Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert McChesney

So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.

Robert McChesney

One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

Robert McChesney

One side, profits go up, they own more and more, but the diversity, interest, creativity and quality of the programming goes way down.

Irving Babbitt

One should, therefore, in the interests of democracy itself seek to substitute the doctrine of the right man for the doctrine of the rights of man.

Irving Babbitt

One of our federal judges said, not long ago, that what the American people need is ten per cent of thought and ninety per cent of action.

Alfred Kazin

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

Chuck Klosterman

My favorite line of fiction is from Raymond Carver's Gazebo: 'That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon, she tries to jump out the window. I go, Holly, this can't continue.'

Chuck Klosterman

I got to Spin because I put my phone number in the front of Fargo Rock City and one of the people who called me was David Byrne.

Robert McChesney

Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.

Isabella Rossellini

The red carpet has become like a parallel business. The next day, there are TV programmes, and magazines, and it's all, 'Do you like the dress or not like the dress?' and 'Did she look fat?' To keep borrowing dresses and jewellery is like a full-time job. And you have to be a fantasy, which you can never be, so you always feel depressed.

Charles Farrar Browne

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Seymour Cassel

Many people came out and said, 'Boy I'd love to make a film that way.' Well, borrow some money, get some people together - you can get people to work for nothing, just treat them right, treat them as human beings, not stars, give them all an equal share, make them feel a part of what they're doing. There's no big secret to it.

Leon Panetta

None of this is being paid for. At some point, all of that borrowing comes back to haunt you.

Keith Gumbinger

Mortgage markets have been so flush with cash that home buyers are able to layer one risk on top of the other. It's possible to borrow more than the value of the home, put in no money of your own and pay a minimum monthly payment.

Michael Dyson

Maybe this time around in reaching back to borrow from old movies, maybe Lucas or his people had trouble separating stereotypes from the sort of things that would help strengthen the movie.

William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Scottish Proverb

Never marry for money. You'll borrow it cheaper.

Scottish Proverbs

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Richard P. Feynman

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn't want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn't supposed to be able to draw - isn't that wonderful - so I made up a false name.

Manolo Blahnik

I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

J. Horton

We're not buying some report that's going to go on the shelf and never be seen again. This is a research and marketing tool we can start using immediately once we get it.

Jill Nelson

We're not buying outright like Plato's. We're doing a 60/40 split.

Carolyn McCarthy

make it easier for criminals to buy guns at gun shows.

Tom Henderson

Make sure you go to a trusted source to buy your parts. If someone is selling you oil filters out of the back of a truck, they probably aren't the real thing.

Scott Holmes

Making habitat restoration part of public works projects is cheaper than eliminating the species and buying mitigation habitat at another location. With the San Pedro Project, for example, habitat restoration cost $3 million, but it would have cost $5-6 million (twice as much) to destroy the habitat and try to recreate it elsewhere.

John Savage

Let the guy do his thing. It's a unique event that should be encouraged even if you don't buy into the whole program. The guy's been doing it for 30 years around the world, and every place has survived.

Hugh Thomas

Licensing our WiFi product to Symbian was an important milestone for us. It provides a real endorsement that our technology is the de-facto standard for the future. From a commercial perspective it positions us well to deal with the handset manufactures, as they will know that they are protected for the future if they buy from us today.

Mike Conners

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Dick Corn

Macomb doesn't have a great deal of size. They don't seem to score a lot of points, but they do create a lot of points and scoring chances off their defense. Our scouts were pretty impressed.

Dick Nyman

Losses don't come much tougher than this one. We outplayed them the whole game, but two mistakes cost us. We had some great scoring chances but we didn't finish.

Jamey Gelhar

Last year, they took our chances away for the championship. We're going to be really fired up.

Jeff Lenherr

(Scott) has a strong desire to score. He's a very good one-on-one player and we've noticed that we've been getting a lot of one-on-one chances so far this year. Moving him up to forward helped stretch the defense and gave us a lot of room for chances.

Dwyane Wade

Second chances hurt us. They got a couple of second chance rebounds on us and that was the difference in us making the plays at the end.

Zheng Bijian

So long as the two sides can have a sober head to face the overall situation and handle the existing problems with a pragmatic attitude, can they seek the opportunities and promote the positive and sound development of the bilateral relations. Otherwise, they will miss the chances or even make historical mistakes.

Jim Rise

Missed opportunities. We had our chances and we didn't execute. We didn't play well today. We missed a lot of signs and the kids took themselves out of a lot of innings. We need to play a complete game and we haven't done that.

Takehiko Jimbo

Momentum for the yen is good. Fukui's comments and this newspaper report fed speculation about a March policy move, increasing the chances of a rate hike by the end of the year.

Donald Trump

Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in,

Michael Schaffer

Maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.

George H. W. Bush

Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working,

Larry Brown

Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know,

Chris Shelton

Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins.

Evan Needham

Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.

Donald Lowe

Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one test does everything for everybody.

Sam Singer

Maybe we should trade in our supervisor for somebody up in Seattle.

Brian Urlacher

Maybe we shouldn't get a bye week anymore.

William Roth

let Americans keep more of what they earn, and use their money as they see fit.

James Hong

Sentiment is weak right now and we're seeing a lot of short-term retail money selling.

Adrienne Worthy

One of the wonderful things for us is that people who give money also tend to give time.

Kevin Krewell

One is as a money scheme and the other is to produce useful technology.

Bob Hall

Obviously, you've got to have some money for a state-wide race, but the point is to have it not be an auction.

Mike Blum

No one really makes money on shorts. Probably one in 10,000, at the most.

Guy Ritchie

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

Cindy Hall

One time we saved up enough money for a saw.

Michael Arcuri

One thing we know is that he can raise money whenever he wants to, so he can still run if he wants to.

Joseph Joubert

Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

Donald Barthelme

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Don DeLillo

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Ted Cruz

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

John Milton

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

David Ogilvy

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

Horace

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Horace

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Robert Mahon

That's not a real savings for the taxpayers.

Theron Roschen

It's thinner than conventional asphalt, and that's where the savings comes in.

Curtis Myles

If they come to the station and try the system, I think we've got a customer.

Casey Kasem

Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't know why.

Walter Salles

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

Sylvester Stallone

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Holly Black

When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

Tariq Anwar

You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.

Timothy Brown

We are taking this station from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Afrojack

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

Tom Richardson

It pretty well emptied our station for a while.

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Richard Virenque

My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.

Chris Evert

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

Chris Evert

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Kim Clijsters

For me, tennis is important but it's not the most important thing in my life.

Elena Vesnina

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

Sonu Nigam

I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.