Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Schrader

I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

My go-to shoes for everyday would probably have to be either my white Converse that I've had since high school or my black Alexander McQueen flats with the skull on the top. It depends on my day.

Phil Funkenbusch

When 'The Man Who Came To Dinner' opened on Broadway, everyone knew Alexander Woollcott. Today, no one knows him. And I'm not sure who is like that today. He was one of a kind, and it's such a different world.

Greek proverb

If Alexander wishes to be a god, let him set up as a god

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never

Denis O'Hare

When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.

Adam Jaffe

Today's collaborative technologies are presenting a real challenge for patent law, ... and for the kinds of thinking that emerged at the time of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, when individual inventions seemed much more distinct, much less complex.

Sid Waddell

I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy's screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy's chatting about Alexander the Great. I'm after pulling in, whether it's in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience.

David Carradine

'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

Liu Peng

Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.

Phil English

send a strong signal to Beijing that Congress will not sit idly by while China's mercantilist trade policy injures U.S. employers and costs us jobs.

Irina Slutskaya

I had a small mistake doing a layback spin, that's why I think my score was not as high as in Beijing but I'm still very satisfied with my skate.

Michael Callahan

I couldn't sit in an office in California and tell a Chinese citizen in Beijing not to follow a lawful demand of the Chinese government.

Mo Shaoping

The prosecutor decided to drop the case and the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court agreed.

Nicole Mones

They say that the cuisines of different Chinese provinces arose originally to serve different kinds of constituencies. Beijing was the cuisine of officials. In Shanghai, that was the cuisine of wealthy merchants and industrialists. In Szechwan, the food of the common people. Many great Szechwan dishes originated in street stalls.

Liu Wen

My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines.

Richard Caborn

We are investing a quarter of a billion pounds between now and the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Robin Munro

What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it.

Kristy McNichol

A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

Robert McKinley

Making the minimum payment ... is probably one of the biggest expenses any consumer can make, ... You can end up paying for this Christmas for years to come.

Dave Wannstedt

Leonard can make big plays; he's already shown that ... The biggest thing about this team is they have talent and experience on offense.These guys are all seniors and most of them have played for two or three years.

George Borjas

Low-skill ... illegal immigration has the biggest negative impact on the wage of low-skill workers.

Russ Diamond

Leadership controlling it all is the biggest problem we have in Harrisburg. That makes (for) very few Pennsylvanians being represented there.

Melissa Allen

Last year was huge. It's probably the biggest fundraiser we've ever done for the Family Life Center. We raised about $4,000.

Rob Ridings

Last year, we were just hoping to win games. Now, we have the mindset that we have a chance to win and we expect to win. That's one of the biggest changes our kids have made in the last year.

Damien Mason

Lee has one of the biggest hearts I've ever come across. He's an extremely generous person.

Jim Damoulakis

Many organizations have ILM initiatives or are interested in starting one because of all the publicity. But the biggest driver is that storage costs are growing at an astronomical rate, and they're being mandated to cut the storage budget.

Caroll Spinney

I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn't know that my face was streamed with tears.

Alan Cumming

With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

Dominika Cibulkova

I spend days on my Xperia logging on Facebook chatting with my friends and family at home; I love listening to Rihanna and Pink and watching movies. Basically, anything that makes me smile, but most of my fans will know that I am always smiling!

Larry Dorman

We really enjoy chatting with these people and reading their feedback. It's a great source for high-level quality consumer feedback.

Javier Hernandez

What I miss most about Mexico isn't the food or the customs; it's my family and the way we'd all sit around chatting together.

Raheem Brock

I was chatting with everybody. It didn't matter. I didn't like that they were talking. They were talking way too much.

Kim Yuna

What I miss the most is chatting with my friends and family and having a good laugh over a simple meal.

Ryan Holmes

Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.

Joe Laszlo

I think all (the IM companies) think that this is an idea whose time has finally come. All of them realize that while voice chatting between IM users is a nice thing, what they really need to do longer term in order to make the platform more viable is make that connection out to the phone networks.

Charles Buckley

M y great grandma is a saintly sweet lady, but at the same time, she's grounded, strong and very spiritual.

