Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to be the most powerful person in the world? The answer is someone with an internal drive that is so dynamic and so determined.

Robert Walpole

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

Theodore Tilton

Life is done, but what is death?" Then, in answer to the King, Fell a sunbeam on his ring, Showing by a heavenly ray, "Even this shall pass away

Patricia Fripp

Life is a series of sales situations, and the answer is no if you don't ask.

Henry Hyde

Let me be clear about this, ... We are not here today to decide whether or not to impeach Mr. Clinton. We are not here to pass judgment on anyone. We are here to ask and answer this one simple question: based upon what we now know, do we have a duty to look further, or to look away?

Jack Rio

Let me answer that with the words from the hit Steely Dan song 'Do it Again,' ... You go back, Jack, do it again. Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round. You go back, Jack, do it again.

Liam Fox

lied and broke the law and he must answer for that.

Shaun Cassidy

Lost' has changed the climate for shows that don't answer all your questions by the end of every episode.

Douglas Gresham

Many people ask, 'Why are they coming back?' The answer is that these books never went away,

Robert Palmer

I hardly ever get asked about music. I do, however, get asked about the 'Addicted to Love' video and my suits on a daily basis.

Ron Hill

We're not completely satisfied. I don't think we ever will be. There are a lot of questions that we asked that were never answered. My wife and I never believed from Day 1 that this was an accident.

Karolyn Grimes

Like for instance, there's a point where Mary and George are asked to go to Florida with Sam Wainwright and his wife. Very subtly, (Mary) rubs her tummy -- and that night she tells him she's on the nest.

Gerard Gallant

Luke asked to take the 'C' off. I said, 'As far as I'm concerned, you're our captain.' Luke said he'd thought about it and he believed he had good reasons for doing this. He just thought it was time.

Travis Bradberry

Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.

Jake Busey

Let's say you would see me in a lot more big movies had I done movies that I'd been asked to do playing bad guys. Now that I have a child on the way, I think that you'll probably be seeing me play more bad guys. If that's what's going to put bread on the table, that's what I'm going to be doing.

Pete Carroll

LenDale White got asked about 30 questions to try to get him to say something. He was true to his word the whole way through and somebody thinks they got something out of him. Our guys are great, competitive kids and they want to play and they want the ball. I think that's a really good attribute.

Jon Heacock

Louis was with us in the fall, kind of just went through the whole thing on his own. I think he's put himself or giving himself another chance, but he has, to this point, done everything we've asked him to do and will continue to do the same and ... is excited about his new opportunity.

Lionel Hampton

Louis asked me do I know anything the instrument, and what was it, and I explained it to him. So he said, 'Could you play something on it?' I said, 'Sure,' you know.

Isabella Rossellini

I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.

Jeff McInnis

Like everybody says, he's got to get to the playoffs -- that's the key. All this he's doing now, he's been doing that. But you've got to make the playoffs.

John Lowery

Like everybody else, this is a new season for us. Not that the other games don't mean something, because they do, but everybody wants to start off well in their league.

Uli Hoeness

Like everybody else in the whole country, I think the national team is a catastrophe.

Anna Ayala

Let this be an example. Everybody out there, all those young people, learn from this.

Tom Maurer

Luke played a great all-around game. He made everybody else on the team look better.

Ryan Tucker

Making plays I think was the difference. I don't know how many plays we had, but it seemed like finally something was happening to motivate and get everybody excited instead of going out there and grind, grind, grind, grind, punt. Grind, grind, grind, punt.

Larry Bowa

Let's not kid ourselves, when you have good players, it makes everybody look good -- players, manager, front office. The other thing is depth. That's what big payroll teams have. If they lose somebody, they've got somebody else. They don't go down to their farm system. That's a big difference.

Daniel Gibson

Let the fans and everybody else watching see for themselves. I'm gonna let everybody figure it out by the way that I play.

Buck Showalter

I can tell you what we're looking at right now on February 20-whatever, but that will change. There's a long way to go.

Robert Greenwald

The plan is to overwhelm Washington on February 26,

Chris Davenport

If we get to the end of February and I've only skied a couple, I'll start to worry. I need to stay positive. The silver lining is that it is snowing, so there will be a longer spring for skiing.

