Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Connelly

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.

Beverly Cleary

The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up.

Toni Cade Bambara

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Sandra Cisneros

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Tim Collins

This was a team that truly learned the meaning of (what it is like to) be a team, and they can take that with them the rest of their lives.

Elizabeth Janeway

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Elizabeth Janeway

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

Evan Hunter

It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

Jack Rosen

What we do know is that the Muslim press heard and reported him saying that he looks forward to normalized relations, that Jews and Muslims need to bridge the gap between them, and that Jews suffered from the Holocaust. That to me is a key victory for us.

Brent Weeks

Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?

Djuna Barnes

I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through ...

David McCullough

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.

David Guetta

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

Bruce Vento

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

Catherine Helen Spence

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

Meg Scheu

We determined that the safest thing to do was to stop all freight and passenger train traffic over the bridge until it could be repaired.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

R. Robinson

We want it for ourselves, the club and especially the fans. We know how much it means to everyone.

Tim Anderson

We wanted to try to get all the way to the clubhouse and settle it on the last hole and we got there.

Ron Gardenhire

We were trying to get him to come back into the clubhouse where he was the greatest leader I've ever seen. He wanted to do it.

Charlie Chaplin

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

Simon Hawkins

We have respect for Matt and his coaching. These things happen. Six years at an NRL club is a long time.

Judah Friedlander

When I'm not filming anything or on the road doing stand-up, I'm usually doing stand-up shows every night - usually a few shows a night at different clubs in the city.

Laura Hunter

We set up a hazardous waste collection site down by the football field. It's a good way to get the club out there.

Tom Scholz

I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.

Thomas Dooley

A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper.

Ellen Willis

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We have not seen diversion of nuclear material for weapons purposes, but the picture is still hazy and not very clear.

Eric Tolbert

What you're seeing is revealing weaknesses in the state, local and federal levels. All three levels have been weakened. They've been weakened by diversion into terrorism.

Maryann Gregory

Some of this is a diversion to keep your mind off what is really going to get you.

Ted Harrison

My perception is that we are headed toward a future where the surface water from the Rio Grande diversion is likely to be the dominant source of water for most communities around the Santa Fe area.

Alex Pareene

For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.

Scott Faber

We can use diversion structures to redirect sediment (coming down the river) that is now going off the continental shelf.

Desmond Tutu

God is not a diversion.

Dan Stessel

Normally there is a diversion of 2 to 3 percent. Instead we saw an increase. We bucked the trend and swung to get 5 percent.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

Coco Chanel

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

Norman Douglas

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

Lynn Coady

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

Source Unknown

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

Kofi Annan

particular to the relatives and friends of those who lost their lives in the service of the ideals of the United Nations.

Andrew Motion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

Christine Seitz

Ours has much more to do with the Masonic theme. Mozart was really intrigued by the ideals of the Masons and wanting to have truth, virtue and reason be the model by which people live by.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

Chris Johns

The reality is we're in a different marketplace, because general-interest magazines have come and gone.

Janice Dickinson

I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world,

Chanel Iman

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

Bil Keane

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Chelsea Handler

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

Diora Baird

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

Bridget Hall

I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

John Rennie

We're trying to put together a magazine that doesn't look like it's your grandfather's.

Samir Husni

Trying to have the middle road has never worked in the magazine publishing business.

Niki Tsongas

There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.

J. M. Roberts

We see some representatives out here, but I think most sit in their offices and don't see the people that they affect,

Yahya Jammeh

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.

Glenn Martin

What you're going to start seeing is the infrastructure the roads, doctor's offices and stores come next.

Peter Gould

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.

Jay Cairns

It sort of said we should be the standard as to what other prosecutor offices should be doing.

Herb Kohl

All the Wisconsin and Beloit stuff in their offices made me feel at home,

Edgar Mitchell

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

George Magliano

We think the Scion is a phenomenon unto itself.

Drake Johnstone

This tracking stock phenomenon doesn't make sense. I wouldn't be surprised if they went down to $0.

Steve Bonney

A phenomenon has happened. We've tapped into the trucker network.

Jack Fultz

Running is a new social phenomenon in our country.

Ted Smith

This convergence phenomenon is very real, and it's getting more real.

Craig Fugate

You're in a phenomenon ... it's sort of like a hurricane, you're not going to stop it with what the (existing) resources are.

John Travolta

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

Bill Gates

The live phenomenon is not just about Microsoft. It's partners, it's competitors...the whole space is being transformed.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Maury Yeston

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

George Robinson

Wow, isn't that convenient? ... It's going to be hot, and it doesn't seem that expensive.

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Stephen Colletti

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Chetan Bhagat

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Richard Caborn

We have had the pantomime. Let's now have the serious stuff.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Tom Mison

I think I must be one of the only actors I know who has never even auditioned for a small part in 'Eastenders.'

Jim Gibbons

very devastating to communities with a small tax base.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Barbara Kingsolver

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Bob Harper

It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Nikki Sixx

When we were younger, you know, small stuff was small stuff. But we turned it into big stuff. It's just part of being young.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.