Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Alan Bennett

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Alda

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

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.

Andy Davidson

When your colleagues put that confidence in you and congratulate you on a job well done ? I'm pretty honored to get it.

Evan Bayh

This proposal emphasizes accountability. That is something that is long overdue. The fragmented structure that my colleagues have mentioned has prevented us from having accountability,

Michel Gauthier

What I can tell you, in the name of my colleagues and our leader Gilles Duceppe, is that we've had enough, ... Together, all the Bloc MPs intend to reverse the trend.

Andre Geim

Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.

Jim Carroll

Many of her colleagues knew him and it was very emotional in the office. She had that memory in the back of her head while she was being threatened.

Martin Hughes

We are gratified by the strong financial performance and customer service delivered by our colleagues at Talbot since they joined us in 2004. They have earned these payments through dedication and improved financial returns that exceeded our initial projections.

Ronnie Barker

Next week we'll be investigating rumours that the president of the dairy council has become a Mason, and goes around giving his colleagues the 'secret milkshake.'

Tom Rath

If my colleagues stop eating donuts and are more active, it saves me money on next year's insurance premium, and I get to work with people who have more energy and creativity each day. Yet most organizations fail to make health a cultural priority. Instead, they treat healthcare like any other expense.

Nick Park

My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.