Karen Carter

My grandma made it when she was old,

Shamir

My grandma has a picture of Louis Farrakhan playing violin in her house.

Eddie Vedder

I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um, it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam.

Kym Whitley

So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.

Terry Trippler

When Americans get their vacation, they're going. If they're going to see Grandma and they're planning to see Grandma, $100 is not going to keep them home.

Alan Jackson

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

Al Sharpton

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Chris Colfer

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Beatrice Lillie

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

Rachel Bicego

Knitting is the fullest, but we're still taking more registrations. If anything, (register) as soon as possible though.

Debbie Macomber

I love the way knitting brings people together.

Amanda Seyfried

I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

David Eddings

I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen

Gerald Durrell

I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.

Gregory Maguire

Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.

Lauren Willig

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

P. G. Wodehouse

Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.

Carrie Fisher

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

Quincy Jones

When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

Michael K. Williams

People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.

Scott Jensen

You have to remember you're not a nightclub or wedding DJ; you're a situational DJ. If (the team is) down by three goals, you're not going to be playing something happy.

George H. W. Bush

make it possible -- more possible -- to do our job.

Twiggy

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

Kiki Vandeweghe

for working with us to make this possible so quickly.

Valentino Rossi

For sure, it's possible to win the championship. There's always more pressure than normal, but we try to win this race like we do in other races.

Michiel Huisman

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

Mahmoud Othman

If we'd had more time, it would have been possible to get Sunni participation. When Oct. 15 comes, many won't even have seen the constitution.

Pete Carroll

If I'm lucky, I can see 7-8 possible recruits at these meets.

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Darrell Waltrip

Since I'm in Seattle, I'm pulling for Seattle!

Glen Flanagan

We'd keep pulling away and they'd reel us back in.

Chris Kelly

We ain't pulling out. Much to their dismay, I'm sure.

Bill Maher

New polls show that Obama is now pulling away from Mitt Romney. And, of course, what could be more natural than to see Mitt Romney and pull away?

John W. Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them. We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

John Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them, ... We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

Kenny Graham

We started pulling some of the starters even though it was only 2-0 but you have to look at the big picture.

Rick Hill

He was pulling in six figures. It didn't look like working together was in the cards.

Kim Kalama

Right now, at least they're doing the cleanup. That's very necessary. They're pulling out the tree from the sinkhole.

Felix Silla

Now there's a lot of yelling and screaming and hollering.

David Pollack

He wasn't screaming and yelling at me and cussing me. We were trying to get it solved. That's all we were doing.

Joseph Jackson

He was screaming in agony, and there was nothing we could do.

Scott Berry

There are not a lot of screaming opportunities out there.

David Bryant

We we charging in ... slapping the water and screaming at the shark: 'Hey, no, no, no.

Laura Davis

There's going to be 20,000 Americans screaming down on us all weekend,

Mike Boyd

There will be screaming and yelling and gnashing of teeth, but at the end of the day it will probably get approved. They know what's at stake.

Darren Boston

Thanks for your time. She turned around and just started screaming at me. I was embarrassed for her.

David Kiefer

The stocks are practically screaming at you to buy.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Charles R. Swindoll

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Dave Wood

I feel that I got stopped (because I'm black),

Ed Pastor

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

G. H. Hardy

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

Warren Rensehausen

I have been able to make arrangements for him to stop by. It will be a first because we haven't been able get him here before.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

James Rubin

I don't know who talked first. Let's just stop it, okay?

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.

Alexandra Paul

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

Alexandra Adornetto

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

Alexandra Adornetto

What about this?" I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. "It sounds romantic." Xavier wrinkled his nose. "Disney... I don't think so." "Why not?" "Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down." "I won't tell if you don't," I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. "The things I do for you," He said with an exaggerated sigh.

Albert Schweitzer

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

David Houghton

Lyme Timber is really thinking about conservation -- they really want that to happen. Lyme Timber is exceptional on this.

Jerry Butler

McNabb has always been nonchalant about everything; thinking things will just go away, but things just don't go away,

Jerry Glanville

When you're 17 years old, you're just thinking about girls.

Chris Elliott

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

Daniel Craig

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.