Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Houellebecq

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

John Ridley

Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person.

Gene Krebs

Polling indicates that 90 percent of the electorate opposes eminent domain for economic development. And that's without pushing. If you push, it goes to 98 percent.

Greg Mastel

For so many years, international finance has been the domain of a very small elite in a few countries. The message the G-8 leaders got from Seattle is that they need to make their policy discussions more relevant to the general public.

Viviane Reding

I expect thousands of applications to be filed in the first few hours. .., making '.eu' a powerful domain name on equal footing with '.com'.

Rob Simmons

I have always opposed the use of eminent domain strictly for economic development purposes. Eminent domain should be used in only the most unique of circumstances and be limited to a larger public interest.

Rose Ferlita

No one has ever taken the power of eminent domain lightly.

Arthur Henderson

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.

Andrew McLaughlin

The real work of domain name system happens in a very distributed, very decentralized way,

Malcolm Arnold

Thrilled to be honoured by the ISM and to be joining such an eminent list of members who have received the Distinguished Musician Award.

Adam Clarke

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

Kevin Curry

I wouldn't really expect them to use power of eminent domain.

Craig Brown

There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.

Terry Collins

We had to stop doing what we were doing in the middle of the job because it looked like we might be forced out by eminent domain. Now that it looks like we're going to be here for a while, we don't mind spending the money.

Dana Berliner

The vast, overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to using eminent domain.

Ayelet Zurer

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

Douglas Aiken

I look at it when you do that as a form of eminent domain.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Martin Klein

People want to come to a local landmark, ... They want to be comfortable.

Adam Schiff

People want someone whose top priority is local concerns, not national, partisan, ideological crusades,

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

Bode Miller

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

Brigitte Bardot

My private life became public.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.

Anna Netrebko

When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!

John Twelve Hawks

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

Kerri Strug

I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.

Tod Kowalczyk

We've got to find a way to pursue the ball.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Jim Margolin

We often receive threat information. We run it out. We pursue it.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Hussein Chalayan

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

Bakul Dholakia

If we wish to rub shoulders with them, then we have to pursue a similar strategy.

Dan Stephens

We'll aggressively pursue ... (the lawsuit) as was planned.