale

Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

Deepak Chopra

Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

Dr. Tsou

I have been waiting 25 years for this time.

Steve Adams

I don't know what's in it (investigative file). I'm waiting to see.

Alan Cohen

Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?