Famous Quotes & Sayings

Krist Novoselic

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.

Mahmoud Abbas

She asserted to him that U.S. administration will continue supporting the elected president and his policies.

Tom Stoppard

It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.

Jason Murgel

I thought we played good team defense, we caused 28 turnovers and converted those takeaways into points. We came out and asserted ourselves and put the game away in third quarter.

Andrew Greeley

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

Joel Fuhrman

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

Douglas Coupland

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

Jimmy Carter

Some have asserted that the proposal is just a weak compromise.We challenge this claim.

Mark Nore

We didn't establish ourselves the second half. They came out and got two three-point plays. They asserted themselves and we didn't.

John Barth

Mainly it's the public documents of the defendants that will prove the case.

Auguste Rodin

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

Ricardo Diaz

was not really after the significance of the documents but by the manner these were obtained.

Jean Paoli

We are acknowledging that end users who merely open and read government documents that are saved as Office XML files within software programs will not violate the license.

Stephane Dujarric

We are pleased that these documents are out now. This is one part of the program, this is one part of the story.

Dee Stanley

We operate off the law and the premise that all documents we have here are public documents, whether on public computers, on public file, generated by public employees.

Bruce Jackson

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

Arthur Stein

Personally, I've scanned all my important documents and keep them on a disk.

John Cornyn

only reinforces the fact that the archives' efforts to be thorough in the production of documents are unprecedented.

Rob Mackowiak

We've all failed in different ways and, now, it's up to us. Obviously, the organization is looking to move into a better direction, so this should be a sign. We need to improve. All Mac could do was prepare us. He couldn't play for us. I wouldn't wish what happened to him on anybody, but you can't fire all of us.

Jeffrey Robinson

Where they failed was in what to do with this huge bulk.

Dick Cheney

What we're hearing from the other side is the failed thinking of the past, and we're not going back.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Kent Houser

We failed to run our offense in the third quarter. For the rest of the game, I think we played at our pace. We didn't want to slow it down too much, just have some discipline.

Tom Marryott

We failed to match American's intensity as the game went on.

Ken Bruen

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

Lawrence Taylor

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.

Marco Basten

Some moments we played well but overall we struggled with our opponents because we failed to raise the pace.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Charles M. Blow

While the word 'bisexual' was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

Stanley Smith

We had plans for a 5,000-square-foot library, with inadequate parking.

Damon Dash

Read the rich list in Forbes. When you see all these people with all different kinds of money, it will make you feel inadequate and keep you focussed.

Jack Reed

There was inadequate planning, inadequate recognition of the problem at every level.

E. B. White

The strength of the materials was inadequate to support the slope over time. It was a soil-like material, not a rock material.

Dick Cheney

As long as we do things or pursue policies that don't increase the supply, then what we'll find on the other end is inadequate supply and spiking prices,

Kusnanto Anggoro

In many regions, soldiers are too emotionally involved, partly because of inadequate logistics support, and of rivalry or (ineffective coordination) within the army.

David Rowland

The offers are inadequate and would entail unacceptable levels of risk.

Dr. Katz

You can't. Routine tests will not show inadequate intake.

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

Robert Thompson

When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more.

Li Yuanchao

Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

Vladimir Litvin

Watching how simultaneously statements are made, including at the top level, it can be understood that this is an organized campaign.

Yossi Alpher

We've never encountered this situation before. Everyone, including the U.S., is playing this by ear.

Tawni O'Dell

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Ernest Mandel

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Kevin Lynch

With Typekit, you sign on, you pay a single subscription fee. We're including that as part of Creative Cloud.

Anil Kumar

Most of the victims were local labourers, including women workers with infants and small children.

Bryan Adams

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Bill Nighy

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

Mark Nation

When he got to the school, they would not let him in and he was later told Christopher had been shot.

Lyle Thomas

We're going to sit down later this year and come up with a list of the (water line problems) we know about that we just haven't done anything on.

Kathy Miller

We're not anticipating problems, other than that we're getting them later than we expected.

Michael Long

Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.

Umberto Eco

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

Ernst Toller

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Ann Coulter

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Jesus Dureza

Our panel of 22 officials are here for the meeting. I think we are on the right track.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Tom LaBonge

I don't like to see public officials attacked,

Ofer Lefler

They won't get any special privileges just because they were elected.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Rick Perry

Hopefully, they'll be back in production very soon,

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Dee Brown

When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Aya Cash

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Aya Cash

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

Stephen Merchant

Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.

Laird Barron

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

Rabih Alameddine

When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.

Peter Zumthor

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Francois Fenelon

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

David Carson

A lot of commercials that have been rejected are really entertaining.

Alexandra Chando

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

John Fleming

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

Albert Einstein

Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant

Sarah Hall

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Alber Elbaz

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

Robin Day

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Frances O'Grady

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

Paul Chellgren

You want info relevant to Wednesday, where and when you are.

Tina Brown

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

Kathy Gibson

She does have extra-long arms. We know that about her. What timely shot-blocking!

Amanda Voorhis

She always has some timely makes from the perimeter.

Dan DeCarlo

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

John Greene

If we had had the timely hit, we were right there. We just didn't get it.

Bob Poole

We just couldn't get timely hitting, very frustrating.

Joe Siciliano

We had our opportunities to score, but we just didn't get the timely hitting.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Alan Watts

Black implies white self implies other

Alan Bennett

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Al Sharpton

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

Chico Hamilton

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

Chiang Kai-shek

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

Dave Chappelle

All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.