Mari Yori

Since we're a northern team, it's hard to get teams to come here in February because of the weather. That's why we play in all these early-season tournaments.

David Litchfield

This specific flaw was reported to Oracle on the 19th of February 2006.

John Barbour

We are not looking forward to February 11 when we may have to revert to the system in place on January 3 and 4.

Terry Stotts

We need March to be a good month for us. Between home games and everything else, we need March to be a good month. We were one game under .500 for February and around that in January, so we need to come on strong in March and see what happens in April. But this is the time that we should be able to separate a little bit.

Gernot Nerb

We still think a trough should be reached in the first quarter but to be sure we get a recovery, we should see expectations improving in January or February at the latest.

Dave Cassels

We're looking to start in mid to late February and run through March and all of April.

Reg Keys

If this war had been justified by international law I would have grieved and not campaigned,

Mark Johnson

We presented the position that we thought was justified in this case.

Henry Tsoi

The ratings upgrade is justified because things in Hong Kong are really improving.

Bentzi Lieberman

I say to my friends in Hebron that they should have done everything to get rid of those youths who are eradicating any possibility of having people listen to their very justified complaints.

Blake Lively

I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!

Daniel Pauly

Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

Eric Wilson

I made a mistake, and I'm going to rectify that. Whether the money is justified or not is something that should be discussed.

Paul Lawrie

It was very nice obviously, ... I am playing a lot better recently so it was kind of justified I think.

Jerry Bridges

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

Jake Hutton

Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.

Dan Monson

Last year's team, you didn't know if we were going to win or lose, but you knew we were going to fight. We have some different ways to score now, but do we have the same type of personality?

Cameron Bennerman

Last year you kind of knew what was coming, from whom. But this year, you're not really sure who's going to do what.

Bob Cavanagh

Last year we knew we were going to be on par with the year before. This year we're going to have to make more adjustments and people are going to have to step up.

Howard Stern

Les said, 'I knew I could sue you later.

Kevin Osborn

Mom told me last night that every time you get the ball, when you let go of it, you've got to know it's in and you're making the next one. I didn't know when my night was going to come, but I knew I just had to come in with confidence.

Susan Bennett

Mrs. Rucker enrolled before she knew whether we would have the program.

Matt White

Obviously, you don't want to go back down, but I knew I was going back down, ... It isn't a shocker.

Chris Collins

No one nationally thought it'd be a year where BC would be No. 1. We knew we would be.

Monica Cruz

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

James Hayes

Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory.

Greg Zenerovitz

We had been preparing to open up with them so we could measure where we were at.

Willie McGinest

I have a lot (left). I don't measure by years. I take it day by day.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Armand Salmon

Tolerance for pain and suffering is no measure of strength.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

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.

Roger Andrew Taylor

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Granger Whitelaw

Now that we're headquartered here, you may see some announcements in the months to come.

Dave Smith

I feel more optimistic at this time than I did 12 months ago, but we've still got a lot of work to do.

Mariella Frostrup

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

Dave Parker

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

Martin Havlat

If we don't play, then my month is over. That'd be just great.

H. Hart

because of war and other considerations, that may slip another month or so to April.

Nelva Ancona

I feel the sadness of this family. She is two months pregnant and she has two kids.

Patrick Biancone

She has been treated and will spend a month at Ashford Stud.

Ludwig von Mises

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Dennis Prager

The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke.

Dennis Prager

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

Deniece Schofield

Work at getting organized like a hobby. Set aside a certain amount of time each day (or whatever time your budget will allow). While it may indeed take a fair amount of time to establish order, once it is achieved, you will save more time than you have ever spent.

Denis Diderot

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

Denis Diderot

What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

Denis Diderot

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Denis Diderot

If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.

David Pogue

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

Bear Grylls

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Jane Austen

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Barbara Kingsolver

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Lord Shaftesbury

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Donald Judd

If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.

Daniel Craig

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

Dylan Moran

I've lived in the UK for longer than I lived in Ireland. I'm not worried about myself, but it's ridiculous for youngsters.

Anais Nin

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Charles Spurgeon

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

Charles Spurgeon

We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

Charles Portis

Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

Charles Olson

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

Diane Keaton

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

Dennis Prager

When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

Denis Diderot

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Edgar Allan Poe

I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

Edgar Allan Poe

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.