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,

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Sumner Redstone

Li is clearly a pioneer in bringing innovative partnerships to the Chinese people.

Robin Munro

Major disasters involving heavy loss of life have just shot up. It's in direct correlation to profits and production. They're ignoring safety in the interest of bringing the coal up to the surface.

Steve Largent

Maintaining a successful, consumer-friendly recycling program continues to be a top priority of the wireless industry. So please recognize Earth Day 2006 by taking your used wireless products out of the sock drawer and bringing them to the wireless carrier store near you to be recycled.

Anne Mulcahy

Maggie is an exceptional leader with a proven track record of bringing innovative, technology-based solutions to market. Her experience and strong leadership skills will serve Xerox and its shareholders well and complement the outstanding talent serving on our board.

Ali Noorani

Let's leave our flags at home. Let's make sure we're bringing the American flags.

Edward Davis

Lessons for Tomorrow: Bringing America's Schools Back from the Brink.

Chuck Robbins

Many of the technologies we're bringing out lend themselves to managed offerings. They are, by definition, complex, and customers are looking for expertise from our partners.

Lorraine Pino

Many of the new businesses that are coming downtown are bringing a new energy.

Marcy Kaptur

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Howard Dean

Sending delegates to the convention only continues to energize our party. Fight on in the caucuses; we are on the ballots,

Melissa Wagoner

Senator Kennedy has real environmental and economic concerns, and the federal government continues to lack a national policy and process to guide offshore alternative energy development.

W. Hull

Security continues to be a top priority for America's public transportation systems and transit systems will remain vigilant.

Ed Bryant

Miss Lewinsky continues to be, in her own way, an impressive witness.

David Quammen

One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.

Brian Reynolds

My gut tells me that spreads and yields are still too high to see a flood of deals. But if the market continues to improve, we will be at a point where a pickup in deals would be feasible.

Like I

My hope is that he continues to be a mystery and not become predictable.

Kathleen Taylor

Now with 68 luxury hotels and resorts in 31 countries and more than 20 properties in development, Four Seasons continues to strengthen its position for the present and future. Our strategy continues to focus on obtaining long-term management contracts with owners and investors who share our vision, and who are ready to invest in our future.

Scott Carpenter

Mac users have not been forced to deal with the storm of viruses and vulnerabilities that Windows users deal with on a daily basis, so they tend to feel that they are safer than their Windows counterparts.

John Becker

No dept personnel shall release any information to the Daily Press reporter Miguel Gonzales, ... Any questions he has shall be directed to my office. Any other information requested by the press shall be routed to me before it is released.

Phil Reed

My daily commute includes the future for most Americans.

J. Hoover

getting daily exercise to keep physically fit is always a problem for presidents.

David Duchovny

Gillian and I have a brother/sister relationship. If you work with someone daily for twelve hours, that person, if she is smart and Gillian is smart shouldn't want to meet the other person after hours. That's also true for the other way round.

Hideo Kojima

Should I use this opportunity to start doing daily headstands?

Andrew Frank

Sixty-five percent of drivers will not use gas on a daily basis. The only time you ever use gasoline is when you go on vacation or go skiing.

Jeff Moorad

I don't foresee any reason for daily updates on Luis Gonzalez. At this point, he's our left fielder and obviously a terrific part of our organization's history and, presumably, a part of its future.

Sam Mendes

I'd like to think there's a huge interest out there because it's part of our daily life.

Mahmoud Abbas

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

John Stratton

Major money is going to be in motion in the next decade and yet no one really understands exactly where it will land, or even if it will land, or just disappear altogether.

John Edward

Millions of Americans losing their jobs over the next decade is a good thing? ... I'll tell you what the solution to this problem is, to outsource this administration.

Douglas Coupland

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

Jim Whitehurst

My goal at Delta is to return our service levels to industry leading, which they were for decades until the mid-'90s. If we do that and keep the hearts and minds of our people as we do that, it will ultimately lead to financial success.

Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

Tom Wolfe

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

James D. Watson

Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

Kevin Browne

Four generations of our family have lived and worked here at Shafer Shores. Through the years we have thrived on repeat guests, many of whom measure their time here in decades rather than years.

Robert Wilson

My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.

Joel Stoneton

We're not big and strong, but we're a quick, fast team. We're not going to overpower you, but we can run around you to the outside. We're just going to spread the field and see what happens.

Dave Brogioli

Maggie and Erin have been a tremendous 1-2 punch and Taylor has stepped up to make some big shots. We're scoring a lot of points with our shooting and we've also been doing a good job forcing turnovers that have fueled our fast break.

Robert Brown

Love, we are in God's hand. / How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead. / So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Scott Runkel

Lee is a powerful kid. He's off to a pretty fast start and hopefully he'll stay hot.

Larry Schmit

Seton was just a bigger, faster team. And there were a lot of them out there too, so they were able to stay fresh.

Amanda Palmer

Sean and Paul have been following the band's growth for the past two years and have a real understanding of what we're trying to capture. The record is going to be fast and furious, immediate and raw.

