Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Nancy Giles

Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? 'Love thy neighbor.' Didn't I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We've repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.

Mark Ferguson

Vernal pools can be found in a number of places. From high-elevation saddles between mountaintops down to flood plains in the Champlain Valley. Basically any place that will hold water for three or four months at a time is a potential breeding site.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Jim Myers

The other team played better than us today. That's basically what it came down to.

Michelle Wie

The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery.

Tom Coughlin

The personality of the quarterback, he has a large plate and he is going to lead by example and by his play. That's basically where our football team is. Our players do rally around Eli and his play and that's the position he has taken and that's the way it should be.

Don Ohlmeyer

Veronica's Closet' will do a 27 share on a Thursday night and it's dismissed. And (Comedy Central's) 'South Park' does a two share and it's on the cover of 'Newsweek' magazine.

Don Adams

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all

David Suchet

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

Bob Newhart

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

Bernie Mac

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Bernie Mac

Comedy has been so good to me.

Bernie Mac

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

Eddie Izzard

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

Charles Caleb Colton

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

Alan Rickman

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Alan Moore

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Alan Greenspan

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

Akshay Kumar

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.

Chris Cooper

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Chris Brown

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

Chris Abani

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

Derrick Jensen

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

Mo Ibrahim

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Jeff Smith

We're on a limited budget. And I think we've spent every nickel of it.

Larry Davis

He did very well. It was a limited workout, but there was no soreness and pain.

Tim Palmer

We can make better use of very limited resources to prevent outbreaks of these epidemics.

Gordon Brown

OPEC is a cartel, of course, and I think it is under challenge, ... You have got a cartel that has limited production in the past and has been slow to respond to rising demand.

Lindsey Hunter

My range of motion is still limited a little bit, but I working through that.

Robert Hurwitz

It allows for Tony winners and other people with limited availability to take part,

Ann Beattie

That's what I mean; if your writing doesn't transcend the era, then it would really seem to be only of very limited sociological importance.

Michael Brown

We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event.

Arno Penzias

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Rebecca Loos

Jealousy? Not at all. Sad, if anything, I thought. There is nothing she has that I could possibly want. Not even David.

Gregg Zenerovitz

I think we prepared as much as we possibly could. We've done everything we can to improve.

Herb Vincent

We may have an announcement on that very soon, possibly Friday.

Brandon Orr

He got me started as young as you possibly can.

Danny Ferry

He could possibly be back and participate in the post-season.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.

Michael Young

I think he's doing all he can possibly do, probably.