Robert Browning Hamilton

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

Jim Tressel

Mike is strong as a bull, and a surprisingly fast guy. And he's one of those players whose motor only has one speed - all out. He plays so hard that he gives the other team all kinds of problems.

Spike Jonze

Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.'

Lilly Singh

My fans are honestly so unique and so similar. Wherever I travel, they are so, so different but so the same.

Tom Selleck

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

Bob Morton

I look through the team and I can honestly say I can't see a weakness,

Keith Gayden

I have a lot of thoughts. I don't know what to say. I don't know what happened. I honestly thought he would be here next year. Put it like that.

Sami Gayle

I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

Larry Brown

I don't know when I will be back. Hopefully it'll be sooner than later, but I honestly don't know.

Melody Strong

I can honestly say that there was no nurturing at all. I mean, we were fed. We were well clothed. The neglect was love. I can never ever remember being told 'I love you' as a little kid. I have no memories of sitting on my parents' lap, snuggling. I have no memories of my mother ever reading to me. I don't remember ever, ever being hugged.

Tom Turner

I can honestly say that's not the case.

Vincent Jackson

Man, hopefully I'll be playing me, on offense, working with the offense,

Shawn Chacon

Man, he is in a zone. You hope he stays that way for a long time.

Don Daniels

Let's look for a year like last year and hope it doesn't happen. That's all we can do.

Johnny Damon

Let's hope so. We've still got to play well.

Andy Robinson

Lewis is distraught and disappointed and we hope it can all be sorted out.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis. I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis, ... I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Tony Bush

lot of lives to be lifted up, lot of hope to be restored.

Wade Duty

Louisiana is undergoing a moment of revision and hopefully reconstruction, and by Friday, we will know what the shape of things will be.

Robert G. Allen

Like a baby, ... I woke up every two hours and cried.

Leah Smith

Many people just don't know. We spend hours practicing everyday, even on weekends, to make sure we get a move right.

John Neal

Seventy-five hours every three years is required by the state, ... We do 100 hours every year.

Ellen Smith

Miners only have a one-hour supply of oxygen underground, but mine safety teams can be located up to two hours away. That's not very comforting.

Jay Frank

More than two million people watched the video during its first 24 hours online.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Scott Hunter

I can't live out here. I can't have someone out here 24 hours a day. How do I stop this?

Ben Crane

Get it? I'm the one who started the joke! I was walking down the last fairway with Kenny Perry , and it had been a long day, and I go, 'You knew I was slow, but you didn't know I was nine hours slow!' At first he was just flummoxed. But then he said, 'Don't sell yourself short. You weren't slow today.' I went, 'Thank you.'

Sergio Garcia

I was still waking up six or seven hours before my tee time. I'm slowly getting back into it.

Italo Calvino

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Italo Calvino

I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.

Denny Leathers

Lucas did a nice job. He started out not looking so good, but got stronger and stronger. He got most of his strikeouts late in the game.

Michael Long

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

Angel Guzman

Let's see what happens. Everything is on standby. It's about showing them we are ready -- no matter if it's now, later this season or next year.

Mats Sundin

Milestones you look back on later in your career,

Tad Hutcheson

Maybe we can make it work later on.

Wayne Wonder

My first time in the studio was in '85 but I didn't actually record in '85. I started recording the right way in the late part of '87-'88.

James Corden

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Rachel Sklar

I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.

Nate McMillan

Some nights you just get beat. You do the right thing most of the time, but you just get beat. I think this is one of those nights.

Jarret Stoll

Some nights you feel like you can't lose. Luckily, it was one of those nights.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Yogi Berra

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

Tom Renney

We'll have better nights than we had. We'll win again.

Heather Watts

There are nights when you are lucky enough to tap into something about yourself that you are unaware of and can't possibly control, and somehow, at that moment, other people can view it or sense it or feel it.

Ed Sheeran

I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.

Jim Boeheim

This was one of those nights when we weren't going to be denied.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Lisa Bonet

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

Source Unknown

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Geoffrey West

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Rachel Boston

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Scott Moody

Like I have to start from scratch, I don't have anything.

David Collins

One way to start all over is to find a young woman and start a family.

John Beilein

Now we just go back and teach. We start over.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Chris Elliott

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

Chris Farley

I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Evans

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal.

Charles Spurgeon

Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!

Charles Spurgeon

You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

Bill Ayers

Terrorists destroy randomly.

King Abdullah

worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.

Asa Hutchinson

Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.

Bashar al-Assad

When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.

Cindy Sheehan

The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush.

Donald Trump

It just seems terrorists have an open blanket.

Donald Trump

We should turn cyber warfare into one of our greatest weapons against the terrorists. And they have to know its coming because right now, they know nothing about us.

Donald Trump

Cyber attacks from foreign governments, especially China, Russia, North Korea along with non-state terrorist actors and organized criminal groups constitute one of our most critical national security concerns. They're leaning everything about us and we don't have - wanna have any servers in the basements, by the way folks.

Alexander Torshin

That could have prevented the terrorist attack. But they weren't fulfilled.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.